Sorry to hijack the thread Rachael but is the BICAS manual available online someplace? In english or spanish...we're looking at the Bikes Not Bombs manual and some good books to develop our mechanics guide and need as much help as we can get.
sorry, sorry, sorry...but I've just had a 10:50 at night need to go to bed thought...as bike collectives go, we generally work on the crappiest bikes and can usually "make anything work". is there an opportunity to publish a repair manual available to the general public? something like "fix any bike or die trying". included would be such topics as "home-made drop bolts", "build your dream bike out of trash on the street" and "my cat could fix this with a hammer, screwdriver and adjustable wrench (though he should probably use the proper tools)".
lump this in with a non-profit distrubution company and a bike collectives classifieds and we've got quite the trifecta of good intentions.
still it's an opportunity that's ripe for the taking, look on the shelves of borders, books-a-million, barnes and noble and you get stale stuff about 10 speed brifters and headset presses or creating (buying) the ultimate time trial bike, not that bike technology should remain in past ages of rod brakes, wooden rims and one piece cranks but...where is the cheeky humor of "Anybody's Bike Book"? although i did see that BNB had the assistance of Rick Morall's down-to-earth illustrations...
regardless, I'll see what Thunderhead has to offer in terms of Espanol and report back.
Brian
On 4/9/08, rachael spiewak rachael@sopobikes.org wrote:
We just got the news that a community bike shop is in the works in a suburb of Atlanta that's largely populated by Spanish speaking recent arrivals. Thought I'd ask the kind folks on this list for a round up of resources en español to send over to the shop organizers. We've already got the BICAS manual (has some Spanish translations), which is my favorite repair manual in general. Is there a way to filter the Wiki to search only for things in a particular language? Or can there be a section for multilingual resources?
Thanks!
-rachael
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