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Store front partnership for refurbished bike sales?
by Ian Wassink 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Do any community bike shops have a partnership or agreement with another organization or store, such as a thrift store, to sell refurbished bikes? The Greasy Chain has a challenge of maintaining day time open hours, so we are exploring the option of having our refurbished shop bikes for sale at another store or location that is already open all day Mon-Fri, for example, that already has foot traffic, and thus potential for more sales. Regards, Ian Wassink Co-ordinator of The Greasy Chain Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada

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Thanksgiving
by Stuart Nottingham 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

As I prepare for celebrating tomorrow with my family, I just wanted to express my gratitude for this group. While I may not post here often, I always look forward to reading the ideas and suggestions found here. Thank you to all of you for providing such a useful service to those who might otherwise e deprived of the joy that a bicycle brings.

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CRM Recommendations
by Edward Kirkwood 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

All:At Broke Spoke we have been using a custom database application to keep up with volunteer hours, sweat equity bike and parts sales. It works reasonably well, but like most software that a single individual creates, customer support is only good as long as the volunteer that created it is still around. We are looking at other options like Salesforce for a CRM. Does anyone have any recommendations? Allen KirkwoodBroke Spoke Community Bike ShopLexington, KY

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Bike Bike Bay Area Regional Conference
by Matt Senate 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Hey all, I'm a member of spokeland and had the pleasure of attending Bike Bike LA this year, which was a thoroughly rewarding experience. Reaching out to any folks who want to work together on hosting a Bay Area regional conference, which I suppose would also appeal to various west coasters and Bike Bike addicts of any location. Goal: Bring together Bay Area bike projects, especially those who could or did not attend Bike Bike LA this year. Create support to participate at the 2019 International Bike Bike in Tijuana! I've submitted a preliminary request to book the ballroom at the Omni Commons March 16-17 for the event. There are movable gallery walls to create break-out session partitions, a "bar" with sink/drains and refrigeration for food service, and it is wheelchair accessible with a free-standing elevator/lift to rise above the ~6 steps from the entrance hall to the ballroom floor level. Spokeland members who have had the chance to discuss are excited, and pending confirmations, we all want to focus a lot of efforts on access and accessibility, especially for folks with different mobility than the stereotypical cyclist. Love and solidarity, Matt

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Conferences for 2019
by Stuart Nottingham 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

I'm starting to make my plans for next year (personal, professional, and avocational) and would like to attend the Southeast conference at the least. Have dates and locations for the regional and national conferences been decided on and released? I looked online and haven't been able to find anything. Thanks! Stuart Nottingham The Pedal Factory Salisbury NC

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3D Bicycle Fenders
by eric clough 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Thank you so much for all the responses to my request for information about experience with 3D fenders. I feel like you all have provided me with some very good options. At least a couple of the responses have included a question of why we might be pursuing our own manufacture of fenders. So, I have had to really think about that. But I do believe we have a need for making our own fenders. We rely on donations and fenders are not commonly donated. They are relatively expensive to buy. if we do buy them then it would be tough for us to offer them on low cost/free bikes. I really like the instructables reference provided in one of the responses. The idea of re-purposing a disposable plastic bottle into a reasonable quality bike fender fits our mission just right. My thanks again to all the responses. I find this Thinktank list serve to be a very valuable resource and educational source of information. Eric Clough Front Street Community Bike Works Coos Bay, OR

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3D Printed Fenders/Mudgaurds?
by eric clough 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Anyone out there in ThinkTank land have experience with 3D printers and/or ever tried 3D print manufacturing of fenders with such technology? At Front Street Community Bike Works in Coos Bay, OR, we are considering ~$3,000 purchase of specialized tooling to make aluminum fenders. That is a very big investment for us. Then we learned about the potential of using 3D printing to make fenders. We have no experience with 3D printing but the idea intrigues me. Here is a link to a design in "Thingiverse" (love that moniker!). https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1695322/comments Seems like the idea has potential and I wonder if it has been done with success anywhere. Eric Clough FSCBW Coos Bay, OR

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by Riccardo Valsecchi 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

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Job Postings at Pedal!
by Sophia Suderman 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Hey folks, This is my first time using this list, so hopefully I do it right. Just wanted to let you all know that Our Community Bikes is hiring a shop manager and assistant shop manager. We'd love to hear from some of you community minded people :) See postings attached. Cheers! Sophia -- Sophia Suderman Executive Director PEDAL - Pedal Energy Alternatives www.pedalpower.org <http://pedalpower.org/?q=user/pedalpower> | Shop (604) 879-2453 | Office (236) 317-2418 <(604)%20879-2453>

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Re: [TheThinkTank] Contents Contents ofThethinktank Digest, Vol 145, Issue 13
by Robert Rands 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

One should be mindful that there is Right~Libertarianism (Individualist Anarchism) & Left~Libertarianism (Libertarian Socialism). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualist_anarchism ~Robert R. -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 10/25/18, globalguy <globalguy(a)gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Contents ofThethinktank Digest, Vol 145, Issue 13 To: cheerfulharmony(a)yahoo.com, "The Think Tank" <thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org> Date: Thursday, October 25, 2018, 6:47 PM And when you read it without those two words, it sounds positively Libertarian. I didn't realize there were so many "Ayn" Randians at The Think Tank. On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:00 PM Robert Rands <cheerfulharmony(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Take out "white supremacy" and look at it as a critique of power structures. Otherwise, I think it is a divisive paper that stokes animosity and will not lead to any solutions other than a power struggle of pendulum swings & unenlightened division. ~Robert Rands SoPo Bike Coöp -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 10/24/18, <thethinktank-request(a)lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote: Subject: Thethinktank Digest, Vol 145, Issue 13 To: thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 4:04 PM Send Thethinktank mailing list submissions to thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.… or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to thethinktank-request(a)lists.bikecollectives.org You can reach the person managing the list at thethinktank-owner(a)lists.bikecollectives.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Thethinktank digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: white supremacy culture (Kieran O'Neill) 2. Re: white supremacy culture (Judith Feist) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:16:10 -0700 From: "Kieran O'Neill" <oneillkza(a)gmail.com> To: The Think Tank <thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org> Cc: judith(a)backalleybikes.org Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] white supremacy culture Message-ID: <CAMKyGt+bDmX=CFcFQKOwgQ=+F4VfVYAA3cO=u6sU==1OR3JRRQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Just as a follow-up to this thread, I just ran across the same material incorporated into a larger workshop: https://resourcegeneration.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2016-dRworks-work… I believe it's by some of the same authors, and may be a more updated version. This version definitely expands on and contextualises the excerpt which Angel posted, and is well worth the read. On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 16:05, Cyclista Nicholas <cyclista(a)inventati.org> wrote: > > All, > > Rereading over this thread, this really stood out to me: > > > They are not measuring the right things, but they don?t know it because > > they are not valuing subjective experiences. Do you feel me? > > Yeah, I definitely feel you. > > Thanks. > > cyclista Nicholas > > > > On 2018-10-12 21:38, Judith Feist wrote: > > Thanks for your input, Matthew and Nicholas. Thought provoking, for > > sure. > > > > Ride on, > > > > Judith C Feist > > Co Director, the Hub at Back Alley > > > > > > *"*Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'"- Angela Davis > > > > "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." -Gloria > > Steinem > > > > I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything > > else > > in the world...It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and > > self-reliance.~Susan B. Anthony > > > > ____________________________________ > > > > The ThinkTank mailing List > > > > Unsubscribe from this list here: > > http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o… > ____________________________________ > > The ThinkTank mailing List > > Unsubscribe from this list here: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o… > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:06:12 -0400 From: Judith Feist <judith(a)backalleybikes.org> To: oneillkza(a)gmail.com Cc: thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] white supremacy culture Message-ID: <CABQKaWtL_6N1YGbWqpi0k=sritMxuiBNhNqq5kEbyQodYB49Dg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Thanks for sharing, Kieran. (: On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 5:16 PM Kieran O'Neill <oneillkza(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Just as a follow-up to this thread, I just ran across the same > material incorporated into a larger workshop: > > > https://resourcegeneration.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2016-dRworks-work… > > I believe it's by some of the same authors, and may be a more updated > version. This version definitely expands on and contextualises the > excerpt which Angel posted, and is well worth the read. > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 16:05, Cyclista Nicholas <cyclista(a)inventati.org> > wrote: > > > > All, > > > > Rereading over this thread, this really stood out to me: > > > > > They are not measuring the right things, but they don?t know it because > > > they are not valuing subjective experiences. Do you feel me? > > > > Yeah, I definitely feel you. > > > > Thanks. > > > > cyclista Nicholas > > > > > > > > On 2018-10-12 21:38, Judith Feist wrote: > > > Thanks for your input, Matthew and Nicholas. Thought provoking, for > > > sure. > > > > > > Ride on, > > > > > > Judith C Feist > > > Co Director, the Hub at Back Alley > > > > > > > > > *"*Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'"- Angela Davis > > > > > > "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." -Gloria > > > Steinem > > > > > > I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything > > > else > > > in the world...It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and > > > self-reliance.~Susan B. Anthony > > > > > > ____________________________________ > > > > > > The ThinkTank mailing List > > > > > > Unsubscribe from this list here: > > > > http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o… > > ____________________________________ > > > > The ThinkTank mailing List > > > > Unsubscribe from this list here: > http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o… > > > -- Judith C Feist Co Director, the Hub at Back Alley *"*Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'"- Angela Davis "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." -Gloria Steinem I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world...It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.~Susan B. Anthony -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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