Bike Maintenance Course

doc1976

Hey,


Has anyone done the bike maintenance course in Hollingsworth? It's €80 for a 3 hour course. Just wondering if it's worth cash?



DOC

bogmanfan

Haven't done either, but I know Wheelworx offer a free course. Check their site.

doc1976

Looking for something on the Southside. Living in Kilmainham. Although wheelworks isn't to far a spin.

Wheely GR8

I didn't realise courses were going ,wouldn't mind doing one myself.

CramCycle

Can't see it on their website, did you get any info on what is included? Don't take this the wrong way but how basic is your skillset? If you only need the basics, youtube is the best place to go, if your looking for something more advanced, 3hours isn't a huge amount of time unless they give you tutorials to go off and do and come back, eg the 3 hours is spread over 3 weeks with a booklet and instructions in between and even then if they have a class bigger than 5, you won't really get much time (unless they have a few teachers).

Hard to say if its worth it without any other info.

RacoonQueen

The Wheelworx one is very basic. I went to one and it was only really about changing tubes, cleaning your chain and removing wheels.

They have one next week on brakes, gears etc though

doc1976

http://www.biking.ie/bike-maintenance-classes

There's a calendar on the left.

Cram, my skill set would be very basic and I'd rather have someone supervise me so I don't make a balls of anything.

Wheely GR8

80 seems reasonable for professional advice. I often worry that I've missed something that might break and kill me.

feck sake lads

cant see that you would learn much in three hours unless you have a photographic memory.

Captain Havoc

€80 for three hours seems very steep to me. Rothar do more reasonably priced ones in my opinion. I can't see anything being thought to you in three hours that you couldn't search on the web.

seamus

feck sake lads wrote: »

cant see that you would learn much in three hours unless you have a photographic memory.

You'd easily get the basics in, but without any hands-on work, you would forget it very quickly.

Sitting in a room watching someone else working on a bike, you wouldn't have a hope of rememebering any of it unless you went straight home and did it on your own bike.

Looking at the link above, these seem fairly reasonable. Max 4 people, and you're encouraged to bring your own bike to work on. If I was running a class I would make it mandatory to bring your own bike, but maybe they have BSOs there that they let people work on.

It seems to cover a little bit too much IMO for a "raw basics" session. No point in covering broken spokes or wobbly wheels, most people at that level won't have the tools or the opportunity to do it and will forget how. Servicing a headset, again something that doesn't arise all that often. Though pointing out the major steering parts is important.

I thought this was being run by Hollingsworth, so I was skeptical, but it's not so it might be worth doing if you know nothing about bikes. They give you new gear and brake cables so you can swap them out yourself, so you're getting something else for your €80 I guess.