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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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Amsterdam Bike Scene
by bike talk 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi, I'm traveling to Amsterdam tonight for a couple of weeks in the Netherlands withr a debate team I coach. We're going for a Youth Forum in Zeeland. While I'm there, I'd like to meet up with some Bike people to interview for Bike Talk in Los Angeles. Can anyone direct me? I think my debate team would like to meet them, too. We've done a lot of service projects on low emissions transportation, which means bikes, mainly. Thanks, Nick -- please let us know if you want to be taken off this list. Hear Bike Talk! live on www.killradio.org, 10am-noon Saturdays. Call in at (213) 252-0998. Hear the podcast at kpfk.org: http://www.kpfk.org/programs/170-bike-talk.html

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