21 Jul
2009
21 Jul
'09
2:27 p.m.
*Bicycle Mechanics (Park Tool School)http://www.car-free.org/bike/mech.html
class limited to 4 participants who work on their own bikes one master mechanic teaches class, sometimes with assistant teacher
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Steve Schmitt
Car Free CAT Director
Coalition for Appropriate Transportation
director@car-free.org
60 West Broad Street #97
Bethlehem, PA 18018
610 954 5744
http://www.car-free.org
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Jason Tanzman jason.tanzman@gmail.comwrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm putting together a workshop for Bikebike on how to organize and teach
> bike maintenance classes, and I would love some feedback from different sho
> Stps on their community education programs. Info I'm interested in
> includes:
>
> -Do you charge for your classes? If so, how much?
> -How many hours/weeks does your class last?
> -How many participants do you allow in each class? How many staff/core
> volunteers help teach the class?
> -How regularly do you offer classes?
> -How do you publicize your classes?
> -What classes do you offer? (Basic Bike Maintenance? Wheel Building? Safe
> Cycling/Commuting classes? Advanced Mechanics classes?
>
> I work with Sibley Bike Depot in St. Paul, MN; we teach all our classes for
> free which has been awesome. We've thought about charging for classes but
> decided that the benefits of bringing new people into the shop and educating
> current volunteers outweighs the revenues that we might get from charging
> for classes. We also receive about $1800 per year from a free community
> education program in the Twin Cities for teaching classes for free, which
> helps offset our costs of paying staff to teach classes.
>
> I would love to get information/feedback!
> Jason Tanzman
> Sibley Bike Depot
> www.sibleybikedepot.org
>