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From: Mark H Hendricks <mhendri961(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Subject: A Little Help Please!
To: coordinator(a)fcbikecoop.org
Dear Friends:
It's time to start a cooperative here in The Quad Cities (border of Iowa and
Illinois). Please tell me what I am up against and the pitfalls you might
help me avoid. I am 52 and very experienced at helping businesses market
and sell. I used to run the largest independent Raleigh distributorship
(ancient days) and have over twenty years of winter cylecommuting
experience. Any advice you might offer would be greatly appreciated.
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Best Regards
Mark H. Hendricks
Mhendri961(a)gmail.com
1-309-762-3252 (direct)
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Rafael Cletero
Project Coordinator
Fort Collins Bicycle Co-op
ph (970) 484 38 04
www.fcbikecoop.org
Add Us Too!!
University of Utah bicycle Collective
www.ubike.org
Salt Lake City, UT
Sincerely,
Weston Edwards
Director
University of Utah Bicycle Collective
www.ubike.org
Hey All,
So I thought I'd write to the list again and encourage you all to send
me your links to your sites so I can add them to the directory
http://CommunityCycles.org/links.html
Many of you have sent me links in the past and I've done my best to
include them but a few may have slipped through the cracks. Please
verify that your collective is listed.
Once I hear back from people I'll send out the links and encourage you
all add them to your sites links page.
Why is Rich doing this? I'm doing this because it's an easy thing we
can all do to promote each other on the web. By having links to similar
sites the search engines give our site more credibility and move us up
in the search results. It also shows our site visitors we are part of a
larger movement to get people on bikes.
Peace
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Rich Points
Community Cycles Director
http://CommunityCycles.org
Rich(a)CommunityCycles.org
720-565-6019
Hi, everyone!
Registration is now open for Bike!Bike! Southeast.
Enjoy<http://southeast.bikebike.org/registration>!
If you're planning on coming and not ready to fill out the form just yet,
please let us know (reply sender!) so we can list you as a participating
shop (google maps of participating shops on the way).
-rachael
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Sopo Bicycle Cooperative
404-425-9989
www.sopobikes.org
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Hours of operation:
Tues, Wed, & Thurs 7 pm - 10 pm
Sat & Sun 2 pm - 6 pm
Collective Supporters:
Let's keep the emails on-topic! We are here to support and sustain each
other with ideas and information about Bike Collectives.
At The Sibley Bike Depot in Saint Paul, we are implementing a new Drupal
6 powered website. We are using Drupal because it is a powerful
platform that allows us to run the calendar, newsletters, etc. We are
also using it because we have a few volunteers with Drupal experience
and a commitment to help. We are starting from the ground up,
developing everything ourselves. We will give updates as we tackle some
of the more pressing items like tracking volunteer hours and bike
donations/inventory.
You can see our new Drupal 6 site here (not quite production ready yet!)
http://www.sibleybikedepot.org
You can see your current Drupal 5 website here:
http://www.bikeped.org
If you have questions or want more information, give me a shout!
Wilbur Ince
Sibley Bike Depot Web Team
Jill Bedford
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I have been having alot of bicyclists ask me what gloves to buy so that
their hands will stay warm in the winter. My response is that there is no
glove that will cut it.
I used to live and bicycle commute in upstate New York and I tried
everything from lobster claws to neoprene without satisfaction.
The only thing that works came from my winter motorcycle riding experiences
and they are called handlebar guantlets aka "hippo hands." As compared to
bulky gloves that prevent dexterity, hippo hands surround your handlebars
and allow you to use a thin pair of summer gloves and not feel cold. They
keep the wind off you while your hands heat up the space inside. Your hands
may even sweat.
Yes, they may look funny, but if they can keep the hands of a motorcyclist
(and snowmobilers) flying at 75 mph warm in the dead of winter -- the
bicycle is a logical crossover. Jill Homer, of Juneau, Alaska, rode her
bicycle in the Iditarod Trail International — 350 miles of wintry pedaling
over tough terrain. Note the hippo hands she is using in this NPR article:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16314506
This will only work on flat bars, not sure what to suggest about drop bars,
except it was rumored someone was promoting a commerical version for drops
this year at Interbike (www.interbike.com).
Here are some at overstock.com that might work:
http://www.overstock.com/Sports-Toys/Insulated-ATV-Handlebar-Gauntlet/30827…
Here is the company that bought the hippo hand name, the originals (which
you can get on ebay) were made by craig vetter from 1971-1978:
http://www.hippohands.com/
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Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison
c: 801-688-0183
Hi, everyone.
Bike!Bike! Southeast is scheduled for the weekend following the presidential
inauguration. Some of our volunteers already have DC travel plans, whatever
the results may be. Said uncertain results might have some bearing on what
other potential BBSE participants want to do with their time that week,
too. The events don't completely overlap, but there's a possible scheduling
conflict there.
So, if there is a reasonable amount of interest in pushing BBSE back a week
to accommadate whatever inauguration plans people have, we have no problem
with that. You can reply sender so we don't clog up inboxes.
Thanks!
Rachael
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Sopo Bicycle Cooperative
404-425-9989
www.sopobikes.org
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Hours of operation:
Tues, Wed, & Thurs 7 pm - 10 pm
Sat & Sun 2 pm - 6 pm