Courses & Workshops

Bronze Emphasis: Inspection & Adjustment

We require all candidates start with a Bronze course regardless of previous experience, if they wish to progress to Silver. We regularly have (very good!) professional bike mechanics on Bronze courses who still take away considerable new content.

Outcomes

• Workshop Health + Safety
• Inspect and adjust most common parts (incl. headsets, seatposts, saddles, hubs, pedals and gears)
• Tubes & tyres – removal and puncture repair (incl. tubeless tyres)
• Detailed lubricant briefing and application

Take your own (clean!) bike along or let us know if you need to borrow one!

Please note: you have to have completed Velotech Bronze before you can attend Silver.

Silver Emphasis: Fitting & Repair

Candidates must have an excellent knowledge of the anatomy of a bicycle and be able to complete all tasks covered at Bronze, e.g. removing tyres, changing inner tubes, adjusting headsets, indexing gears and setting up all brake types.

Outcomes

• Full re-cabling of brakes and gears
• Frame preparation and alignment
• Removal and replacement of all common parts incl. bottom brackets, headsets, drivetrain etc

Take your own (clean!) bike along or let us know if you need to borrow one!

Please note: you have to have completed Velotech Silver before you can attend Gold.

Gold Emphasis: Workshop Supervision & Advanced Mechanics

The Velotech Gold award demonstrates that you can completely strip and rebuild a bike and are a highly competent mechanic across known and unknown bike types.

You will be qualified to inspect, adjust and fit most parts of a bike and carry out major repairs, and you will be qualified to sign off cycles as safe.

Candidates need an in-depth knowledge of the anatomy of a bicycle and must be able to work alone in a timely manner.

Outcomes

• Full bike rebuild
• Online research and self-led task
• Spoke replacement and wheel truing
• Any Gold course incorporates only a few fixed elements and will be tailored towards the participants’ interests

Take your own (clean!) bike along – make sure you are happy for it to be completely stripped and rebuilt

Working on your own bike, you will practise how to fix the most common problems that can arise during a bike ride.

Our friendly tutor will explain the following:

• How to conduct a quick and easy-to-memorise safety check that will work on any bike
• How to deal with a broken chain and problems that you may find
• How to lubricate and care for your bike
• How to repair punctures (tubes & tubeless)
• What protective equipment and tools to choose for your riding
• This course contains a mixture of theoretical and practical elements.

Please bring your CLEAN bike or get in touch if this is a problem for you, we will strive to provide a bike for you.

Working on your own bike for some of the class and our demo bikes, you will practise how to recognise and maintain mechanical problems.

Our friendly tutor will explain the following:

• A deeper dive into an M-Check
• Chain care, drivetrain inspection and fit a new chain
• Replace brake pads – hydraulic and rim
  How to repair a puncture (tubes and tubeless) and carry out a tubeless top-up
• This course contains a mixture of theoretical and practical elements.
• And much more!

Please bring your CLEAN bike or get in touch if this is a problem for you, we will strive to provide a bike for you.