Bike Classes

Bike Skills Classes

An Evening College student learning some fine points of tuning his bike from MSU Bikes student mechanic Jared, Feb. 2008.

Photos from our World of Wheels class (Mar. 2007) - Click here to see a wheel being laced up from scratch!

Tim teaching a student during the first basic tune-up class at the Center

(photo by JEANA-DEE ALLEN · The State News)
A student learning to work on his own bike during the first Basic Tune-up class offered at the Center (Feb. 2007) . Click here or photo for full State News article.

Your classroom: Here's the shop area. 3 - double work stands to allow for work on 6 bikes simultaneously. The shop also features all new professional Park tools and other hand tools. Two pro Park truing stands; compressed air at every station; parts-washer; drill press, bench grinder, etc.

The MSU Bikes Service Center as seen from the River Trail. This facility is also known as the Canoe shelter. Click here for a map showing the location of the Bikes Service Center.

Spring 2008 - UPDATE
3/13/08

• The Mar. 15th & 22nd classes are full, but we have a waiting list that we can add you to. Students are required to pay for the classes at least a week prior to the class to hold their places.

• Additional hands-on basic/ intermediate bike tune-up classes (directly thru our Center) are now scheduled for the following dates & times:

Mar. 15th, Sat. - 10 am - 1 pm - Basic
Mar. 22nd, Sat. - 10 am - 1 pm - Intermediate

These classes will be limited to 6 people with 1 bike ea. (friends w/out bikes are allowed; see below) and first-come-first served. Advanced registration & payment is required to assure your spot.

Come in to the Center during our business hours to register/ pay or call and we can do it over the phone. See below for more details:

MSU Evening College Classes

These are now over this year; notes for the classes are available below.

Our 2nd year of bike maintenance/ tuning related classes were offered thru the MSU Evening College. They’re publicized thru the Evening College web site and print catalogs that get distributed all over the place.

Basics of Bike Maintenance for Enjoyable Riding
Feb. 16th, 10 – noon, Kellogg Center. No bikes necessary; lecture style with a lot of show & tell. Click here for the class notes from 2007...

Basic Bike Tune-up
Offered both Feb. 23rd and Mar. 8th, 10 – 1 pm., MSU Bikes Service Center, max. of 6 people w/ their bikes (or we can provide bikes for learning). Click here for class notes from 2007 class....

Addtional classes here at the Service Center

Good music, coffee and other refreshments included.

Basic Bike Tune-up – 3 hr class; Same content, rules and price as the Evening College class above. Max. of 6 people w/ their bikes (we can provide bikes for learning). First 6 to sign-up & pay get the spots reserved. $49 per person. Bring a friend to watch or help for an addtl. $20. Click here for class notes from 2007 class....

Intermediate Bike Tune-up – 3 hr class; We’ll go into more depth in all the areas covered in the basic class plus truing wheels in the pro truing stands, drive-train cleaning, using a parts washer to better clean parts, everything else short of over-hauling bearings. $69 per person. Max. of 6 people with their bikes (we can provide bikes for learning); bring a friend to watch or help for an addtl. $20.

Registration

To register for any of the other classes offered here please email the following information and then stop by and pay your registration fees at least 1 week prior to the class or your spot will be given to the next person on the waiting list (sorry, we don’t have the fancy online registration yet).

- Full name(s) of participants (include # of bikes or if you'd like a bike provided to work on)
- Street Address
- Phone number(s)
- Class(es) registering for

To register for the Evening College classes follow the links above or go directly to their registration form here.

Questions? Missed a class and want to get on the waiting/ notification list?
Call the shop & ask for Tim: 517/432-3400 or email: bikes@msu.edu

Maps

Click here for a page of location information for the MSU Bikes Service Center.

If you're new to MSU here's the campus maps/ directions page with other maps of MSU and the surrounding area leading to MSU.

Class Reports/ Archives

The first series of classes held at the MSU Bikes Service Center have come to a close. If you include the 21 participants in an MSU Evening College lecture that Tim gave on "Basics of Bike Maintenance" we'll have instructed 40 paying students on varying levels.
See some photos from some of the 2007 classes in the Center here.

Click here for the class notes from Basics of Bike Maintenance for Enjoyable Riding (2007)...

Click here for class notes from Basic Bike Tune-up (2007) classes....