Maintain your bike

A healthy cyclist needs a healthy bike! You can get a health-check from our Dr Bike mechanics or learn how to do it yourself on one of our bicycle maintenance courses.

Basic Maintenance
Want to know how to keep a bike in good working order, learn how to set up a bike to fit, fix a puncture, adjust brakes/ gears and lubricate your chain correctly? This course is for you.

This full-day course is designed for cyclists looking to learn about their bikes and be able to do basic roadside repairs:

  • Learn the parts of a bike

  • Cleaning and lubricating

  • How to set your bike up so it fits

  • Remove wheels, tyres and tubes

  • Mend a puncture

  • Adjust brakes

  • Adjust gears

  • Fit brake pads - rim or disc

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Lady fixing a bike wheel
Advanced Maintenance
Want to go into more depth and make more complex adjustments to your bike? This course provides more complex skills. Learn how to index gears, replace cables, a chain and bottom bracket...and more!

This full-day course is designed for home mechanic who wish to take their knowledge a step further:

  • Fit brake pads - rim or disc

  • Fit a new inner and outer brake cable

  • Rear gears, indexing and learn how to fit a new cable

  • Set up front gears

  • Size and fit a new chain

  • Fit a new cassette/freewheel

  • Change chainrings

  • Learn about bottom brackets and how to change them.

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Dr Bike
At Dr Bike sessions, experienced mechanics check everything on your bike from wheels, brakes, gears and tyre pressure to lights, racks, pedals, saddles and more.

Any minor adjustments we can make to the bike we do there and then. Anything we can't we will let you know exactly what needs doing and a rough guide to what it should cost at a bike shop.

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Can't make a course
If you can't make the course but still want to try some home maintenance have a look at the videos by Park Tool on youtube - they have lots of basic (and not so basic!) advice available.
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Feedback from budding mechanics
" Great session - thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt a lot. Wendy and Paul were great too - a credit to your organisation. I am definitely planning to do the advanced level course in the new year. Thanks."
Seymour
" A great short course with 2 excellent trainers. They were very knowledgeable and happy to answer all our questions. A very practical way of teaching. Many thanks for the course and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn how to look after their bike."
Bronwyn

Level 2 City & Guilds Certificate in Cycle Mechanics

We are now offering a City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate in cycle maintenance from our state-of-the-art workshops kitted out with Park tools and work stands.

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" The Level 2 Cycle Mechanic module was written by cycle industry experts and is designed to cover, Road bikes, Mountain bikes, Hybrid bikes, BMX bikes and Utility bikes"
Anabel - Head Mechanic