Cork community bikes offer a range of training and learning activies for local youth groups and schools. A selection of which are listed below. Please contact us by email if interested in helping out as a volunteer for a project or starting one in your school or community.

Bike Maintenance Course

We provide the tools and the training to teach you how to maintain your own bicycle. The course is run over six weeks and includes the following

Section 1 (6 sessions)

- Basic safety check / Maintenance- oil & clean
- Tube repair / tyre replacement / wheel alignment
- Basic wheel truing
- Brakes : systems and adjustments
- Gears : systems and adjustments
- Troubleshooting

Section 2 (6 sessions):

- Advanced wheel truing (spoke replacement)
- Bottom bracket / cranks
- Headset / forks
- Front, rear hubs / freehub vs. cassette
- Brakes : disassembly and cable replacement
- Gears : disassembly and cable replacement

Pedal Powerd Juice

Always a crowd pleaser the pedal powered juicer is a great promotional tool and an exciting and engaging project for any youth or school group. The students of Terence McSwiney commuity college successfully built their own for the national ‘Make a Book’ exhibition for primary schools in 2006. Check the video link below to see how it was done. There are lots more possibilities for pedal power projects such as electricity generators, clocks, theatrical bikes, you provide the imagination and we’ll provide the tools and the bikes.

Earn Your Own Bike

Earn your own bike is a prepared apprenticeship course for teaching people the technical skills in maintaining and repairing bicycles. The program gives young people the opportunity to earn their own bicycle by the supervised refurbishment of an old one. Students get to pick out a used bicycle, strip it down and build it up again. At the end of the program the finished bicycle is theirs to take away.

Mobile Bike Doctor

Doctor Bike is where we bring our mobile bicycle workshop to you for on site bike maintenance. We bring workstands, tools and spare parts. Our experienced mechanics will do a bicycle safety inspection. Then the bike docter will then teach students how to fix minor problems with their bikes on the spot.