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Hello, Everyone

     Back in the 1980's when I was a little kid, my big sister

was part of a group called Cycle Watch, which was one of the early local cyclists groups in Toronto.

     Cycle Watch made a beautiful little booklet for cyclists.

It had a yellow cover of a light card stock and accordion folded paper inside. It was small enough to fit inside a wallet, but it was a little fat. Sort of the thickness of a package of rolling papers (I'm getting all Canadian on you now.)

     Instead of information about flats, it had a picture of a

bike with all the parts labelled with their names, and spaces for you to write in information about your bike, such as the make, the size, the serial number, the City bike licence if you had one, etc.

     The next little pages were a description of what

information you needed to gather if you were in an accident-- the name and details of the driver who hit you (Kate had to explain the concept of insurance to me), and space for contact info. for witnesses, plus the name and badge number of the police officers, etc.. (They used small type.)

      It was a little booklet of information about how to

record all the things that would help you win a traffic case if you were hit (the picture ofthe bike with the names of the parts was to help you describe your bike or the damage to it), plus all the info you'd need to have if your bike was stolen. It was great.

      Part of what made it compelling to me was that it was kid-

sized.

     My sister gave me a whole bunch of these booklets to hand

out at school (As my mother had encouraged me to afix a "Midwives do it Better" button to my knapsack, you can imagine how cool the cool kids found me, right?); to my amazement, everyone wanted them.

     I've often thought of recreating them, and I've wondered

if they would still be popluar-- if you are working on a little booklet, something like that might go over well.

     A bi-lingual version would be a good design problem-- how

to include all the info while preserving readability and a small size.

     For me, those little yellow booklets were my introduction

to cycling as something that created a community, and also an early, simple way of participating in do-it-yourself politics.

     Thanks for reminding me of something happy, and good luck

with your project.

                   Sasha

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:09:23 -0400 "Urban Bike Project Wilmington, DE" urbanbikeproject@gmail.com wrote:

http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Spanish_Resourc

e_Materials

The first link is a good place to start, maybe you could print it front/back and fold it.

Brian

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Sharlyn Grace sharlyngrace@gmail.com wrote:

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Hello all,

We're thinking of putting together an illustrated little booklet (bi-lingual) that people could carry around as a resource--

mostly right now

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we're thinking how to fix flats, tips like putting a dollar

inside a tire

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with a hole, etc. Does anyone know if something like this

exists? Or do

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you have good ideas about what would be useful information to

include? We

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want it to be really small, but also helpful. We have so many

people come

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in and fix a flat and never think about it again, so they're

helpless when

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the next one comes around, so this is an attempt to make the

info

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non-technical and available all the time.

Thanks!, Sharlyn

The Recyclery Evanston, IL

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