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Wednesday April 15, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
The Bike Oven presents the class, “Spring Cleaning!”.
Join Chicken Leather and his group of comrades as they navigate the world of bike repair in an effort to get you and yours on the road.
The class will cover basic maintenance of a bicycle (in order to ready it for the Friday night ride of your choice) including: brake tuning, drive train cleanin’, bike washing, and shortcuts, tomfoolery, prestidigitation, and the irrepressible Chicken Leather’ witty banter and effervescent personality and body odor.
Students should bring their own bikes to work on if possible. Limited shop bikes will be available. Birth control optional.
A suggested donation of $10 is requested. Donation fee waived for
current volunteers.
Class is limited to 8 students. Secure your spot by emailing us at info@bikeoven.com.
The Bike Repair Teaching Techniques class will take place on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Bike Oven, located at 3706 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90065. To sign up for the class, email ubrayj02@yahoo.com or call 310-902-5439. Class size is limited, and priority will be given to Bike Oven volunteers (all are welcome, however).
The purpose of this class is to show people some useful techniques for sharing knowledge about bike repair with other human beings. This may seem silly, but sometimes the best mechanics can be the worst teachers. It is often the case that a skilled mechanic spends a lot of time perfecting their craft, and very little learning how to share and spread it. The Bike Oven, and other bike repair co-ops and collectives, is based in part on the sharing of knowledge about bike repair. Therefore, being a good bike mechanic is not enough to keep the Oven cooking! Our volunteer mechanics must also know how best to share what they know – and that is what this class is all about.
The whole thing should run about 1 hour and 30 minutes. Afterward we’ll get to bike repair and tearing down in the shop (if anyone is interested in working on that).
“Bike Repair Teaching Techniques”
- Introduction to Learning Styles
- Developing a “story” about a bike repair
- Being prepared to be wrong
- Demonstration
- Practice
The Bike Repair Teaching Techniques class will take place on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Bike Oven, located at 3706 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90065. To sign up for the class, email ubrayj02@yahoo.com or call 310-902-5439. Class size is limited, and priority will be given to Bike Oven volunteers (all are welcome, however).
Wednesday October 8, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
This Wednesday will be the first in a weekly series of tutorials taught by the Bike Oven’s mechanics and covering all aspects of bicycle repair, maintenance, technology, tools, and advocacy. There are no prerequisites for this session and no prior mechanic experience is required. Anyone is welcome to attend. You will be given a brief overview of the theory, tools, and practice of hub bearing repair and will then have an opportunity to rebuild actual parts.
If you have a bike you would like to work on, please bring it along. If not, we will work on shop bikes.
Class size is limited to 8 students. Secure your spot by emailing Steve Itano at: sitano at gmail dot com.
First come, first served. Walk-ins will only be admitted if class size permits.
(Note: the shop will be closed for this class. No other shop use will be allowed while in session.)
The Oven’s tutorials are designed to help new and current volunteers get up to speed on various common repair tasks we see in the shop so that they can participate in the madness we call the BikeOven…priority will be given to those who want to become full fledged volunteers. But we can fill opens spaces with anyone who is simply interested in gaining new skills.
Monday and Wednesday nights at the Bike Oven are Bike Oven Tech Training (B.O.T.T.) nights. We teach each other bike repair and destruction, we take care of our shop, and work on our own bikes. We relax our normal shop rules, order a couple of pizzas, and generally have a “Good Time” ™.
This week, we’re going to focus on training people on the post-modern analysis of bottom brackets. We’ll also be sorting through an insane variety of low-end bike part, and doing a bunch of other work on bikes in the shop – breaking them down, and hopefully building a few back up.
The shop is open from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m, but we’ll be closed to the public. Bike Oven volunteers only. If you’re interested in becoming a “volunteer” at the Bike Oven, email at us at info@bikeoven.com or just stop in to hang out and lend a hand.
More info about volunteer at the Bike Oven can be found on our Volunteer page.
Monday and Wednesday nights at the Bike Oven are Bike Oven Tech Training (B.O.T.T.) nights. We teach each other bike repair and destruction, we take care of our shop, and work on our own bikes. We relax our normal shop rules, order a couple of pizzas, and generally have a “Good Time” ™.
This week, we’re going to focus on training people on the proper use (and abuse) of chain tools. Last week, Harv held a class on chains and chain tools – and this week we’ll be going over that stuff, and doing a bunch of other work on bikes in the shop – breaking them down, and hopefully building a few back up.
The shop is open from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m, but we’ll be closed to the public. Bike Oven volunteers only. If you’re interested in becoming a “volunteer” at the Bike Oven, email at us at info@bikeoven.com or just stop in to hang out and lend a hand.
More info about volunteer at the Bike Oven can be found on our Volunteer page.
Wednesday nights at the Bike Oven are now Bike Oven Tech Training (B.O.T.T.) nights. We’ll be training each other in bike repair and destruction, taking care of our shop, and working on our own bikes. We relax our normal shop rules, order a couple of pizzas, and generally have a “Good Time” ™.
This is a chance for our volunteers to work on their own bikes in the shop. We also work on random bikes in the shop – tearing them down, building them up, and organizing them.
This week, we’re going to focus on getting a few road bikes we’ve had in the shop for a while read to ride. We’re also going to try and clean out the loft area in the back of the shop (this promises to be interesting).
The shop is open from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m, but we’ll be closed to the public. Bike Oven volunteers only. If you’re interested in becoming a “volunteer” at the Bike Oven, shoot an email at us at info@bikeoven.com or just stop in to hang out and lend a hand.
Yo, yo, yo!
Wednesday nights at the Bike Oven are now Bike Oven Tech Training (B.O.T.T.) nights. We’ll be training each other in bike repair and destruction, taking care of our shop, and working on our own bikes.
This is a chance for our volunteers to work on their own bikes in the shop. We also work on random bikes in the shop – tearing them down, building them up, and organizing them.
The shop is open from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m, but we’ll be closed to the public. Bike Oven volunteers only. If you’re interested in becoming a “volunteer” at the Bike Oven, shoot an email at us at info@bikeoven.com or just stop in to hang out and lend a hand.
Yo, yo, yo!
Wednesday nights are for Bike Oven volunteers ONLY!
We’ll be training each other in bike repair and destruction, taking care of our shop, and working on our own bikes.
The shop is open from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m, but we’ll be closed to the public. Bike Oven volunteers only. If you’re interested in becoming a “volunteer” at the Bike Oven, shoot an email at us: info@bikeoven.com