Maintenance courses

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The Londoner

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3,961 posts

245 months

Wednesday 2nd January 2008
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Feeling the need to be able to fettle my various steeds without recourse to the local bike shop. Anyone ever done one? Recommended? Where? When? How much?

mk1fan

10,648 posts

232 months

Wednesday 2nd January 2008
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Before doing a course get yourself Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance or the Park Tools maintenance book. They're good for future reference and will give you a good background before the course.

In fairness, there isn't any black magic to bike maintenance. I taught myself but my mate is absolutely hopeless, even when closely supervised!

As for courses Edinburgh Cycle Co-Op do very good courses for members of the Public. You could splash the cash on a the Park Tools Pro School. Or more easily ask in your LBS. As long as they are (and I have forgotten the acronym) qualified you'll be fine. Look in the back of bike mags too (mbr, wmb, c+ etc..) If you still can't find anywhere try the BCF or the CTC.

_daveR

6,146 posts

234 months

Wednesday 2nd January 2008
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Just use the park tools website. I had never played around with mechs/shifters/cables before but after some time infront of the bike with the laptop and that site I was doing fine.

The only thing to be wary of is that some areas on a bike need specialist tools and bodging just is not an option (Im thinking cranks, bottom bracket, headsets and wheel building/truing)