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Bike Maintenance Workshop

Title: Bike Maintenance Workshop
Location: MadLab
Description: Free bike maintenance workshop – basic 2 day to get you skilled up on looking after your bike!
Start Date: 2010-03-06
Start Time: 10:00
End Date: 2010-03-07
End Time: 17:00

The Bike Maintenance Workshop will be led by instructor Mary Clark. See below for the course outline, but this can be adjusted to fit the needs and interests of those present. The course is being put on by Abundance Manchester, a group who harvest surplus fruit and veg in the city and redistribute by bike trailer to groups in need, with funding from the Carbon Innovation Fund. Please bring a packet lunch / food to share.

Course Outline:

Day 1

· Learn the correct names for the parts of a bike
· Learn about tyre pressure and wheel sizes
· Remove and replace your wheels correctly
· Remove and replace tyres without causing a puncture
· Fit a new inner tube
· Mend a puncture
· How to tell if your brake blocks need replacing
· Learn how to replace your brake blocks to achieve maximum wear and braking power
· Learn how to clean and re lubricate brake cables

Day 2

· Learn how to fit a new brake inner cable
· Outer brake cable inspection and whether to replace
· Identify different cables
· How to break and rejoin a chain correctly
· How to eliminate stiff links
· How to lubricate chains
· When and why does a chain need changing
· Lubricate gear cables
· Learn how to change your gear cables
· Discover how a rear derailleur works
· Set up your gears and if they won’t set up, learn why

We will also talk about cleaning and lubrication of bikes, making small adjustments to adapt bikes for a perfect fit and wider maintenance and cycling issues – plus whatever comes up on the day over a brew!

Manchester City Council