Free Ride Notes
08/31/2010
Brake Cable Box
- 5 cable types
- either drill a hole through the middle of the box and spool them around a piece of rebar or PVC
OR - fix a slotted box to house the different brake cable boxes
- either way, make sure to leave in the cardboard box it comes in so they don’t unwind.
Ball Bearing Trays
- crates to keep jars/bottles in
- crates need to labeled, as do individual containers
- possibly color coded
Tires/Tubes
- need to find a place to recycle tires – piling up
- Mike had been working on some contacts
- Liberty Tires recycles tires – wants $1 a tire
- if we need to pay for it, could look into grant funding for it
- mechanic shop near Free Ride will take 2 tires (car tires) – could set up a rotating drop-off among volunteers
- someone suggested trying to get money from recycling aluminum to offset cost of recycling
- Mark (I think* ) was going to look into
Bike Corral
- Just too many bikes
- Location is probably okay, but need to cap the size with some sort of hard barrier
- Incoming bike inventory – tag bikes with date/general condition – masking tape on top tube
- Use this as an opportunity to start inventory of earn-a-bike status and audit who has been working on their earn-a-bikes
- Construct a small pen up front with ready-to-sell adult bikes
- Need to have someone organizing / tidying / auditing status of earn-a-bikes and donations regularly so that we can keep the bikes flowing through the shop
Tools/Cabinet
- Need a list to keep track of what we need
- Re-hang white board somewhere
- Tool cabinet was hung – need 3/4” pegs for it
- Drive-train* figure out what to put in it
Hanging Wheels
- 1/4” cable (Paul guesses $.61/ft – need about 25 ft. per string). With clamps, about $20 a cable.
- Hang up wheels and/or tires on it – separate with small pieces of plastic pipe
- If it seems to be working, can have different size wheels on different cables. At least would need to have different
- Can color code the wheels somehow (possibly paint the hooks they’ll be hanging on)
- Can hang tires too
Youth Member Log Book
- Attach permission slips to member sheet and/or log sheets
- Alternately, could try to combine member sheets and permission slips
- Set up an Excel spreadsheet*
- Phone number on member log sheet
- Could keep permission slip in a separate file, and just have a staff member sign off on it
Kids Bike Distribution
- Checking with PSC and other places
