Basic Bike Maintenance
Our basic bike maintenance sessions are designed for people with little or no knowledge of bike maintenance and the session is designed to ensure that participants leave with the confidence to fix common problems with their bike. We offer mixed and women’s only basic bike maintenance classes.
Demystifying Gears
Master the dark art of gear indexing; adjusting your cables for sweet, smooth shifting. We also offer women’s only gears classes and the session includes instruction on:
- The different types of shifters and shifting
- Cassettes and cranksets
- Breaking and fixing chains
- Indexing gears
Headsets & Bottom Brackets
Learn to identify a worn headset and how to service and adjust yours, as well as how to remove cranks and service and replace your bottom bracket, including:
- Identifying different types of (and worn) headsets and bottom brackets
- Servicing and adjusting a headset
- How to remove and replace crank
- Servicing and replacing a bottom bracket
Put on the Brakes!
We’ll teach you how to sort out rubbing and squeaks and how to replace brake pads. The class includes:
- The different types of brakes
- Sorting out rubbing
- Stopping squeaks
- Changing brake pads
