Are you passionate about bicycles and looking for a rewarding career path? Consider becoming a professional bicycle mechanic with training from Central Alberta Bicycle School (CABS). In today’s fast-paced world, the bicycle repair industry is booming, especially with the increasing demand for electric assist bikes and the growing popularity of cycling among Baby Boomers and Generation X.
The Central Alberta Bicycle School proudly recognizes the outstanding achievements of two students who have successfully completed the our program in Bicycle Assembly and Maintenance, as well as Professional Wheel Building and Truing. Bill Blinn of Beaumont, Alberta, and Wade Melnyk of Devon, Alberta, have earned their well-deserved certifications, demonstrating their dedication and expertise in the field.
The Central Alberta Bicycle School (CABS) is retaining Barnett’s Manual, 5th Edition, as the primary textbook for the CABS Professional Bicycle Mechanics Program. Barnett’s provides the detailed, accurate technical information and science-based approach required to train professional mechanics to a consistently high standard of competency, safety, and repeatability. Other widely used references—such as the Park Tool Manual—are valuable workshop aids but are not sufficient as the principal teaching text for our professional program because they are overly verbose, primarily procedural, and lack the theoretical foundation necessary for advanced, repeatable diagnostics and repair.
More program dates and course offerings in the works December 2023 began a big change for the Circuit Cycle & Sports, the professional bicycle shop that provides the course offered as the Central Alberta Bicycle School. CABS moved into a larger facility, complete with space for up to five double work-stations, and a student lounge…
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Central Alberta Bicycle School (CABS), the hands‑on service training program operated by Circuit Cycle & Sports Inc. in Millet, is pleased to announce two new graduates of the Professional Bicycle Mechanics Program. Chris Stach of The Bench Bike Shop (Jasper) and Todd Hewitt, restaurateur from Banff, have successfully earned certificates in the CABS Bicycle Assembly & Maintenance (BAM) and Wheel Building and Truing (WBT). Both students completed the intensive three‑week program and join the growing alumni of CABS-trained technicians.
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