10:00 Tuesday September 13 2022
Current Participants: 2 space(s) available
Today’s ride begins with a ride from Port Sunlight, through Birkenhead Park and Arrowe Park to Nets cafe, and includes our third Bicycle Maintenance Workshop run by the mechanics from Just Riding Along Bike Repair of Bridge Street, Neston
At the workshop you will learn how to:
- Do a basic bike check (the M check)
- Remove and replace a wheel
- Change an inner tube / repair a puncture
- Check and, if necessary, replace a tyre
- Check wear on a chain and decide when to replace it
- Replace a chain
- Check brake pad wear and replace brake pads (rim and disk)
- Adjust rim brakes
- Check tyre pressures
- Check cables for wear
- Derailleur Gear Adjustments
The ride will be led by Dave Brewer starting from outside Port Sunlight Railway Station at 10:00 am and getting to Nets just after 12:00 for lunch. The maintenance workshop will start (under cover in the barn at the side of the cafe) at 13:00. People can make their own way to Nets, travel with Dave from Port Sunlight, or join the ride at the Birkenhead Park Visitor Centre on Park Road at 10:30 or at Red Rooms Cafe in Arrowe park at 11:00 am. Here is the route on Komoot: Port Sunlight to Nets via Birkenhead Park and Red Rooms and on Garmin: Port Sunlight to Nets via Birkenhead and Arrowe Parks
Places are limited, so please make sure you book and let Dave know if and where you will be joining him on the ride to Nets <D_Brewer_505@yahoo.co.uk>
After the workshop finishes, you can return to Port Sunlight with Dave or make your own way home.