September 2024 - TheThinkTank - lists.bikecollectives.org

Re: Next Bike!Bike! ?
by Rosy Tutton 05 Dec '24

05 Dec '24

Hi All, This is the last thread (RE: Next Bike!Bike! ?) I could find about hosting a Bike!Bike! In 2024. It seems like there won't be one this year from what I could find but we (being a small collective in Whitehorse, YT) are curious if there there is potential for one in 2025 (in Mtl or elsewhere) and if so, how we can support? We are trying to get the ball rolling on our collective here and would love to send someone to learn from the network! Thanks, Rosy

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BIKEBIKE! 2025
by BiciBici 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

Hola amigxs del pedal, colectividades e individualidades, Les escribimos de manera afectuosa para compartirles que andamos reviviendo y que nunca hemos dejado de pensar en organizar el Bike Bike en Ciudad de México, pero después de lo que significó la pandemia y el contexto actual en el mundo había sido complejo retomar la organización. Sabemos que han pasado 5 años del último encuentro, pero queremos decirles con mucha emoción que estamos poniendo todos nuestros esfuerzos para que BikeBike! Ciudad de México suceda en las últimas semanas de marzo 2025. En las próximas semanas tendrán más información al respecto, por lo pronto anótenlo en sus calendarios. ¡Abrazos! Pedalea y Resiste Cómite organizativo Bikebike! 2025, Ciudad de México.bikebike(a)riseup.net Hello everyone, bike collectives and community bike friends, We are writing to share an exciting announcement with you. We are starting up organizing a Bike!Bike! gathering in Mexico City for 2025. We have never stopped thinking about organizing the Bike!Bike! in Mexico City but both the pandemic´s impact and the current global context had put a damper on our earnest organizing efforts. We know that it has been 5 years since the last gathering, but we want to tell you with great excitement that we are putting all our efforts into making BikeBike! Mexico City possible in the last weeks of March 2025. In the coming weeks we'll share more details but for now, make sure to mark those last weeks of March in your calendars for Bike!Bike! in Mexico City. Big hugs, Pedalea y Resiste (Get Pedaling and Resist) Bike!Bike! 2025 Mexico City Organizing Committee bikebike(a)riseup.net

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Stuff I've Learned Recently
by cyclista＠inventati.org 20 Sep '24

20 Sep '24

This one I actually figured out awhile ago: - For accessing those 18mm ebike axlenuts on axles with power cables running out of them, and which often having a bash guard also on the axle: FLARE NUT WRENCH. Sockets won't work because electrical cable, box ends won't work because same, and the open end of a combo wrench is most often TOO FAT around its jaws to fit inside the bars of the bash guard or in the recess of the dropout. A flare nut wrench has the clearance of a box end, with the ability to allow passage for the cable that an open end would have. A trick that I'd like to try would be to *make* a flare nut wrench from the box end of a combination wrench by grinding an opening into it. I think it'd have to be one of the older box ends that's just a hex inside though, the newer kinds that are more fully castellated inside for multi-positioning on the nut would probably end up being too structurally weak if you cut a slot in them. And then this one, imparted to me by another mechanic just last week: - In an emergency, you can re-size a larger diameter innertube into a smaller one by tucking the tube inside itself until the desired diameter is reached. This has been dubbed "the foreskin technique" (gross, but appropriate). It's important to leave the tube airless until it has been fit into the tire and the beads are in place. Even though the resulting tube has imbalanced weight from being double-thick where it overlaps itself, once inflated it works well enough that you might not even know the difference riding it. ~cyclista Nicholas

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