Melbourne Bike Fest is coming! “Bikefest is a community initiated celebration of bikes in everyday life”… in the Bike Fest crew’s own words.
The Festival runs 24th to 28th November and there’s STACKS of stuff to catch including parties, award nights, film screenings, debates and of course bike maintenance sessions. We’re proud to be sponsoring the festival and contributing to such an awesome local event about bikes!

And guess who’s running the bike maintenance workshops? It’s us! We love teaching and sharing bike maintenance skills. The sessions are on the Sunday (28th …

The Human Powered Approach to Home Bike Maintenance
Announcing one of the most exciting workshops at this year’s Sustainable Living Festival! We’ll be presenting an introduction to cycling and bike maintenance, this workshop is aimed at starting out cyclists and those already cycling but who are not yet familiar with the bike maintenance basics. BYO Bike for an instructive session with qualified mechanics!

Sun 21st February 11.00 am – 11.50 am
Location: Leisure Dome

More details http://festival.slf.org.au/program/talk/human-powered-approach-home-bike-maintenance
And check the Sustainable Living Festival web site for heaps more cool talks and workshops!

We’re back! And what a scorching start to the year… not just the temperature but also more people pedalling around town!
I’ve started with some local news from the shop and pasted in this month’s BikeFun newsletter after that.
Happy summer cycling. Cheers, Bill and the crew
MORE BIKES, BETTER BIKES(!)
As always, we’re keeping a beady eye peeled for sweet bikes to add to our range.
1. some of the Kona range have made the grade and are starting to appear on the showroom. Already the Dew City, Dew and Dew Plus are here
2. …

2010 is officially the year of the bicycle. Well, at least at Human Powered Cycles it is!
Looking after your bike properly is essential to safe, efficient cycling. The classes we run will teach you about the  week to week, month to month maintenance that every bike needs. It’s certainly not a substitute for regular servicing but it will help keep servicing expenses low.
The new dates have been added to the latest post on bike maintenance (rather than republishing the same info).

A couple of months to go till the 2010 Sustainable Living Festival. Next year’s will be held at Federation Square in the city again from 19th till the 21st February.  We’ve been proactive and worked out a nice little contribution from the land of the bicycle…
On Sunday the 21st at 11am we’ll be presenting the Human Powered approach to bicycle maintenance. The session will pretty much cover how to look after your bike at home. There’s a lot of work that requires specialised tools and a bit more experience to …

Due to popular demand we’re scheduling bike maintenance training sessions for January and February. Here are the dates and some details of the upcoming training session. We’re moving from Saturday trainings to week night trainings. This means the shop is closed and there are no interruptions or distractions.
Training dates

Wednesday 27th January 6.30pm-8.30pm. Intermediate level (limit 6 participants per class) – THIS CLASS IS NOW FULL
Wednesday 10th February 6.30pm-8.30pm. Introductory level (limit 8 participants per class) – THIS CLASS IS NOW FULL
Wednesday 3rd March 6.30pm-8.30pm. Intermediate level (limit 6 participants per …