November 2008 - TheThinkTank - lists.bikecollectives.org

Is there a collective in New Orleans?
by Jonathan Morrison 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Email me if you know of one. -- Sincerely, Jonathan Morrison Project Coordinator Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org

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Re: [TheThinkTank] non-petroleum lube
by Michael Wolfe 04 May '11

04 May '11

Page 13 of the 1992 Bridgestone bicycle catalog has a unique recommendation of using olive oil. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/bridgestone/ On 4/2/08, Bob Giordano <mist(a)strans.org> wrote: > > Indoor air quality is tops on our list for a healthy shop atmosphere. We > do not store anything that gives off harmful fumes. Tooth brushes and > simple green (highly diluted) in a small wooden bowl is our parts cleaning > station. We are even moving away from simple green (i've learned it is > harmful to some)- to a citrus based cleaner. > > I guess tri flow is the only thing with fumes in the shop. Often we ask > people to use it outside. I'd like to find a non-petroleum lube. > > -Bob Giordano, Free Cycles Missoula > > > Michael Wolfe wrote: > > Speaking of liver damage, etc.. Wondering if any shops out there have > had > > issues solvent tanks in their shop? The fumes give me a headache but > others > > don't seem to mind it. Mostly I worry about the health effects on the > full > > time people in the shop. Short of installing a hood or ventalation > system, > > what options are there to locate that stuff outside? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Thethinktank mailing list > Thethinktank(a)bikecollectives.org > > http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.… >

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110 Community Bicycle Organizations
by Jonathan Morrison 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

We aren't alone. http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Community_Bicy… -- Sincerely, Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org

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funding questions
by Liza Mattana 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi, I wanted to redirect Beth's questions that got lost in the bike curriculum thread...thanks in advance. Our nonprofit, Pedals2People, just got its 501c3. As we are trying to develop projects and determine our focus under our new status we thought it would be great to get some insight from all of you that have more experience (been around for a while). Anyone that would like to, please feel free to answer any of the following questions: 1.) What is your main source of funding? 2.) If you have a space, how are you covering your costs? 3.) Do you have paid staff? 4.) Are you financially self-sustaining or grant funded? Thanks for your help! If you have any other suggestions or ideas or questions i forgot that you would like to answer, please do! -- Liza Mattana president www.pedals2people.org Spokane, WA

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Owning your space
by Graham 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Are there any groups out there who own their own building or rent a space in a building owned by a closely integrated org. 1. How did you finance it? Traditional bank or credit union, Ethical Fund or similar agency, or private loans/donations. 2. Do you rent space to any other groups to help pay the bills? 3. Who manages the building - the bike collective directly or a seperate committee of people? 4. What conflicts or problems do you think a group thinking of buying a building should look out for?

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Bike Collectives Links Page Update FINAL - Time to post on your sites
by Rich Points 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hey All, Thanks to everyone who helped me update the bike collectives links page, we now have close to 150 collectives listed in North America. I will update this list again next fall. Until then I'd like to encourage you all to post these links on your sites. This way we can collectively support each others work. Please pass this on to your webmasters. Three ways to post these links on your site 1. Go to http://CommunityCycles.org/links.html, look at the code and copy and paste the links 2. Visit http://CommunityCycles.org/links_html.html and copy the html and paste into your site 3. Subscribe to the RSS feed http://www.communitycycles.org/index.php?option=com_bca-rss-syndicator&feed…, if anyone knows how to get this RSS to render as html on other sites please contact me. Ride On -- Rich Points Community Cycles Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich(a)CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 Donate your old car to Community Cycles

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Membership at your community bike shops
by Cycles of Change APC 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Hi everyone, I'm writing from the Cycles of Change APC Bike Shop in Alameda, California (near Oakland, CA). Cycles of Change APC is a *not-for-profit community bicycle shop* which opened in July 2006. It is a collaboration between Cycles of Change, a 10 year old East Bay youth bike education non-profit, and Alameda Point Collaborative (APC), a non-profit which manages housing and services for a 200 unit residential community comprised of 500 formerly homeless adults and families. Our website is: www.apcollaborative.org/cyclesbikes.htm We are thinking about how to generate additional revenue for the shop. Currently we're selling and repairing bikes to bring in revenue. We're also partially supported by grants. One idea that we had was to create a membership program which would enable people to use our community repair shop, get discounts at our shop, and provide discounts to other bike shops in the area as well. I'd especially like to hear from other programs with membership programs you've started. How much does it cost? What does it provide? Does any other group have experience with providing discounts to other shops? How big has your membership grown? How do you promote it? Thank you, Evan Lovett-Harris Cycles of Change APC 510-898-7830 -- Cycles of Change APC All People. All Bikes. One Community.

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Discounts for Co-ops
by GetGern＠gmail.com 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Hello Bike Friends, Does anyone have solid advice on the legality/Restrictions regarding discounts given to member/volunteers? We are a California regestered incorperated Member owned Co-operative, not a Non-Profit(501c3). We want to give a discount, but I heard it may not be legal. I hope that it is illegal referring to 501c3's.

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bikebike workshop past facilitators
by joshua 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

Hey Y'all. I'm new to this website/wiki but excited to be here! I am currently working with Neighborhood Bike Works in Philadelphia I am specifically searching for anyone who has done a past workshop at bike! bike! to post an outline of their workshop for public use/ reference, basically an online or pdf version of the workshop's goals and/or methods. In addition to this virtual workshop, I was hoping for some sort of exit interview or reflection on how the workshop went, what could have made it better, were your goals accomplished, etc. If you or anyone you know did a workshop at a previous bike! bike! conference can you email me (joshua) at 000joshua(a)gmail.com (or fwd this to someone you know who did a workshop) and we can go from there! Sincerely, Joshua

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Trip to SF... any ideas?!
by Boson Au 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

first of all, apologies if this is annoying. but yeah, I'm going to be visiting SF next week (for work related stuff). I'm planning on going on a short tour down to santa cruz (basically like the one folks did at the end of bikebike...) I was wondering if the route for that tour is avail anywhere and if anyone has any suggestion on hostels/etc. for me to check out @ santa cruz. I really want to check out the church but beyond that I kind of just want an awesome ride that's not on the east coast... is there anywhere cool inbetween? I'm pretty sure I can get to SC in one day. I'm not really trying to camp out but I can regardless. I'm gonna be in SF from this sunday on... thinking of leavin' the following thurs to ride down to santa cruz, coming back saturday. any tips/hints appreciated. -Boson Velocipede Bike Project Baltimore, MD

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reading list/online resources for bike mechanics?
by veganboyjosh＠gmail.com 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

hey all. while working on putting together a list of websites, online tutorials, books, etc, that are helpful for budding/experienced mechanics, it occurred to me that a lot of people on this list would be helpful in gathering such a list, and could probably benefit from it also. i started a page on the wiki for just such a list, it's located here.<http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mechanic> please do add to it. thanks! josh. community cycles, boulder

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Bike Collective Links Page Updated - Please verify you site is listed
by Rich Points 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

OK, so I heard back from a lot of you with links to you sites. I also added links found here http://www.ibike.org/encouragement/freebike/directory/index.htm as well as links from the Bike Collective Directory. I didn't include groups who don't have a website. After this update there are 144 links to coops and collectives in the US and Canada. Please verify that your coop is listed and if not to let me know. http://communitycycles.org/links.html I'll send out the final html and encourage you all to include this links list on all of your sites. This will show our site visitors we are part of a much larger movement while collectively driving traffic to all of our sites. I'll also set this up as a RSS feed. Peace -- Rich Points Community Cycles Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich(a)CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 Donate your old car to Community Cycles

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Bar Mitts - Keeping hands warm in winter
by Rich Points 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Hey All, I saw these at VeloSwap but didn't buy any because I don't ride a road bike. Looks like they'd work well but I wonder what it'd be like to crash with them. http://www.barmitts.com/install.php -- Rich Points Community Cycles Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich(a)CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 Donate your old car to Community Cycles

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Bike Church in Davis is being evicted!
by Jason Moore 09 Nov '08

09 Nov '08

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/1380958.html We are having some trouble keeping our space on the university and are going to need all the support we can get. For some reason our 4 year old community resource has now been called a nuisance by the university administration. Jason Moore Davis Bike Church

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phoenix az collective!
by nathan leach 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

pnoenix is getting something started thanks to the help of everyone at bie saviours!!!! we are just in the begining stages and if anyone has any wise old man or woman advise it would be awesome!

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lease agreements
by allison karow 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

hi friends does anyone's shop rent from a private landlord (not the city, a friend or relative, etc.) and have a copy of your lease agreement? we are trying to work one out over at bike saviours (in tempe az) and want to see if there is a standard! thanks allison

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Bike Education/Clinic curriculum?
by Boson Au 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi everyone, Boson from Baltimore, MD's Velocipede Bike Project... First of all, @ bike!bike! the education-related workshops were the one that inspired/interested me the most. We got back and the first thing I want to kick-start was our clinic program which had be suspended due to a multitude of reasons... anyways... so we're about to reinstate our bike clinic series (previously we had one person do ALL the teaching and she's about to leave out of town for 3 months so we've decided that we're going to try to have a group of educators rotate classes) and I'm interested in any organizations that hold regular classes... This isn't exactly a youth program but more like a general public thing. We do have a curriculum, but I'm kind of interested in other project's solutions. If any project has their own curriculum set up and want to trade/compare notes that'd be so awesome.

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Re: [TheThinkTank] Bike Education/Clinic curriculum?
by dragonfly＠mac.hush.com 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well, financial meltdown notwithstanding. I'd like to vote for BOTH keeping the education and curriculum thread as part of the list serv AND for having it all together, accessible by wiki. Also, does anyone know how to create productive bike sensitivity trainings for police departments and city governments? I've done a couple with mixed-to-positive results, but changing the culture here in the Motor city area is a ongoing project, and good tips and techniques are always welcome. Has anyone found a way to reach into driver's ed programs to improve their bike-friendliness? Sasha On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:10:11 -0400 Christina Illarmo <christina(a)bikesnotbombs.org> wrote: >Hello Think Tank, > >It's great to see so many people and organizations across the >country >communicating to make our work stronger and more >meaningful.Greetings to you >all. > >For those who haven't seen it, our Earn-A-Bike Instructor Training >Manual >which we use in our youth programs is available to download off of >our >website. We also sell these for $7 but please feel free to >download the >manual and see if it is useful in your own programming. > >http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/EarnABike > >We also have a youth made bike safety training video about 45 >minutes long >which discusses general bike & helmet fit, bike safety checks, >rules of the >road, bike path etiquette, preparing for a ride, and general tips >(how to >prep for a ride, crossing train tracks, hand signals right and >left >turns...). Please contact me directly if you are interested in >purchasing >this video for $35. All proceeds will go towards supporting our >work at >Bikes Not Bombs. > >peace, >Christina > >-- >Christina Illarmo >Girls' Programming & Bike Safety Coordinator >Bikes Not Bombs >284 Amory St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 >(617) 522-0222 x102 > >http://www.bikesnotbombs.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Charset: UTF8 Version: Hush 3.0 wkYEARECAAYFAkjuPsAACgkQ5O7ahKJmrRnPXwCeLpJuZf1V/Q9myR8Oh/4I86TV3iUA oIFmY9eZ+qE4RjR5kdUSL9BoF+HM =zoy3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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