Nevermind! I figured out what happened, Luke+Andy did post, but in Ray's thread that wasn't a solicitation for stories, but rather contact information. Confusing for a minute!
~cyclista Nicholas
On 2024-01-11 22:37, cyclista--- via TheThinkTank wrote:
This digest references messages to the list from Andrew Ballentine and Luke Box. Somehow I didn't get either of these messages.
Looking at the ThinkTank archive @ https://lists.bikecollectives.org/hyperkitty/list/thethinktank@lists.bikecol... , the messages didn't seem to be there either.
Did everyone else get them?
~cyclista Nicholas
On 2024-01-11 19:27, Robert Rands via TheThinkTank wrote:
I know the community bike shop (we didn't call it a "bike shop" as that gave the wrong impression as it was an educational DIY shop and not a "pay-&-leave-to-be-fixed shop," though we sold bikes, newer parts, clothing, &c., that is, did have a commercial element) made a dramatic shift from a "coöperative" to a "collective" during the pandemic as new people came in, took over despite the rules set up by the community, and ran all the old volunteers out, and very much changed the place...
The original conflict between the Board and the Managers/Workers shifted to one of how to philosophically run the shop, though this took years to play out and there were several attempts to take it over. Instead of a bike shop trying to help people with their bikes, get people into and onto bikes, and teach people how to fix their own bikes, all in a community-based manner, it simply became another top-down agenda-based arm of an elite college that put a particular agenda before bikes. Bikes and bicyclists simply tools of an agenda that can just as easily drop bicycles and cyclists from their agenda, as so many bike organizations have done.
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 15:35:36 -0500 From: Luke Box lukebox@gmail.com Subject: [TheThinkTank] Re: Bicycle Retail story on community shops To: The Think Tank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Cc: Emily Gage emily@phoenixbikes.org, Ray Keener rkeener@outsideinc.com Message-ID: CABgPA8NfH-5YnfKk7_=Dur-RnBhe1mGo8J9o6g1QBLqAczcs0g@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000004df645060e8942eb"
Closest I can get. A friend of mine is currently working on a pretty big research/media project with North America co-ops.
I can get you a contact if you'd like.
export-20231219-161757 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hS--VDoqsFh8lPUFQmhCpla3E8GP-mRF4RZFJXIML_0/edit?usp=drivesdk
Luke Box 859.588.9811
On Tue, Jan 9, 2024, 12:18 PM Ray Keener via TheThinkTank < thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
Super helpful, thanks, Emily! Here's the previous BRAIN article FYI.
I know it sounds greedy... what I'd really like (if it's available anywhere) is an Excel spreadsheet where I can copy and paste e-mail addresses in one fell swoop.
Barring that, I'll set aside a morning to go through the state-by-state list and fish them out of there! Thanks again, and good luck in 2024!
On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 10:10 AM Emily Gage emily@phoenixbikes.org wrote:
Hi Ray, I'm not sure how updated it is, but there is a list of community bike organizations on the Bike Collectives site here: https://us01.z.antigena.com/l/VIH9xbwi3aAcngVan_QO2tTU6zAwGfMQvCFjXIcDJtB0JX... . Hope that's helpful.
On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 12:05 PM rkeener--- via TheThinkTank < thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
Hi I'm Ray Keener, Retail Editor of Bicycle Retailer and Industry News magazine, former President (2013-16) and current Industry Liaison with Community Cycles here in Boulder. I wrote a BRAIN story about community bike shops back in 2016. I'd be glad to share the story if there a way to attach a .pdf?
It's time to do this story again. Last time, someone at bike!bike! provided us with with a list of community shops to which I sent the Survey Monkey. Seeings how this benefits you at bike!bike! and all community shops by providing information, and the industry overall by promoting understanding of what y'all do...
Might you be willing to either provide the list, or send out a link to the survey to your list, please? I'm glad to hear back from anyone on here if you can point me in the right direction!
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