Nunnery Bike Workshop

This is a new page, created Feb 08, where we will put down how the finances are working at the nunnery. This is here for a couple of reasons:

- to show people how cheap it is to make their own bike club

- to get input from bike clubbers about what we should do with the money we come across

So here goes.. 07 money went a little like this:

Income: Peats Ridge bike hire - $400. Donations - $150. Bike Sales at markets - $300. Total: $850

Expenses: Working Bee lunches: $50. Outdoor permanent Lighting: $250. Truing Stand $50. Combo Bike Locks for 24/7 Bike Donations: $50. Tools (mostly replacements): $150. Consumables (patches, rubber cements, kero, WD40): $50.

Balance: $250

2008 so far has gone like this:

Balance from 2007: $250

High and Dry bike hire: $100

High and Dry bike sales: $90 ($50 paid, $40 owing)

Bike Sales: $650 ($250 paid, $400 owing)

Expenses: $0

Position: $650 available, $1090 total

So what are we going to spend it on?  Plans so far:

- Outdoor power points: $50

- MORE outdoor lighting: $250

- Stock of new brake and gear cables and housing: $300

- Stock of rubber cement: $50

- Donation to Nunnery’s bills: $50

Does anyone have something to add to the list?

Maurice

Hello everyone!

Bike club has been busy preparing and providing bikes to highandry festival over new years and we’re back for another big year. The space is in great condition all things considered, thanks to a great effort on Monday by Dave and Co. to clean stuff up. But… it’s time to make it even better!

This is a callout for helpers and thrill seekers this Saturday 12th from 10am at the Nunnery. We’ll be getting those wheels back in line, rejuvinating the ‘project bikes’ section, mounting our beautiful new wheel truing jig, playing triage to the innertubes, getting our shed in order and marking out some sections of the yard where we really should not be leaving bikes & bits.

Come along for some fun, help make the Nunnery bike workshop beautiful, meet some new friends and get a free reflective slap band for your efforts! You don’t need bike skills to be helpful, just need enthusiasm.

Hope to see you there!

Maurice

That’s, right. 3pm sunday Nov 11 in the ‘Eco Zone’ of Newtown Festival is the place to be for a crash course in bike Maintenance. Thanks to the Watershed enviro resource centre on King St for inviting us. At the moment I’m running it on my own but very much looking for someone else to co-facilitate the workshop with me. Preferably someone with more bike experience then me!

I’ve already developed a structure for the workshop (attatched to this post). Basicly we’ve an hour slot so a 10min whirlwind of bike fitting, maintenance, storage and safety, then 30 min talking people through the most common repairs to tyres, brakes and drive trains. Leaving 20mins spare time for questions and running late. If your keen to help me, please give me a call on 0401 447 675

I’m also developing a hand out with some tips and further reading/resources. Or maybe you have suggestions for the running of the workshop. Please let me know your ideas and I can include them. Call or email jp_on_tour(AAattTTT)graffiti(dDOTT)net

Cheers

JP

A very late announcement - we’re having a working bee tomorrow, saturday the 22nd. It’ll start from around 11am and go until the energy runs out (probably around sunset).

We’re going to try and install some outdoor lighting with Par 38 24W fluoro spotlights - the best in efficient outdoor lighting. Hopefully that will mean we can stop learning to fix bikes by feel and actually be able to see what we’re doing sometimes! Just in time for daylight savings to begin (better late than never).

Our sad toolboard needs a makeover. We’re going to start again, get it right and put on our new and exciting tools that have been hiding away in wait for a new toolboard.

Hope to see you all there!

Maurice

Hi. ‘The Water Shed’ are currently taking their vollunteers on tours of ‘big’ enviro stuff like visi’s recycling plant. I thought it would be good for them to see a succesful grassroots community focused project. So they are comming on Monday 27th of August around 6pm. I figured I ‘d just show them around, talk about the values and history of bike club, examples of other community and grass roots style projects. If people have ideas they’d like impressed on these up and comming enviro buro’s and educators of the future let me know, or maybe think about it and tell them on the night. The info gatherd and fleshed out from developing this tour could further be useful as a ‘how to make a bike club’ page on this web site’ and as a fall back for people giving tours to newbies.

Also I’m currently making a directory of envrio and social justice orientated comunity groups and projects in sydney. So if you know any, please let me know. I hope to have it finished by the 27th to dish out….

jp_on_tour(aaaattttt)graffiti(dot)net     (my email written funny to avoid pesky spam bots)

Keep well

jp

If anyone was keen to join CANC in their ride from Newcastle to Sydney, they’re on schedule according to their site.

That means they leave Newcastle the morning of Fri 17th. I’m thinking of taking the train to meet them on Fri evening, then riding to Sydney by Sunday/monday. Those who need to be in Sydney for work on Monday can take the train back on Sunday night.

Who wants to come? You’ll need to have sleeping gear - Maurice

We are having a nother working bee at the Nunnery to kull bikes and generaly tidy up. The last working bee got a lot of good stuff sorted, like the shed, the tool boards, signs and labeling systems. Yay. Now we’ve simply got too much stuff!! We need your help….

• kulling bikes for the Petersham Men’s Shed (They make wheelchairs from adult frames)
• Sending scrap metal off to a merchant somewhere, does someone have a ute?
• Kulling ‘projects’ that have been unloved too long
• Sorting out a better opener/closer roster and on sight info for newbies

Okay so I might be interested but what are the deets?

Where: Nunnery (but of course) - check out this map
When: 4 till 9.30 every monday for the next month. Plus 11am till dark Sunday 29th of July which will hopefuly be a big bike club meeting too. Fpr more info call jp on 0401447675

What if I only have a small amount of time?

That would be great because every little bit that you can offer will help. Even if it is to come by and say “Hi guys”, provide hugs, and then leave again. We’d really like to spruce things up and get our new system rolling out the Nunnery.

Check out the great website of the amazing Cycle Against the Nuclear Cycle Ride. They’re riding from Rockhampton all the way to Canberra. It’ll pass through Newcastle/Sydney around the 21st of August so that would be a good place to go and meet them and do part of the ride. If you’re wondering what they’re up to, they put it this way:

We are a comunity of people concerned about the false claim that nuclear technology will provide a clean green solution to climate change. We hope to promote truly clean and green energy alternatives, while building a pro-active cycling community and having fun.

How Rad is that! You can also make donations from their site.

Maurice

Hey guys,

we have got ourselves a great combination lock which is hanging around one of the poles along the side of the house (it’s on Elvy Place) near all the trees. If someone wants to donate a bike to the Nunnery, they can just call me up and I’ll tell them the combination. Then they lock it up whenever they feel like and all is well. It’s a combination that we will change regularly.

 Call me if you need the code - 0433622640

Maurice