sounds cool.<div>a lot of the folks that are most likely to use such a program are the dear traveling punk kids amongst us, right? (just in the sense of moving frequently and being in the know about connections b/t community bike projects...).</div>
<div>I&#39;ve been really impressed with BICAS&#39;s rental bike program for some of those needs: we have a fleet of I dunno, 10 bikes, mostly beater/cruisers, that we rent for $5/day or $25/week. We credit at $8/hr. for worktrade, so about a half hour gets you rolling. Lots of folks use this service while they are working on build-a-bike hours. Plus, it is an easy option when someone&#39;s bike is in pieces on the floor at closing time (and &#39;home&#39; is too far to walk). And it seems like we make a fair amount of dough on the whole thing too. We recently welded big steel &quot;bicas rental bike&quot; signs into the main triangle on all of them, and welded chain with a padlock to the seattube (all the locks have the same key, so checkout is streamlined, and we haven&#39;t lost one bike since we did this).</div>
<div>This doesn&#39;t need to replace your excellent idea about sharing worktrade hours b/t shops, but it might offset some of your needs. The only drawback is that they take up a bit of space, and need tune-ups once in a while.</div>
<div>best,</div><div>kyle<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Durham Bike Co-op &lt;<a href="mailto:durhambikecoop@gmail.com">durhambikecoop@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hey all,<br>
<br>
Maybe there&#39;s been another thread on this in the past, but I&#39;ll go<br>
ahead anyways. Fairly regularly we get e-mails from people who are<br>
moving to / staying in town for a while about getting a bike, and I<br>
had the thought that sometimes a nice way to deal with this would be<br>
to honor earn-a-bike volunteer hours worked at the other programs out<br>
there, particularly as transporation is definately a first priority<br>
when moving some place new, and in our program (being volunteer run<br>
and only open 1-2 days a week) it can take a couple weeks to complete<br>
the earn-a-bike. What do other peeps think about this? A good idea, or<br>
too much work dropping other programs a line to say what&#39;s what?<br>
<br>
peace,<br>
Colin - shop coordinator, DBC.<br>
<br>
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Durham, NC 27701<br>
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