Or instead of sorting you could try color coded tags.  Use a laser printer and print on colored index cards, you can do thousands for under $20.  That way you can just tell people "find me a [color] tag" whereas each color might mean bikes for a youth program, bikes to sell, bikes to strip, etc.,...

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.


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:53 PM, james bledsoe <jamesbleds0e@yahoo.com> wrote:
a few questions

how much space do you have
i find it much simpler to deal with whole bikes 
so put the wheels on
where are the bikes going
where did they come from
how big is your labor supply
how much time do you have



--- On Tue, 5/25/10, Ainsley Naylor <needleandthread@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ainsley Naylor <needleandthread@gmail.com>
Subject: [TheThinkTank] Sorting Bicycles
To: "The Think Tank" <thethinktank@bikecollectives.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 5:19 PM


hey all, here is a not-so-hypothetical question. If you had to sort a lot of bicycles (I mean a lot, like a few thousand) how would you do it? The purpose would be to sort them in a user-friendly way, so that in the future you could find the bikes you need (i.e. bikes for a youth program, bikes to sell, bikes to strip) as easily as possible. The bikes will be staying in the same location for the most part which calls for a good sort and store method, although dispersal of the bikes to other spaces will also be easier if we sort them properly.

The best suggestion so far is to sort them by wheel size but these bikes don't have their wheels attached - what a headache - so I'm looking for other suggestions.

Thanks!
Ainsley and the FUCKIGOR bicycle collective
:)

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