Fix Your Bike — A 12-Week Guide to Bicycle Maintenance and Repair With an AI Tutor.

Stop paying shop prices for a flat, a slipping gear, or a squealing brake. This 12-week plan teaches you the bike as five simple systems — rolling, stopping, going, steering, and the frame — so you can look at almost any symptom and know exactly where it lives and how to fix it. Your AI tutor stands next to you at the stand: describe what you see, hear, or feel, and it asks questions until you both understand the problem, then walks you through the fix in small, checked steps. No experience needed, and it always tells you honestly when something is safety-critical enough to get checked by a shop.

What you get

This is a deep, digital guide: a "Never used an AI chat assistant? Start here" section walks complete beginners from zero to ready in about five minutes (any free AI assistant works — no paid plan needed), plus four rescue prompts for when a repair session goes sideways.

• An orientation that starts where every real repair starts — seeing your bike as five systems instead of a wall of mystery parts — and the one rule that keeps you safe: know the system before you touch it, and stop at the line.
• 12 ready-to-run ~60-minute weekly sessions, each with a plain-language concept, a concrete worked example, a minute-by-minute session plan, copy/paste AI-tutor prompts at every step, a "show me" checkpoint, common mistakes to watch for, and hands-on practice.
• Four rescue prompts built into the front matter — for when you're stuck, overwhelmed, unsure if a fix worked, or need the AI to slow down and re-explain.
• A two-week overhaul project where you plan and execute a full pass on a real bike, plus a roadside kit and skills for when something breaks away from home.

You lead one ~60-minute session each week. Every session is fully scripted — every step timed and every AI prompt written for you — so no mechanical or AI experience is needed going in.

The 12 weeks

1. Know Your Bike and Its Five Systems
2. Fixing a Flat
3. The Drivetrain and Chain Care
4. Brakes — and Why You Always Double-Check Them
5. Gears and Shifting
6. Wheels and Basic Truing
7. Bearings and Headset Feel
8. The Full Home Tune-Up
9. The Roadside Kit and Skills
10. Project Week I: Plan Your Overhaul
11. Project Week II: Do the Overhaul
12. Demo Day and the Maintenance Habit

Who it's for

Adults who ride and want to maintain and fix their own bike — commuters, weekend riders, and parents keeping a household of bikes running. No mechanical experience assumed; if you can turn a wrench and read a symptom out loud, you're ready.

Why this instead of a free chatbot

A raw chatbot will happily talk you through a brake adjustment with no idea whether you actually got it right. This pack ships the structure and guardrails it lacks: a diagnose-by-system method, a real 12-week progression from your first flat to a full overhaul, and a tutor set up to make you double-check anything safety-critical — and to route you to a shop when a job is genuinely beyond confident DIY. Real mechanical understanding, not a memorized tip list.

Safety

This is educational content, not professional bike-shop advice. Brakes, steering, and frame integrity are safety-critical: the pack teaches you to recognize when a repair touching them is solid, and when to get it inspected by a shop before you ride. Work carefully around chains, spokes, and other moving parts, and go slow when something feels off.

FAQ

• Do I need any experience? None. Week 1 is literally learning to see the five systems on your own bike; every fix is broken into small, checked steps.
• Which AI does it use? Works with any modern AI assistant — ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini — and the free version of any of them is enough. If you've never used one before, the guide's first section walks you through setup in about five minutes before Week 1 starts.
• Is this safe? Who's liable? It's educational only. Brakes, steering, and frame integrity are safety-critical — if a repair touches them and you're unsure, have a bike shop inspect it before you ride. You assume the usual DIY risk; work carefully around tools and moving parts.
• What tools do I need? A basic kit you build in early weeks — the pack tells you exactly what to buy and why, starting cheap.
• Refunds? Standard marketplace refund policy applies.

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