Hey Josh.

At Off the Chain we do these sort of events for free and have a suggested donation amount and a donation box available during the event. Its good publicity for us and donations often turn up more money than a set amount. Everybody wins!

Jodie Off the Chain Bicycle Co-op.

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:07 PM, thethinktank-request@bikecollectives.orgwrote:

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1. On-site Bike Tuneups, do you charge? (veganboyjosh@gmail.com)

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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:26:54 -0600 From: veganboyjosh@gmail.com Subject: [TheThinkTank] On-site Bike Tuneups, do you charge? To: The Think Tank thethinktank@bikecollectives.org Message-ID: 53e5a1720906051726q96f397al2ba214b7f00c4244@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

I know Community Cycles isn't the only bike organization out there who gets these (often uber last minute) requests to "just send over a bike mechanic to do some repairs at our event...". We've done this before, but as the weather gets warmer, we're seeing more requests.

How do you handle these requests? Do you charge the event hosts? The cyclists?

Thanks, hope the traffic on thinktank has been slow cause we're all super busy!!!

josh.