Learn how to carry out basic safety checks, mend a puncture, adjust and replace brake blocks and cables, and adjust gears.  Bikes and equipment are provided. 

Session 1 Safety check, clean and lubricate
• Check your bike to find out what needs adjusting and tighten some nuts and bolts on the way
• How tight is tight?
• Are you sitting comfortably? Make sure your saddle is at the correct height
• I’ll name that part in one – what are the bits on your bike called
• Identify that scraping sound
• Keeping it clean – learn how to keep your bike clean and correctly lubricated
• Under pressure – how to make sure that your tyres are correctly inflated

 

Session 2 Wheel, tyre and tube removal. Mending a puncture
• Rear wheel removal
• Quick release skewers and how they work
• Feeling tyred? How to get that tyre off and on again
• What caused it? How to find out how you got the puncture
• Mending a puncture
• Refitting the wheel

 

Session 3 Brake adjustment cables and blocks
• Stop in the name of love
• Why aren’t those brakes working?
• Cleaning and lubricating cables
• Indentifying your brakes and buying the right parts.
• Changing a brake cable
• Changing brake blocks
• Setting up your brakes correctly

 

Session 4 Gear adjustment
• How a derailleur works
• What do those little screws do?
• Troubleshooting
• Setting up gears
• Checking compatibility
• Changing a gear cable
• Gear hangers

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