Hey Eric,
No idea if I'm at liberty to say, if you have kids becoming proficient in one area of a bike, you also need volunteer mechanics becoming proficient at that area, and lastly the individual time for each volunteer mechanic to teach that particular youth (over more then one block?).
What I have been doing for our group was every week running an hour class for volunteer mechanics only, so that they would have the material fresh in their minds, which they could then relay to youth.
If you can, try to find a bike shop to donate a few mutli tools, would REI do that? MEC in Canada is really great for that kind of donation.
We have a weekly bike club at a highschool, also with volunteer mechanics. We basically just did the best we could without having a lot of formal structure. We just have a lot of fun, and that's pretty much what gave the kids the courage to really begin to learn. Attendance was always spotty, but everyone who came knew they were coming to a safe place that they could be themselves.
Tyler
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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