The Advanced Mechanic Course ( Two Week )
Advance to professional-level bicycle mechanics with in-depth diagnostics, repairs, and shop workflows mastered over two intensive weeks.
Course Overview
Are you seeking a comprehensive understanding of bicycle mechanics to enhance your skills, launch a career in the bicycle industry, or even establish your own business? This course is designed for individuals who wish to develop in-depth technical expertise and gain practical experience in all aspects of bicycle maintenance and repair. Whether your goal is personal development, professional advancement, or entrepreneurial ambition, this course provides a solid foundation and hands-on training to help you succeed in the cycling sector.
The instructional methodology centres on elevating students to a professional standard in core and advanced mechanic skills. Throughout the course, a strong emphasis is placed on understanding how and where to locate technical specifications, as well as the importance of adhering to these guidelines during all service procedures. To facilitate learning and ensure efficient access to reference material, students are strongly encouraged to bring a laptop or tablet device. These devices should be preloaded with all relevant technical links distributed prior to the start of the course.
- What's Included
- Foundations: technical sites, basic skills, bike inspection, stripping and reassembling a bike.
- Chains: use of chain tools, chain sizing, chain compatibility, chain installation and chain tensioning for single speed systems.
- Hubs and Freehubs: removal, overhaul of hubs, replacement/overhaul of freehubs.
- Brakes: installation and adjustment of hub brakes, rim brakes, mechanical and hydraulic disc brakes and an overview of brake bleeding
- Bottom Brackets (BBs): understanding the relationship between cranks and BBs, BB standards, BB tools.
- Cables and housing: identification of types and qualities, internal and external re-cabling techniques, removal and installation of bar tape.
- Service Operations: repair process, bike check-ins, completing a work order, dealing with ‘come backs’.
- Hydraulic Systems: theory, bleed procedures, overhaul and servicing of calipers, hydraulic system installation.
- Derailleur Systems, cable activated and electronic
- Internal Hub Gears: wheel removal, hub overhaul and gear adjustment.
- Cassettes: understanding the relationship between cassettes, derailleurs and freehubs and the requirement for spacers for specific hub/cassette combinations. Introduction to chainline.
- Cranks: chain rings, crank standards and installation and removal of cranks
- Headsets: headset identification, adjustment and overhaul, steerer tube cutting.
- Assembly: frame up builds, bike box builds and boxing a bike for shipping.
- Wheels: wheel building, tires, tubes and tubeless systems
- Specialist Tools: Reaming, facing, chasing and threading tools, frame tools, dealing with stuck and seized parts.
- Suspension systems: overhauling suspension linkages, servicing shocks, servicing forks
Duration
Full Day
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Price
$1600 plus tax
Lunch
Included each day!
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Courses Currently Scheduled
10-21 August 2026 (10-day course, 2 weeks Mon-Fri)