Cycle Maintenance Basics

Bring your bike and leave able to fix a puncture, adjust your brakes and clean and oil a chain properly. Two hours of hands-on learning with patient volunteer mechanics, one stand for every two riders.

We start with a quick safety check you can do in sixty seconds before any ride, then everyone takes a wheel off and puts it back on again until it feels easy. Winter is hard on bikes, so we finish with how to keep yours rolling through the wet months.

Tools, stands, gloves and spare inner tubes are provided; you just bring the bike. The workshop is ground floor and step-free, with space for adapted cycles. £5, and the small class size means places go quickly.