Accredited cycle mechanic's course

Matthewfalle

Afternoon all

I need to take an accredited cycle mechanic's course - ie one that gives you a recognised qualification and a certificate so that you can show your employer you are suitably qualified.

Location of the course isn't too much of a problem but it must be very good.

Has anyone any experience or recommendations of courses (or any to avoid!).

Many thanks

M

Calpol

Cycle Systems Academy as run by Sean Lally. Very respected but not that cheap.

http://www.cycle-systems.co.uk/cycle-maintenance-training-courses

il_principe

Matthewfalle wrote:

Afternoon all

I need to take an accredited cycle mechanic's course - ie one that gives you a recognised qualification and a certificate so that you can show your employer you are suitably qualified.

Location of the course isn't too much of a problem but it must be very good.

Has anyone any experience or recommendations of courses (or any to avoid!).

Many thanks

M

Where are you based?

Jules Winnfield

Cytech are well respected and has venues all over.....

http://www.cytech.uk.com/

I was thinking of doing a course myself for a possible career change.

Matthewfalle

Il Principe wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

Afternoon all

I need to take an accredited cycle mechanic's course - ie one that gives you a recognised qualification and a certificate so that you can show your employer you are suitably qualified.

Location of the course isn't too much of a problem but it must be very good.

Has anyone any experience or recommendations of courses (or any to avoid!).

Many thanks

M

Where are you based?

I'm down South but am Army so they will pay for me to go, essentially, anywhere that does the best course at the best price.

Matthewfalle

Cheers guys - I've been looking at Cytech on the net but Sean Lally also looks good.

Calpol: have you done this course/know anyone who has? As you can imagine, to get this through chain of command I have to have a pretty good business plan!

Thank you very much for your help.

M

ugo.santalucia

Cytech 2 is the one to have, normally only availab le for the trade and not for private citizens... cytech 1 is pretty pointless, you might be just about able to replace your brake pads after that

giant_man

check out the Bike Inn in Spalding, Lincs OP, City and Guilds courses available.

Matthewfalle

Cool - thank you.

Cytech level 2 open to everybody through ATG Training and one other, unfortunately the Bike Inn course is running whilst I'm being posted abroad - looks good though.

Anyone ever used ATG training?

Ta muchly

StillGoing

I looked at these myself purely from the standpoint of having a bit of paper that says' you were competent enough to pass a recognised course of training. All to cover me for litigation issues (should one ever occur) and reduce public liability costs should I start the business. There's nothing on the Cytech 2 course that I haven't done already so it all seems a lot of money and travelling for a paper exercise.

daniel_b

I attended the2 day Velotech course at Calshot, and thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt LOADS, as did the other 5 people on the course.

Superb instructor as well, and 80% hands on I would say.

2 day course included, servicing wheel hub bearings, bleeding/changing the fluid in hydraulic brakes, adjusting rim brakes, indexing gears from scratch, setting up brakes from scratch, removing crankets and cassettes.
Didn't get to play with headsets or bottom brackets, but have since fitted a headset, and removing a conventional BB is a piece of cake anyway.

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/calshot/bike_maintenance.htm

sopworth

If you have ELC's to use from the Army, CycleSystems in London run a residential course that gets you level 3 quals and you can use your ELC. They know all about military funding so you get the most from your resettlement money. Call them up.

Matthewfalle

Brilliant stuff - thank you very much all round.

S'worth - that's cool - thank you. I'll give them a call and see what they say: if they are familiar with the hoops and bells we have to jump through it makes life so much easier.