The Good Life Community Bicycle Shop (Calgary, AB):<br><br><br>-Do you charge for your classes?  No but we do invite people to drop some of their hard-earned loot into our donation box.<br>-How many hours/weeks does your class last? Classes are 2 hours each - each is a full lesson.<br>
-How many participants do you allow in each class?  Approx 12.<br>-How many staff/core volunteers help teach the class? Minimum 1 with the help of sporadic volunteers.<br>-How regularly do you offer classes? 2 per week.<br>

-How do you publicize your classes? Monthly newsletter, posters, website, Facebook, listserve.<br>-What
classes do you offer? Basic Bike Maintenance, Wheel Building, Safe
Cycling/Commuting classes,  drive trains, the brakes, Women&#39;s, bike-mods (for special needs), family touring, arts &amp; crafts.<br><br>A few of us, from Calgary, will see you at Bikebike and look forward to the workshop - good luck!<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Jason Tanzman <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jason.tanzman@gmail.com">jason.tanzman@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi everybody,<br><br>
I&#39;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&#39;m interested in includes:<br>

<br>-Do you charge for your classes?  If so, how much?<br>-How many hours/weeks does your class last?<br>-How many participants do you allow in each class?  How many staff/core volunteers help teach the class?<br>-How regularly do you offer classes?<br>

-How do you publicize your classes?<br>-What classes do you offer? (Basic Bike Maintenance? Wheel Building? Safe Cycling/Commuting classes?  Advanced Mechanics classes? <br><br>I work with Sibley Bike Depot in St. Paul, MN; we teach all our classes for free which has been awesome.  We&#39;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.<br>

<br>I would love to get information/feedback!<br><font color="#888888">Jason Tanzman<br>Sibley Bike Depot<br><a href="http://www.sibleybikedepot.org" target="_blank">www.sibleybikedepot.org</a><br>
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