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Addresses of Far-Flung Projects
by Ainsley Naylor 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

A Message from Bike!Bike! Toronto We are hoping to finish compiling our list of addresses and contact info for projects to invite to this year's International Bike!Bike! Conference, but we need some help collecting addresses of groups outside of Canada and the U.S. If you have a contact, website or even a city and Project Name (even vaguely), please pass it along to us so we can look them up and send them an invitation. Also! Registration is now open for the conference. If you feel like it, please head on over to bikebike.org and check it out. We haven't updated all of the pages - we are still waiting for some help from y'all on writing a history page - but it is up and running. Any questions can be passed along to us at bikebike2010(a)gmail.com Have a great time at the regionals! Ainsley and the Pirates.

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How are you storing cable housing?
by Rich Points 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hey All, Over the years we've tried a variety of ways to store cable housing and we're still looking for the ideal solution. Anyone out there have a good way to store them? Frustrated -- Rich Points Community Cycles Executive Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich(a)CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 (W) 303-589-0597 (C) Donate your old car to Community Cycles http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html

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Mountain States Bike! Bike! is coming March 19, 20 & 21 - Get your registration on!
by Rich Points 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hey All, If you're planning on coming to Mountain States Bike! Bike! please let us know you're coming by registering asap. <http://mountainstates.bikebike.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl…> The schedule is starting to fill out nicely. <http://mountainstates.bikebike.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl…> Thanks -- Rich Points Community Cycles Executive Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich(a)CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 (W) 303-589-0597 (C) Donate your old car to Community Cycles http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html

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Community Cycles is hiring a shop manager
by Rich Points 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

*Community Cycles - Creating a Culture of CyclingHiring: Community Bike Shop Manager* Community Cycles <http://communitycycles.org/> is looking to hire a full-time shop manager. The ideal candidate has several years of bicycle shop, mechanical, retail, managerial and nonprofit experience. Experience working with youth a plus and a familiarity with older bicycles and parts is required. General responsibilities include but are not limited to: * Run and oversee our community bike shop and its programs <http://communitycycles.org/programs.html> * Manage volunteers * Inventory and ordering * Oversee sales and their promotion, including daily/petty cash management * Checking in repairs/estimates * Quality Control * Bilingual Spanish/English a plus * Basic computer skills a must, Proficiency with Google Docs preferred * $24,000 annual salary Resumes will ONLY be accepted at resume(a)communitycycles.org <mailto:resume@communitycycles.org>. Please copy the contents of your resume into the body of the email and attach your resume document. DO NOT phone us about this position.

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lending book library of bike books in your shop?
by veganboyjosh＠gmail.com 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hey Everyone, I hope the slow traffic on the list of late is a factor of everyone getting some good back-end planning time. In the past few years, we've collected a decent stack of bicycle repair and other type of bike books (things like Lance Armstrong's book, or local mountain bike trail guidebooks, etc). We'd like to do something productive with these, and it occurred to me that we could lend them out to members. Does anyone else have something similar? What do you all do with the books that are donated? Thanks. Hope you're warm out there! josh.

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is bikecollective.org directory down?
by Cris Shirley 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

http://www.bikecollectives.org/directory.html its not working for me, and so are several other features like the wiki seem to be broke cris

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Mountain States Bike! Bike! Time to Register
by Rich Points 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

Hey All, Just wanted to send you a reminder to register if you plan on attending Mountain States Bike! Bike!. http://mountainstates.bikebike.org/ Ride On! -- Rich Points Community Cycles Executive Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich(a)CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019 (W) 303-589-0597 (C) Donate your old car to Community Cycles http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html

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Video of a consensus, meeting and facilitation workshop at the Davis Bike Collective
by Jason Moore 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

We had a professional facilator trained in consensus based decision making come and give a workshop for us. Thought other co-ops might be interested: http://www.archive.org/details/KevinWolfOnFacilitationAndConsensus -- http://mae.ucdavis.edu/~biosport/jkm/ Sports Biomechanics Lab, UC Davis (http://biosport.ucdavis.edu) Davis Bike Collective Minister, Davis, CA ( http://www.davisbikecollective.org) Office: +01 530-752-2163 Home: +01 530-753-0794

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bike art and other ideas
by Mark Rehder 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

The thread on housing storage reminded me of a shop I visited in Montreal called SOS Velo. Not so much in terms of parts storage but in creative ways of using bike parts. When re-Cycles was entering its partnership with Cycle Salvation the visit was made so that both orgs. could see a large-scale bicycle recycling centre in operation. This shop is a fully-funded place that not only recycles bikes but also provides "a unique program that ensures the social and professional integration of people who have trouble finding and keeping jobs". This places recycles everything! If it can no longer be used on a bike it gets turned into bike art, and some of it is very cool indeed. I have a page of photos: http://www.drumbent.com/sosvelo.html Mark Rehder - General Manager re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op http://re-cycles.ca

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Re: [TheThinkTank] How are you storing cable housing
by Clifford McCarten (B!KE) 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

-Take 2x4 and build up at the bottom so it stays uprightI -drill angled 1" holes into the 2x4 and wiggle the bit around a bit -slide in the steerer end of of some scrap forks into the holes. ta-da! you have a very cool bikey cable spooler / coat rack / etc. Clifford McCarten B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop 400 Wolfe St, Peterborough ON K9J 2P3 (705) 748-6681 http://www.communitybikeshop.org On 2010-02-17, at 4:09 PM, thethinktank-request(a)bikecollectives.org wrote: > Send Thethinktank mailing list submissions to > thethinktank(a)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)bikecollectives.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > thethinktank-owner(a)bikecollectives.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Thethinktank digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Mountain States Bike! Bike! Time to Register (Rich Points) > 2. How are you storing cable housing? (Rich Points) > 3. Re: How are you storing cable housing? > (winter.snowy.rose(a)gmail.com) > 4. Re: How are you storing cable housing? (Liza Mattana) > 5. Re: How are you storing cable housing? (Doug Franz) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:28:56 -0700 > From: Rich Points <rich(a)communitycycles.org> > To: The Think Tank <thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org> > Subject: [TheThinkTank] Mountain States Bike! Bike! Time to Register > Message-ID: <4B7B2A38.2030303(a)communitycycles.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hey All, > Just wanted to send you a reminder to register if you plan on attending > Mountain States Bike! Bike!. > http://mountainstates.bikebike.org/ > > Ride On! > > -- > Rich Points > Community Cycles Executive Director > http://CommunityCycles.org > Rich(a)CommunityCycles.org > 720-565-6019 (W) > 303-589-0597 (C) > Donate your old car to Community Cycles > http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:56:01 -0700 > From: Rich Points <rich(a)communitycycles.org> > To: The Think Tank <thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org> > Subject: [TheThinkTank] How are you storing cable housing? > Message-ID: <4B7C1FA1.9040509(a)communitycycles.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hey All, > Over the years we've tried a variety of ways to store cable housing and > we're still looking for the ideal solution. Anyone out there have a > good way to store them? > > Frustrated > > -- > Rich Points > Community Cycles Executive Director > http://CommunityCycles.org > Rich(a)CommunityCycles.org > 720-565-6019 (W) > 303-589-0597 (C) > Donate your old car to Community Cycles > http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:13:25 +0000 > From: winter.snowy.rose(a)gmail.com > To: "The Think Tank" <thethinktank(a)bikecollectives.org> > Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] How are you storing cable housing? > Message-ID: > <205123099-1266426787-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-22519972-(a)bda403.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Get a bmx wheel. > > Cut 2 circles of plywood that are larger than the diameter of the wheel (but no more than that of about a 24'' or so). > > Attach the wood to the wheel like spoke covers. You want them to make a channel like that of the rim. > > You may attach your plywood wheel to a wall or table edge by the hub. You want it to have the ability to spin fairly freely. > > To load: insert approx 1'' of housing into the valve hole of the rim. Slowly spin the wheel while guiding the housing onto the rim, into the channel formed between the two layers of plywood. > > If you are still confused, contact the Bike Pirates for a picture. > > Ride safe > Chlo? > Bike Pirates > > > > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Points <rich(a)communitycycles.org> > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:56:01 > To: The Think Tank<thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org> > Subject: [TheThinkTank] How are you storing cable housing? > > Hey All, > Over the years we've tried a variety of ways to store cable housing and > we're still looking for the ideal solution. Anyone out there have a > good way to store them? > > Frustrated > > -- > Rich Points > Community Cycles Executive Director > http://CommunityCycles.org > Rich(a)CommunityCycles.org > 720-565-6019 (W) > 303-589-0597 (C) > Donate your old car to Community Cycles > http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html > > _______________________________________________ > Thethinktank mailing list > Thethinktank(a)bikecollectives.org > To unsubscribe, send a blank email to TheThinkTank-leave(a)bikecollectives.org > To manage your subscription, plase visit: > http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.… > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:32:22 -0800 > From: Liza Mattana <pedals2people(a)gmail.com> > To: The Think Tank <thethinktank(a)bikecollectives.org> > Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] How are you storing cable housing? > Message-ID: > <2d6134d91002170932h5a56a8d3y1f240b2d58687152(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hey, > > One of our volunteers put a couple things together that work great for us. > If you go to our photos, under Busy Day, you'll see what I'm talking about. > It's a combination of heavy cardboard mailing tubes for misc pieces that we > reuse, and electrical conduit as a holder for wound housing. They're mounted > to one of our workbenches > > http://pedals2people.org/photos.aspx > > liza > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Rich Points <rich(a)communitycycles.org>wrote: > >> Hey All, >> Over the years we've tried a variety of ways to store cable housing and >> we're still looking for the ideal solution. Anyone out there have a good >> way to store them? >> >> Frustrated >> >> -- >> Rich Points >> Community Cycles Executive Director >> http://CommunityCycles.org >> Rich(a)CommunityCycles.org >> 720-565-6019 (W) >> 303-589-0597 (C) >> Donate your old car to Community Cycles >> http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/donatecar.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Thethinktank mailing list >> Thethinktank(a)bikecollectives.org >> To unsubscribe, send a blank email to >> TheThinkTank-leave(a)bikecollectives.org >> To manage your subscription, plase visit: >> >> http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.… >> > > > > -- > Liza Mattana > president > www.pedals2people.org > Spokane, WA >

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