We make people sign a waiver for our bikes that our attorney's have reviewed. Happy to provide that to you

let me know Terry Erickson City of Scottsdale, Parks & Recreation 7447 E. Indian School Rd, Ste. #300 Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Office phone: (480) 312-2771

-----Original Message----- From: thethinktank-bounces@bikecollectives.org [mailto:thethinktank-bounces@bikecollectives.org] On Behalf Of Daniel S Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 6:54 PM To: thethinktank@bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] liability

This has probably been discussed before, and it's probably on some bike collectives website...

what is your bike shop's take on the issue of liability? like, if someone gets injured, either working in your shop, or possibly somehow because of a bike they have made or bought there. Or, some other form of liability.

Any anecdotes? Advice? Horror stories?

Especially Canada, which is where we are.

Cheers. Daniel.

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Hello Daniel,

We purchased liability insurance which covers people in the shop and used bikes sold from the shop. I think it is a Co-operators policy but I can dig up more details if your local insurance broker can't find something similar..

We have to be careful when attending offsite events and fairs to only work/demonstrate on our own bikes as our insurance does not cover us outside the shop. (Not really a problem since our mandate is to teach people to maintain their own bikes rather than do any actual repairs for them.)

Chris Wells (Email Handler & one of many Volunteer Head Mechanics)

re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op 477 Bronson Ave. Ottawa

info@re-cycles.ca http://www.re-cycles.ca/

--- On Thu, 1/7/10, Daniel S danmrc@yahoo.ca wrote:

From: Daniel S danmrc@yahoo.ca Subject: [TheThinkTank] liability To: thethinktank@bikecollectives.org Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 8:53 PM This has probably been discussed before, and it's probably on some bike collectives website...

what is your bike shop's take on the issue of liability?   like, if someone gets injured, either working in your shop, or possibly somehow because of a bike they have made or bought there.  Or, some other form of liability.

Any anecdotes?   Advice?   Horror stories?

Especially Canada, which is where we are.

Cheers. Daniel.

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