Our parts go one of two places:
High end go in a displace case. Priced by the more knowledgeable. Not me, I'm not a bike builder and have no idea. 
Everything else goes in simply wood bins made from upside down pre-cut stair treads. $5 for what ever. And that's sometimes negotiable. 
Used tubes go in marked boxes. As tubes are $5, most used (though often as good as new) never get taken. I use them in fix-a-flat classes. matched to a patron's bike if possible and it's theirs if they want it.

R

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Marissa Pherson <marissapherson@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd love to hear the rationale for phasing out membership. Do share!

Marissa Pherson

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Josh Goran <josh@ohiocitycycles.org> wrote:
We currently have paper release forms which include time out and time returned, but we schedule using a Google calendar and a Google form for sizing information for our "Performance Rentals." We're scaling back our rental program, though, and I would not be surprised if we phase it out or dramatically simplify it. 

We've historically loaned out bikes for free to members, but we're phasing out membership and I'll be happy to see the end of people borrowing bikes and returning them late/beat up/etc and not doing their share to re-tune them. Also, it will probably mean that we'll sell/let volunteers earn at least some of our coveted rental bikes, and they'll then get used all the time rather than a few times a year.

Relatedly, we are phasing out our parts library, as well, which often had similar results: underutilized except for well-meaning but problematic users who kept things out too long or needed to be reminded to return something.

I mainly share these details because I think it is important in the early stages of your organization to keep things simple - we're currently in the process of intensely scaling back and simplifying policies and programs that have been in existence for a decade and it takes a lot of work to eliminate work - being more deliberate and analytical early on would have things much simpler and more efficient now :) 

More details if you want:
Performance Rental form

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Joshua Goran
Administrator, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op
1840 Columbus Rd
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
216 830 2667
OhioCityCycles.org



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