Conor Donoghue

Who Conor is

Conor joined Tyred to run its day-to-day operations after four years as a mechanic in London's cargo bike workshops and fleets. He started in 2022 as a rider and mechanic on a fleet of Urban Arrow cargo bikes and trailers: Rohloff hubs, Magura and Shimano hydraulic brakes, and the bikes that came back from accidents or long neglect. He built that fleet's tracking database and worked with Urban Arrow and Rohloff on service and development.

From there he moved on to assembling and repairing two- and three-wheeled cargo bikes (Christiania, Bakfiets, Bicicapace), then to a Hackney Wick fleet workshop as fleet mechanic and later workshop supervisor, in charge of the workshop, its stock and a team of mechanics. Most recently he built and prepared premium e-bikes and front-loading family and business cargo bikes at a London Bridge workshop, and built wheels.

He holds the City & Guilds Stage 3 Professional cargo cyclist certificate. Outside work he teaches paddleboarding, has led Scout cub packs and directed a junior parkrun.

Certificates

• City & Guilds: Stage 3 Professional cargo cyclist, April 2022.
• REC: Essential first aid for the outdoors, January 2022.
• Paddle UK, BSUPA and RYA: paddle sports and stand-up paddleboard instructor, FSRT and Inland Waterways Helmsman, 2021 to 2022.

How a guide gets written

• It starts from real jobs. Each guide is built around the faults and questions mechanics meet on visits and in the workshop, not around what other websites say.
• It is checked against the source. Torque figures, pressures, pad and tyre compatibility and legal rules are taken from manufacturer manuals and official sources such as GOV.UK, and the guide names them.
• It carries a date. Every guide shows when it was published and is updated when parts, tools or rules change.
• It says when to stop. Every guide has a section on the symptoms that make the job one for a mechanic, so nobody is sent down a repair they cannot finish at home.