Like Pascal, I am keen to know how problems like the loose chain develops, can we prevent it or is it mostly due to the intense life our poor spin bikes live? Another issue I have found is the ‘all or nothing bike’ – at low resistance it is fine but once you start putting that resistance on to climb a hill, you’re suddenly climbing a mountain with no where harder to go. I hate this and I know my fellow instructors, students and classmates do too.

I guess what I (and probably other instructors) want is a short check list of easily solved or preventable issues – how they happen and how to solve them!… now, I bet you are going to say buy Jeffs book for our relevent spin bikes and I dont blame you if you do!!

Thanks!

In 2 facilities I teach, I have been pushing the manager to fix some problems, mostly was lose chain. The last time it was so hard to be heard that I had to ask to the general manager of one facility, a guy I ride outside who is a good friend, to talk to the other manager, same franshise; to make thing move ! So the group exercise manager ask me to note which bike on 30 needed some kind of maintenance. When I told her 2 bikes were perfect on 30 she was scare to annonce it to the big manager !

What was really suprising me, is how many instructors just do not remark that something was wrong with bike !

I have 2 questions about maintenance:
-what are the factor that induce loseness of the chain ? what is the basic frequence of maintenance of the chain tension ?
-sometime going from a standing to a seated position or vise versa the tension just increase without touching the knob ? What could be the reason and how to manage it ?

It’s kind of what John and I are doing with ICI – recognizing that there is a dearth of solid training information available to IC instructors, and finding a way to provide it.

I know I want my club managers to listen to this podcast. Preventive bike maintenance is not always on the top of every manager’s list. I’m hoping we can move it up a few notches.