Re: [TheThinkTank] Bike Shop in a Box
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Hi, Everyone.
I love reading everyone's posts.
Thanks to the people who have written to me about creating a
good bike plan for the Detroit-Windsor region.
This past weekend, I was talking with some people. People we
know were attending the UN Indigenous People's climate change meeting in New York, and we were talking about some things.
My friends and I were talking about climate change, this time
in the context of the aboriginal communities that these friends of mine come from. It was a long and interesting conversation.
For a little part of it, I talked about bikes, and about how
important my bike was to me in Detroit and about how my bike shapes my world view and my thoughts about community planning, etc.
They all drive trucks, these friends of mine, even the ones
from the city, and they think I'm a little nuts for riding my bike everywhere, but they could also see an increased potential for bikes in some of their communities.
In some of their communities, bikes are not so practical. In
others, they could be made into a more functional option for day-to- day practical use, if there was an infrastructure to support them- a place to get bikes, a place to go to repair them, etc.
We wondered about a "Bike Shop in a Box"-- could you get a
big rubbermaid tub and put a whole bike shop into it? (Maybe two tubs plus a stand?) Could you make such a thing that would be easy to ship North or into the B.C. interior, by train or plane etc.?
Do the people from "Bikes Not Bombs" know how to do this--
have some of you done this before? Is there a good way of doing this already known?
What should go into the box, and how could we make this
economical-- is there an economy of scale-- how many Boxed Shops would you need to create to get a good deal on the tools, do you think? Would suppliers be interested in creating a 'Shop in Box' as a product to offer through their catalogue, even?
We're just thinking about the feasibility of this right
now. For lots of reasons, it might be a dumb or unworkable idea, but one worth checking out. If any of you have done this, or if you know what the best things to put into the box are, please e-mail me.
Sasha
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:56:20 -0400 "Urban Bike Project Wilmington, DE" urbanbikeproject@gmail.com wrote:
or email about donating bikes and then ask what it is exactly that we
that gave
birth to the organization and again, the quality of your work is
expression
and resistance,we still have the Bike Against! stencil and about
Hi Sasha,
We worked with Bicycles For Humanity to help send a bike shop in a box to Africa. Here is a link to a page on our website (which includes a link to their's):
http://www.re-cycles.ca/bfh2007.html
Perhaps they would be interested in doing something similar more locally.
Chris
--- dragonfly@mac.hush.com wrote:
http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o...
It might be most affordable and easiest to get a complete toolset from one of the big bike tool companies (via a distributor or a sympathetic local bike shop). Here's what Park Toolhttp://www.parktool.com/products/category.asp?cat=6has, for example. The backpack is a nice idea, but, in my experience, structurally hard to deal with. I would add to your set a bunch of hard line tools, which are easy to get donated. Tons of people have metric box wrenches lying around in their garages.
Our wiki http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tools has some excellent ideas about stocking tools.
Good luck!
rachael
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:57 AM, dragonfly@mac.hush.com wrote:
United Bicycle Parts has a pretty nice looking "mix and match" tool set with items from a variety of different tool makers = around $200, if I remember right, and maybe around 50 pieces with the most critical stuff (spline tools, chainbreaker, lockring wrench etc.) being shop quality stuff. Might be a good place to start.
best, Colin - Durham Bike Co-op
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:57 AM, dragonfly@mac.hush.com wrote:
The Kickstand sets up a repair stand at our local farmers market and any events we get involved in. This is currently what most of our outreach program consists of. We carry a portable stand, a 4x2 folding table, an Ez-up, a tool set, and consumables. We've been doing this for a very short while, but the idea is that we have a "market box", a tool box that is set aside, always ready to go with a good set of tools (we're still working on exactly what a good set of tools is), that is not used during regular shop hours. We just started bringing consumables, patches, cables... and are still hammering out exactly what to bring. And of course we always have some literature on hand, and usually bring some of the bright orange safety vest the county bicycle/pedestrian advisory board gave us to pass out.
Our only issue currently is that we toss of of this in the back of a pickup truck! We are hopefully soon going to have the resources to build a trailer (a member is purchasing welding equipment), but don;t as of yet have any plans.
Anyone have plans for a good (verylarge) bike trailer?
vyki
www.thekickstand.org
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Durham Bike Co-op durhambikecoop@gmail.com wrote:
From our director's web page: http://www.drumbent.com/trailer.html
The kit I based my hockey bag hauling cargo trailer on: http://www.drumbent.com/trailer.html
Chris --- Vyki Englert vyki.englert@thekickstand.org wrote:
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re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op 477 Bronson Ave. Ottawa
re-Cycles is open 6pm-10pm Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays (for volunteering, DIY, bike & parts sales & donation drop off)
Bike sales and donation drop off also available during Cyclists' Kitchen hours: 9am-5:30pm Tuesday to Friday, and 9am-1pm on Saturday
(IMPORTANT: Please remember that while Cyclists' Kitchen will be using our shop during the day, any public bike repair, whether volunteer or do-it-yourself, is still only during regular re-Cycles hours in the evenings.)
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Chris Wells -
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rachael spiewak -
Vyki Englert