About the course

If you have a motorcycle and want to learn to fix it yourself, this course is for you! If you don’t have one, but are curious about motorcycles and want to get your hands dirty, this course is for you too! By the end of the course, you should be comfortable tackling basic motorcycle repair and upkeep on your own. Join us!

The main goals of the course are:

Learn the basics of how motorcycles work, and how to fix them
Get comfortable working with a range of hand tools
Learn strategies for figuring out how stuff works, in general

Let me back up. This course is ostensibly about fixing old motorcycles, but my real goal (shhh, don’t tell anyone) is to get you comfortable with taking apart, diagnosing, and repairing your built environment. Most of us live our lives surrounded by things that humans built, and those things have a nasty tendency to break. In my experience, my material surroundings feel a lot friendlier when I feel empowered to repair them myself.

Motorcycles are a great vehicle (heh) for gaining confidence in working with your hands for a few reasons:

They strike a sweet spot in complexity: they have enough components to be interesting, but are simple enough to work on with basic tools
They’re more interesting than, say, a refrigerator, but the skills you learn from troubleshooting and fixing a motorcycle translate well to all sorts of household items
There’s a visceral connection to the end result. You fixed it, and now it can take you places!