Free* Cycle Maintenance Courses for people who live or work or study in Hammersmith & Fulham or Kensington & Chelsea

Free* Cycle Maintenance Courses for people who live or work or study in Hammersmith & Fulham or Kensington & Chelsea

H&F is offering these courses because basic knowledge about how to maintain your bike is essential for keeping your bike roadworthy and staying safe on the road, and we don’t want people giving up cycling just because they don’t know how to fix their first puncture!

We also offer free cycle training courses

Choice of venue: cycle Maintenance courses are held at the Macbeth Adult Education Training Centre in Hammersmith and at the Bikeworks base near Ladbroke Grove.

For Macbeth Centre course and booking information please click here

 All course and booking information below relates to the Bikeworks courses.

Bikeworks West, Maxilla Walk
(Access Landsdowne Close)
W10 6NQ

There will be two professional cycle mechanic instructors per session, and group size will be no more than eight students per session

*a £5 deposit is payable on booking, which is refunded in full when you attend the course (this is to deter people from booking then not attending).

When the next courses will be held

Each course is 5 hours, held either over two evenings, 6pm to 8.30pm, or a Saturday or Sunday from 10am to 4pm (including one hour lunch break).  Dates for 2012-13 are being finalised and will be published here soon.

What is covered on the courses?

Basic Cycle Maintenance Course – Level 1

This covers the essentials of adjusting a bicycle to suit you and dealing with common roadside repairs so that you and your bicycle can get home and/or to a bicycle shop safety.

Includes:

• Safety inspection
• Adjustment of handlebars and stem
• Brakes, gears and levels - the importance of cables
• Adjustment of saddle and seat post
• Wheel removal and re-fitting
• Puncture repairs
• Recommendations for routine bicycle servicing

This course is essentially ‘bicycle first aid’.

For more comprehensive tuition, you should consider our Intermediate course.

Intermediate Cycle Maintenance Course – Level 2

Includes:

• Safety Inspection
• Brakes: adjustment and replacing cables and pads
• Gears: adjustment, fitting new cables and fine tuning front and rear gear mechanisms
• Headset: servicing and adjustment
• Hubs: adjustment and maintenance
• Wheels: assessing faults, truing of slightly buckled wheels while in the frame
• Recommendations for routine bicycle servicing

NB: Please note – Hydraulic brake servicing is not covered in either course. 

How to book

To book: to book a place on a course get in touch.

Tel: 020 8980 7998
E-mail: cycletraining@bikeworks.org.uk

Feedback from satisfied customers

"The instructors were very informative and explained the basics in a manner that didn't make us feel stupid or uncomfortable.  The main thing I learnt was my weekly maintenance of ABC - Air, Brakes, Clean/Chain.  I've enrolled on the London to Brighton bike ride in June and feel a lot more confident about my ability to get there."  SG, Customer Relations Advisor,
h&f Home Buy

“Great Evening. I thoroughly enjoyed the course. Tristan was excellent and tailored the course specifically to what we asked for while also fulfilling our expectations of what was offered. It was great” Phillipe (attended 28/11/12)

 

“Instructors were really good, patient and knew what they were talking about. I t was really useful for me because it saves me a lot of money because now I don’t have to pay a bike shop to do simple things on my bike like servicing my brakes. I got a lot out of it” Sam (attended 16/11/11)

 

“ The session was really good. I really enjoyed it. I came to the course not knowing anything. There were people with different levels of bike knowledge but everyone got what they wanted. The two instructors were helpful, interesting and interested.” Helen (24/10/2011)

 

“The two guys who ran the course were absolutely fantastic. They didn’t blind you with science but didn’t patronise you either. I really enjoyed it.” Roxy (24/10/11)

 

“ I had  a wonderful time. The course was very instructive and the staff were very patient and helpful. I have nothing but good things to say about the course and I think it would be great If it were promoted more. Natalie (12/10/2011)