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Re: [TheThinkTank] Community Bike Shops and academic research
by fallen.arrows 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

ainsley, im on the same page. working on getting some of sopo's ideas formalized and onto collectives/wiki. count me in on, let me know what needs doing. tito @ Fallen.Arrows Direct to Garment Printing Services 858 Dekalb Ave Suite C Atlanta, Ga 30307 cell. 678.907.3892 work. 404.635.6367 www.fallenarrows.com www.fallenarrows.biz Fallen Arrows Print and Design is a custom order no-minimum-necessary print shop in Atlanta, Georgia that is dedicated to building a creative community. On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:55 AM, <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. Re: Thethinktank Digest, Vol 48, Issue 9 (fallen.arrows) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:52:29 -0700 > From: "fallen.arrows" <tito(a)fallenarrows.biz> > To: thethinktank(a)bikecollectives.org > Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Thethinktank Digest, Vol 48, Issue 9 > Message-ID: > <AANLkTin2Ngz3L_OgTEQ9V34OXjHigEMbFUWFtHpWWauP(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Andrew and ainsley, myself and sopo are into it. Andrew, I spoke with sara > about an international incubator program. I'm currently on vaca, but ill be > home soon and we can go from there. Glad there is lots of positive energy > around this issue. tito > > On Aug 22, 2010 2:13 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. Community Bike Shops and academic research. (andrew bushaw) > 2. Re: Bike!Bike! 2010 Notes (Angel York) > 3. Re: Bike!Bike! 2010 Notes (Geoffrey B) > 4. Re: Community Bike Shops and academic research. (Ainsley Naylor) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:15:53 -0500 > From: andrew bushaw <andrew(a)fmbikeworkshop.org> > To: The Think Tank <thethinktank(a)bikecollectives.org> > Subject: [TheThinkTank] Community Bike Shops and academic research. > Message-ID: > <AANLkTim-s=uFDzPMRXW_8=0pEzfm=rUr2zLGk7tLaEg8(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Community Bike folk, > I'm trying to settle on a topic for a masters thesis and I'm interested in > doing research into the organizational, legal and funding structures of > community bike shops. I know that at bikebike minneapolis there was a > session called "Plan Voltron" about creating a "cooperative of > cooperatives" > and some of the folks from our bike shop that made it to toronto mentioned > this was also a topic of conversation this year. My first thought is that a > qualitative and quantitative overview or survey of community bike shops > would give a solid base for further work on this idea by identifying needs, > wants, strengths, characteristics, etc. that would be useful to organizing > linkages between shops. > My main focus of study so far has been the "worker centers" movement, which > seem to parallel community bike shops in some interesting ways, such as > being relatively new, decentralized, and fast growing. I think this ( > http://smlr.rutgers.edu/Unions/FineWorker.pdf) study that was done of > workercenters would serve as a good model for one of community bike shops > since it's central aim is to be useful for further movement building. So, > now to the questions: > 1. Does anyone know of any research done on community bike shops, academic > or otherwise? > 2. Would you see this as potentially useful information? Useful enough to > participate in a survey of your shop? > 3. If so, what kinds of things would you like to see research on? > > I would be doing this using both traditional research methods as well as > more "strategic investigation" techniques, meaning that perspective would > be > from within the movement as a participant and their would be a specific > strategic "usefulness" for the end result. > > Wish I could have been at bikebike to pitch this idea personally, but I > know > sara talked to a few folks about it. > > Thanks, > Andrew > FM Community Bicycle Workshop >

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Request for Inventory Tag Templates or Ideas
by Dugan Meyer 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Hiya! Do any of you wonderful shops out there have a usable bike inventory tag you could share with us at MoBo? We're trying to design a tag for available project bikes in our basement that would list basic info like top tube length, wheel size, etc. etc. and notes about work needed -relevant info for members sifting through potential projects and then recording work done over the course of the project. If you have something that's worked for your shop or a document from another source and would pass it along, we'd be grateful. Advice on things to include would also be helpful. Thanks, friends! Dugan Meyer MoBo Bicycle Cooperative, Cincinnati

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Community Bike Shops and academic research.
by andrew bushaw 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Community Bike folk, I'm trying to settle on a topic for a masters thesis and I'm interested in doing research into the organizational, legal and funding structures of community bike shops. I know that at bikebike minneapolis there was a session called "Plan Voltron" about creating a "cooperative of cooperatives" and some of the folks from our bike shop that made it to toronto mentioned this was also a topic of conversation this year. My first thought is that a qualitative and quantitative overview or survey of community bike shops would give a solid base for further work on this idea by identifying needs, wants, strengths, characteristics, etc. that would be useful to organizing linkages between shops. My main focus of study so far has been the "worker centers" movement, which seem to parallel community bike shops in some interesting ways, such as being relatively new, decentralized, and fast growing. I think this ( http://smlr.rutgers.edu/Unions/FineWorker.pdf) study that was done of workercenters would serve as a good model for one of community bike shops since it's central aim is to be useful for further movement building. So, now to the questions: 1. Does anyone know of any research done on community bike shops, academic or otherwise? 2. Would you see this as potentially useful information? Useful enough to participate in a survey of your shop? 3. If so, what kinds of things would you like to see research on? I would be doing this using both traditional research methods as well as more "strategic investigation" techniques, meaning that perspective would be from within the movement as a participant and their would be a specific strategic "usefulness" for the end result. Wish I could have been at bikebike to pitch this idea personally, but I know sara talked to a few folks about it. Thanks, Andrew FM Community Bicycle Workshop

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Funding Opportunity: Job Access and Reverse Commute Program
by Jonathan Morrison 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Has anyone been successful in securing these funds? Providing bikes to those in need seems like a perfect fit. http://www.fta.dot.gov/funding/grants/grants_financing_3550.html 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 The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.

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Bike!Bike! 2010 Notes
by Godwin ! 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Hey folks, we talked a little about this during the thinktank workshop and I know Ainsley was going to send out a notice to everyone that attended but I thought I'd try to get the ball rolling while its still fresh in our minds. I have added an item for each workshop in the Bike!Bike! 2010 wiki page for notes. If you attended a workshop it would be great if you can put any notes you took into that workshop, or even if you just remember what happened that would be helpful as well. If there is already a writeup for that workshop, it would be helpful if you reviewed it and edited if you can make any improvements. If you're not sure how to use the wiki, do what you can or ask someone. Someone else will likely re-format as long as the text is there. You can find the page here. Thanks everybody! godwin. PS Ainsley: I hope I'm not stepping on your toes here, but also if you're planning on sending out another email to all participants it would still be helpful to include this as there are probably a lot of people not on the thinktank that could help out.

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Job at Bikes Not Bombs
by arik grier 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hiring: Youth Development Coordinator http://bikesnotbombs.org/node/728 Mission & History: Lasting peace and social justice require equitable and sustainable use of resources. Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) provides community-based education and assists development projects with recycled bicycles, related technologies and technical assistance as concrete alternatives to the militarism, over-consumption and inequality that breed war and environmental destruction. Our organization is part of a worldwide movement for peace and responsible stewardship of the earth. BNB began in 1984 as an environmentally conscious campaign in support of social change in favor of the poor in Nicaragua. In 1990, BNB began to pursue its mission in Boston’s most impoverished neighborhoods. Today, we operate a thriving Bicycle Recycling and Youth Training Center where we offer six unique, high-quality programs that empower and organize youth and their families to work towards long-term change. Our programs create real community, with long-term, positive relationships built across lines of age, race, and class. Position: Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) seeks to hire a Youth Development Coordinator to oversee our youth programs. This is a full-time, salaried position with benefits. Salary range is $30,000 – 32,000. The Youth Development Coordinator reports to the Executive Director. Responsibilities: Administration and Supervision (35%) Practice peer supervision with Youth Programs Coordinator. Supervise, evaluate, and support the professional development and growth of the Youth Programs Alumni Services Fellow. Plan and facilitate regular team meetings with Youth Programs Team. Act as Youth Programs Team liaison, by reporting regularly to Executive Director about program results and needs. In collaboration with Youth Programs Coordinator, recruit, hire, train, supervise, evaluate and support the professional development and growth of youth staff (10-13 during the school year, 20-25 during the summer). Ensure that volunteer and intern needs are met for all youth programs. Oversee and ensure timely data entry for Youth Programs in the CiviCRM database through management of interns, volunteers and Alumni Services Fellow. Develop annual budget for youth programs and monitor expenses. Program Implementation (30%) Implement two Girls in Action (GIA) sessions per year (6-8 weeks each), with the help and support of GIA intern. Facilitate outreach and enrollment of Girls in Action. Identify volunteer and intern staffing needs for Girls in Action. Manage volunteers and interns. Curriculum and Capacity Building (20%) Manage ongoing development of youth program curricula to ensure programs are best fulfilling and strengthening the organization’s mission of youth development, environmental stewardship, and social justice. In collaboration with Youth Programs Team, develop annual goals and objectives for youth programs, and develop and implement tools for effective program evaluation. Co-design, implement, and evaluate a strategy to increase youth organizing and advocacy among the Youth Instructor team. Facilitate exchange and interaction between Youth Programs and other BNB departments. Plan and coordinate periodic Youth Programs events to further youth development and build the BNB youth community. Build BNB's collaborations with other organizations, including Boston area schools and community centers, connecting cycling and mechanics to students' academic success, physical and emotional fitness, and sense of civic engagement. Represent Bikes Not Bombs to funders, allied organizations, parents, and the general public in collaboration with development and youth program staff. Work with fellow community organizations to host events that further youth empowerment and overall BNB mission. Resource Development (15%) With the Executive Director, identify new grant opportunities, draft proposals and reports, and help to maintain yearly grants calendar. Track and report youth programs data (numbers, improvements and anecdotes) for resource development purposes. The ideal candidate will have the following characteristics and experience: Ability to be both a creative, strategic visionary and a practical thinker Self-motivated, highly organized, systems oriented Strong written and verbal communication skills Excellent interpersonal skills (one-on-one and in a group format), cultural competency, strong listening skills Experience in program management and staff/volunteer supervision, with the ability to mentor, motivate, prioritize, and set clear expectations Experience with and interest in developing youth organizing component of programming 2+ years experience working directly with 10-18 year olds Knowledge of Boston neighborhoods, schools, and resources, including the dynamics of the neighborhoods surrounding BNB Understanding of and commitment to positive youth development Strong bike mechanics skills and knowledge of safe urban riding Demonstrated commitment to inspiring environmental stewardship and social justice Facility with Macintosh computers, and experience using MS Word and Excel Experience developing and managing budgets Strong collaborator, able to work with a team and adapt quickly to changing situations Skills in program evaluation and curriculum development Must be willing and able to work after-school program schedule and some Saturdays Multilingual/Bilingual (Spanish, English, Haitian Creole and/or Cape Verdean Creole) candidates highly preferred Must love bikes! Please submit a cover letter and résumé to hiring(a)bikesnotbombs.org by September 10, 2010. Start date is Wednesday, October 6th. Bikes Not Bombs encourages applicants of diverse age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, physical ability, religion, and sexuality. Women and people of color highly encouraged to apply.

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Re: [TheThinkTank] Thethinktank Digest, Vol 48, Issue 9
by fallen.arrows 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Andrew and ainsley, myself and sopo are into it. Andrew, I spoke with sara about an international incubator program. I'm currently on vaca, but ill be home soon and we can go from there. Glad there is lots of positive energy around this issue. tito On Aug 22, 2010 2:13 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. Community Bike Shops and academic research. (andrew bushaw) 2. Re: Bike!Bike! 2010 Notes (Angel York) 3. Re: Bike!Bike! 2010 Notes (Geoffrey B) 4. Re: Community Bike Shops and academic research. (Ainsley Naylor) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:15:53 -0500 From: andrew bushaw <andrew(a)fmbikeworkshop.org> To: The Think Tank <thethinktank(a)bikecollectives.org> Subject: [TheThinkTank] Community Bike Shops and academic research. Message-ID: <AANLkTim-s=uFDzPMRXW_8=0pEzfm=rUr2zLGk7tLaEg8(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Community Bike folk, I'm trying to settle on a topic for a masters thesis and I'm interested in doing research into the organizational, legal and funding structures of community bike shops. I know that at bikebike minneapolis there was a session called "Plan Voltron" about creating a "cooperative of cooperatives" and some of the folks from our bike shop that made it to toronto mentioned this was also a topic of conversation this year. My first thought is that a qualitative and quantitative overview or survey of community bike shops would give a solid base for further work on this idea by identifying needs, wants, strengths, characteristics, etc. that would be useful to organizing linkages between shops. My main focus of study so far has been the "worker centers" movement, which seem to parallel community bike shops in some interesting ways, such as being relatively new, decentralized, and fast growing. I think this ( http://smlr.rutgers.edu/Unions/FineWorker.pdf) study that was done of workercenters would serve as a good model for one of community bike shops since it's central aim is to be useful for further movement building. So, now to the questions: 1. Does anyone know of any research done on community bike shops, academic or otherwise? 2. Would you see this as potentially useful information? Useful enough to participate in a survey of your shop? 3. If so, what kinds of things would you like to see research on? I would be doing this using both traditional research methods as well as more "strategic investigation" techniques, meaning that perspective would be from within the movement as a participant and their would be a specific strategic "usefulness" for the end result. Wish I could have been at bikebike to pitch this idea personally, but I know sara talked to a few folks about it. Thanks, Andrew FM Community Bicycle Workshop

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Community Bike Shop in Australia
by Christine Bourgeois 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

If you go to Sydney, check Cycle ReCycle: http://bikeclub.wordpress.com/

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Bike Rental Software
by Rich Points 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hey All, We're just getting into the bike rental business and we're looking for software to manage it all. Anyone out there have some leads? 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 Volunteer orientations held 6p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of each month.

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Local Wiki ... please help!
by Robert McMurry 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hello all, I apologize in advance for the plug, but I wanted to support a project by the same guys who created the forum that acted as our webpage for approximately 4yrs (http://daviswiki.org/Bike_Church). This is a great community owned way of logging information about your city/town/village and making it available to everyone. If you think this might be a nice addition to your city please donate or spread the word in your communities. They are currently trying to scale up the project(http://localwiki.org/) to make a template, and spread this local media to communities around the country and possibly world. They are currently looking to raise $25K of which people have already pledged over $11K. There is a video with more information on the main page: http://daviswiki.org/ (our collective is featured in the video). from there check out the events board or links from the main page or just search for anything you might like to know about or find in Davis California and if it exists there will be a page about it. I think it speaks for itself. It has comments from the community about any business so you can hear first hand about what others in the community think and also link to pages of some of those users to see what the community thinks of them too. Our current wiki page is here: http://daviswiki.org/Davis_Bike_Collective which is not as well maintained as our old one but links to our current webpage and has community reviews about us. They have less than a month left to try and reach their goal. any support, be it advertisement or monetary is greatly appreciated. I had a blast at Bike!Bike! and can not wait to see what we accomplish over the next year. Thanks, Friar Robbie (Robert McMurry) Davis Bike Collective P.S. you can find me on there as well if you search enough

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Bike!Bike! 2010 !!!
by Ainsley Naylor 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hey all Bike!Bike! 2010 wrapped up Sunday and was a great success. We're still not sure how many people ended up attending (have to spend some time with our registration spreadsheets!), but it was an awesome 4 days with fantastic, hot sunny weather (which lead to several late-night group swims) and so many rad guests. We were so happy and proud to have you all here in Toronto. Thanks to everyone who attended, presented, volunteered, donated, and danced their pants off at the dance party. We hope to see everyone next year at Bike!Bike! 2011 in San Marcos Texas!!! Much love, Bike Pirates.

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Detroit bike collective 7mile area
by mars psymons 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Greetings and namaste! The fireweeduniversecity.org collective is interesting in forming a community bike shop in the Seven mile and Woodward area. We are currently in need of tools and bikes. We have a temporary location to get started in at a garage next to the Penrose art house and garden and support from the growtown redevelopment project. If you or anyone you know is interested knowing more about or helping the Detroit Fireweed build a bike center please don't be shy. All hands on deck, steady as we grow. <3 mars

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Ride
by Angelo Coletta 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

I have registered to attend Interbike in Las Vegas on September 23 and 24. Anyone in Ohio or further east driving to the show? I am willing to share the driving and the expenses there. Also, I am visiting friends north of Phoenix after the show and would like to share driving and expenses with anyone going to Phoenix or in that direction. I hold a CDL and will drive any vehicle except a tractor-trailer. Please email me directly. Angelo L. Coletta General Manager Summit Cycling Center

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how to contribute
by Kylie Walzak 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Hi Moderators, I've subscribed to this list for about a year now but never posted. I tried to respond to a thread recently but got a message about being bounced while waiting for moderator approval. Is this standard operating procedure for every post or is there some route I need to take to be able to post? Thanks! Oh, and I may have subscribed using this email address: kylie.walzak(a)bicas.org -- Kylie Walzak Education and Outreach Co-Coordinator BICAS (520) 628-7950 www.bicas.org

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Volunteers: what motivates them?
by Gervase Gallant 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

I've been a volunteer at the local bike co-op and recently have been thinking about some way to develop and keep volunteers. Our board has been thinking that offering used parts for hours worked and 10% over cost on new parts might entice some. Perhaps for volunteers with a history of at least 6 hours a month we could offer something else... I'm wondering though if we are approaching this correctly. Perhaps the motivation might be elsewhere. For myself, when I started volunteering, I was just doing it because I thought the co-op was a cool idea (and I wanted to learn more about wrenching...). Others seem to be addicted to fixing up (and possibly flipping...) bikes at home and are always in need of parts. Still others, particularly the younger ones, seem hooked on the coolness of it all. What does motivate most volunteers? What could we do to keep them coming? Gervase Gallant Des Moines Bike Collective: Commuter Corner http://dsmcommutercorner.wordpress.com/

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Bike-In Movies?
by Christine Hill 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hey ya'll, I'm in the process of starting a Burlington Bicycle Coalition here in Burlington, Vermont. Our first event is this Friday, and its a sort of brain-storming session followed by a potluck and a bike-in movie. Only it's just occurring to me that I haven't thought much about what we're going to show for the movie. I have the essentials like The Bicycle Thief, but I would rather show something about booming bike cultures elsewhere to inspire the folks here. Any recommendations for films I would be able to find online or acquire somehow in the next four days that might get people excited to start working on a bicycle coalition?

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Bike collectives on facebook?
by veganboyjosh＠gmail.com 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Does your shop have a facebook page? do you use it? how? what have you learned that works or doesn't work for getting volunteers, money, support, etc? I'm interested in hearing from shops or individuals, if you're interested in sharing. Feel free to email me off list if you'd like. josh.

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Bike collectives - small cooperrative/ worker owned bike shops
by Gary Gingras 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Curious of any small bike shops around the country, worker owned etc. i know of a few any others out there that i have yet to hear of? http://www.boxdogbikes.com/ from bike kitchen http://halcyonbike.com/ http://www.thebikeguyslc.com/ http://superbbicycle.com/ thanks Gary

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Drop-off repairs
by Davis, Andrew 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Do any of the co-ops do "drop-off repairs"? If so, how is this set-up? One of our founding members is a former bike repair shop owner (retired - with a lot of wrench knowledge), and wants to gravitate to doing this as part of service offered - his experience was repairs was main business with retail an add-on. I have some reservations - it wasn't our intent to directly compete with local bike shops on repairs, the other is maintaining the educational focus. Anyone with experience on this issue? Andy - Akron, OH

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BikeBike 2010 Registration info
by Geoffrey B 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Hello all, Canada is waiting on you. If you have not recived a email verifying your registration with us at BikeBIke2010 then please re-register. We want to not let anyone out of the loop of fun filled action in the great Northern multicultural capital of North America. -- Geoffrey B

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Re: [TheThinkTank] Bike-In Movies? Triplets of Belleville
by Wade Nacinovich 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Triplets of Belleville http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/ On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Sam Haraldson <samh(a)samh.net> wrote: > > ...a potluck and a bike-in movie. > > "Rad" > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091817/ > > - Sam > _______________________________________________ > 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.… >

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Troy --> Toronto !! bike trip invite
by andrew lynn 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Hi all, our trip to B!B! is on and we are way excited. we have an armada of 9 peops, heading across the Erie Canal trail to Niagara Falls and on to Toronto for BikeBike. we leave bright and early Friday August 6. If anyone on the Thinktank is interested in joining, please email me for an itinerary. we will be returning the northern route (around the north of Lake ontario) and plan to arrive back in troy around the 22nd. see yall soon, eh. Andrew Troy Bike Rescue -- andrew lynn | 518-573-7947 | troy, ny digital media | bike repair | tree work http://www.breathingplanet.net http://www.troybikerescue.org http://www.mediasanctuary.org http://flickr.com/photos/breathingplanet

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Fwd: Community Bike Shop Working Holidays Proposal
by Angel York 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Hi y'all, This forwarded message was sent to bay area community bicycle shops. I thought I'd pass it along in hopes it might start a conversation about doing this on a somewhat larger scale. Bike love, Angel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Riyaz Sakharov <rezrezrez(a)fastmail.fm> Date: Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:14 PM Subject: [bikeministry] Community Bike Shop Working Holidays Proposal To: contact(a)thebicycleworks.org Cc: bikechurch(a)santacruzhub.org, bikeministry(a)googlegroups.com, thebikery(a)cyclesofchange.org, oaklandbikery(a)gmail.com, bikeministry(a)gmail.com, info(a)sacbikekitchen.org, mducot(a)ucsc.edu Hello fellow wrenchers. This is reZz, a staff member at the San Francisco Bike Kitchen collective. I recently had a great experience working briefly at the Bicycle Works in San Anselmo on my way back from a camping tour of the CA coast. This revived an idea to formalize a sort of working holiday staff exchange. Here is how it would work: A member of one of our collectives/churches would get in touch to make sure there was a place to stay. Then, s/he would get to bike to another shop in SC/Davis/SF/wherever, have a couch to sleep on, work a shift at that community bike shop, and perhaps have another day/night to explore the area before returning. For a lot of people this would work best on weekends, I would love to do it on a week day, especially if the shop was usually understaffed that day. Benefits: - We would get to see how our sister shops do it differently, and what we have in common. - The newer shops could check out the more established shops and vice versa, which would allow us to see how it works at a different stage in the game. - Free place to stay and a shower a nice bike ride away. - A way for shops to get an extra volunteer on a day that it is normally short-staffed. We have trouble getting people to sign up for Saturdays because we all want to get out of town. But if we were out of town working in another shop's Saturday shift it might just work out. - Being able to share/trade resources that might be more available at one shop than another. Anyone need Chinese BMX chains? - Getting to meet each other. We have a few people who have stepped up to offer their houses for participants to crash at, a couple of whom live close to the SF shop. Anyone out there who wants to offer a place or throw out some ideas for this exchange, let me know! Reach me at rezrezrez [at] fastmail [dot] fm -- (NOT.com) or phone me at (sorry for the encryption) sikkstoozevn 8218 in the SF area code. So far, I am mailing this to Davis, Oakland and San Anselmo (I think...not sure how up to date some web sites are), but please feel free to spread the idea farther and wider. -reZz, SF Bike Kitchen * * * keep the faith http://www.hamsterdance.com/ http://artactivism.members.gn.apc.org/home.htm http://www.retardriot.com/ http://www.cultures.com/features/dance/dancers.html -- Riyaz Sakharov rezrezrez(a)fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- Boom-Shaka-Laka-Gaia! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bikeministry" group. To post to this group, send email to bikeministry(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to bikeministry+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<bikeministry%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bikeministry?hl=en

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Volgistics?
by Rich Points 25 Jul '10

25 Jul '10

Any shops out there using Volgistics for volunteer management? http://www.volgistics.com/0-0.htm We could use some help setting it up. 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 Volunteer orientations held 6p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of each month.

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Application forms for scholarship
by Christine Bourgeois 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi all, Bici Centro is going to offer a Youth-Earn-A-Bike program in several junior high schools in Santa Barbara. We want to offer scholarships for low-income families who can't pay. Does anybody have some examples of application forms to share? Thank you, -- Christine Bourgeois www.bicicentro.org

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