At the Nunnery Bike Workshop we have equipment that is donated and sometimes purchased through the sale of bicycles that are donated, fixed up, and then sold at various markets at a fair price. The place is kept in shape by vollonteers. At the moment lots of people do a tiny bit of work and a few people do a lot of work out of love. The main thing we need is people who can open/close a certain monday each month. You just use the key, get the tools and tarps out and keep things running smoothly. We also need people to kull wheels,tyres,bikes, tidy up and improve signage and systems. Networkers and promototers, oh! and people with utes/vans/trailers are also highly sort after. We recomend that every one who comes to bike club do 20minutes of this stuff each time they come.

Sometimes our equipment likes to go on their own adventures with new people and other times it just gets old and tired and leaves for the land of tool heaven. Regardless, we could use any donated tools that you might have that no longer can use or would like to donate to our cause. Here’s a short list of some things we are looking at trying to obtain.

• Lots of plastic tubs/big ice cream containers for people to keep tools and nuts and bolts in while they work.
• Allen Keys. Preferably not single ones, but on a bundle so they don’t get lost
• Screw drivers (small phillips and slotted)
• Chain tools and Crank pullers get broken if used carlesly, so we always need super strong fool proof replacments.
• WD40, RP7 etc
• Axels and bearings
• bottom bracket sets
• Decent bicylce chain lube. We often use machine oil that is a little too gunky.
• thick texters for labeling, and masking tape/label stickers
• good quality pairs of brake blocks
• puncture patches and glue
• Lighting! Best are tall, freestanding lamps, as we can use those immediately without installing anything. Also good are clip on lamps that we can clip to our existing freestanding lamps. We could also do with spotlights that go from the side of the house, but NO HALOGEN fittings. Bayonet or screw-in only, so that we can put in power saving bulbs.
• Reflective Vests! Maybe a council or construction company could regularly give us their old vests?

• Padlocks with keys - we have plenty of chain but would like some locks for the community fleet bikes. Actually, any bike lock donations would be good.
• Combination bike lock, so that people can donate bikes when we’re not there by locking them to a lock we leave outside
• Changeable combination bike lock or padlock, so that people who don’t have a copy of the key can open up bikeclub on a Monday by calling someone with the combination, which we will change from time to time for security
• Someone to help install a lockable door on the shed. With our increased fame, we are getting unwanted visitors in the night..
• more to come to the list

If you have some tool and are wondering if we need it don’t hestitate to call one of us to find out if we could use it! Thanks so much for looking through your tool chest to see if there is anything you can surrender to our workshop! Trust us it’ll be put to good use.