On Oct 25, 2009, at 4:06 PM, thethinktank-request@bikecollectives.org wrote:
From: Clifford McCarten <director@communitybikeshop.org>
Date: October 24, 2009 4:19:30 PM EDT
Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Basic safety/maintenance manuals/curriculums (Erik Stockmeier)
Reply-To: The Think Tank <thethinktank@bikecollectives.org>
I don't know what everyone's stance on the League of American Bicyclists is, but they do have some pretty decent curriculum for teaching basics:
I was recently certified in their instructor training course, and they have OODLES of pretty high material (small books, full-colour magaziney things etc) for teaching. I suppose that's what happens when you've been funded for over a century...here's hoping...
In any case, their stuff is at least a good starting point to develop your own curriculum and materials, in whatever political framework suits ya!
Cheers,
Clifford McCarten
Co-Director, B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop
400 Wolfe St, Peterborough ON
K9J 2P3
(705) 748-6681
On 24-Oct-09, at 4:10 PM, thethinktank-request@bikecollectives.org wrote:
Send Thethinktank mailing list submissions toTo subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visitor, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' toYou can reach the person managing the list atWhen replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Contents of Thethinktank digest..."Today's Topics:1. Basic safety/maintenance manuals/curriculums (Erik Stockmeier)----------------------------------------------------------------------Message: 1Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:51:09 -0500From: Erik Stockmeier <eriks@therecyclery.org>To: The Think Tank <thethinktank@bikecollectives.org>Subject: [TheThinkTank] Basic safety/maintenance manuals/curriculumsMessage-ID:Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Hi all-Like many shops, The Recyclery has given away free bicycles with helmets andlocks as part of the charitable end of our mission for some time. For anumber of reasons, including several new possible partnerships withImmigrant and Refugee groups in the Chicago area and the desire toqualitatively improve some of the long-term outcomes of our Freecycleryprogram (which currently ends with the bicycle/signature exchange), we arenow considering developing a more thorough manual and 2-4 hour classcurriculum. It would cover basic maintenance questions (patching tires,adjusting brakes and derailleurs) as well as bike safety/common sense(avoiding theft, sharing the road) and would, of course, make clear that TheRecyclery exists as a place where they can get help if something does gowrong.However, not wanting to reinvent the wheel, I'm wondering if any other shopshave already developed a similar curriculum or handbook. If so, want toshare?If not (but you are interested in the idea), would you be interested informing an internet working group to collaborate on such a resource we couldshare? Right now I am working with one of our potential partners and we arepicturing a graphically-intense book, the text of which could potentially betranslated by people that work for their organization into a number ofdifferent languages. From there we would recruit some volunteer graphicdesigners or find someone that knows how to work something like scribus (http://www.scribus.net/) to make a nice little booklet (I'm picturingsomething that could be reproduced photocopier/zine style or done up moreflashy) available to all.OK.-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...------------------------------_______________________________________________Thethinktank mailing listEnd of Thethinktank Digest, Vol 38, Issue 13********************************************
From: bike talk <livebiketalk@gmail.com>
Date: October 24, 2009 12:29:46 PM EDT
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Subject: [TheThinkTank] Today's Bike Talk-LA's Bicycle Plan, Corba's Fat Tire Fest
Reply-To: The Think Tank <thethinktank@bikecollectives.org>
Today, on Bike Talk:
Bicycle Plan workshop
Glenn Bailey, Chair of the Bicycle Advisory Committee of the City of Los Angeles, calls in from the Bicycle Plan Workshop to let
| us know what's being said and done about the city's plan. See how the last workshop went, here: http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/10/13/bike-working-group-gives-cyclists-a-chance-to-talk-bike-plan-this-weekend/ Fat Tire Fest The largest mountain biking festival in the LA area. The Fat Tire Fest supports CORBA (Concerned Off-Road Bicyclists Association)'s community programs and advocacy. Jeff Klinger and Stephen Messer report from Castaic Lake. |
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