[YellowBike] Bike Cart Building Workshop at Hampshire College this Saturday

[aaron]

BIKE CARTS FOR HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE!

Learn to build cheap, simple bike carts to haul stuff behind your 
bicycle.
This Saturday, November 20. 10:00 am until we're done, (probably mid 
afternoon)
Limit 10 people (at a time. as in, if some people only want to come for 
a little bit, we can work something out with more people.)

Send me an email if you want to participate. (Try to let me know before 
Thursday.) You can email me for information, but only tell me that you 
will do the workshop if you almost definitely will, because the space 
is so limited.

Details:

This Saturday, I am offering a bike cart building workshop for the 
community. Part of my Div II and Div III has been to design a low cost 
and low tech bike cart that can be built in communities to work towards 
car independence.  The carts are made from metal tubing (thin-wall 
electrical conduit) and are brazed together using an oxy-acetylene 
torch.

In the workshop we will make 2 to 4 carts (depending on the time and 
how much we want to have an assembly line) that will live at the House 
Offices. They will be made available for anyone to use for grocery 
shopping, moving from room to room, taking out the recycling, giving 
friends rides....

We will be cutting tubes with hack saws, bending them with a conduit 
bender, mitering joints (making them fit well) with a half-round file, 
drilling a few holes, and brazing the tubes together with an 
oxy-acetylene torch.

The workshop will be in the Lemelson Center on Hampshire Campus. To 
participate you need to be either a 5-college student/professor or have 
permission by Aaron and Donna. (It's about liability and insurance.)


Call or email for more information and to sign up.

Aaron Wieler
413 559 5901
afw01 AT hampshire DOT edu