Name: Road/Trailside Bike Repair: How to Fix It and Get Home
Start: 2025-03-15T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-15T14:00:00-04:00
Location: Twining Valley Park Clubhouse

**Update as of 2/24/25: This workshop is now full, but we are accepting people on the waitlist. Please see the info in the text below. Thanks!**

Does your lack of bike repair knowledge worry you when you're on a ride? Take this hands-on class to learn about your bike’s key mechanical systems and practice basic “field” repairs to get yourself back riding in the case of a road- or trail-side mechanical issue. The workshop is indoors and will be held rain or shine.

**More info:** Registration is required: *see special details below about how to register for this AMC-DV "Field Trip."* Participants should bring their bike if possible and be prepared to get their hands (a little bit) dirty! We'll have a short break for lunch; please bring lunch with you if desired (there will not be time to go out).

**Course outline:**

1. Overview of bike parts and their names.
2. Tools, parts, etc., to carry with you on a ride and to have at home.
3. Pre-ride check “ABCDEs.”
4. How to remove and replace front and rear wheels.
5. Fixing a flat tire.
6. Minor shifting adjustments.
7. Dealing with a broken chain.
8. Minor brake adjustments.
9. Dealing with a broken spoke and/or bent wheel.
10. Routine maintenance to do at home.
11. Q&A, other issues as time allows.

**Special Registration Info:** *This workshop is an AMC Field Trip event: a type of AMC experience designed to explore a particular aspect of the great outdoors.* Field Trips are open to both AMC members and non-members, but members get priority and attend for free. There are 10 spots available for this workshop. Everyone will be waitlisted pending registration as noted below. **Note: space is FULL as of 2/24/25,** please add your name to the waitlist.

* **AMC Members:** [Please register for FREE at this linked form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1a_Qnki60LzQMAY6Smx8zUfog-c7TPgZxYHXTnj1ZnMY/edit?ts=67ae2736) and also join the waitlist here on Meetup.
* **Non-Members:** Please join the waitlist here on Meetup and then [register and pay $30 on AMC's website](https://activities.outdoors.org/s/oc-activity/a5UUN000000hpNR2AY/act00011353) in order to attend the workshop and be moved off the Meetup waitlist.
* ***Non-Member Special Offer!*** *Join AMC when [registering for this Field Trip](https://activities.outdoors.org/s/oc-activity/a5UUN000000hpNR2AY/act00011353) and you can attend the activity for free and get 20% off your first year of AMC membership!* You can then attend any Field Trip event during the rest of your membership year FOR FREE.

Brian W

Appalachian Mountain Club Delaware Valley Chapter

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