T-shirts are always hugely popular and, at events, some people are more likely to buy a t-shirt than to give you money outright, especially if you have a good design.

We screened a small run of hoodies (bought from target for 10 bucks or so, sold for 30, i think) which sold nicely in the winter and make a higher percentage than t-shirts.

Stickers we had printed at an online store for cheap and just give those away for free. Some people affix them right to their bike after working on it, nice advertising for your shop/services. I'm pretty sure no one would buy these if we charged.

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 19801

Hours: Thursday 6:30-9:00 Saturday 1:00-4:00

Visit us online at http://urbanbikeproject.org

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:00 PM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:

a few of us at community cycles are looking into getting some items professionally printed. shirts, bike/skull caps, stickers...

what kinds of items have you all found are popular, or not so popular?

we'll be in touch with peacesupplies, as i know he's friends with and does the printing for bicas.

any leads or suggestions you all can make as far as things that have worked well or weren't worth your time or money?

if the person from freeride who worked on the bikebike!08 merch reads this, where did you get the hats to print onto? does anyone else have a source for blank screenable hats?

thanks!

josh.

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We've had luck for patches. They are round, have our logo, name and Spokane, Wa embroidered on them. We sell them for $2. Tshirts have done alright, but they're a bigger time and money investment. Patches are pretty low overhead cause we order them on-line in a big batch.

liza On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:49 PM, bike against bikeagainst@gmail.com wrote:

Hey Josh, Rafael in Fort Collins here.

Some distributors like J&B sell blank hats of some sort.

If you know some good seamstresses, have them take some hats apart to figure out the pattern and maybe you can get them fabricated locally and perhaps out of recycled materials as well.

If you use thrift store fabric / materials, the caps will be custom and unique and people are more likely to actually hurry and get one ( of a kind that is ! )

As far as the visor material, i use the pretty flexible but strong plastic packaging that you get when you buy some bike stuff such as Maxxis tires, WTB grips, etc.

I also dumpster dive for notebooks with covers out of the same material when the CSU students leave.

I've found that some silk screening print shops like to print the fabric before is made into a hat and others the other way around.

Good Luck !

Hugs and kisses for the ComCyc crew.

-- Rafael Cletero Project Coordinator Fort Collins Bicycle Co-op ph (970) 484 38 04 www.fcbikecoop.org

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Urban Bike Project Wilmington, DE < urbanbikeproject@gmail.com> wrote:

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T-shirts are always hugely popular and, at events, some people are more likely to buy a t-shirt than to give you money outright, especially if you have a good design.

We screened a small run of hoodies (bought from target for 10 bucks or so, sold for 30, i think) which sold nicely in the winter and make a higher percentage than t-shirts.

Stickers we had printed at an online store for cheap and just give those away for free. Some people affix them right to their bike after working on it, nice advertising for your shop/services. I'm pretty sure no one would buy these if we charged.

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 19801

Hours: Thursday 6:30-9:00 Saturday 1:00-4:00

Visit us online at http://urbanbikeproject.org

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:00 PM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:

...

a few of us at community cycles are looking into getting some items professionally printed. shirts, bike/skull caps, stickers...

what kinds of items have you all found are popular, or not so popular?

we'll be in touch with peacesupplies, as i know he's friends with and does the printing for bicas.

any leads or suggestions you all can make as far as things that have worked well or weren't worth your time or money?

if the person from freeride who worked on the bikebike!08 merch reads this, where did you get the hats to print onto? does anyone else have a source for blank screenable hats?

thanks!

josh.

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-- Rafael Cletero Project Coordinator Fort Collins Bicycle Co-op ph (970) 484 38 04 www.fcbikecoop.org

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