Central Florida Earth Day!

Today a few of us will be at the Central Florida Earth Day festivities downtown in Lake Eola Park. We'll be coordinating and running a bike valet service, so if you decide to ride down to the park you can bring your bike to us, we'll watch it for you and make sure it stays safe as you enjoy the rest of our fellow vendors and friends around the lake. This of course is all for free, but we always accept donations. This event is one of two large events that Veg CF puts on every year. Come on out an check it out on this lovely day.

The event runs from 10 AM - 6 PM, it's free to come, and there are plenty of friendly faces to meet and see. Click the flyer below for more information.

News article about Rusted Chain

For those interested here is an article from the Central Florida Future, the University of Central Florida's newspaper. It's written by Jordan Snyder who came by the space this past Sunday. Thanks for the writeup Jordan! Check it below:

Collective gives old parts new spin

YES!

Ok so I'm not too great at facebook but I think I've created a facebook page for RCBC.....maybe? See if this works:

RCBCFB!

Fair Trade Poker Run!

In conjunction with The Fair Trade Project, a local organization who's simple, but important mission is to support people and fair trade, we at Rusted Chain will be helping out with this event. A few of us will be there with our tools for some pre-race tuneups. Come on out, and support a few great local initiatives to help make a global impact.

Registration is at 3 PM at Austin's Coffee on Fairbanks. The race will begin at 4 PM. It's $5 to register, and there are tons of great prizes to be had. Don't feel intimidated if this is your first race, as this one is not about who is the fastest, but who has the best poker hand. Come enjoy great people, make new friends, ride your bike, and enjoy some good tunes at the after party.

As usual Rusted Chain will also be open tomorrow (Sunday) at the space from 3 PM to 7 PM for those that don't know the space is at the Public Storage on Colonial and Maguire. We provide free access to tools, and knowledge of how to work on your bike. Feel free to stop by.

See you soon!

Sunday 01/17/10 Recap

Steve, Elise and Myself volunteered on this past sunday. We had several bmx frames (one of them, presumably indestructable and appropriately monikered the "IRON HORSE"), and a couple road frames donated. Steve trued a couple wheels, I worked on the cannondale (it works, aside from the necessity to tune up the derailleurs a little better, and work out a stiff link). Two people named Alby and Leah stopped by to ask about who we are and what we do, they offered some road bike stuff to donate, so we'll probably be seeing some more of them.

I learned a lot of stuff i sort of took for intuitive until it really came down to dailing; involving cantilever brakes. I've only really ever had to adjust spring tension in brakes a couple random times (mostly with bmx-style u-brakes) and kind of felt like a fish out of water on the c'dale - it wasn't until we consulted the good book (zinn and the art of road bike maintenance) that some light was shed on these quirky stopping devices.

Elise made some really cool labels for the small parts drawers, but we'll need some tape to affix them.

word to your whole family.
ryan!

FSU

From 1:45 PM to 3:30 PM (Saturday) I'll be at the space working on a few things, and organizing. Feel free to stop by if you want to help out or need a hand with anything. We'll be open as usual on Sunday from 3 PM to 7 PM with an open meeting following afterwards.

Fix stuff up!

Volunteers Needed for VegFest on Saturday, October 24th

Hey everyone,
Saturday is vegfest, a great opportunity to table, talk, pass out lit., and take some donations. We will be setting up the bike corral/valet in full force. We are looking for some volunteers to help ease the strain on everyone. Hopefully we can get a couple people to work a couple hours a piece. Please contact me, or any of the collective members first if you would like to volunteer. My email is AglioFallsDown@aol.com. Or, you can comment on this blog and I'll get a hold of you. Thanks!

Mike

Short Update.

Hey everyone,
just a little update here. Audubon went super well on Wednesday. We took donations, gave away cupcakes, fixed bikes and had some awesome conversations. It deffinately felt like the aud. of old, except HOT. Can anyone get involved this Wednesday? It'd be great if someone could make buttons, or food or anything really.

Space will be open on Sunday from 3-7. We decided to consolidate and have our meeting on our open day, to involve the most people. Please come out if you can. Lots to talk about.

Mike

Check it!

It's not too late to submit art! We also need to borrow some lights (spot light type) for the show. Please remember to dress up. If you have any questions on what dirty formal is, just imagine if you were at a wedding, and fell down a hill. Or just rip the sleeves off your tux :)

UPCOMING EVENTS!

Updates:

Its getting pretty close to the art show. Have you secured a spot/submitted a piece? It's less than a month away. Don't Snooze. Also, remember, the dress is dirty formal/jeremy formal...anyone who rides mass in their party gear will get something special (free drink or food or gift). Flyer up soon.

We will be doing a casual little bike scavenger hunt on sept 13th to help raise money for the space. $1 gets you entry. prizes will be stuff like beer or goodies...nothing huge, but its always fun! We will most likely be doing this sort of thing once a month.

Sept 19 is Back 2 School Shuffle 2: Endless Summer. Mark your calenders and look for a flyer soon.

Open hours will stay the same through Sept. at the bucket. Sunday 3pm - 7pm, Thursday 5pm - 9pm. We would really like to start distributing more bikes. If you know anyone that needs a bike, and would like to do the earn a bike program, please have them contact us in person or via email at RustedChainBikeCollective@gmail.com

Thanks!!!!
Mike

Calendar

Check your e-mails for the August Calendar of events. Please post what else you would like to see added for the September calendar.

Have fun at Audubon market tonight!

-disney

Today - Special Bucket Hours

Today I'm gong to be working on a couple bikes from 5PM until about 630 - so if the doors open, come say hello! If you need any help with anything or need to use tools, I'll be up there.

Milk district meeting tonight!
ryan!

Bicycle Art Show // Send in Submissions!

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I'll be the first to apologize to any of you out there who use this blog as a way to keep up on news about RCBC - posts have been few and far-between, and I can only explain by saying that we've all been busy busy busy.

Announcement:

Saturday the 18th: (tomorrow)

10% Day at Ethos Vegan Kitchen (1235 N. Orange Ave. - Map)
With flyer (obtain one from us) - have 10% of your check on Saturday donated to Rusted Chain Bike Collective - There also will be a showing of the film "Still We Ride" - about the criminalization of critical mass in NYC in the years after the Republican National Convention in 2004 - (9PM) and Apples to Apples. More info RIGHT HERE on this very blog, very soon.

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In other news, our tentative "space" (colloquially known as "The Bucket") has now "soft opened." It's located at Maguire and Colonial (map) in the Public Storage complex - but we're outside of the gate, about 20 feet from the road. Can't miss us. At the moment, we're open two days a week, with the intention to expand these hours as our availability suits in the coming days. So with the addition of these two days, you have three days a week to hang out with us and learn about your bike:

Sunday: 3PM-7PM
@ The Bucket (Colonial Dr. and Maguire Blvd - map)

Wednesday: 6PM-10PM
@ Audubon Park Community Market (Stardust Video and Coffee - map)

Thursday: 5PM-9PM
@ The Bucket (Colonial Dr. and Maguire Blvd - map)

NOTE: If you have large items you wish to donate (bikes, etc.) sunday and thursday are ideal, as a lot of us ride bikes to the community market


ALSO:


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Please Circulate this information.

Monday Meetings at Ethos

At our meeting today we took a group shot with some of our memebers. Just thought I'd post it :]

Meetings:

Every Monday @ Ethos Vegan Kitchen 6pm

sunday SUNDAY SOMEDAY!!!

Today is technically sunday. For those of you that forgot, whether intentionally or not, today we will be open at the space from 3-7. I will be there at three(ish) to open the space. There is a lot of work to do. Please bring any bikes/parts/tools you have to donate. See you all soon!!

Audubon Park Community Market May 27th

So I was searching for pictures of pedicabs and I came across a picture of my inspiration to build one. This is a Cambodian Pedicab that was brought down by Jim Manuel of the Orlando Blues Society. Now when I say "Cambodian" I don't mean "In the style of" I mean it's legit from Cambodia.

We couldn't find anything really wrong with the bike. Mike used his Phone a Friend Lifeline and called up Metha to figure what measurement system was even used on those tires. Once the tires were pumped up it was ready to go.

I had a terrific time just rolling the pedicab back and forth (yes, it was a fixed gear) and occasionally taking someone on a loop around the parking lot.


Picture Credit goes to Mark Baratelli (www.markbaratelli.com)
Original Article is here: Link

Maybe a little inspiration??

Found these randomly:

"Working Bikes Cooperative, Chicago, ILL"

Sunday Meeting about Earth Day

At 5:00pm on Sunday (4/26) we will be meeting at Jon and Kyle's place to discuss our plans for Earth Day. Earth Day will be on May 2nd, from 10:00am - 6:00pm.

Address:
3715 Chelsea st.
Orlando, FL 32803

Things we need to finalize:
-tabling schedule
-banner
-tools
-food
-etc.

We need a table and a tent!!

The table and tent we are currently using belongs to Nicole's parents and signs of damage is starting to show. So as a collective we need to have our own supplies.

So if you know anyone with a table or a tent who wouldn't mind donating it to the collective or even selling it for a discount then let us know please!