Bike maintanance course

[PPWTF]

I'm based in <?: prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Cape Town and wanted to find out if anyone else here would be interested in attending a 7 to 10 day long bike maintenance course? The plan is simple; We get a bunch of use together and ambush the Yellow Saddle with a request for just such a course. If we can get maybe 10 to 15 people together it would, I guess, be worth their while coming down here for the time, and far better than the prospect of flying back and forward to Jo'burg over the course of a month..... Seemed simple enough. So is there any interest, anyone have a date in mind?

[zerocool]

Hi! 7 to 10 day is a bit long don't you think? 

[dfm1]

Hi! 7 to 10 day is a bit long don't you think? 

 

Remember its Cape Town, so they are a bit slow on the uptake, way learn someting in 1 day when you can take 7 days to achieve the same

[willy]

I would be interested if it was an after hours course.

[PPWTF]

What i was thinking was that we could combine all of the courses run; wheel building, maintanance, suspension etc into a single package, dis assembling and rebuilding a bike in the process....

The problem for most is that regular work stops people learning in a single block, which is why they run weekend short courses. I'm lucky enough to work from home, can set time aside, and wanted to do the weekend courses in a single package during a working week.

 

Probably should have given more outline in the original post

[Guest colonel]

Im keen but 10 days is way to long and I aint taking 10 days off work to learn to fix puncture.

[hagar]

i would be keen to if it was after hours and maybe say 4 days friday to monday ???

 

[PPWTF]

So lets try finding a compromise that will best suit those who would want to do a course, both in time and content. What i was thinking was that we could combine all of the courses run; wheel building, maintenance, suspension etc into a single package, disassembling and rebuilding a bike in the process....<?: prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Like the colonel?s said, no puncture repairs. We're talking about learning the full range of servicing skills, and bush repairs for the kinda situations you find yourself in on Sani2C or the Epic etc.

 

Keep in mind it's gonna need to be worth the guys time coming all the way from Jo'burg to set up down here somewhere for 5 to 7 days, over hours still to be agreed upon.

 

Any more interested parties, feel free to outline your desired course content, course length and daily timings. 

 

PPWTF2008-05-03 07:53:38

[PPWTF]

Was sure there'd be a greater up take on this. Guess it just goes to show.... I'm wrong much more often than I'm right