Hey gang,
I am teaching a Basic Bike Care Clinic at a local women's event in SoCal. The bike clinic I most often teach is a "How to Clean Your Bike" that mostly familiarizes women with the parts of their bike and gets them used to working on it.
The clinic sponsors would like me to incorporate a "Ten-minute Tune Up" section at the end of my own clinic. I want this to be few steps and easy to remember.
Ten-minute tune-up
A-B-C-D
Air - check your tires
Brakes - make sure your brakes are working and not dragging
Cables - Check your cables for wear or fraying
Derailleurs - Make sure your shifting is smooth across all parts. Your bike should not make noise!
Am I leaving anything out that would be considered negligent? Personally I think "Tune up" is misleading. It's more of a "Check Over," but I would not trust most newer riders to try to tune up anything... let alone in ten minutes. I know I could do a Front of the bike to the Back of the bike thing, but that seems like more info that would only confuse newer riders.
Ideas? Comments?
Thanks!
-Sunny
I am teaching a Basic Bike Care Clinic at a local women's event in SoCal. The bike clinic I most often teach is a "How to Clean Your Bike" that mostly familiarizes women with the parts of their bike and gets them used to working on it.
The clinic sponsors would like me to incorporate a "Ten-minute Tune Up" section at the end of my own clinic. I want this to be few steps and easy to remember.
Ten-minute tune-up
A-B-C-D
Air - check your tires
Brakes - make sure your brakes are working and not dragging
Cables - Check your cables for wear or fraying
Derailleurs - Make sure your shifting is smooth across all parts. Your bike should not make noise!
Am I leaving anything out that would be considered negligent? Personally I think "Tune up" is misleading. It's more of a "Check Over," but I would not trust most newer riders to try to tune up anything... let alone in ten minutes. I know I could do a Front of the bike to the Back of the bike thing, but that seems like more info that would only confuse newer riders.
Ideas? Comments?
Thanks!
-Sunny