Mountain Bike Skills Training in the Afan Forest Park mountain bike skills training MIAS Mountain Bike Training in the Mountain Bike Olympic training camp in the Afan Forest South Wales

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Mountain Bike Instruction & Mountain bike Leader Training Mountain Bike Maintenance training course MIAS L1 L2 SMBLA OTC CTC mountain bike training courses with personal riding skills training
Taster Sessions to see if you like Mountain Bike Riding. Come and join us for a taster session in the Afan Forest.
Our Instructors are all qualified through the MIAS Mountain Bike Leader Training scheme. so you can have faith in our ability to deliver Training and tuition on Mountain Bike Riding Skills Development.
MIAS Course Dates.MIAS courses are particularly beneficial for those who wish to gain employment or work as independent operators within the travel industry. They are also very popular with teachers, youth leaders, scout leaders etc. who have benefited from a recognised qualification, from the N.V.Q. Awarding Body
Course Joining notes. Roughly the timings are Day 1 09.00 registration, 09.15-10.30 Course Modules, 10.30-10.45 Break, 10.45-12.30 Course Modules, 12.30-13.15 Break 13.15-14.00 Bike prep for riding skills, 14.00-15.45 Personal riding skills module, 15.45-16.00 Break 16.00-16.20 de-brief.
M O D Accredited. Every member of the services is entitled to £175.00 per year, to put towards the cost of personal development courses. All MIAS Mountain Bike related courses qualify for this funding support for MOD staff members. These training courses are civilian-recognised qualifications.
Bike Maint Course. Maintaining and repairing your mountain bike isn’t rocket science. There are some components such as expensive shocks that have to go away to specialists for overhaul. But you can save about 70% on Bike Shop costs by removing them and sending them away yourself.
Womens Courses. are run at our workshops in Glyncorrwg for ladies
Riding Skills Courses. The aim of these Personal Riding Skills Courses is to develop existing riding skills and to introduce new ones. Under our Guide/Instructors supervision You will be tackling the best the trails in Afan have to offer, rocky mountainous XC singletrack terrain.
Corporate Rides are a good way of encouraging well being amongst your stall and encouraging a healthy life style. Try something different for your next Team Building day
Bike Hire is available at Unit 3 Glyncorrwg we have full suspension bikes by KHS and Hard-tails by GIANT and KHS prices start from £33.00
It is important to make a Booking for all our Mountain Bike Activities for more Info look at the Bookings page.
Afan MTB Trails Here in the afan forest we have a mountain Bike Riders paradise so pack you shorts and join us for an activity day.
Stags, Hens, Adventure all come and join us for an activity afternoon as part of their activity weekend.
Directions to our Shop at unit 3 Glyncorrwg Community Workshops.
Accommodation B+B SC are all available within the afan forest district so take a look at our pages.
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Trailer Hire Its easy to understand why people come to us for trailer Hire.
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Mountain Bike Hire and Riding Skills Development in South Wales  Tel 01639 893661

Bicycle Maintenance courses. Bike Maintenance training courses
Mountain Bike and Cycle maintenance instruction & training courses
Learn to maintain your Mountain Bike of Bicycle on a Bike Build and Training Course

Page last updated 16-01-12

These Bike Maintenance courses are held at Unit 3 Glyncorrwg Workshops nextdoor to the Ponds centre click here

We also run courses throughout the UK where customers have suitable facilities and are willing to provide assistance with Travel & Accommodation for our Instructors

MIAS Hit Bike  Maintenance

Course Dates

2012 Courses

Sat Sun Jan 14-15 (2 places

Sun Mon Jan 22-23 (2 places

Sat Sun Mar 17-18 (1 place

Sat Sun Apr 21-22

Mon Tues May 14-15

Sun Mon Jun 17-18

MIAS accredited Bike Maintenance

Maintaining and repairing your mountain bike isn’t rocket science. There are some components such as expensive shocks that have to go away to specialists for overhaul. But you can save about 70% on Bike Shop costs by removing them and sending them away yourself.

With the above in mind we will teach you how to maintain strip and repair mountain bikes.

With workshop tools at hand students can get involved in bike re-builds under supervision.

We also cover the necessities of trail repairs and what tools and equipment you should equip your workshop with  to carryout simple and major overhaul maintenance tasks.

Hands on Training

The MIAS Level 2 & L 3 Hit Maintenance course is one & a half days of intensive HANDS ON Bike Repair Work carried out by our qualified Instructors. With Students being called on to perform various hands on tasks

During Day One, we will totally strip Bikes and re-assemble them setting up the Indexing etc.

On Day 2 students will be HANDS ON and constantly encouraged & Assessed as they rebuild Bikes.

Bespoke Courses

Bespoke Courses can be run for individual clients to reflect work on their own specific project Bikes.

Course Fees are £205.00 pp

Min number of students per course 3 Maximum number 6

Components Covered

Tyres & tubes

Chain  splitting & sizeing

Indexing Cables replace

Brakes, v and disc setup

Freewheel hub remove

Gear cassette remove

Chain rings remove

Bottom  bracket cartridge & Ext

Wheels spokes, truing & cones

Rear mech. & indexing

Front mech setup

Headset, remove

Front forks suspension remove

Brake bleeding

Gift Vouchers Available.
Bike Sales.