On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Bobby Brown <
bobby@sopobikes.org> wrote:
> Hey Jeff,
>
> Sopo bikes moved to a new space back in the Spring and attached is a layout
> one of our volunteers designed as a plan for our shop, each grid square is
> 1'x1'. Our old shop was 300-400sq ft internal with most repairs happening
> outside in a parking lot with bikes hanging from Park Tool mobile stands.
> The new location is ~1100sq ft just for us with a 300sq ft bike
> shop/boutique attached to the front.
>
> We share our location with a local boutique bike shop, Woodward Cyclery so
> the red space on the attached layout is where their display room is and our
> shop is set up around the back 3/4 of the space. For your purposes, you
> could consider their location to be about the size of a suitable lounge with
> office space.
>
> We are lacking a little in storage but have put programs in place to keep
> donation bikes moving in and out of our shop rather than stockpile and
> gather dust. 15-20 bikes is about the max that we can store without getting
> cramped.
>
> The new shop has 4 repair booths with 8 repair stands; each booth shares a
> set of common bike tools. We have a tube patching station so that those
> repairs will not take up an entire stand as well as a wall for hub
> maintenance with cone wrenches, freewheel tools, chain whips, axle vice,
> bench vice, etc. Having moved from a shop with a shared wall of tools and
> several repair stands farther away, the repair times are much quicker and
> easier with the new approach of having several shared walls of tools. You
> have the tools for 90% of repair jobs within 4-5ft of your bike so our
> volunteers and patrons are able to focus their time on fixing their bike
> rather than searching for tools. The truing stands are also on top of
> storage cabinets where we keep assorted construction materials, tools, event
> supplies, etc.
>
> Shortly after building out the new space we had a Google Tour created so you
> can click through the link below for a virtual tour of our new space. We
> were really lucky to have a couple local photographers come out and do this
> pro bono.
>
http://bit.ly/SopoGoogleTour
>
> Hope this helps!
> Bobby
>
> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jeff Neven <
j_neven@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi bike collectives,
>>
>> We are moving again into a larger and more unique space and we are trying
>> to figure out layout.
>>
>> I am curious if others have floor plans or shop layout drawings. We are
>> trying to figure out how to include display space, repair space (6 - 8
>> stands), lounge/hang-out space for building community, office, and the usual
>> crazy amount of storage needed for donated bikes and new & used parts. I am
>> really interested in ratios of how much space you allocate for each of these
>> activities.
>>
>> If you have drawings, I would love to see them to get us dreaming.
>>
>> Anybody included a coffee shop, book store or other third space? If so,
>> how is that working with a bike collective?
>>
>>
>> Jeff Neven
>> New Hope Community Bikes
>> Hamilton, Ontario
>>
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>
> --
> Bobby Brown
> Sopo Bicycle Cooperative
>
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770 851 0965
>
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>
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>
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> Tuesday 7pm - 10pm
> Wednesday 7pm - 10pm
> Thursday 7pm - 10pm
> Saturday 2pm - 6pm
>
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