Who's got a good way of keeping forks organized and accessible? We've been hanging them on water pipes, but most people cannot reach and its hard to tell what size they are looking up from the ground.
Thanks, Brian
Urban Bike Project of Wilmington -a 501(c)3 non-profit bike shop- 1908 N. Market Street (entrance is in the parking lot behind the building) Wilmington, DE 19802
Hours: Thursday 6:30-9:00 Saturday 1:00-4:00
Visit us online at http://urbanbikeproject.org
if you can't find another place for them, you can make a volunteer project out of measuring and tagging them. at least then folks can see what they are without taking them down, and pretty much anyone can tag them. another nice thing about our tagging projects is that it creates an opportunity to weed out trashed parts that find their way into the shop.
-rachael
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Urban Bike Project Wilmington, DE < urbanbikeproject@gmail.com> wrote:
Who's got a good way of keeping forks organized and accessible? We've been hanging them on water pipes, but most people cannot reach and its hard to tell what size they are looking up from the ground.
Thanks, Brian
Urban Bike Project of Wilmington -a 501(c)3 non-profit bike shop- 1908 N. Market Street (entrance is in the parking lot behind the building) Wilmington, DE 19802
Hours: Thursday 6:30-9:00 Saturday 1:00-4:00
Visit us online at http://urbanbikeproject.org
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The SLC cooperative has a good system. You can see photos (of their fork setup, and some more general pics of SLC, and a couple other shops) here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/veganboyjosh/NewAlbum22009245PM?authkey=Gv1sRgCI...
I don't know if they have them sorted or not. Sorting things by size or function (mtn vs road, etc) seems to be a great volunteer or EAB task for us. Our wall o'forks is back up at the back of our loft, so it gets neglected, and it's tough to get to, so when it gets out of control, it's a big project to fix.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM, rachael spiewak rachael@sopobikes.orgwrote:
if you can't find another place for them, you can make a volunteer project out of measuring and tagging them. at least then folks can see what they are without taking them down, and pretty much anyone can tag them. another nice thing about our tagging projects is that it creates an opportunity to weed out trashed parts that find their way into the shop.
-rachael
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Urban Bike Project Wilmington, DE < urbanbikeproject@gmail.com> wrote:
Who's got a good way of keeping forks organized and accessible? We've been hanging them on water pipes, but most people cannot reach and its hard to tell what size they are looking up from the ground.
Thanks, Brian
Urban Bike Project of Wilmington -a 501(c)3 non-profit bike shop- 1908 N. Market Street (entrance is in the parking lot behind the building) Wilmington, DE 19802
Hours: Thursday 6:30-9:00 Saturday 1:00-4:00
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Hours of operation: Tues, Wed, & Thurs 7 pm - 10 pm Sat & Sun 2 pm - 6 pm
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velocipede basically have a set of 2x4 built up as 'tiers' that the forks rest on. (much like how the slc stores theirs)
it works fine... but I like the idea that rachel posted (measuring forks as a volunteer task)
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:21 PM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
The SLC cooperative has a good system. You can see photos (of their fork setup, and some more general pics of SLC, and a couple other shops) here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/veganboyjosh/NewAlbum22009245PM?authkey=Gv1sRgCI...
I don't know if they have them sorted or not. Sorting things by size or function (mtn vs road, etc) seems to be a great volunteer or EAB task for us. Our wall o'forks is back up at the back of our loft, so it gets neglected, and it's tough to get to, so when it gets out of control, it's a big project to fix.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM, rachael spiewak rachael@sopobikes.orgwrote:
if you can't find another place for them, you can make a volunteer project out of measuring and tagging them. at least then folks can see what they are without taking them down, and pretty much anyone can tag them. another nice thing about our tagging projects is that it creates an opportunity to weed out trashed parts that find their way into the shop.
-rachael
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Urban Bike Project Wilmington, DE < urbanbikeproject@gmail.com> wrote:
Who's got a good way of keeping forks organized and accessible? We've been hanging them on water pipes, but most people cannot reach and its hard to tell what size they are looking up from the ground.
Thanks, Brian
Urban Bike Project of Wilmington -a 501(c)3 non-profit bike shop- 1908 N. Market Street (entrance is in the parking lot behind the building) Wilmington, DE 19802
Hours: Thursday 6:30-9:00 Saturday 1:00-4:00
Visit us online at http://urbanbikeproject.org
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Police in Copenhagen stop bicyclists, give them free helmets, hugs... http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/28/police-in-denmark-hu.html
There are things to be said for Northern European socialism... this
video shows the upside, of living in a country with a 50% income tax
rate..
Opinion from Copenhagenize: http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/04/danish-helmet-propaganda.html about the video.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Wendy Monroe wendy.monroe@usermail.comwrote:
Police in Copenhagen stop bicyclists, give them free helmets, hugs... *http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/28/police-in-denmark-hu.html* There are things to be said for Northern European socialism... this video shows the upside, of living in a country with a 50% income tax rate..
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Wow. How naive I was! Thanks, Jason!
Wendy
On Apr 29, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Jason Moore wrote:
Opinion from Copenhagenize: http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/04/danish-helmet-propaganda.html about the video.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Wendy Monroe <wendy.monroe@usermail.com
wrote:
Police in Copenhagen stop bicyclists, give them free helmets, hugs... http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/28/police-in-denmark-hu.html
There are things to be said for Northern European socialism... this
video shows the upside, of living in a country with a 50% income tax
rate..
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Here's what we do:
http://www.re-cycles.ca/images/forks.jpg
That was in our old shop, with three rows of 2x4s set on edge. The
new shop has two rows, but is twice as wide. The top row has forks
with brake braze-ons, and the lower is just bare forks. And that's
as far as our sorting goes. I do try to label 26 x 1 3/8 (ISO 590)
forks, since they can be hard to tell from shortish 27" at times.
Mark Rehder - Director re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op http://re-cycles.ca
On 28-Apr-09, at 1:10 PM, Urban Bike Project Wilmington, DE wrote:
Who's got a good way of keeping forks organized and accessible?
We've been hanging them on water pipes, but most people cannot
reach and its hard to tell what size they are looking up from the
ground.Thanks, Brian
Urban Bike Project of Wilmington -a 501(c)3 non-profit bike shop- 1908 N. Market Street (entrance is in the parking lot behind the
building) Wilmington, DE 19802Hours: Thursday 6:30-9:00 Saturday 1:00-4:00
Visit us online at http://urbanbikeproject.org
participants (7)
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Boson Au -
Jason Moore -
Mark Rehder -
rachael spiewak -
Urban Bike Project Wilmington, DE -
veganboyjosh＠gmail.com -
Wendy Monroe