We&#39;ve gone to a volunteer only night, for those looking to do strictly chores- not that our system runs perfectly smoothly, but it helps to have dedicated attention on some shop tasks. <br><br>-Sorting parts is always a great one, and a learning experience too. <br>
-Have rulers?Put em to use! Sort bottom brackets by size! Ah!<br>-if you&#39;ve got a parts washer, and a bucket of chains (or a bucket of chains and some simple green... you can resurrect some awfully nasty stuff- have em wear gloves!<br>
-signage is always needed, it seems, at our shop, and I&#39;m really bad at getting people to donate their artistic abilities to those tasks... but they&#39;re valuable.<br>-de-spoking wheels or lubing up spoke nipples for usable wheels is a sit quietly and work task.<br>
-Cleaning<br>-prepping bikes for recycling (stripping stuff on down) is totally useful and credit worthy for us.<br><br>But, as importantly, you sometimes have to just say &quot;Sorry, we&#39;ve got nothing right now. Come back on Volunteer night, stay after, help us clean this dump up.&quot;<br>
<br>That&#39;s what we say, anyway. And we love our volunteers and our dump.<br><br>Peace<br>Pete.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Rich Points &lt;<a href="mailto:rich@richpoints.com">rich@richpoints.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">How many times do we hear this question every day? <br>
Our Earn-A-Bike program consists of 10 hours of community service doing chores around the shop. &nbsp;We&#39;ve had record numbers of EABers this spring and our list of chores is burned through in the first couple hours of any given day. <br>

So for the rest of the time the shop facilitators make up chores on the fly. &nbsp;This is particularly hard when the 20 people in the shop are asking two or three facilitators a constant stream of questions. &nbsp;Maybe we have too many people in the shop but I think if we had a better way to keep people working on projects.<br>

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How are you keeping people busy in your shop?<br>
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Peace<br>
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-- <br>
Rich Points<br>
Community Cycles Director<br>
<a href="http://CommunityCycles.org" target="_blank">http://CommunityCycles.org</a><br>
Rich@CommunityCycles.org<br>
720-565-6019<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Pete Rasmus Morsch<br>701.866.0962<br><br>Collective Member, <br>Fargo-Moorhead Community Bicycle Workshop <a href="http://www.fmbikeworkshop.org">www.fmbikeworkshop.org</a><br>
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