[TheThinkTank] Re: Bike mechanics lesson plans?

2 Apr 2024

      Here’s curriculum for the 4-part mechanics series that Bikes Together
https://www.bikestogether.org/ in Denver uses these days.
It’s relatively basic and meant for all skill levels but we find people
experience it as “intermediate” and is a very good overview of all the
"systems" of the bike and how they function. These agendas attempt to
include our learnings about accessible and welcoming teaching practices,
too. Please use it and credit Bikes Together where you can.
Class 1 - Intros, Anatomy & Fix A Flat
Class 2 - Brakes & Cables
Class 3 - Shifting & Chains
Class 4 - Bearing Systems & Wheel Truing
Copy of Mechanics Series 2023 - Class 1
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SeypWvOF7NY140m-KDLLU9ja35F_wmsNeGx_4vXoz3M/edit?usp=drive_web
Copy of Mechanics Series 2023 - Class 2
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ggZtE3zYHE3o9r00pR_sW0mfQvkTaQkwbfRO1TUIM6c/edit?usp=drive_web
Copy of Mechanics Series 2023 - Class 3
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-UMEGrMjlFdc4hZU86WhaSRMxg7kMpFkwMacbFUjxP8/edit?usp=drive_web
Copy of Mechanics Series 2023 - Class 4
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CAf3UR9uZdQmQ1GMN--1v6ikCAhhY-gMpz1cdezN7pA/edit?usp=drive_web
Enjoy,
Mac
On Tuesday, April 2, 2024, veganboyjosh--- via TheThinkTank <
thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
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Hi Nikki,
The Community Cycles Youth Earn-a-Bike curriculum, posted in 2012, (but
written in probably 2008?) is still up and might have some useful
structure:
https://bikecollectives.org/wiki/Community_Cycles_Youth_Earn-A-Bike_Curricul...
Full disclosure: I helped draft it and might have posted it myself, but
have since moved away from Boulder and am no longer with Community Cycles.
They still do awesome work, but their programming and curriculum may have
changed since then.
Enjoy!
josh.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 6:16 AM DancesWithCars via TheThinkTank <
thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
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I'd be interested in some alt versions of this
with:
Disc Brakes
Brifters
Mountain Bike
eBikes
Spanish
French
Asian (Chinese, Japanese. Mandarin,
Vietnamese, Thai, +which?)
Arabic (Farsi, etc?)
Bents
On Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 21:39 Jim Bledsoe via TheThinkTank <
thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
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On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 3:14 PM Ed Stewart via TheThinkTank <
thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
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Take a look at bikes not bombs materials.
Sent from my iPad
On Apr 1, 2024, at 3:38 PM, Nikki Meyer via TheThinkTank <
thethinktank@lists.t.org> wrote:

Hello all,
At Yellow Bike Project we are offering beginner and intermediate adult
classes in bike mechanics. We'd like to have lesson plans for all our
courses so prospective teachers can use them to organize their thoughts.
Right now we have them for all our beginner classes, but need more for the
intermediate courses and the guy who teaches them right now is a genius but
doesn't want to write down his lesson plans because he says they'll end up
being 50 pages long (and we believe it!).
Do any of you have pdfs of lesson plans you could send us to work off
for ours? Right now we need plans for:

headsets
hubs
cranks and bottom brackets
brakes systems
shifting systems
wheel building

If you wouldn't mind sending any materials you have my way, I'd be
eternally grateful!
Thank you,
Nikki Meyer
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