Bicycle Maintenance

With our cycle weekend only a few weeks away, we asked the Scouts to bring their bikes down so we could check their roadworthiness and make sure that everything was appropriately sized.  We had three bases:
1.  Tyre repairs - where the scouts practised replacing an inner tube
2.  seat and handlebar height - where we explained the heights that the bars and seats should be - and adapted them where we needed to
3.  Brakes and general maintenance - where we talked about the different types of brakes, the importance of ensuring the brakes work correctly, repair kits and bicycle maintenance books.
We had also hoped to take the Scouts from the winning patrol to MacDonalds as their prize; however when we got to Scouts the church youth group said that they had leftover party food - and did we want it; not a difficult choice, so we’ve had to reschedule…..