Re: [TheThinkTank] What level of repairs at Farmers Market
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Also mechanical demos at fms. Slow market, bring truing stand, build a wheel: lace, tension, and true. Explain the process as you are doing it or show someone else how away from a hectic indoor shop.
Do spokecalc and cut spokes to length, ahead of time, or show that too. bring spokeprep, various spoke wrenches. A lot of clinics are emergency repairs level and some are feeders to the main coop/shop/ youth program. Intro here, learn more and practice there.
Actually learning instead of just paying beats most regular lbs much less warehouse stores.
Added bonus, usually take home some produce/bakery but remember to bike more than you eat, bring panniers, trailer, etc ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๐ค๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฝ On Feb 25, 2015 8:47 PM, christopher@holisticcycles.com wrote:
Has anyone thought of doing better labor than a bike shop can provide? Upping the game of quality. True a wheel and two weeks later it is out of true; True, Round and tension the wheel and it will stay true for months if not a year or two. True with a guarantee is upping the game of Quality with a focus on improving the ride experience of cyclist. What do you all think
Christopher Wallace Holistic Cycles 140 Harrison St Oak Park, IL. 60304
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] What level of repairs at Farmers Market From: Joshua Goran josh@ohiocitycycles.org Date: Wed, February 25, 2015 2:32 pm To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org
For a now defunct start-up project I had a few years ago, we would do chain and cable/housing replacements and true wheels on the bike when I did repairs at a local Farmers Market, and I charged $30/hour + parts at that time, but that is very cheap in hindsight. Basically we'd do up to what a typical shop includes in their 'basic tune up' plus cable and minor accessory installation and flat repairs.
*----------Joshua GoranAdministrator, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op* 1840 Columbus Rd Cleveland, Ohio 44113 216 830 2667 OhioCityCycles.org
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Re: Quality standards of service work:
Level of quality with service provided must be maintained so wheels don't go out of true or adjustments of brakes and other components after it leaves the shop int he first place. It's basic bike shop customer service. If there are boomerang repairs, I think an investment in training of mechanics and service writers needs to happen before service time is given away. And I'd be really surprised that other local non-coop bike shops would allow a climate of boomerang repairs to be present. It's good business to make sure that happens, no matter how the shop is structured or modeled.
Co-ops, DIY skillshare, and non-profit shops really can't afford low service quality levels. In Portland, the Co-ops and non profit street level shops often do a HIGHER quality repair and tune up than the bro-shops filled with SRAM Red and Dura Ace. Unfamiliarity of high end components is an entirely different issue i my mind; there's a lot of expertise to execute on cotter pin boom bikes and old Schwinns. The people with those bikes will pay for good work done; they will be more pissed off when they pay any amount of money on a crappy repair that doesn't address their problem, or makes it worse.
Tom Martin Bike Program Coordinator Portland Community College- Cascade Room SC-03 705 N Killingsworth St Portland, OR 97217
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:47 PM, christopher@holisticcycles.com wrote:
Has anyone thought of doing better labor than a bike shop can provide? Upping the game of quality. True a wheel and two weeks later it is out of true; True, Round and tension the wheel and it will stay true for months if not a year or two. True with a guarantee is upping the game of Quality with a focus on improving the ride experience of cyclist. What do you all think
Christopher Wallace Holistic Cycles 140 Harrison St Oak Park, IL. 60304
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] What level of repairs at Farmers Market From: Joshua Goran josh@ohiocitycycles.org Date: Wed, February 25, 2015 2:32 pm To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org
For a now defunct start-up project I had a few years ago, we would do chain and cable/housing replacements and true wheels on the bike when I did repairs at a local Farmers Market, and I charged $30/hour + parts at that time, but that is very cheap in hindsight. Basically we'd do up to what a typical shop includes in their 'basic tune up' plus cable and minor accessory installation and flat repairs.
*----------Joshua GoranAdministrator, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op* 1840 Columbus Rd Cleveland, Ohio 44113 216 830 2667 OhioCityCycles.org
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