[TheThinkTank] repair basics illustrations for you!

[Geoffrey B]

Please get in contact with us at Bike PIrates in Toronto ...we having been
using the mobile shop concept for about a year now, its far from perfect and
love some insight. I personally would love to send parts and tools to native
communities.



On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:01 PM, <dragonfly at mac.hush.com> wrote:

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>  Hello, Everyone.
>
>     Thank you, Rachael.
>
>     I have enjoyed reading everyone's posts over the past couple
> of months.
>
>     My daughter, Anna, was born on May 29th. I had her at home at
> my mother's house in Toronto, helped by midwives, one of whom has
> known me since I was around seven years old.
>
>     My mum cut the cord, so three generations of the women of our
> family were involved in that act.
>
>     Since then, we've all been getting used to our new lives, so
> other things have fallen by the wayside.
>
>     However, we did manage to put together a bike-shop-in-a-box
> for my friend's First Nation community-- it all fits onto a bike
> trailer we made for it!
>
>      I'd like to thank everyone who posted suggestions and help
> about that project. Thank you.
>
>     I reread everything you wrote to me, and also many of the
> other good posts about tools and equipment that people have shared
> on this list serve. You are all wonderful people and I love
> learning from you.
>
>     I'm disorganized right now, so you'd have to be patient while
> I farted around getting it to you, but I would be happy to send
> info about our portable shop to those who'd like it.
>
>     I have new questions for all of you now:
>
>     I'm sure many of you are in families of commuter cyclists--
> how young were your children when you started putting them in bike
> trailers or into one of those little seats?
>
>      Did you ride with them during their first winter of life, or
> did you wait until they were a little bigger for all-season
> communter cycling?
>
>      Do any of you get asked for help figuring out how to be bike
> dependant with little kids when you are at your shops?
>
>      Thank you all again.
>
>      I've included a couple pictures of my kid, just because I'm
> besotted with her.
>
>      I hope you are all having a wonderful summer.
>
>                           Sasha
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:16:59 -0400 rachael spiewak
> <rachael at sopobikes.org> wrote:
> >hi, everyone.
> >
> >just wanted to pass along a guide to basic repairs illustrated by
> >one of our
> >volunteers (it also includes a few pages about bike anatomy from
> >the BICAS
> >manual):
> >http://sopobikes.org/static/basicsmanual.pdf
> >
> >enjoy!
> >
> >rachael
> >
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