I had thought about a four-week session, and it grew out into five weeks, and that still may not be enough (you'll notice there's not much in week 5; I expect material will leak into subsequent weeks). My basic curriculum is below:
Week 1
- Riding
- Cleaning
- Books
- Park Tool
- Zinn Books
- Basic tools
- General Tools
- Quality
- Torque wrenches & torque
- Bicycle-specific tools
- Park Tool
- Bike stands
- Work stand
- “Y”-stand
- Car rack
- Hang bike
- Pedals
- Types
- Pedal Wrench
- Backwards thread
- Homework: (withheld)
Week 2:
- Replace tire & tube
- remove wheel
- remove tire
- remove tube
- rim tape
- patch tube
- replace tube with partial inflation
- replace tire
- replace wheel
- chain routing
- Remove/replace chain
- Homework: (withheld)
Week 3:
- Cable & Housing
- Brake vs. Derailleur
- Internal Routing
- Cutting cable & cable ends
- Cutting housing & ferrules
- Brakes
- Replace pads
- Adjust shoes
- Toe-in
- Squeal (cleaning, scraping pads)
- Set cable
- Fine Adjustment
- Homework: (withheld)
Week 4:
- Finish Brakes
- Derailleurs
- Rear
- Chain Routing
- Cable routing
- Limit screws
- “B” screw
- Fine adjustment
- Front
- Cable Routing
- Limit Screws
- No fine adjustment
- Homework: (withheld)
Week 5:
- Finish Derailleurs
- Wheels
- Spoke-hub system
- Cross
- Truing
- Remove cogset
For books, I'm recommending Zinn & the Art of Mountain-Bike Maintenance or Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance (the Park Tool book may be good, but I haven't seen it). I'm posting this to see if there's interest, and also to see if there are suggestions about topics I should cover or leave out (although I reserve the right to completely ignore any suggestions). What do youse think?
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