In the Tuesday and Wednesday options for years 10 and 11, we have been doing mechanics since September.

We designed our overalls and visited the factory where they were made for us. We also visited a cycle shop in Stockton to buy bike parts.

We have been learning about the different parts of bicycles and, with loads of new tools, we have been repairing cycles at reasonable prices for teachers and students.
We have also been taking old bicycles apart so that we can build up a stock of spare parts.

Our next step is to start to design and build up our own bikes from spare parts. We also intend to spend the money we have made on buying two scrap motorbikes, which we will restore.

We owe a massive thank you to Vic Brown our former site manager for volunteering to set the workshop up each session and for sharing his mechanical skills with us.

We are always on the look out for cycles to repair for money or for spare parts. All the owners of the ten bikes we have fixed have been very happy with our work.