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