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Hi, Geoffrey B--

 I came in to visit you all at Bike Pirates this winter when I

was home for an appointment.

 Next time I'm home, I'll come and see you guys. It would be

great if we could create more portable shops and improve our designs. Thanks for wanting to help get bikes and bike shops to First Nations communities.

 Are any Toronto people you know planning to go to bike!bike!?

                                    Sasha

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:53:03 -0400 Geoffrey B vous.je@gmail.com wrote:

Please get in contact with us at Bike PIrates in Toronto ...we having been using the mobile shop concept for about a year now, its far from perfect and love some insight. I personally would love to send parts and tools

to native communities.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:01 PM, dragonfly@mac.hush.com wrote:

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Hello, Everyone.

Thank you, Rachael.

I have enjoyed reading everyone's posts over the past couple

of months.

My daughter, Anna, was born on May 29th. I had her at home

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my mother's house in Toronto, helped by midwives, one of whom

has

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known me since I was around seven years old.

My mum cut the cord, so three generations of the women of

our

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family were involved in that act.

Since then, we've all been getting used to our new lives, so

other things have fallen by the wayside.

However, we did manage to put together a bike-shop-in-a-box

for my friend's First Nation community-- it all fits onto a bike trailer we made for it!

 I'd like to thank everyone who posted suggestions and help

about that project. Thank you.

I reread everything you wrote to me, and also many of the

other good posts about tools and equipment that people have

shared

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on this list serve. You are all wonderful people and I love learning from you.

I'm disorganized right now, so you'd have to be patient

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I farted around getting it to you, but I would be happy to send info about our portable shop to those who'd like it.

I have new questions for all of you now:

I'm sure many of you are in families of commuter cyclists--

how young were your children when you started putting them in

bike

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trailers or into one of those little seats?

 Did you ride with them during their first winter of life,

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did you wait until they were a little bigger for all-season communter cycling?

 Do any of you get asked for help figuring out how to be

bike

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dependant with little kids when you are at your shops?

 Thank you all again.

 I've included a couple pictures of my kid, just because I'm

besotted with her.

 I hope you are all having a wonderful summer.

                      Sasha

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:16:59 -0400 rachael spiewak rachael@sopobikes.org wrote:

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hi, everyone.

just wanted to pass along a guide to basic repairs illustrated

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one of our volunteers (it also includes a few pages about bike anatomy

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the BICAS manual): http://sopobikes.org/static/basicsmanual.pdf

enjoy!

rachael

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