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ABCs Handout or Poster or Protocol
by Josh Bisker 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Heyyo! Do you have a cool handout, take-away, or poster that shows people how to check their ABCs? Show & Tell time :) 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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Insurance: costs and coverage
by A Westphal 26 Mar '18

26 Mar '18

Hello folks, Common Cycle in Ann Arbor, Michigan is hoping to transition from a mobile repair operation into a storefront cooperative. We currently have a $1 million general liability insurance policy, and we pay around $700/yr for that coverage. Our adviser suggested that we should get directors and officers insurance to protect the 10 board members above and beyond the $1M policy. *My questions*: --> What insurance policies does your organization hold? How much do you pay for that coverage? --> Should Common Cycle purchase additional policies based on our move into a physical space? (in our case, physical space = more patrons served, so our liability may increase). PS: yes, I see the info about insurance on the Wiki ( http://w.bikecollectives.org/index.php?title=Insurance). I am hoping that this thread can collect more personal insights / opinions which don't appear in the Wiki. Thanks for reading, Andrew Common Cycle board member andrew(a)commoncycle.org https://commoncycle.org/

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NBW is hiring a Director of Youth Programs
by Steve Maluk 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

Neighborhood Bike Works, in Philadelphia, is hiring a Director of Youth Programs. If you're an inclusive leader with knowledge of the challenges facing Philly youth and a commitment to bikes as a tool for social progress, I hope you'll consider applying. If you have friends or contacts you think ought to see this job description, please spread the word. The job description is below, or can be downloaded here <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1suadKbTP0eKB2bjj05bPXB3FDUgNmO4X/view>. *Qualifications:* The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of management experience in a non-profit setting or related field, a proven track record successfully supervising and supporting staff and volunteers, and experience working with diverse populations including youth of color and those from low-income families. Background knowledge of Philadelphia’s education system, history, bicycling community, and networks of youth development organizations is preferred. Candidates with non-traditional work and education experience are encouraged – please tell us about those experiences that qualify you for this position. Additional Qualifications: · Driven by the mission and work of NBW. - A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Education, Social Work, Public Administration, or related field preferred; however, equivalent work experience will be considered in lieu of education. - Successful development and implementation of youth programming curriculum. - Commitment to social justice and youth leadership. - Experience with performance management and supporting the professional development of staff. - Facilitation skills, with experience leading a team through inclusive decision-making processes. - Knowledge of nonprofit management. - Must possess and demonstrate superb communication skills, both written and verbal. - Energetic and engaging with youth while being reliable, responsible, and professional. - Familiarity with Philadelphia’s neighborhoods preferred. - Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends as needed. · Experience with Microsoft Office required; database software and web content management systems preferred. · Successful passing of PA State Police Criminal Background Check, Pennsylvania Child Abuse History Clearance, and FBI Clearance required. This is a full-time, salaried, exempt position, with a preferred start date of May 7, 2018. The pay range for this position is $37,500 to $42,500 annually, depending on experience and qualifications. NBW offers a competitive benefits package, including health, dental, and retirement plans. *Please email your resume and cover letter* to jobs(a)neighborhoodbikeworks.org. Applications received by April 13, 2018 will receive priority consideration. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seek staff who reflect the community we serve. Candidates of color are encouraged to apply. --- Steve Maluk He/Him/His Executive Director *Neighborhood Bike Works <http://neighborhoodbikeworks.org>* <215-386-0316%20x%20113>215-386-0316 x118 <https://neighborhoodbikeworks.org/houseparty>

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Tool Board Fashion Show: Update from NYC!
by Josh Bisker 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

Pals! Thanks so much for your tool board photos and reflections. I have an update from us below, and then links to a photo gallery of everyone's submissions from the Think Tank and Facebook. Update: we dramatically reduced the number of tools on our main tool boards to just the essentials, and collected the more bikey tools to a single mechanics board and a tool chest. Below is a photo of our new tool board layout <https://flic.kr/p/24h3RmG>. Charlie's Freewheels in Toronto was our closest model for inspiration: thank you Charlie's! The new layout has been HUGELY helpful for participants and volunteers. - People are less intimidated by the boards! The whole situation is more approachable. - Things get put back more often and with less hassle. - Fewer broken and missing tools. - Better interface for volunteers to help out before participants try a repair that requires expertise or finesse. - Easier to expand operations -- we can see adding a second set of tools to each board on the same pegs as the current ones, with minimal costs and no added confusion. Also! Taking one cue from the shipping container bike repair station in Winnipeg and another from the short tool boards in Salt Lake City, we also *rearranged the layout of our shop, and it kicks ass.* - We used to have a shop floor with tool board and benches on the perimeter and work space in the center. Chaos! - NOW, we have the benches and tools in the center, and stands on the perimeter. SO SMOOTH! It's way, way easier and nicer to work. - We also shortened the heights of the work benches so there's one tall, one medium, one small. - AND, because we shortened the heights of the tool boards, you can see right over them -- so the space feels unified and coherent, not like a bunch of random siloed activities. Lessons we learned: - Fewer tools on each board is better for everyone. Couple this with a master mechanics' board for success. - Pegboard is the WORST. Plywood and nails 4EVA. - Yes, mark the boards with tool names and sizes, BUT ALSO: *mark the tools.* Use an enamel paint marker and clear-coat it with nail polish. This way, new folks can learn the sizes of wrenches and the names of things when they're in hand, and can also easily put them back on the boards. - In a space like ours, centrally located tools and work benches are better than peripheral ones, because they improve the flow of people through the space. Future considerations: - We're going to add offset brake wrenches to the boards, because they are so everyday-useful. - We should have tried doing the outlines with chalk markers, not enamel markers, so that they're easy to erase and re-do. - Our work benches are too bulky and big, especially since people do most of their work in the stand. Less work bench would be fine. By and large, people use them as tables, not work benches. What we really need are just places for folks to put the things they're working with. - I'd personally like to see the benches get decorated and personalized by volunteers, but that's a while away for us. Photo gallery - Here's everyone's tool boards <https://flic.kr/s/aHskuVEvhv>! I put them into a Flickr album. Each filename shows the co-op it came from. xoxoxo 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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BikeBike '18 LA remote organizing
by erk magosh 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Hey y'all, Los Ángeles is hosting Bike Bike 2018 September 28-30. If you would like to help organize from your city please email Rawkale Horn at rawkalehorn(a)gmail.com. If you have experience with hosting BikeBike or if you have few good ideas please sign up for the remote working group. -erk

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Who is the Bike Repair Hub
by BikeConcord 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Who is the Bike Repair Hub

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Brake Handle Identification
by Ron Kellis 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Salvaged brake handles are rarely kept with the calipers. Anyone have a reasonably reliable method for identifying long pull vs. short pull handles? TIA Ron -- Ron Kellis | Véloteer & Basic Maintenance Instructor | VéloCity Bicycle Co-op | 2111 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria, VA 22301 | velocitycoop.org | +1 (703) 549-1108

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Temp Job: Youth Bike Ed
by David Coppley 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Greetings bicycle-loving do-gooders, Just taking a moment to share this temporary, part-time job opportunity in Olympia, WA. We are seeking two folks to help out with our Spring and Summer Earn-A-Bike classes. Please see the job posting below for details. Thanks for reading, David [cid:image005.jpg@01D3BAB9.7A40F5B0] David Coppley Walk n' Roll Program Assistant Intercity Transit 360-705-5817 (office) 360-701-8379 (cell) PO Box 659 Olympia, WA 98501 dcoppley(a)intercitytransit.com<mailto:dcoppley@intercitytransit.com> Find us on Facebook!<https://www.facebook.com/BicycleCommuterContest> [WalkNRoll_HZ_RGB]

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Re: [TheThinkTank] Thethinktank Digest, Vol 138, Issue 6
by Tegan Moss 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Measure the distance between the pivot and where the cable end sits. Short pull measure about 25mm and long pull about 35mm. On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:05 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. Brake Handle Identification (Ron Kellis) > 2. Re: Brake Handle Identification (David Oliver) > 3. Re: Brake Handle Identification (Jack Murphy) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ron Kellis <ron.kellis(a)velocitycoop.org> > To: The Think Tank <Thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 07:25:05 -0500 > Subject: [TheThinkTank] Brake Handle Identification > Salvaged brake handles are rarely kept with the calipers. Anyone have a > reasonably reliable method for identifying long pull vs. short pull handles? > > TIA > > Ron > > -- > Ron Kellis | Véloteer & Basic Maintenance Instructor | VéloCity Bicycle > Co-op | 2111 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria, VA 22301 | velocitycoop.org | > +1 (703) 549-1108 > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Oliver <nowhere3(a)gmail.com> > To: ron.kellis(a)velocitycoop.org, The Think Tank < > thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 08:02:50 -0500 > Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Brake Handle Identification > There are three ways that I teach people how to identify the difference. > > First is the obvious one that if it says V-Brake on the brake, it's long > pull. > > Second is that if you look at most flat bar brake levers there are two > holes, or at least an indent where a second hole could be, where the part > that the head of the cable can go into is (the silver bit in this photo: > https://www.parktool.com/assets/img/repairhelp/housingU_005.jpg). If it's > in the top hole, then it's long pull. If it's in the bottom hole then it's > short pull. There are sometimes a little "C" and a little "V" next to those > holes/indent that make it even easier. > > If that second one doesn't make sense, I can get a photo later today and > send it to you. > > Third is by measuring the distance from the pivot point to where the head > of the cable goes. Park Tool says that it is 21mm for short pull: > https://www.parktool.com/assets/img/repairhelp/ta-flatbar-conv.jpg and > 42mm for long pull: https://www.parktool.com/assets/img/repairhelp/ta- > linearpull.jpg > > In practice for the third method I tell people to measure with a ruler the > distance and if it's less than 30mm then it's short pull, if it's more than > 35mm then it's long pull and if it's hard to tell or somewhere inbetween > then it's hard to tell without testing it. > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 7:25 AM, Ron Kellis <ron.kellis(a)velocitycoop.org> > wrote: > >> Salvaged brake handles are rarely kept with the calipers. Anyone have a >> reasonably reliable method for identifying long pull vs. short pull handles? >> >> TIA >> >> Ron >> >> -- >> Ron Kellis | Véloteer & Basic Maintenance Instructor | VéloCity Bicycle >> Co-op | 2111 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria, VA 22301 | velocitycoop.org | >> +1 (703) 549-1108 >> >> ____________________________________ >> >> The ThinkTank mailing List >> >> Unsubscribe from this list here: http://lists.bikecollectives.o >> rg/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.org >> >> >> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jack Murphy <jack(a)bikewalkwichita.org> > To: The Think Tank <thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 08:42:29 -0600 > Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Brake Handle Identification > Nice quick article. I pulled it down to our how-to's folder on our Drive. > So many variations! Still trying to figure how to get all this info to > volunteers as they learn. > Jack Murphy > Bike Walk Wichita > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 7:02 AM, David Oliver <nowhere3(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> There are three ways that I teach people how to identify the difference. >> >> First is the obvious one that if it says V-Brake on the brake, it's long >> pull. >> >> Second is that if you look at most flat bar brake levers there are two >> holes, or at least an indent where a second hole could be, where the part >> that the head of the cable can go into is (the silver bit in this photo: >> https://www.parktool.com/assets/img/repairhelp/housingU_005.jpg). If >> it's in the top hole, then it's long pull. If it's in the bottom hole then >> it's short pull. There are sometimes a little "C" and a little "V" next to >> those holes/indent that make it even easier. >> >> If that second one doesn't make sense, I can get a photo later today and >> send it to you. >> >> Third is by measuring the distance from the pivot point to where the head >> of the cable goes. Park Tool says that it is 21mm for short pull: >> https://www.parktool.com/assets/img/repairhelp/ta-flatbar-conv.jpg and >> 42mm for long pull: https://www.parktool.com >> /assets/img/repairhelp/ta-linearpull.jpg >> >> In practice for the third method I tell people to measure with a ruler >> the distance and if it's less than 30mm then it's short pull, if it's more >> than 35mm then it's long pull and if it's hard to tell or somewhere >> inbetween then it's hard to tell without testing it. >> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 7:25 AM, Ron Kellis <ron.kellis(a)velocitycoop.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Salvaged brake handles are rarely kept with the calipers. Anyone have a >>> reasonably reliable method for identifying long pull vs. short pull handles? >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> Ron >>> >>> -- >>> Ron Kellis | Véloteer & Basic Maintenance Instructor | VéloCity Bicycle >>> Co-op | 2111 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria, VA 22301 | velocitycoop.org | >>> +1 (703) 549-1108 >>> >>> ____________________________________ >>> >>> The ThinkTank mailing List >>> >>> Unsubscribe from this list here: http://lists.bikecollectives.o >>> rg/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.org >>> >>> >>> >> >> ____________________________________ >> >> The ThinkTank mailing List >> >> Unsubscribe from this list here: http://lists.bikecollectives.o >> rg/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.org >> >> >> > > > -- > Jack Murphy > Jack(a)BikeWalkWichita.org > > *Support Bike Walk Wichita when you shop!* > [image: Dillons-Community-Rewards] <http://dillons.com/communityrewards> > > [image: Amazon-Smile] <http://smile.amazon.com/ch/46-2800001> > > _______________________________________________ > Thethinktank mailing list > Thethinktank(a)lists.bikecollectives.org > http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank- > bikecollectives.org > > -- -- B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop 293 George Street North, Peterborough ON (705) 775-7227 communitybikeshop.org

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Toronto
by Tigre Bici 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

Hello everyone!! One of us is travelling to Toronto on the 15th of July till the 22th of july and is seeking for a place to stay near the Metro Toronto Convention Center Please send me and email if you know any cool places to stay/get a bike and hopefully will be with one of you awesome cyclist. Cheers R.

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