Glad to see Sopo expand. I visited at the old location.
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----- Reply message ----- From: "Bobby Brown" bobby@sopobikes.org To: "The Think Tank" thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Floor plan/shop layout Date: Mon, Dec 10, 2012 13:38 Hey Jeff,
Sopo bikes moved to a new space back in the Spring and attached is a layout one of our volunteers designed as a plan for our shop, each grid square is 1'x1'. Our old shop was 300-400sq ft internal with most repairs happening outside in a parking lot with bikes hanging from Park Tool mobile stands. The new location is ~1100sq ft just for us with a 300sq ft bike shop/boutique attached to the front.
We share our location with a local boutique bike shop, Woodward Cyclery so the red space on the attached layout is where their display room is and our shop is set up around the back 3/4 of the space. For your purposes, you could consider their location to be about the size of a suitable lounge with office space.
We are lacking a little in storage but have put programs in place to keep donation bikes moving in and out of our shop rather than stockpile and gather dust. 15-20 bikes is about the max that we can store without getting cramped.
The new shop has 4 repair booths with 8 repair stands; each booth shares a set of common bike tools. We have a tube patching station so that those repairs will not take up an entire stand as well as a wall for hub maintenance with cone wrenches, freewheel tools, chain whips, axle vice, bench vice, etc. Having moved from a shop with a shared wall of tools and several repair stands farther away, the repair times are much quicker and easier with the new approach of having several shared walls of tools. You have the tools for 90% of repair jobs within 4-5ft of your bike so our volunteers and patrons are able to focus their time on fixing their bike rather than searching for tools. The truing stands are also on top of storage cabinets where we keep assorted construction materials, tools, event supplies, etc.
Shortly after building out the new space we had a Google Tour created so you can click through the link below for a virtual tour of our new space. We were really lucky to have a couple local photographers come out and do this pro bono.
Hope this helps! Bobby
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jeff Neven j_neven@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi bike collectives, We are moving again into a larger and more unique space and we are trying to figure out layout. I am curious if others have floor plans or shop layout drawings. We are trying to figure out how to include display space, repair space (6 - 8 stands), lounge/hang-out space for building community, office, and the usual crazy amount of storage needed for donated bikes and new & used parts. I am really interested in ratios of how much space you allocate for each of these activities.
If you have drawings, I would love to see them to get us dreaming. Anybody included a coffee shop, book store or other third space? If so, how is that working with a bike collective?
Jeff NevenNew Hope Community BikesHamilton, Ontario
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Here is a quite walk through at Community Cycles from a couple of months ago. You can see our work 5 work stations at around 50 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E49tv9P5DfQ
Not the best quality but it should give a decent overview of our shop.
Rich
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:04 AM, summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com wrote:
Glad to see Sopo expand. I visited at the old location.
Sent from my HTC EVO Design™ 4G from Boost Mobile
----- Reply message ----- From: "Bobby Brown" bobby@sopobikes.org To: "The Think Tank" thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Floor plan/shop layout Date: Mon, Dec 10, 2012 13:38
Hey Jeff,
Sopo bikes moved to a new space back in the Spring and attached is a layout one of our volunteers designed as a plan for our shop, each grid square is 1'x1'. Our old shop was 300-400sq ft internal with most repairs happening outside in a parking lot with bikes hanging from Park Tool mobile stands. The new location is ~1100sq ft just for us with a 300sq ft bike shop/boutique attached to the front.
We share our location with a local boutique bike shop, Woodward Cyclery so the red space on the attached layout is where their display room is and our shop is set up around the back 3/4 of the space. For your purposes, you could consider their location to be about the size of a suitable lounge with office space.
We are lacking a little in storage but have put programs in place to keep donation bikes moving in and out of our shop rather than stockpile and gather dust. 15-20 bikes is about the max that we can store without getting cramped.
The new shop has 4 repair booths with 8 repair stands; each booth shares a set of common bike tools. We have a tube patching station so that those repairs will not take up an entire stand as well as a wall for hub maintenance with cone wrenches, freewheel tools, chain whips, axle vice, bench vice, etc. Having moved from a shop with a shared wall of tools and several repair stands farther away, the repair times are much quicker and easier with the new approach of having several shared walls of tools. You have the tools for 90% of repair jobs within 4-5ft of your bike so our volunteers and patrons are able to focus their time on fixing their bike rather than searching for tools. The truing stands are also on top of storage cabinets where we keep assorted construction materials, tools, event supplies, etc.
Shortly after building out the new space we had a Google Tour created so you can click through the link below for a virtual tour of our new space. We were really lucky to have a couple local photographers come out and do this pro bono. http://bit.ly/SopoGoogleTour
Hope this helps! Bobby
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jeff Neven j_neven@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi bike collectives,
We are moving again into a larger and more unique space and we are trying to figure out layout.
I am curious if others have floor plans or shop layout drawings. We are trying to figure out how to include display space, repair space (6 - 8 stands), lounge/hang-out space for building community, office, and the usual crazy amount of storage needed for donated bikes and new & used parts. I am really interested in ratios of how much space you allocate for each of these activities.
If you have drawings, I would love to see them to get us dreaming.
Anybody included a coffee shop, book store or other third space? If so, how is that working with a bike collective?
Jeff Neven New Hope Community Bikes Hamilton, Ontario
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Cell: 770 851 0965 bobby@sopobikes.org http://www.sopobikes.org
Hours: Tuesday 7pm - 10pm Wednesday 7pm - 10pm Thursday 7pm - 10pm Saturday 2pm - 6pm
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We also have some shots from around the shop in a facebook album.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151018588931605.482845.364723181...
R
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Rich Points director@communitycycles.org wrote:
Here is a quite walk through at Community Cycles from a couple of months ago. You can see our work 5 work stations at around 50 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E49tv9P5DfQ
Not the best quality but it should give a decent overview of our shop.
Rich
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:04 AM, summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com wrote:
Glad to see Sopo expand. I visited at the old location.
Sent from my HTC EVO Design™ 4G from Boost Mobile
----- Reply message ----- From: "Bobby Brown" bobby@sopobikes.org To: "The Think Tank" thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Floor plan/shop layout Date: Mon, Dec 10, 2012 13:38
Hey Jeff,
Sopo bikes moved to a new space back in the Spring and attached is a layout one of our volunteers designed as a plan for our shop, each grid square is 1'x1'. Our old shop was 300-400sq ft internal with most repairs happening outside in a parking lot with bikes hanging from Park Tool mobile stands. The new location is ~1100sq ft just for us with a 300sq ft bike shop/boutique attached to the front.
We share our location with a local boutique bike shop, Woodward Cyclery so the red space on the attached layout is where their display room is and our shop is set up around the back 3/4 of the space. For your purposes, you could consider their location to be about the size of a suitable lounge with office space.
We are lacking a little in storage but have put programs in place to keep donation bikes moving in and out of our shop rather than stockpile and gather dust. 15-20 bikes is about the max that we can store without getting cramped.
The new shop has 4 repair booths with 8 repair stands; each booth shares a set of common bike tools. We have a tube patching station so that those repairs will not take up an entire stand as well as a wall for hub maintenance with cone wrenches, freewheel tools, chain whips, axle vice, bench vice, etc. Having moved from a shop with a shared wall of tools and several repair stands farther away, the repair times are much quicker and easier with the new approach of having several shared walls of tools. You have the tools for 90% of repair jobs within 4-5ft of your bike so our volunteers and patrons are able to focus their time on fixing their bike rather than searching for tools. The truing stands are also on top of storage cabinets where we keep assorted construction materials, tools, event supplies, etc.
Shortly after building out the new space we had a Google Tour created so you can click through the link below for a virtual tour of our new space. We were really lucky to have a couple local photographers come out and do this pro bono. http://bit.ly/SopoGoogleTour
Hope this helps! Bobby
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jeff Neven j_neven@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi bike collectives,
We are moving again into a larger and more unique space and we are trying to figure out layout.
I am curious if others have floor plans or shop layout drawings. We are trying to figure out how to include display space, repair space (6 - 8 stands), lounge/hang-out space for building community, office, and the usual crazy amount of storage needed for donated bikes and new & used parts. I am really interested in ratios of how much space you allocate for each of these activities.
If you have drawings, I would love to see them to get us dreaming.
Anybody included a coffee shop, book store or other third space? If so, how is that working with a bike collective?
Jeff Neven New Hope Community Bikes Hamilton, Ontario
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-- Bobby Brown Sopo Bicycle Cooperative
Cell: 770 851 0965 bobby@sopobikes.org http://www.sopobikes.org
Hours: Tuesday 7pm - 10pm Wednesday 7pm - 10pm Thursday 7pm - 10pm Saturday 2pm - 6pm
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Community Cycles is Boulder's only bike shop dedicated to bike commuting. Find us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/CommunityCycles
And some video of our shop in action last April http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8u4v4NVj08&feature=plcp
OK, I'll stop posting stuff now.
Ride On! Rich
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Rich Points director@communitycycles.org wrote:
We also have some shots from around the shop in a facebook album.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151018588931605.482845.364723181...
R
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Rich Points director@communitycycles.org wrote:
Here is a quite walk through at Community Cycles from a couple of months ago. You can see our work 5 work stations at around 50 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E49tv9P5DfQ
Not the best quality but it should give a decent overview of our shop.
Rich
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:04 AM, summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com wrote:
Glad to see Sopo expand. I visited at the old location.
Sent from my HTC EVO Design™ 4G from Boost Mobile
----- Reply message ----- From: "Bobby Brown" bobby@sopobikes.org To: "The Think Tank" thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Floor plan/shop layout Date: Mon, Dec 10, 2012 13:38
Hey Jeff,
Sopo bikes moved to a new space back in the Spring and attached is a layout one of our volunteers designed as a plan for our shop, each grid square is 1'x1'. Our old shop was 300-400sq ft internal with most repairs happening outside in a parking lot with bikes hanging from Park Tool mobile stands. The new location is ~1100sq ft just for us with a 300sq ft bike shop/boutique attached to the front.
We share our location with a local boutique bike shop, Woodward Cyclery so the red space on the attached layout is where their display room is and our shop is set up around the back 3/4 of the space. For your purposes, you could consider their location to be about the size of a suitable lounge with office space.
We are lacking a little in storage but have put programs in place to keep donation bikes moving in and out of our shop rather than stockpile and gather dust. 15-20 bikes is about the max that we can store without getting cramped.
The new shop has 4 repair booths with 8 repair stands; each booth shares a set of common bike tools. We have a tube patching station so that those repairs will not take up an entire stand as well as a wall for hub maintenance with cone wrenches, freewheel tools, chain whips, axle vice, bench vice, etc. Having moved from a shop with a shared wall of tools and several repair stands farther away, the repair times are much quicker and easier with the new approach of having several shared walls of tools. You have the tools for 90% of repair jobs within 4-5ft of your bike so our volunteers and patrons are able to focus their time on fixing their bike rather than searching for tools. The truing stands are also on top of storage cabinets where we keep assorted construction materials, tools, event supplies, etc.
Shortly after building out the new space we had a Google Tour created so you can click through the link below for a virtual tour of our new space. We were really lucky to have a couple local photographers come out and do this pro bono. http://bit.ly/SopoGoogleTour
Hope this helps! Bobby
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jeff Neven j_neven@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi bike collectives,
We are moving again into a larger and more unique space and we are trying to figure out layout.
I am curious if others have floor plans or shop layout drawings. We are trying to figure out how to include display space, repair space (6 - 8 stands), lounge/hang-out space for building community, office, and the usual crazy amount of storage needed for donated bikes and new & used parts. I am really interested in ratios of how much space you allocate for each of these activities.
If you have drawings, I would love to see them to get us dreaming.
Anybody included a coffee shop, book store or other third space? If so, how is that working with a bike collective?
Jeff Neven New Hope Community Bikes Hamilton, Ontario
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-- Bobby Brown Sopo Bicycle Cooperative
Cell: 770 851 0965 bobby@sopobikes.org http://www.sopobikes.org
Hours: Tuesday 7pm - 10pm Wednesday 7pm - 10pm Thursday 7pm - 10pm Saturday 2pm - 6pm
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--
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Community Cycles is Boulder's only bike shop dedicated to bike commuting. Find us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/CommunityCycles
--
Rich Points http://communitycycles.org Executive Director (c)303-589-0597 (w)720-565-6019
Community Cycles is Boulder's only bike shop dedicated to bike commuting. Find us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/CommunityCycles
The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen has something along these lines (revision of an old layout, so it's not exactly to scale or 100% accurate):
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eC9ZNscgXyLJRsyNMXSgYzx_PmDDhDG5NowMGMxA...
The card catalogs are used for small parts -- picked them up at the UC Davis surplus store. Forks are stored under the truing table area; wheels are hung from the rafters.
--Ryan
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Rich Points director@communitycycles.orgwrote:
And some video of our shop in action last April http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8u4v4NVj08&feature=plcp
OK, I'll stop posting stuff now.
Ride On! Rich
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Rich Points director@communitycycles.org wrote:
We also have some shots from around the shop in a facebook album.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151018588931605.482845.364723181...
R
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Rich Points director@communitycycles.org wrote:
Here is a quite walk through at Community Cycles from a couple of months ago. You can see our work 5 work stations at around 50 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E49tv9P5DfQ
Not the best quality but it should give a decent overview of our shop.
Rich
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:04 AM, summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com wrote:
Glad to see Sopo expand. I visited at the old location.
Sent from my HTC EVO Design™ 4G from Boost Mobile
----- Reply message ----- From: "Bobby Brown" bobby@sopobikes.org To: "The Think Tank" thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Floor plan/shop layout Date: Mon, Dec 10, 2012 13:38
Hey Jeff,
Sopo bikes moved to a new space back in the Spring and attached is a
layout
one of our volunteers designed as a plan for our shop, each grid
square is
1'x1'. Our old shop was 300-400sq ft internal with most repairs
happening
outside in a parking lot with bikes hanging from Park Tool mobile
stands.
The new location is ~1100sq ft just for us with a 300sq ft bike shop/boutique attached to the front.
We share our location with a local boutique bike shop, Woodward
Cyclery so
the red space on the attached layout is where their display room is
and our
shop is set up around the back 3/4 of the space. For your purposes,
you
could consider their location to be about the size of a suitable
lounge with
office space.
We are lacking a little in storage but have put programs in place to
keep
donation bikes moving in and out of our shop rather than stockpile and gather dust. 15-20 bikes is about the max that we can store without
getting
cramped.
The new shop has 4 repair booths with 8 repair stands; each booth
shares a
set of common bike tools. We have a tube patching station so that
those
repairs will not take up an entire stand as well as a wall for hub maintenance with cone wrenches, freewheel tools, chain whips, axle
vice,
bench vice, etc. Having moved from a shop with a shared wall of tools
and
several repair stands farther away, the repair times are much quicker
and
easier with the new approach of having several shared walls of tools.
You
have the tools for 90% of repair jobs within 4-5ft of your bike so our volunteers and patrons are able to focus their time on fixing their
bike
rather than searching for tools. The truing stands are also on top of storage cabinets where we keep assorted construction materials, tools,
event
supplies, etc.
Shortly after building out the new space we had a Google Tour created
so you
can click through the link below for a virtual tour of our new space.
We
were really lucky to have a couple local photographers come out and do
this
pro bono. http://bit.ly/SopoGoogleTour
Hope this helps! Bobby
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jeff Neven j_neven@hotmail.com
wrote:
Hi bike collectives,
We are moving again into a larger and more unique space and we are
trying
to figure out layout.
I am curious if others have floor plans or shop layout drawings. We
are
trying to figure out how to include display space, repair space (6 - 8 stands), lounge/hang-out space for building community, office, and
the usual
crazy amount of storage needed for donated bikes and new & used
parts. I am
really interested in ratios of how much space you allocate for each
of these
activities.
If you have drawings, I would love to see them to get us dreaming.
Anybody included a coffee shop, book store or other third space? If
so,
how is that working with a bike collective?
Jeff Neven New Hope Community Bikes Hamilton, Ontario
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Hours: Tuesday 7pm - 10pm Wednesday 7pm - 10pm Thursday 7pm - 10pm Saturday 2pm - 6pm
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Community Cycles is Boulder's only bike shop dedicated to bike
commuting.
Find us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/CommunityCycles
--
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Community Cycles is Boulder's only bike shop dedicated to bike commuting. Find us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/CommunityCycles
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Ryan Sharpe <sharpe@sacbikekitchen.org>wrote:
> The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen has something along these lines (revision
> of an old layout, so it's not exactly to scale or 100% accurate):
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eC9ZNscgXyLJRsyNMXSgYzx_PmDDhDG5NowMGMxA4UA/edit
>
> The card catalogs are used for small parts -- picked them up at the UC
> Davis surplus store. Forks are stored under the truing table area; wheels
> are hung from the rafters.
>
> --Ryan
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Rich Points <director@communitycycles.org
> > wrote:
>
>> And some video of our shop in action last April
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8u4v4NVj08&feature=plcp
>>
>> OK, I'll stop posting stuff now.
>>
>> Ride On!
>> Rich
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Rich Points
>> <director@communitycycles.org> wrote:
>> > We also have some shots from around the shop in a facebook album.
>> >
>> >
>> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151018588931605.482845.364723181604&type=3
>> >
>> > R
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Rich Points
>> > <director@communitycycles.org> wrote:
>> >> Here is a quite walk through at Community Cycles from a couple of
>> >> months ago. You can see our work 5 work stations at around 50
>> >> seconds.
>> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E49tv9P5DfQ
>> >>
>> >> Not the best quality but it should give a decent overview of our shop.
>> >>
>> >> Rich
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:04 AM, summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com
>> >> <summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>> Glad to see Sopo expand. I visited at the old location.
>> >>>
>> >>> Sent from my HTC EVO Design™ 4G from Boost Mobile
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ----- Reply message -----
>> >>> From: "Bobby Brown" <bobby@sopobikes.org>
>> >>> To: "The Think Tank" <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org>
>> >>> Subject: [TheThinkTank] Floor plan/shop layout
>> >>> Date: Mon, Dec 10, 2012 13:38
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Hey Jeff,
>> >>>
>> >>> Sopo bikes moved to a new space back in the Spring and attached is a
>> layout
>> >>> one of our volunteers designed as a plan for our shop, each grid
>> square is
>> >>> 1'x1'. Our old shop was 300-400sq ft internal with most repairs
>> happening
>> >>> outside in a parking lot with bikes hanging from Park Tool mobile
>> stands.
>> >>> The new location is ~1100sq ft just for us with a 300sq ft bike
>> >>> shop/boutique attached to the front.
>> >>>
>> >>> We share our location with a local boutique bike shop, Woodward
>> Cyclery so
>> >>> the red space on the attached layout is where their display room is
>> and our
>> >>> shop is set up around the back 3/4 of the space. For your purposes,
>> you
>> >>> could consider their location to be about the size of a suitable
>> lounge with
>> >>> office space.
>> >>>
>> >>> We are lacking a little in storage but have put programs in place to
>> keep
>> >>> donation bikes moving in and out of our shop rather than stockpile and
>> >>> gather dust. 15-20 bikes is about the max that we can store without
>> getting
>> >>> cramped.
>> >>>
>> >>> The new shop has 4 repair booths with 8 repair stands; each booth
>> shares a
>> >>> set of common bike tools. We have a tube patching station so that
>> those
>> >>> repairs will not take up an entire stand as well as a wall for hub
>> >>> maintenance with cone wrenches, freewheel tools, chain whips, axle
>> vice,
>> >>> bench vice, etc. Having moved from a shop with a shared wall of
>> tools and
>> >>> several repair stands farther away, the repair times are much quicker
>> and
>> >>> easier with the new approach of having several shared walls of tools.
>> You
>> >>> have the tools for 90% of repair jobs within 4-5ft of your bike so our
>> >>> volunteers and patrons are able to focus their time on fixing their
>> bike
>> >>> rather than searching for tools. The truing stands are also on top of
>> >>> storage cabinets where we keep assorted construction materials,
>> tools, event
>> >>> supplies, etc.
>> >>>
>> >>> Shortly after building out the new space we had a Google Tour created
>> so you
>> >>> can click through the link below for a virtual tour of our new space.
>> We
>> >>> were really lucky to have a couple local photographers come out and
>> do this
>> >>> pro bono.
>> >>> http://bit.ly/SopoGoogleTour
>> >>>
>> >>> Hope this helps!
>> >>> Bobby
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jeff Neven <j_neven@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi bike collectives,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> We are moving again into a larger and more unique space and we are
>> trying
>> >>>> to figure out layout.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I am curious if others have floor plans or shop layout drawings. We
>> are
>> >>>> trying to figure out how to include display space, repair space (6 -
>> 8
>> >>>> stands), lounge/hang-out space for building community, office, and
>> the usual
>> >>>> crazy amount of storage needed for donated bikes and new & used
>> parts. I am
>> >>>> really interested in ratios of how much space you allocate for each
>> of these
>> >>>> activities.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> If you have drawings, I would love to see them to get us dreaming.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Anybody included a coffee shop, book store or other third space? If
>> so,
>> >>>> how is that working with a bike collective?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Jeff Neven
>> >>>> New Hope Community Bikes
>> >>>> Hamilton, Ontario
>> >>>>
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>> >>> Bobby Brown
>> >>> Sopo Bicycle Cooperative
>> >>>
>> >>> Cell: 770 851 0965
>> >>> bobby@sopobikes.org
>> >>> http://www.sopobikes.org
>> >>>
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>> >> Rich Points
>> >> http://communitycycles.org
>> >> Executive Director
>> >> (c)303-589-0597
>> >> (w)720-565-6019
>> >>
>> >> Community Cycles is Boulder's only bike shop dedicated to bike
>> commuting.
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>> > Rich Points
>> > http://communitycycles.org
>> > Executive Director
>> > (c)303-589-0597
>> > (w)720-565-6019
>> >
>> > Community Cycles is Boulder's only bike shop dedicated to bike
>> commuting.
>> > Find us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/CommunityCycles
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>> Rich Points
>> http://communitycycles.org
>> Executive Director
>> (c)303-589-0597
>> (w)720-565-6019
>>
>> Community Cycles is Boulder's only bike shop dedicated to bike commuting.
>> Find us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/CommunityCycles
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