Hello all, This past week was way busy. We got a lot of stuff done. We sold one build-a-bike for $50, 2 memberships for $50, and grossed $523.20. I brought a couple of new staff members online, and sorted out some payroll issues. I worked with IT and we are now in the testing phase of the registration database. If all goes well it will be online this week. I worked on some details for upcoming advocacy events. I built a second trailer bike as we have need/requests for a smaller frame bike. I got the abrasive booth up and running. It has already proven useful.
This week I hope to finish the registration database. I will be attending an advocacy event to table (the ISSS resource fair), and will work on a class I am planning for next week.
Hello all, This past week was busy. We had a lot of people come in and want help fixing their bikes. We sold 2 build-a-bikes for $180, 4 memberships for $100, and grossed $532. We have 35 bikes for sale at the shop and are working on more. I was able to purchase a lot of higher grade tires for a good price and have started to stock these into the inventory.
This week I will be working on the registration database a bit more as well as getting ready for upcoming advocacy events.
Hello all, A lot has happened since the last update. We sold 2 bikes for $270, 1 build-a-bike for $80, 4 student memberships for $100, 1 community memberships for $40, and grossed $788.50. We received a truck load of bikes from Neutral, we received a truck and trailer load of bikes from a land lord, winter break happened, and I applied and got a Shimano account. We also had a lot of individual donations of bikes. There was even a very heavily loaded bike trailer of nice parts donated. We have had a few people in the shop fixing bikes about 5 a day. I have been able to build some bikes, and do maintenance. I did some work on the public repair pumps as they have been breaking a lot lately. I am currently setting up the cargo bike to lend to the library. I have scrapped about 50 bikes, 20 were sent to the recycling facility, about 30 have been cut up for space saving until they are hauled off. I did some reworking of the bike center's page on TBP's site. It now has lots of pictures as was suggested, and goes into more depth about what we do. I found some language on another co-ops site that I think will help set expectations. I worked on the registration data base and gave the University IT folks approval to start making the basic site.
This coming week I plan on dealing with the huge amount of donations. I will work on getting the cargo bike lent out and everything squared away on this. I will continue to work with IT to make the database and integrate current data. Since we got a new supplier, and the current supplier merged with another I will take some time to familiarize myself with the new catalogs and sites.
