Road and Trailside Repairs
Course Type
This course is available as:
- Open Course as part of the Maintenance Suite
- OnDemand
- Bespoke
Covering ride based repairs and pre-ride checks every rider should know, using essential trail tools, this course is adapted to make sure it fits your level of confidence and experience.
Course content
- Personal safety, tool and chemical handling
- Tools, lubricants and aids
- Degrease, clean and lubricate
- Pre-ride equipment check
- Righty tighty and how tight is tight? - the torque wrench
- Brakes - cable adjustment, disc pad and v-brake block adjustment and replacement
- Gears - indexing, cable adjustment, limit adjustment
- Transmission - chain repair and replacement
- Headset - aheadset adjustment
- Wheels - punctures, tyre repair
- Emergency repairs - what to do when....
This course can form part of a three courses in two days Maintenance Course Suite comprising the Trailside, Advanced, and Fleet Maintenance courses.
Course details
| Duration: | One day for this course or Two days as part of the Maintenance Suite |
| Course type: | Training |
| Course options: | Available as open courses and as bespoke courses at your venue. more>>>> |
Entry Requirements
To attend this course, you should have previously picked up a spanner and tried to work out what might be wrong and what you want to do to fix it?
You will need to be willing to 'get your hands dirty'.
Progression routes
This course leads directly to the Advanced Maintenance and Fleet Maintenance courses.
Course Calendar
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