Gear Up! Jan. 15 Meeting Minutes!

[Ainsley Naylor]

We finally have a name for the workshop series: Gear Up!

here are the meeting minutes. Thanks so much to Joanne for taking notes.

Ainsley.

Meeting Sunday December 15th

 

Facilitator: Sum Yan

Note taker: Joanne

Attendees: Gabby, Patty, Ainsley, Emily, Steph, Heather, Gina, Moira, Karen, Kath

 

1. Intros

 

2. Curriculum

Sessions to be held at Bike Pirates on Sundays from 6:30-8:30pm

Topics to be a rotation of three sessions

a) anatomy, bike fit, flat fix

b) cables and brakes

c) advanced topic that will rotate each month (brainstormed topics: truing, general maintenance, ball bearings, touring, urban and defensive riding, bike polo)
It was suggested that those leading the workshop should be at Bike Pirates by 5:45pm to help with set-up and wrap-up of the shop's open hours

Discussion re: having participants work on their own bikes or watching a demonstration

Gabby, Ainsley and Gina to work on curriculum

 

3. Poster and Flyers

Julia and Lulu were presently working on the poster

We should have poster by next week

By-line should include: workshops for women and trans folk and that bikes should be in good working order for workshop

Brainstorming session: GEAR UP will be the name of the workshops

 

4. Session Leads

Ainsley to send out a google group, everyone will identify when they are available

Also, please identify if you are willing to be a lead (L) or assistant (A)

Dates:

Feb 5: Intro, bike fit, bike anatomy and flat fix

Feb 12: Cables and brakes

Feb 19: Winter riding

Feb 26: Women and trans meeting

 

5. Outreach
Discussed promotion strategy, will start with a soft promo within the cycling community to ensure that we are not overwhelmed with attendees

If we have too many participants, we will have to decide what number of partipants and what number of bikes can work in the space

Participation on a drop-in, first come, first serve basis. We can decide on registration at a later date

Ainsley to photocopy posters and make available at Bike Pirates

We will use Google calendar so that people can sign up to distribute posters and identify where they will be leaving posters