{"id":3838,"date":"2025-02-10T21:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2025-02-10T21:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T21:19:10","slug":"maintenance-course-8-feb-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/maintenance-course-8-feb-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance Course &#8211; 8 Feb 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0A much reduced pack of 3 trainee mechanics this year due to illness and family issues attended the maintenance course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many portions of flapjack and quiche were consumed along with the best part of 6 hours of hands on maintenance of tandems leading 3 more competent and confident pilots able to assist with technical issues on the trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once more the course was endured in near freezing conditions of our lock up so&nbsp;congratulations&nbsp;to the club kettle for ably providing a steady stream of hot drinks, they were essential in preventing early onset hypothermia. &nbsp;Next time we will choose a warmer month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maintenance-course-8Feb25-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Picture shows 4 members of TT sat in the TT HQ enjoying a lunch break on the maintenance course.\" class=\"wp-image-3839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maintenance-course-8Feb25-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maintenance-course-8Feb25-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maintenance-course-8Feb25-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maintenance-course-8Feb25-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maintenance-course-8Feb25-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/maintenance-course-8Feb25.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another positive result of the course is that we have now ticked off all the outstanding maintenance tasks highlighted at our December clean up session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Special thanks to British Cycling Limitless for funding additional tools and training equipment for this years course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A much reduced pack of 3 trainee mechanics this year due to illness and family issues attended the maintenance course. Many portions of flapjack and quiche were consumed along with the best part of 6 hours of hands on maintenance of tandems leading 3 more competent and confident pilots able to assist with technical issues &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/maintenance-course-8-feb-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maintenance Course &#8211; 8 Feb 25&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3840,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/3840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}