Bike Maintenance Classes in Melbourne
For less than the cost of a puncture repair at a bike shop, learn how to do it yourself — plus a whole lot more!
Join our qualified bike mechanics at Community Bike Hub in Footscray for a hands-on bike maintenance class. Whether you’ve never picked up a spanner or you want to build your confidence, this beginner-friendly workshop teaches the practical skills to keep your bike rolling safely. Our sessions are the most affordable bike maintenance course in Melbourne because we’re a not-for-profit social enterprise. Every dollar funds our work refurbishing donated bikes for people who can’t afford their own.
No prior experience necessary. Bring your own bike or borrow one of ours.
In this workshop you’ll learn:
- How to repair a puncture and replace a tube
- Chain maintenance and care
- More handy skills to keep your bike on the road
Session dates:
- Tuesday 5 May
- Tuesday 2 June
- Tuesday 14 July
- Tuesday 11 August
All sessions run 5:30pm – 7:00pm at Community Bike Hub Volunteer Centre, 4 Mills Close, Footscray
Please note:
- Sessions are open to all ages. Participants under 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian, who will need their own ticket.
- Participants aged 16–17 require parental permission to attend, confirmed at checkout.
Hands-on action for school students
Want to learn practical bike repair and maintenance skills in a friendly environment? The Community Bike Hub engages students in being proactive members of the circular economy. As soon as students enter the workshop, it is all hands-on action! Tools, parts, and bikes come together as students explore a ‘new world’ of mechanics, sustainability and community. By producing tangible outcomes that have ‘real world’ impacts such as decreasing landfill and improving access to bicycles for people, each and every student at the Bike Hub is given the opportunity to make the world a better place.
Through our work with Footscray High School we have helped middle years secondary school students develop practical skills in bike repairs, recycling and maintenance. Each year over 300 students from Footscray High complete our education program and help repair and refurbish hundreds of bikes.
Sign up your school for one of our fun and interactive workshops or programs! For more information email info@communitybikehub.com.au
Work collaboratively and change lives
The Community Bike Hub offers team building with a twist. While learning new skills and having fun with your colleagues, you will also be contributing to a genuine purpose. Every bike built is a bike kept from landfill, refurbished, and made ready for donation to refugees, asylum seekers or others in need, providing them with access to transportation, independence and an opportunity to improve their health and wellbeing.
Teams must roll up their sleeves, get on the tools and work collaboratively to get some life changing bikes ready to roll.
Team Building Days at the Community Bike Hub serve to drive participants to work together, overcome obstacles, and empower them with practical knowledge to take back home with them, all while changing others lives. That’s pretty special!
Read more on our Team Building Days
What is a Team Building Day?
A breakdown of the day
- Introduction & orientation
- Ice Breakers
- Bicycle workshop OHS
- Get to know your tools
- Mechanical concepts
- Bike repair assessment
- Bike repair for donation
Learn about
- Workstand setup
- Bike repair assessment
- Tool selection and use
- Seat and steering
- Wheels and puncture repair
- Drivetrain
- Brakes
- Cables
- Pre-ride safety check
For a general guide to our package pricing for Team Building Days guide.
If you want to learn more about our corporate days, check availability or discuss pricing reach out to us at info@communitybikehub.com.au to get the ball rolling!
Corporate Bike Servicing
At the Community Bike Hub, we understand that being a workplace of choice is more than the quality of biscuits in the tea room.
Our team of mechanics are now offering local businesses the opportunity to support the health and wellbeing of their staff with convenient and discounted bike servicing.
We collect bikes from your place of business and have them serviced and returned by COB the same day.
Corporate servicing supports our mission to provide equitable access to active transport.
As a social enterprise, our profits fund our volunteer and education programs. This enables us to repair bikes donated by the community and give them to those in need.
Enquire at: info@communitybikehub.com.au
Access and inclusion
Across all Community Bike Hub locations we offer a welcoming space where inclusion, access and safety are top priorities.