{"id":1811,"date":"2014-11-19T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2014-11-19T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:16:09","slug":"how-to-start-a-bike-kitchen-shareable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"How to Start a Bike Kitchen &#8211; Shareable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareable.net\/blog\/how-to-start-a-bike-kitchen\">How to Start a Bike Kitchen &#8211; Shareable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">A\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0694d3; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shareable.net\/blog\/biketopia-exists\">bike kitchen<\/a>\u00a0is a place\u00a0for people to repair their bikes, learn safe cycling, make bicycling more accessible,\u00a0build\u00a0community,\u00a0and support sustainable transportation by getting more people on bikes. Most bike kitchens have tools, parts, mechanics, and a community of knowledgeable\u00a0cyclists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">Around the world there are thousands of bike kitchens &#8212;\u00a0also known as bike churches, bike collectives and bike coops &#8212;\u00a0and more popping up all the time (see maps\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0694d3; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bikecollectives.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Community_Bicycle_Organizations\">here<\/a>). For those interested in starting a bike kitchen in your town, we\u2019ve rounded up the essentials of getting started, from finding the right space and volunteers, to raising money, getting the word out, defining community guidelines, and creating a space that is accessible and welcoming to all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Find the Right Space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">First things first, your bike kitchen needs a home. It doesn\u2019t have to be fancy and it doesn\u2019t have to be huge, but you\u2019ll need enough space for some essential tools and people to be able to comfortably work on their bikes. Depending on the kitchen\u2019s offerings, you may need space to store bike frames, spare parts, and ready-to-go bikes, but this is not necessary, especially when you\u2019re getting started.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Start a Bike Kitchen &#8211; Shareable. A\u00a0bike kitchen\u00a0is a place\u00a0for people to repair their bikes, learn safe cycling, make bicycling more accessible,\u00a0build\u00a0community,\u00a0and support sustainable transportation by getting more people on bikes. Most bike kitchens have tools, parts, mechanics, and a community of knowledgeable\u00a0cyclists. Around the world there are thousands of bike kitchens &#8212;\u00a0also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[1262,1260,1261,1263],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-alternate-transportation","tag-bike-kitchen","tag-biking","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}