Hey Emory,

Great question! There are some shops in Vermont that just started to do this over the past year. If you contact the Executive Director at Old Spokes Home in Burlington VT, he's been leading the initiative and/or could maybe offer some thoughts.

The gist: A small group of us have met up a couple times over the past year and we've started a Google group to keep in touch and to ask each other questions. Someone also started a Google map to show where each shop is located.

Cheers,

Laura (volunteer at Freeride Montpelier)

On Sun, Jul 9, 2023, 2:13 AM Emory Shaw via TheThinkTank <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:

HI all,

I'm just doing a bit of research and I figured this would be a good place to ask a question: does anyone know of a case where community bike shops have united together to form some kind of federation or coalition ? Many cities are dotted with such shops that tend to share a similar social mission: are there any examples of cities or regions where they have come together to better address shared challenges (re volunteers, suppliers, financing etc.)? It would be great to get some insight on this, as there are talks of doing this kind of thing in the city I'm in (Montreal). I'm curious to know if and how other places might have succeeded or not at achieving this. Any thoughts or leads would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Emory
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