Bicycle maintenance courses?

AlexMer

Hi guys,
I am wondering is there any good quality bicycle maintenance courses out there? Not a 4 hour, one evening thing, an actual detailed one, run over a few weeks or months even,one or two evenings a week? Also one with no previous courses required to sign up! Thanks for any info/advice given in advance :-)

Jack the Stripper

A few months? It's a bicycle, in a couple of months I could teach someone on modern diesels. The gears would be the most complicated in a bicycle to tune but we are talking minutes here.

Boscoirl

I did this one in limerick, covers the basics

http://www.lcfe.ie/part_time_courses/complete-bicycle-maintenance-hl015-10-weeks/

Then there is a follow up advanced course you can do after,

AlexMer

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

A few months? It's a bicycle, in a couple of months I could teach someone on modern diesels. The gears would be the most complicated in a bicycle to tune but we are talking minutes here.

As in one night a week, for anything from 9-15 weeks at a guess? Hence a couple of months. I'm talking about complete bike builds, stripping, wheel truing, wheel building, fixing a grinding bottom bracket, replacing spokes,bike fitting etc of the top of my head.

AlexMer

Boscoirl wrote: »

I did this one in limerick, covers the basics

http://www.lcfe.ie/part_time_courses/complete-bicycle-maintenance-hl015-10-weeks/

Then there is a follow up advanced course you can do after,

Brilliant, how did you find it?

Boscoirl

It was good, they take it as you are complete novice, and work through the bike,

they had bikes you could practice on, or you could bring your own to work on /repair,

veganrun

Don't know if you are in or near the north but CRC do a Bike Maintenance course.  I did a quick google and this is the info I found, however I know they have new courses starting each month.  I bought a bike from them a few weeks ago and they gave me a leaflet about the course and they are on over the next few months.  They seem to have a class one Saturday per month plus some sort of evening class spread over two weeks.  Not sure what the difference is tbh.

http://www.cycleni.com/event/?id=56295&rpt=1

AlexMer

veganrun wrote: »

Don't know if you are in or near the north but CRC do a Bike Maintenance course.  I did a quick google and this is the info I found, however I know they have new courses starting each month.  I bought a bike from them a few weeks ago and they gave me a leaflet about the course and they are on over the next few months.  They seem to have a class one Saturday per month plus some sort of evening class spread over two weeks.  Not sure what the difference is tbh.

http://www.cycleni.com/event/?id=56295&rpt=1

Cheers :-)