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Re: [TheThinkTank] Thethinktank Digest, Vol 142, Issue 3
by Geoff Heath 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

This is a reply to Fabian's question re; Travel equity fundraising a while back. Winnipeg raised over $2000 last year for the travel equity fund through a series of monthly bike builds we did for the 4 months leading up to the B!B! conference. We figured that building & selling some bikes was a lot easier than organizing yet another fundraiser, so once a month The Wrench hosted a friday night beer (byob) pizza (paid for by The WRENCH) and wrenching night. We invited any and all mechanics who wanted to contribute to B!B! organizing in an easy, tangible way to come out and wrench on bikes for a few hours. Over 4 such nights we built and subsequently sold 20 bikes with all the proceeds going directly towards the bikebike travel equity fund. It was a really easy way to plug in folks from the extended mechanic community who wanted to contribute to organizing but not in a "sit in meetings" or "deal with piles of emails" sort of way. Winnipeg is blessed with a pretty good stock of donated/salvaged bikes in the summer, so this initiative didn't really "cost" The WRENCH aside from paying for any required consumables (cables, housing, lube) and some cheap pizza once a month. And if we build them, they tend to sell without too much effort. I'd recommend this method to any shops who might want to contribute to raising some $$$ for this important fund. That said, Winnipeg is laying low this summer, so don't expect another 2G coming from us! Sorry! Lookin forward to LA! Cheers, Geoff Geoff Heath, Education Director The Winnipeg Repair Education N' Cycling Hub 1057 Logan Ave. Winnipeg, MB R3E 3N8 Treaty 1 Territory, Homeland of the Metis Nation http://www.thewrench.ca 204-296-3389 On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 3:04 PM, < thethinktank-request(a)lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote: > 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.org > > 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. Bike!Bike! Los Angeles - Travel Equity (Fabian W.) > 2. Re: Bike Collective VS. Simply giving away bikes (DancesWithCars) > 3. Re: Bike Collective VS. Simply giving away bikes (Cycle-Re-Cycle) > 4. Re: Bike Collective VS. Simply giving away bikes (Bike Talk) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 21:39:13 -0400 > From: "Fabian W." <fabian(a)pedaludico.org> > To: "'The Think Tank'" <thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org> > Subject: [TheThinkTank] Bike!Bike! Los Angeles - Travel Equity > Message-ID: <00d801d41337$d0ee6380$72cb2a80$(a)pedaludico.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I?m Fabian W. and I?m a member of the Bike!Bike! 2018 ? Los Angeles > organizing committee. One of my specific tasks is to promote and facilitate > participation in our event by Mexican, Central American and South American > bike groups. > > > > There are two main components to this effort: > > > > Promote the event among groups in those regions. > > I?m already reaching out to many across the region but if you know of any > specific ones I would really appreciate the contact information. > > > > Fundraise for our travel equity program. > > Participation by south-of-the-US Border groups is very difficult because of > the cost of visas and airfare. > > Jim Mayerstein from Mexico has shared with me some important background > information about travel equity funding in previous Bike!Bike! gatherings > starting with Detroit. Jim mentioned that a couple of the collectives from > Canada were able to do significant funding towards this (Bike Sauce from > Toronto and Our Community Bikes from Vancouver). > > The Los Angeles Bike!Bike! organizing committee is going to do as much > funding for this as possible but any contributions or ideas from the rest > of > the BikeCollectives community would be very appreciated. > > > > We have started a crowd funding site at: https://bikebike2018.raisely.com/ > . > Any contributions there would help give momentum to that effort. > > > > So, please if you have any ideas or have specific resources in relationship > to both the promotion of the event south-of-the-US Border or, more > importantly, in regards to funding our southern friends please contact me > at > fabian(a)ucla.edu <mailto:fabian@ucla.edu> > > > > Looking forward to meeting many of you in LA in September, > > > > _fabian > > Bike!Bike! 2018, Los Angeles, Organizing Committee > > Professor, Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, UCLA > > Director, PedaL?dico, Buenos Aires, Argentina ( <http://pedaludico.org> > http://pedaludico.org) > > Director, cheLA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (http://chela.org.ar) > > > > > >

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Bike Works in Seattle is hiring a Program Coordinator
by Deb Salls 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

Please Spread the word Bike Works in SE Seattle's Columbia City neighborhood is hiring a Program Coordinator to help run our youth and adult programs. This role includes teaching bike repair classes, running bike rides and safety rodeos and maintaining outreach and redistribution of bikes to the community. Each day will be a blend of thiese tasks within a team, requiring collaboration and independnce. *This is an excellent opportunity for someone with shop level mechanic skills who has youth and adult mentoring/teaching experience.* Go to our website for more about this position and info on how to apply https://bikeworks.org/about/job-opportunities/ Deb -- Deb Salls Executive Director 206-695-2607 bikeworks.org Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

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Blackstone Bicycle Works is Hiring a Program Manager - Chicago's South Side youth education program and community bike shop
by Matthew Searle 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

Hello ThinkTank! We are hiring a Program Manager for Blackstone Bicycle Works. Please help us spread the word. We believe candidates could come from a wide variety of backgrounds and be successful in this role. See the attached job ad. More information can be found on our website here <https://experimentalstation.org/jobs>. Applications are due August 8th. See our most recent video about the program here <https://youtu.be/RACwu05L2UE>. Thanks, Matthew *Blackstone Bicycle Works *is committed to fostering a safe, holistic learning environment that empowers primarily youth of color from Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood and greater South Side community. Its collaborative model and staff engage 180 underserved youth annually in real world experiences such as bicycle repair, small business operation, and teaching roles, in order to break down barriers to future opportunities. The program combines STEM learning, mentoring, tutoring, and anti-violence work into one cohesive experience. Both a youth program and community bike shop, BBW is a program of Experimental Station, a nonprofit incubator of innovative educational and cultural programs, small business enterprises, and community initiatives. ______________ Matthew T. Searle Assistant Director Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone Ave. Chicago, IL 60637 USA matthew(a)experimentalstation.org office: 773.241.6044; alt: 773.270.2502 experimentalstation.org <http://www.experimentalstation.org>

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Creating a think tank
by Tigre Bici 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

Hello everyone! We are interested on see how the thinktank works and how to replicate it, does anyone knows? we are trying to setup something like the bike collectives think tank with the city feminist groups but using facebook or whatssap has proven very complicated so, if you know any way on forming a thinktank or other ways of mass communication with different groups that doesn't required to be all day in front of a screen and/or saturates your inbox will be awesome. Regards R.

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Organizing Small Parts Better
by Geoffrey Smart 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

For really small items such as bolts I like draws with the name of the bolt say M6 and a sample on the front and running the draws of each item down smallest to largest size so M$ down to M8 so volunteers get a fell after a while for the size they need. For larger parts such as brake blocks I like to see all the brake stuff or gear stuff together. We use the kind of removable boxes that clip on to a wall bracket with the name of the item on the box and on the wall where it goes. The advantage of these is that you can see in to the boxes when standing back and you can remove the box to sort item. I think if you have too many items to fit in a draw you need to cull the stuff in the worst condition or it just makes finding the good stuff harder. We get volunteers to do this with the more experienced helping the newer as a way of learning about the relative value of parts. Geoff Smart Back2Bikes Port Melbourne

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Bike Kitchen (Vancouver, Canada) looking to hire Senior Mechanic
by Bike Kitchen 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hello there, The Bike Kitchen in Vancouver, BC, Canada is looking to hire a Senior Mechanic for August Please pass along to your networks and if anyone is interested in applying they can send an email to admin(a)thebikekitchen.com Thanks! -alex The Bike Kitchen 1896 East Mall, Vancouver BC (604) 827-7333 www.thebikekitchen.com The Bike Kitchen is on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/UBCBikeKitchen/?fref=ts>!

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Welding discussion
by Ulick O'Beirne 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hi guys, I've been wondering about welding. I'm an ok welder. I can get the job done. I'm ok when things are set up for me in a class setting, but haven't worked outside that; and standing in big stores trying to figure out what gear to buy really confuses me. I do have access to sheds and experienced friends who would support me; and in my community setting if I was pretty confident with setting that up I'd probably get good support (especially if I was doing something that could benefit everyone). When I stared thinking about it, there's a million questions around welding set up I'd like to ask the ThinkTank. Do you think you could help me answer these? Questions I have: -Set up and materials needed, -Hardware- i.e. buildings, power input, flooring, etc -Preferences for different materials or machines -Experience- show and tell of really good bike shop welding; especially any frames anyone has built they're proud of All much appreciated guys! Ulick Ireland

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Organizing Small Parts Better
by Josh Bisker 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hey pals, what are your good ways of organizing the small parts in your shop? I don't mean "do you put them in little bitty parts drawers or bins," but more "if so, how do you organize those drawers or bins?" At the Mechanical Gardens, as the small parts get more *sorted *they also get less *organized*. It just becomes static: fifty teeny drawers of small parts or whatever means that people who don't know just what their part is called or looks like, or just where to look for it, are SOL. No bueno. Do you do something clever to head this off? Organize small parts by bike system, by commonly accessed parts versus parts-of-components (like jockey wheels, star nuts, or seatpost tops), or some other way? Someone who's worked on this, please help us. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox Josh Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op <http://bikecoop.nyc/> 596 Acres <http://596acres.org/> Bindlestiff Family Cirkus <http://bindlestiff.org/>

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Literature on womens+bikes
by Tigre Bici 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Hello everyone! We have been doing some research on non-academic and academic literature on how there are different types on mobility inside cities and those differences are also, or should be, gendered (not into the idea of the binomial definition of gender but the majority of info we have found approaches that way) ans also on how perceptions/infrastructure mold the mobility patrons on women and men*. Not so surprising we have found the bast majority of urban plans, bike lanes and even bike "activism" all around the globe keeps repeating the no consideration/misogynist way to do-it, the no consideration on reproductive work (that not only women do, but in bast majority the do). Sooooo, I write this email for 2 reasons: 1-Ask, if you have any, for literature that approaches mobility with a "gender perspective" that can or cannot include this on the text but, you know that doesn't keep talking of men as the norm when creating new bus lanes or bike lanes etc. 2- If anyone wants to open a support/study/awesome group to discuss this things (will be awesome), let me know! Thanks And hopefully I will see a bunch of you in LA Abrazos R.

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Rags storage (new and used)
by Luis Fernandez 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Hi all, Our rag storage situation could use some improvement at the Somerville Bike Kitchen in MA. Just wondering how folks are currently storing clean rags and then taking care of used rags? Is there some good, cheap, nifty way to store them so that they are easily available and take up the least amount of room and don't end up going everywhere? Really just looking for pictures or descriptions of how you folks are managing your rags... Maybe i'm over-thinking this and just a big bin works... but our space is small and we have limited floor space.. Thanks, Luis ps - I wanted to send a shout-out to the austin yellow bike project. When I was there a year or so ago, I attended one of their meetings and thought that their approach to making rags was pretty smart. At the start of the meeting, they hand out scissors and tshirts to the folks seated at the meeting and cut up rags while the meeting is going on - seemed a great way to multi-task.

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