Re: First week's bike maintenance course
 

Next week take a Haynes manual. Open it at "Rebuilding your gearbox" and read loudly from it......:p

I always thought those courses would have trouble getting a common level for all abilities, apparently they get round that issue by pitching at people that once saw a picture of a motorbike.

Hopefully the first lesson was an icebreaker and it'll pick up a bit from there, have you got a list of things that will be covered during the course?

Re: First week's bike maintenance course
 

Yup, th first lesson was supposed to cover, "Topping up fliuds" & "self-service vs garage service". Those will probably be split over lessons 2 & 3.

If we stick to the curriculum it should be fine - replacing bearings, tires/punctures & brake pads - but after yesterday's lesson I'm a bit concerned!!!!


Still, the pretty girl on the course offered to walk me to the tube station as I didn't know where it was, so silver-linings n'all that.

Re: First week's bike maintenance course
 

Wish there was a course like this in the East Midlands!

Re: First week's bike maintenance course
 

That must have been a quiet walk ;)

Re: First week's bike maintenance course
 

:lol:

Kinvig - where are you doing the course?

Re: First week's bike maintenance course
 

My experience of a bike maintenance course is the complete opposite.

I expected it to start from the absolute basics as was advertised.

It was pitched way too high for me.

I pulled out after a couple of weeks.

Re: First week's bike maintenance course
 

I can tell you what fairing is...

Re: First week's bike maintenance course
 

http://www.floodlight.co.uk/courses-...13681/page.htm

When I get home tonight I'll type up the "Subjects to be covered per week" so you get an idea of what the syllabus should be.

£128 - price of a service.

Re: First week's bike maintenance course
 

If it's any consolation, I had an even worse start to a car mechanics course a few years ago, but still got some good stuff out of it in the end.

It was a 10 session course set up through my school, but clearly the guy runnnig the course had scant regard for a load of 17 year old girls wanting to know about car mechanics. Now most red blooded males would have jumped at the chance to impress/be nice to such a class, but not this one, oh no.

He decided that being extremely patronising was obviously the way to our hearts, and proceeded to spend the first 2 hours session saying really helpful stuff like, "This is a car. This is a steering wheel. If you turn the steering wheel to the right, the car turns to the right..." ](*,)

Re: First week's bike maintenance course
 

Did you tell her how good you are at servicing bikes? Maybe she got the wrong end of the stick...

Anyway... I learn by taking it apart, putting it back together - if it works, keep doing it that way. If it doesnt, you've learned how not to do it!

Like when I took my bike apart to put the scottoiler in... a bit overkill for such a job, and a lot of head scratching when a week later I decided to put it back together and trying to figure out which bolts go where!

Needless to say it was the former of the above! Otherwise I wouldnt have taken her out afterwards!