Here in Pittsburgh we are working on a new internship program partnering with a youth employment non-profit called Urban Youth Action. It is called the Mobile Bike Repair Project.
It will be a 6 week paid summer job for 4 youth. We will train them and then have them haul out a mobile shop to public events like farmers markets, fairs and festivals to fix up bikes and give out helmets.
I started a new thread for this because we are in process of getting together our mobile shop and I need some help. We just ordered a Bikes At Work trailer and I am thinking about what will be on it and how we will store it.
Are there other shops out there with mobile shop rigs that might have some good tips for me, or maybe a list of the tools and parts that you carry and how you store them?
That would be great!
Thanks, Scott Free Ride!
Hey Scott, Your program sounds similar to what we call Rolling Bike Clinics (RBC) http://communitycycles.org/programs/rolling-bike-clinics.html
We've been doing these for three years now and this year we got a grant to fund a dedicated trailer and supplies. I've been developing a checklist for the supplies http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcrrw3s5_114fdrdzzg5 The checklist doesn't cover everything but I keep adding to it after each event.
Now that we have a dedicated rig I keep it out of the main shop in a nearby storage. Most of our RBCs happen within a 2 mile radius around Community Cycles with the farthest one being about 3.5 miles. We try to not use any fossil fuels for the transport of the tools and parts.
Ride On! Rich
Scott Gibson wrote:
Here in Pittsburgh we are working on a new internship program partnering with a youth employment non-profit called Urban Youth Action. It is called the Mobile Bike Repair Project.
It will be a 6 week paid summer job for 4 youth. We will train them and then have them haul out a mobile shop to public events like farmers markets, fairs and festivals to fix up bikes and give out helmets.
I started a new thread for this because we are in process of getting together our mobile shop and I need some help. We just ordered a Bikes At Work trailer and I am thinking about what will be on it and how we will store it.
Are there other shops out there with mobile shop rigs that might have some good tips for me, or maybe a list of the tools and parts that you carry and how you store them?
That would be great!
Thanks, Scott Free Ride!
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At Recycle-a-Bike in Providence we have our mobile bike shop called Mechanics-a-Go-Go.
We're in the process of building a trailer to house two tool sets, stands, and extra parts. We got a grant to take a class to build the trailer.
Attached is the current checklist for our tools, which we're hoping to be able to expand with the new trailer.
Good Luck, Maggie
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:53 AM, R Points poster@richpoints.com wrote:
Hey Scott, Your program sounds similar to what we call Rolling Bike Clinics (RBC) http://communitycycles.org/programs/rolling-bike-clinics.html
We've been doing these for three years now and this year we got a grant to fund a dedicated trailer and supplies. I've been developing a checklist for the supplies http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcrrw3s5_114fdrdzzg5 The checklist doesn't cover everything but I keep adding to it after each event.
Now that we have a dedicated rig I keep it out of the main shop in a nearby storage. Most of our RBCs happen within a 2 mile radius around Community Cycles with the farthest one being about 3.5 miles. We try to not use any fossil fuels for the transport of the tools and parts.
Ride On! Rich
Scott Gibson wrote:
Here in Pittsburgh we are working on a new internship program partnering with a youth employment non-profit called Urban Youth Action. It is called the Mobile Bike Repair Project.
It will be a 6 week paid summer job for 4 youth. We will train them and then have them haul out a mobile shop to public events like farmers markets, fairs and festivals to fix up bikes and give out helmets.
I started a new thread for this because we are in process of getting together our mobile shop and I need some help. We just ordered a Bikes At Work trailer and I am thinking about what will be on it and how we will store it.
Are there other shops out there with mobile shop rigs that might have some good tips for me, or maybe a list of the tools and parts that you carry and how you store them?
That would be great!
Thanks, Scott Free Ride!
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