Bike posters

stevew · Post by **stevew** » 24 Sep 2008, 12:30pm

Where can i get BIG posters for a maintenance course I am running. I'm looking for the ones with all the names of the parts on it so the student can easily locate bits on their bikes.

Dee Jay · Post by **Dee Jay** » 24 Sep 2008, 1:33pm

How many women are on your course?

Seriously.

mhara · Post by **mhara** » 24 Sep 2008, 2:09pm

Agreed Dee.

Will your course have different levels? Biginners, intermediate, build-your-own bike from scratch...

Hope you can get hold of useful posters.

stevew · Post by **stevew** » 24 Sep 2008, 3:28pm

About 60% are female and its for basic maint. to keep a bike running. Up to and including gear indexing and puncture fixing. So i would say it's beginners and intermediate. It's just that as many newcomers to bike maint. get confused by the bike jargon so i would like to have a poster explaining basic names for the parts of a bike.
It would also be good to have some colourful cycling related posters to brighten up a rather dull training room.

thirdcrank · Post by **thirdcrank** » 24 Sep 2008, 3:34pm

stevew

I think you might have been better advised not to get into that discussion. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, 'Know what I mean, squire?' questions about age, body shape, marital status etc., are likely to flood in. :shock:

More to the point, I've never seen anything of the type you seek. Probably says something about the general shortage of bike maintenance courses that resources are not more widely available.

What about the modern method of preparing them on your own computer and using a computer linked projector, or failing that, acetate sheets and an overhead projector?

Dee Jay · Post by **Dee Jay** » 24 Sep 2008, 4:11pm

stevew wrote:About 60% are female and its for basic maint. to keep a bike running. Up to and including gear indexing and puncture fixing. So i would say it's beginners and intermediate. It's just that as many newcomers to bike maint. get confused by the bike jargon so i would like to have a poster explaining basic names for the parts of a bike.
It would also be good to have some colourful cycling related posters to brighten up a rather dull training room.

This is excellent news ... that such a thing exists - have I led a very sheltered life? - and that lots of women are signing up for it!

*Goes off pondering a number of things ... what's gear indexing?... is there such a course near me? ... 60% huh?*

Manx Cat · Post by **Manx Cat** » 24 Sep 2008, 4:19pm

Are you offering the course at a College or at a local workshop?

Reason why I ask this, is that most Colleges have media technicians. This sort of thing is exactly what my hubby does. He would make one for you as a learning aid if you needed one. And anything up to Wall Sized to boot, and in colour too! :lol:

So if you are doing this in an educational environment, someone there should be able to put one together for you.

Ah, the joy of a Mac, and having a Mac hubby....

Mary

keepontriking · Post by **keepontriking** » 24 Sep 2008, 4:32pm

Manx Cat wrote:Ah, the joy of a Mac, and having a Mac hubby....

This sounds rather kinky :lol:

I'll get my coat. :wink:

Post by **Mick F** » 24 Sep 2008, 7:53pm

Manx Cat wrote:Ah, the joy of a Mac, and having a Mac hubby....

OT. Sorry, but I couldn't help ........

I'm on a MacBook.

A friend has a little bit of discount with Apple, and yesterday we pushed the boat out:

I ordered and new MacBook for Mrs Mick F
and an iMac 24" with 1TB hard drive!
I can hardly wait!

Manx Cat · Post by **Manx Cat** » 24 Sep 2008, 8:35pm

Mrs MF will love you for it! :lol:

Mary

stevew · Post by **stevew** » 25 Sep 2008, 9:47am

Back to posters please !!

Dean · Post by **Dean** » 25 Sep 2008, 9:56am

Have you tried Google?

Search=bike+named+parts

The fourth image looks promising.

Post by **Mick F** » 25 Sep 2008, 10:15am

I was Google-ing yesterday and didn't really find exactly what SteveW's OP wants, I tried "Extra-Large" images.

Just tried again now and found this site:
http://www.infovisual.info/05/033_en.html

Any good?
Similar to Dean's link.

Dean · Post by **Dean** » 25 Sep 2008, 11:19am

Thinking laterally, it would be possible to take a BIG, high-contrast photo of a bike, label the parts in Photoshop (or whatever), then take the file to a printer's shop and ask them to print it out at the necessary size.

Of course, you need to be able to identify the parts first

stevew · Post by **stevew** » 25 Sep 2008, 3:15pm

Thanks Dean and Mick,

Think i may be able to do something with those

Photoshop technology is a bit beyond me at the moment but i may be able to find a "man who knows"