Community Cycles Volunteer and Earn-A-Bike Opportunities for September 27, 2009

[Josh Brown]

Hey Everyone!

Thanks again for your interest in helping out at Community Cycles. Below is a list of upcoming events we'd love to see you help with.

All of these are events or programs at which you can earn hours towards an Earn-A-Bike if you are so inclined.

Email me any questions.

Josh Brown

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Wednesday Night Worknights in North Boulder
Every Wednesday we teach a group of people how to do one or two things on a bike. Then we turn the team loose on the over 400 bikes we have stored in a garage in North Boulder. This happens from 4 PM to 8 PM every Wednesday. It's a great way to come learn some bike mechanics and help us tune up bikes. The space is donated to us by Boulder County. As such, we don't publish the address. It is easy to get to by bike, bus or car from anywhere in Boulder. If you're interested in coming out and learning some bike mechanics, get in touch with me and I'll send you the address.
 If you've been before, you don't need to check in beforehand, just show up at 4. We'll be there, ready for you. We have the ability to handle about 20 or 30 people. We have yet to turn anyone away up there.

This week we'll be working on Bottom Brackets this week, and Wheel Truing next week. If you're going to help out with this, get a jump start on the mechanics side of things by checking out these two videos from www.bicycletutor.com:

http://bicycletutor.com/bottom-bracket/
http://bicycletutor.com/cartridge-bottom-bracket/

We have all the tools you'll need. Just come ready to work and get dirty.


Bike Move! Sunday, October 4th, 9 AM until afternoon sometime
Our friends Jon and Tess are moving. By bicycle.

If anyone has a trailer (plus the hitch) or cargo bike they can lend out for the day, our would like to come out and help move a box or two, please get in touch with me or Jon, address below.

If you've never heard of or participated in a bike move, I highly recommend it. You can check out a film about another bike move that happened in Portland last year. by clicking on the link. It's lots of fun, it helps someone while they move, and a great way to show neighbors that it's possible to move a house full of stuff by bike.

Here are the details:

Who's moving: Jon Abbott and Tess Shideler
Starting point: 2852 Kalmia Ave, Apt. 204 (The Boulders Apartments), Boulder, CO 80301
Directions: one traffic light north of 28th and Iris, go east until you see the Boulders Apartment complex, turn in and bear right at the garages.  2852 is the second building on your right, and apartment 204 is in the back.  If you take the Wonderland Creek Trail north of Iris, the apartments you see to the right after the bridge is where we live.  We're on the 2nd floor.
Google Map of our location: http://tinyurl.com/ydnebw2
Ending point: 7499 Singing Hills Dr. Unit F, Boulder, CO 80301
Distance: 7 miles, mostly downhill.  Nothing steep.
Meet at: Sunday, October 4th, 2009 at 9 AM at the starting point
Jon's phone number: 904-807-3995
Jon's email address: j...@monogon.org


Digital Projector needed for loan or donation.
We'd like to have a movie night at the shop, where we blast movies up onto the walls and eat popcorn. If anyone has a projector they could let us use, or would be willing to donate to Community Cycles, please get in touch with me. Thanks!


Volunteer orientation, Thursday, October 22, 6-7 PM
Come learn how we can use you above and beyond working in the shop and the events on this list. We're looking for folks who are interested in helping out on a level that's more than just dropping by when they're free. There are some benefits to helping out on a more regular basis, and we'll be going over those at the meeting as well. The Volunteer Orientation will be in the shop.

Monthly Facilitator meeting, Tuesday, October 27th, 6-7 PM
Facilitators are the folks who have been around a while, and know the operation. If you'd like be involved with Community Cycles on a higher level, this may be the meeting for you. There is some training involved, both mechanical and organizational. Come prepared to get some work done.

Volunteer Appreciation and Member Open House Party, Thursday, November 5, 5-8 PM
We're holding our first ever Annual Volunteer Appreciation and Member Open House Party, and you're invited! We also need some help getting work done before the event. Gathering donations, setting up the night of and cleaning up after the event. If you're interested in helping make this a night to remember, please contact me. I've got lots for you to do, and none of it involves bike mechanics!

Family Learning Center After School Bike Club, Ongoing Wednesdays,  3-5 PM
We're the sponsor of the After School Bike Club at the Family Learning Center. What is the After School Bike Club, you ask? It's a bike class that kids at the FLC can take to learn safe riding skills, bike mechanics, and teamwork. The class is 8 weeks long and meets once a week. The students ride bikes to the shop, practicing good bike riding skills, hand signals, and awareness for riding in a group. Once we arrive at the shop, the students learn all about bike mechanics.
 
We're looking for several instructors who can lead the kids on rides, teach mechanics, and work with the kids to provide a great learning experience in this class. We need instructors who can commit to teaching at least one 8 week session. If your mechanical skills aren't where they need to be to teach a class, but you're interested in helping, please get in touch. We can teach you enough to get by, and by teaching the class, you'll often learn more than the students do.