Winter can be a great time to spend some time indoors learning how fix and maintain your bike. Many local bike shops offer classes on the basics like fixing flats and adjusting gears, up to more advance topics for the aspiring bike mechanic. Many are free or low cost. Here are few coming up this winter.
The Wheel Cyclery on North Antioch offers the national Park Tool curriculum, including both novice and advanced classes. There is a fee for these, but they are high quality and include food and the Park Tool Big Blue Book.
Epic Bike and Sport on NW 64th offers free beginner and intermediate classes every Saturday in December.
Midwest Cyclery and Volker Bicycles in Midtown both participate in Communiversity, UMKC’s low-cost community education program. There is a Midwest class this Wednesday evening.
Family Bicycles in Waldo offers an introductory class once a month, with every third class reserved just for women.
Bike shop owners: if you have a class to list, just let me know.
I am using my local dealer for almost all kinds of bike repair, but thanks a lot for this post.