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

[Aaron F. Wieler]

i'm making a zine about it. it's almost done, but i've been stalling on
some design questions, about the hitch and about a handle. When it's done,
I will be happy to send it out. I'll also make it into a PDF and put it
online.

If enough people want hard copies, I may ask for a couple dollars for
copying and postage. The idea is to get the design out there.

-aaron

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 itw02 at hampshire.edu wrote:

> hey do you have a design for this I could use? Oberlin Bike Co-op is in need of
> a sweet low cost trailer... perhaps it would be to hard to explain with text
> only?
> ian
>
> Quoting aaron <afw01 at hampshire.edu>:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
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