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A.B.C - ADULT BASICS CLASS
Want to learn some bike repair, but don’t know your stem from your headset? Interested in helping out Bike Works as a volunteer mechanic, but concerned that your lack of mechanical experience holds you back? Just want some basic knowledge to keep yourself rolling on your own ride? Come join us in the classroom for a great opportunity to learn and participate in the Bike Works community!
Bike Works, already known far and wide for quality youth education in bicycle repair, is expanding its excellent adult programs and the first new class out of the box is for those grown-ups who aren’t sure how to get started in bike repair.
Three letters for you, friends,
A.B.C.
ADULT
BASICS
CLASS
What The Class Covers
A.B.C. teaches just that, the ABC’s of bike repair. In this class we will focus on the basics, in a format specially designed for beginners. A.B.C. is an opportunity to learn the most fundamental concepts of bicycle repair in a safe and nonjudgmental environment.
In six weeks you’ll learn the same basics of bike repair that the youth learn here at Bike Works in the Earn-A-Bike program, but in an adult setting. You’ll take a bike apart down to the bare frame and build it back up. You will help support the good work of getting youth on bikes by building up bikes for Bike Works to donate to the community, just like the Earn-A-Bikers do. There will even be a class where you can bring your own bike and get help tuning up your ride! And it’ll be fun! A great opportunity to hang out with the Bike Works community!
Class Details
Special Summer Session is full!
Fall Session Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30
October 5th – November 9th
Six weeks of bike repair classes cost $100 or $50 with a commitment to at least 12 hours of Bike Works volunteer support. Class is offered several times a year. Call 725-9408 ext.1 or email Davey at volunteers@bikeworks.org for more information.
Registration will open one month before class begins.
D.E.F. - ADVANCED BIKE REPAIR FOR ADULTS
Also, coming in 2010 is D.E.F., an advanced level bike repair class where big kids will learn how to maintain and repair even the most mysterious parts of the bicycle.
Do you already have a basic understanding of how a bicycle works, but still have some blank spots in your knowledge you’d like to fill? Do you wanna know why your bike goes, “KACHUNK-CHUNK!” as you ride down the street and what you need to do about it? Have you always wondered what advantages cassette hubs have over freewheels? Or what’s the deal with threadless headsets and how do you work on them anyway? Well, D.E.F., the Advanced Maintenance Class for Adults is for you!
Bike Works is thrilled to introduce another great bicycle program for adults and this time we are delving deep into the arcane arts of advanced bicycle repair. The D.E.F. class will not only beef up your mechanical skills, it will also enhance your knowledge of bicycle componentry and vocabulary, empowering you as a mechanic and as a cyclist!
What The Class Covers
D.E.F. class takes the foundational knowledge you already posses as an intermediate bicycle mechanic and builds on it, taking you further than you thought you could go. The class focuses on current bicycle technology and advanced repair techniques. D.E.F. is considered an advanced class, but it is still a safe and fun environment designed to help students to grow as mechanics.
Over the course of six weeks you’ll overhaul and repair a fully equipped mountain bike, taking it from tired and abused to refreshed and refurbished, ready for riding! You will learn the basics of truing a wheel, how to set up derailleurs for reliable shifting, the secrets of overhauling complex three piece bottom brackets and advanced braking systems and much, much more! The best part is that you’ll not just be learning for your own sake, you’ll also be helping Bike Works prepare bicycles for our bicycle distribution programs. On top of all that it will be a great time!
Become an empowered cyclist!
Grow as an advanced bicycle mechanic!
Take part in the Bike Works community!
D. E. F.!
Class Details
Wednesday evenings from 6:30-9:30
Next Class: October 6th – November 10th
Six weeks of bike repair classes cost $100 or $50 with a commitment to at least 12 hours of Bike Works volunteer support. Class is offered several times a year. Call 725-9408 ext.1 or email Davey at volunteers@bikeworks.org for more information.
Registration for next class will open one month before class begins.
VOLUNTEER REPAIR PARTIES
Thursday evenings from 6:30pm to 9:30pm, Bike Works hosts a drop-in bike repair party. Come on down and wrench with us, drink with us and snack with us. The bikes we repair during these sessions are donated to Treehouse, Farestart, other local non-profits, and our annual Kid’s Bike Swap. The volunteer repair party is an opportunity for mechanics of all skill and experience levels to practice bike repair in a safe, non-judgmental environment free of charge and support Bike Works at the same time!
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