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Last updated 31 October 2026. These terms cover the Shandoka technician certification and this website. They're written in plain language on purpose. If something here is unclear, ask us and we'll explain it.

1. Who you are dealing with

Shandoka Cycles, Detroit, Michigan. Contact: training@shandokacycles.com.

2. What you are buying

Enrollment gives one named person access to the course materials and the knowledge tests, with no time limit to finish. Access is personal: please do not share your login or distribute the material. Shops, families and youth groups buying seats assign each seat to a named learner.

Age. Learners 16 and older may start the free preview themselves, and may buy access with a payment method in their own name. Without one, a parent or guardian pays and approves the account. Learners aged 13 to 15 must be enrolled through a sponsored account held by a parent or guardian or by a youth organization such as a school, scout troop or YMCA; they cannot create an account on their own. The sponsor accepts these terms on the learner's behalf and supervises their bench work. The course is not offered to children under 13.

Your certificate and your test results are permanent, and your access to the course material and the repair library doesn't run out.

While we're in development. Until the full version of the Shandoka Micro-Mobility Training Resource launches, the training runs as Beta Two. A few access passwords we've given out open it free, and every other access password takes 25% off. Starting it puts you on our follow-up list under the notice beside the start button, which the privacy policy repeats. Your entry carries over to the full version. If that notice changes, we'll ask you to agree again before the course opens for you.

Beta Two. Beta Two costs $99 through 31 December, or $74.25 with an access password. From 1 January the course is $149. There's no time limit to pass the seven module tests. A pass is 90% of all the points across the seven tests, short answers included, with three tries at each test. If you pay before you've been to the site, we email you a private link to start. Everyone who joined the first beta, before 31 October 2026, keeps the course for life with no time limit to finish.

3. Prices, payment and refunds

Prices are shown on the enrollment page and may change; the price you pay is the price shown at checkout. Introductory pricing ends on the date stated on that page.

If the course is not what you expected, tell us within 14 days of enrolling and we will refund you, provided you have not already completed more than two modules. After that, write to us anyway and we'll listen.

The drawings trade is separate: if you pass the certification, take on a group of figures and we accept them, we refund your course fee. Acceptance is at our discretion and is based on whether each drawing is technically correct against its brief. We will always say specifically what is wrong and give you a chance to revise before declining a group.

4. What this training is and is not

Please read this one carefully

This course teaches you to work on electric vehicles, including lithium battery systems that can cause fire and serious injury. It is educational material, not a license, not a legal qualification, and not a substitute for manufacturer service documentation, local regulation, or your own judgment.

You are responsible for the work you do. Shandoka Cycles is not liable for injury, damage or loss arising from work you perform, from work performed by someone you trained, or from a decision you made after reading this material. If a procedure here conflicts with a manufacturer's instructions or with the law where you are, follow the manufacturer and the law.

The certificate states what you passed and when. It is issued by us, not by a government body or a trade association, and we do not claim it is a license to practice anywhere.

5. Your results and the employer scorecard

You can hand an employer a sheet carrying a reference code. When someone uses that code, we send them your module results, your general performance band and what you are ready to practice, and we tell you who asked. If you would rather that did not happen, ask us to revoke your code and we will.

6. Your content and ours

The course material, figures and bench cards are ours. You may print and use them in your own work; you may not resell them, publish them, or use them to run a competing course.

Drawings you submit stay yours. You keep the right to show them in your portfolio. By submitting, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide right to use them in the course and its materials, with your credit attached.

7. Acceptable use

Do not attempt to break, overload or gain unauthorized access to this site, and do not upload anything malicious. We may suspend access for that, or for sharing paid material publicly.

8. Changes and ending

We may update these terms; the date at the top shows when. Material changes will be told to enrolled students by email. You may stop using the site at any time.

9. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, United States.

Not yet reviewed by an attorney

This is a working draft that describes what we do.