Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Workshop Maintenance and Bike Parking

[Bob Leigh (bobleigh]

Hi Liz,

What style of bike rack do you have?  We've been able to fit one bike on
each side of each loop of this rack:

http://www.parkitbikeracks.com/outdoor-bike-racks/bike-corrals

But the "traditional" type is much less friendly to locking both wheels
plus the frame, unless you put the bike at one end or along the length of
the rack:

http://www.parkitbikeracks.com/outdoor-bike-racks/br-04-traditional-galvanized-bike-racks

Bob Leigh
Cornerstone Village Cohousing
Cambridge, MA


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

> At Mosaic Commons in Berlin MA, a community of triplex and duplex Town
> homes, each home has an attached shed big enough for 2 bikes, or other
> stuff, but mostly not both. Also, most households are bigger than 2.
>
> We also have a basement in the common house with a really cool ramp
> for bicycles to be walked down into the basement.
>
> Then accessibility requirements put a hand rail on that ramp, making
> it less perfect. And it's steep.
>
> So in the common house basement we have storage for bikes that are
> never or rarely used, and in our sheds we have individual storage for
> some bikes. We've added some bike racks in common bike parking areas,
> many folk just put their bike along the rack, blocking the entire
> rack. Smaller bikes are often just dropped.
>
> I  don't have advice as to what you *do* want to do, but I can hold
> ours up as an example of something we thought about, did something
> about, and it accomplished...not as much as we hoped.
>
> Liz
> www.mosaic-commons.org
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Kathy Tymoczko
> <kathy.tymoczko [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "maintain the workshop".  Nearly
> all
> > of the tools and other items (nuts, bolts, screws, WD-40, paint, etc.)
> were
> > donated by members of the community or purchased by someone or by a Team
> > for a project.  The Facilities Team is nominally responsible for
> > "maintaining" (and possibly) organizing the workshop, but in actuality,
> > it's really one person who's on Facilities who does that.  We have a
> > sign-out sheet for use when people want to borrow things (electric
> drills,
> > ladders, whatever) from the workshop.  The workshop has no budget.
> >
> > The Bike Team is responsible for the organization and upkeep of the bike
> > storage room.  They have a small annual budget.
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Sharon Villines <
> sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I just saw a picture of Daybreak’s workshop and bike storage. But there
> is
> >> no way to contact a person in the community — only the webmaster about
> >> problems with the site.
> >>
> >> I would like to know how Daybreak and other communities maintain their
> >> workshop.
> >>
> >> Sharon
> >> ----
> >> Sharon Villines
> >> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> >> http://www.takomavillage.org
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > Daybreak Cohousing <http://www.daybreakcohousing.org>
> > Portland, Oregon
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> -Liz
> (The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
> Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries
> www.ecclesiaministriesmission.org
> www.mosaic-commons.org
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