Having teachers at stations that have a specific areas of focus is a good way to improve the consistency of training. Quality of work is most important. Efficiency is a combination of practice and challenges. We would have competitions to improve speed, and language skills. 

I am guessing that your instructors do not teach round, dish, tension; but only teach truing. Bottom bracket is just inspection, cleaning, and adjustments, but not preparing bearing seats to be planer to reduce wear/friction by five times. Drive train components are attached to the frame, yet frame alignment is not part of derailleur adjustments. Is the difference between red and black friction compounds chemistry and quality of stopping power part of brakes?
How do cables stretch, then cure or get harder and stop stretching?   Just some thoughts to stir up your grey matter and teach a better class.

PS You may always ask questions

Christopher Wallace
Bicycle Guild/Holistic Cycles
140 Harrison St
Oak Park, IL. 60304


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Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Bike mechanics workbook
From: Eric Brozell <brozells@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, August 17, 2014 9:51 am
To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org

Hello,

We are right in the middle of starting up a youth workshop for ages 12-16 in Erie, Pa.  We just ran our first 1 1/2 hour a week program for 5 weeks.  There were 8 students and about 6 instructors that most of them had little bike repair experience.  We of course learned much from this first offering.  We had gone over the bikes some before we started and took care of the difficult problems.  This still was not sufficient time.  This was just a race to get everything done in our time frame.  We are planning on cutting back to 4 weeks but more time per class starting in September.  The Bikes Not Bombs video by Girls in Action was shown at the beginning and it was quite a hit.  We presently have limited resources (tools).  We have about 1 1/2 sets of tools.

In light of that we are going to try to have the volunteers specialize in their training.  What does everybody think about having one brake person, a bottom bracket, a shifter/derailer, wheel and headset specialist.  That way each person will have a handful of the proper tools to take care of each issue.  I believe we will have less tool searching time, parts searching, more efficient repairs and better instruction.

I have been mostly lurking the collective but everyone here helped me to consider launching this effort,
Eric


On 8/15/14 10:16 AM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
There are some good resources on the wiki, here:

And here:

Full disclosure: i helped draft/teach the curriculum in the second link. It's also from 2008, so could probably use some updating. I found the workflow and tempo to work pretty well for even one teacher with 10-15 year old students, so long as the class size was no greater than 6. 




On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Dominik Zylka <domzylka@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello People,

Our developing high school bike program in Melbourne is in need of a fantastic workbook for our students to utilise. Our resources are completely outdated and participant numbers are increasing so we need a resource that will keep our students developing and learning. 

Contents we'd love:
- Workshop rules and procedures
- Worksheets on all the specific processes and anatomy's
- Activities
- Diagrams and explanations 
- you get the idea.

We understand that these resources take a heap of time and effort to compile and we'd be so very grateful if someone was willing to help out by sharing theirs. 

Best Regards

Dominik

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