What are Maintenance Courses?
We run Beginners, Intermediate and Specialist Maintenance courses at our East and West Training Hubs.
Our beginners course is a great introduction to bicycle maintenance and is suitable for people who have never touched an allen key in their life, or people who have muddled through a puncture repair but would like to be slicker.
After the course you will be able to check your bike over before a ride to make sure it is road worthy, or repair a puncture much more confidently. You will also pick up some tips for keeping your bike in good shape, hopefully making your servicing intervals less frequent.
The Beginners course covers:
- Roadside puncture repair – removal of wheel and tyre
- M-Check (learning how to check that major components are safe and roadworthy, making minor adjustments)
- Removal and refitting of brake blocks, balancing brake calipers
- Adjusting brake cable tension
- Preventative care e.g. how to clean and lubricate your bike parts
The intermediate maintenance course builds on the skills introduced in the beginners course. Therefore it is worth taking that course first, or being sure you are comfortable with the skills covered.
The Intermediate course covers:
- An in depth look at brakes (cables, maintenance)
- Setting up gears
- Derailleur limit screws demonstration
- Principles of adjusting derailleur (front and rear) also known as indexing
- Basic wheel truing
This course is great for people who wish to be able to keep their bike running smoothly between major services, or who would like the skills to perform parts upgrades themselves.
We run a number of specialist subjects such as Bromptons, hydraulics, drive chain/ gear indexing and soon e-bikes! A good level of prior cycle maintenance knowledge is needed before joining these courses. If you have a specific interest but don’t see a course for it, get in touch!
Tool kits
The training centre is fully equipped with everything you need on the day (and more!) but these tool kits are a great way to use the skills you learn on your own bike after the course:
Puncture repair kit, set of 3 super B tyre levers, wet/dry lubricant and a Neos simplicity L wench (non ratchet) with 10 bits.
Puncture repair kit, set of 3 super B tyre levers, wet/dry lubricant and a SuperB 18 in 1 folding tool.
Mini pump, 2 tyre levers, 11 function multi tool and a seat pack.
Please note
- We may have to cancel sessions with fewer than 3 participants, and move participants’ bookings to a suitable future date.
- This course is appropriate for the vast majority of standard bikes but please book on to a specialist course to learn maintenance of hydraulic bikes.
- You can either bring your own bike to practice on (recommended) or we have a number of training bikes you can use.
- Participants can switch course dates (subject to available spaces) or cancel their course a minimum 1 week before the course date. Cancellations/date changes after this point cannot be processed and participants will lose their course fee.
- All under 16 year olds must be accompanied by a paying adult
Where
Courses take place at our East and West Training Hubs:
East Training Training Hub: Lee Valley Velopark, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Abercrombie Road, E20 3AB
West Training Hub: 3 Maxilla Walk, Notting Hill, W10 6NQ