Case study - Hull maintenance course

Situation

BikeRight! was approached by the organiser of a Duke of Edinburgh award scheme. The young people embarking on their silver award wanted to do a cycling expedition and the organiser had no idea where to start. She wanted the participants to know how to repair their bikes and also to have their bikes assessed for suitability for the expedition including fitting luggage carrying equipment.

Our solution

We worked out what would be important for the participants to be able to do while they were on their expedition as they only had a day’s tuition. It was also obvious that some of the time would be needed to be spent looking at each person’s bike and assessing it.

Some of the youngsters had already taught themselves some maintenance, but were still able to learn more, especially how not to explode the tube when inflating their tyres - experience is one of the best ways to learn. At the end of the course each bike was looked at and the owner advised on how to prepare for the expedition. We advised the leader on which racks to buy and gave advice on prices for the equipment.

Benefits

• All learned new maintenance skills and had personal advice on bike set-up.

• Discuss how they could work as a team and ride together

• Developed some useful practical skills

• Learned the ability to make trail side repairs in an emergency situation

Related projects

• Cycling champion cycle maintenance courses

• Dr Bike sessions at Bradford cycling festival

• Group open courses in Manchester and throughout the North West

• CW4 Wheelers bespoke course