All, last week was slow, for the most part. Felt like we got a lot of donations. Trained a new staffer, waiting on clearance to train one more. Still building and scrapping bikes on the regular. My checklist sheet for shop builds is working—for the most part. There are still detail things that the staff don’t really notice, a slack chain on a single-speed for example, or cable ends are too long. Overall, I think it’s helping but the details matter and very much can still result in an unsafe bicycle. I’ll look at revising it a bit this w eek.

This will be Dennis’s last week here (I think, will check on this). He has been a great staffer and we’ll miss him!

This week I will begin prep for our big clean out/purge at the beginning of August. I’ll poll the staff for availability and iron out the details for how many days we’ll be closed (best-case scenario: one day). We’ll begin August 6th. We’ll be pulling all the bikes out and moving furniture around to give a solid, deep clean, and toss out the junk that has accumulated. We haven’t ever done a big clean like this during my tenure here and it’s wholly overdue. While we might lose a day or two of open hours, the end result will be a better functioning and cleaner/easier to navigate space.

This week I will also be getting in touch with Lexco about ordering PB Blinky lights for LTN 2018!

Numbers:

Visitors: 75
Sales: $724
Memberships: 7 for $210

Bikes (refurb): 2 for $220
Tire/tubes: 11 for $88

• Jake Benjamin
  Campus Bike Center Manager