Bike Club just keeps on rolling

Hey,

Just a brief note that things are going swimmingly! We have had a few nights over the last month with almost 50 people dropping by! We have probably put twice this number of bikes out on the road in this time as well.

To all those people who have been helping out lately, those of you who are down every Monday, or even just once a month, THANKYOU, this is how roll. We have had some great donations of tools, bikes, parts and a vice recently, which also makes a huge difference.

If anyone is interested there is a great event coming up called the Sydney Tweed Run – a chance to get out your bike and your tweed vintage clothing and join a casual ride around the city- on Sunday the 7th June – I hope to see a few people down on their vintage bike club bikes. See- http://www.sydneycyclist.com/group/sydneytweedrun

cheerio,
ollie

Meeting this Monday 26th Jan 5pm

Heya everybody,

we’re meeting this Monday at about 5pm to discuss the present state of things, nail down what we need to direct our efforts to, and generally muse about bicycle related things.

The State of Things…from the blurry vision of Mark
The Storage Shed is now fairly well organised, so a big thank you to Dylan and all the other volunteers for doing the hard work and building the shelving and mezz level.

The Workshop is currently alternating between looking like high-density housing and a junkyard, so we need to clean it up. The actual act shouldn’t be too hard, just a matter of putting all the accumulated boxes of donations into their correct places and maintaining it in the future.

The majority of calls and emails that I recieve, in regard to the workshop, are asking about ways to get cheap bikes, if we do repairs, and how to make donations. All this information is buried in the website and as bi-product of the incremental growth of the website is has never been organised after first being set-up. This needs to be remedied, most people admit to being generally confused by it …

…. Things be thus

Cheerios,
Mark

Working Bee from 1pm on Monday, 19th Jan

Hiya all,

we’re having a working bee this coming Monday, 19th of January, from 1pm, to primarily clean out the shed, cull a lot of unneeded bikes and strip parts. We can always push on and clean up the workshop a bit if the energy reserves are high, but the state of the shed at the moment is chaotic at best. Basically no one can get in our get anything out without first spending 15 mins digging through and removing piled up bikes.

So we’ll be going through and getting rid of lower quality bikes, stripping their parts and scrapping the frames. This should mean that we can once again admire our beautiful garage without having to surmount a mountain of pointy metal pieces.

Anyone that turns up and helps out will get first pick of the Cheeky Monkey clean-up parts(lots of random stuff).

So see you all at 1pm!

Cheers,
Mark.

No Complete Bikes at the moment

At present we are unable to provide anyone with complete bicycles, we are still able to repair your bike, provide you with parts, and teach you how to fix a bike. Due to our recent move we are still trying to sort out an effective means of storage and so it may be some weeks till we are able to provide complete bikes. We are still more than happy to take any donations, be they bicycles, parts, tools, money, chocolate or anything.

If you do need a complete bike, I would recommend Mitchell Rd Auction Centre, in Erskineville, or the Bower, in Marrickville’s Addison Rd Recycling Centre, for cheap and second hand bikes. For new bikes I would recommend Cheeky Transport in Newtown or City Bike Depot in the City.

Cheers,
Mark.

Bike Club Meeting 23rd Nov at 7pm

Heya all,

There’s an organised meeting at 7pm, down at the new Waterloo location (1 Phillip St, Waterloo). With the move mostly complete we need to start organising a lot of things that will need to be run differently from the old site. We also need to sort out collection for all the stuff from the Nunnery, the old site on Forbes St. Julien said something about meeting at the Nunnery at 6 to do all that, I’m not sure of the specifics, but if you’re in the area at the time it would be helpful to check it out and see if anything is happening on Forbes st.

Everyone have a great day, and I hope I will see you tonight!

Cheers,
Mark.

We’ve moved!

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This Monday, the 17th of Nov, we will not be open for fixing or providing bikes, we will be busy sorting out our move into the new premises at 1 Phillip St, Waterloo.
If you come down to help out, we can probably in turn help out with your bike, but we are going to be too busy installing fittings and moving things around to help everyone so we recommend coming down the following Monday, the 24th of Nov, and we can help you then.
Any and all help for today, the 17th, from about 6pm at the Waterloo site is greatly appreciated as we have a lot to do to be ready for opening.

Cheers,
Mark.
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Hey everybody,

we’ve finally moved down to the Waterloo towers!

We are now based from the two garages under ‘Turanga’ Building,

1 Phillip St,

Waterloo 2017

The long belated move is thanks to the fantastic efforts of Mike from The Factory and Dylan & James from figure8, they’ve all done so much and helped everything happen.

We’ll be unofficially opening up this coming Monday the 17th of Nov, but at present we have moved in without actually setting up. Our primary concern right now is to get everything set up and ordered, but we are still happy to help everybody out. Once everything is working ok we’ll have a ‘proper’ opening. So, feel free to swing down this monday – from 5pm – to check everything out, get some advice/help to fix your bike, or just hang out and chat.

Cheers,

Mark

Otesha Project (Aus) & Nunnery Bike Brunch

The Otesha Project (Aus) and The Nunnery Bike Workshop are hosting a bike brunch fundraiser on Sunday 12 October in Newtown… $5 all you can eat… 9:30-12pm

Bring your bike for a re-tune…

Money goes to a great cause, the Otesha Project (Aus.): Cycling for Sustainability which 17 crew members are involved with. Leaving in November on a 5 week bike trip – riding from Brissie to Newcastle stopping at High Schools along the way to talk about sustainability issues and perform a play on enviromental sustainability & social justice issues. Hoping to empower and provoke thought along the way.

Hope you can make it to the FUNdraising brunch!

We would love to have your support and hang out on a beautiful Sunday!

Details:

Where: 16 Sloane St, Enmore

When: Sunday 12 October 9:30am – 12

What: $5 all you can eat brunch

Why: to fundraise for Otesha’s 17 tour members to cycle from bris-newcastle to visit schools and engage kids on sustainability issues…

All the money helps us further develop our project and help pay for needed equipment and other expenses along the tour.

If you can’t make it perhaps you might consider making a donation to our cause by checking out our goal to get enough funds to support youth after we have left communities – http://otesha.org.au/biketours/nswtour

Also check out the event here –

http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=28651413084

Working Bee at new Bike Club Space

Hey,

So the after sorting out the paper work, we are set for a working bee
this Saturday at the new bike club space in Waterloo. The Idea is to
get the new space set up so we can have an orderly and hassle free
relocation in the not too distant future. Any help would be great, as
would any spare tools and fittings (like wall brackets, hooks,
shelving materials etc)

Its on this saturday from 12 midday.

A WORKING BEE
Waterloo Recling Project, Phillip st Bottany, between Cope st and
George st, (down botany road from redfern station away from the city,
turn left at Raglan st, left again into Cope st, right into Phillip

st).

Sweet as, Hope to see you all down there

cheers,
ollie – 0422331213

Pushy power, funky vibes, and the odd fair-trade chocolate bar: Otesha prepares to empower rural Victorians

Are you looking for something challenging to do in January? How about empowering youth about a sustainable future? Or riding around rural Australia living sustainably and “being the change you want to see in the world”?

The Otesha Project (Australia): Cycling for Sustainability is undergoing massive preparations for its upcoming bicycle tour in rural Victoria starting in Melbourne on January 18th. The tour will ride along the Great Ocean Road, up to the Grampians, making our way over to Bendigo before finishing back to Melbourne while speaking to youth about sustainability issues.

Working Bee for new Redfern Location

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Sorry everybody, with the new work site we are required to put in some paper work before we can commence work, we’ll keep you posted about when the working bee will happen but as of now it’s cancelled for this Saturday. – Mark

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Hiya all, hasn’t been much happening on the web page lately because we’ve all been busy fixing bikes…or something to that end.

But good news, for those that didn’t know the future of the women’s collective at it’s present location is not guarenteed and so we’ve been looking for a new space for some time. The hosting and welcome by all the women involved with the house has been uniformly fantastic over such a long time and while we have to move on, the worst of it is that they very well may lose their home. But thanks to the efforts of Dylan and James there was a new site found for Bike club in the Redfern Public Housing Towers. This is not only a fantastic site for the facilities (roofing and wide open spaces on concrete surfaces) but also it puts us into more of a central location to help anyone who might have a use for the bike club facilities.

You can find out a bit more about the new space on the figureight site here.

So to get this new space ready for a mass migration, we have a working bee this Saturday the 16th of August. We’ll be leaving from the Nunnery at 11:30am to get to the new space by 12:00. If you can’t make the ride or want to go a bit later, there’s a map here that shows the route we’ll be following, once you get to the corner of Phillip and Cooper it’s on the left of the car park. It’ll be a good day to see the future of bike club progress, and this is where it all starts.

Hope to see you all there!

Cheers,
Mark