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Open Bike Night

Open Bike Night is a time to use the space at the Bike Forth for both workshops and all kinds of fun stuff (bike-related fun will be given priority!). Open Bike Night is every Monday night starting at 6:30 pm at Bike Forth. Anyone is welcome to participate or put on an event that is 30 minutes to 2 hours long. Send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you would like to host an event or have any questions.

Schedule

Please refer to our events calendar for upcoming Open Bike Nights.

Past Events

Date	Event	Ministers
November 29	Movie: TBA	Jason
November 22	DIY Braze-ons	Jonathan
November 15	Wheelbuilding Workshop	Robbie
November 8	Future of the Davis Bike Collective w/ Jon Li	Jason/Sarah
November 1	Brakes workshop	Jason
October 25	Bicycle Costumes	Jason
October 18	Bike Chairs	Angel
October 11	Wheel Truing and Spoke Replacement	Jason
October 4	Lights/Fenders/Flats/Welcome	Darin
September 27	Lights with Jan	Jan
September 20	Work party	Darin
September 13	Music Concert	Clinton and Darin
September 6	Bikestravaganza!	Sarah
August 30	Mystery/surprise workshop	Angel
August 23	See and be seen: All about bike lights	Jan
August 16	Bucket Panniers	Angel and April
August 9	Skit about brakes	Jason, Adam and Jan
August 2	Davis Dollars Presentation	Darin and Nick
July 26	Work party	Matt
July 19	Headsets and stems	Roi
July 12	Tool overview	Jason
July 5	Music: Glacier Saint, Poppet, Doofy Doo	Darach
June 28	Movie - B.I.K.E.	Jason
June 21	Summer Solstice Ride	Angel
June 14	Metalworking Skills 2	Matt/Robbie
June 7	Pump repair workshop	Jason
May 31	Movie (Rad - It's like Karate Kid on wheels!)
May 24	Wheel Building
May 17	Bike Jewelry & Bucket Panniers (DIY Night)	Darin and Roi?
May 10	Funny Bike Potluck!	Matt
May 3	City Council Candidate Transportation Forum	Darach
April 26	Bike Checkup and Clinic (to prep for Bike Month)	Roi
April 19	Metalworking	Matt
April 12	Reshowing of 2008 Davis Bicycle Film Fest & Potluck	Angel
April 5	How to clean your bike (end of winter rejuvination)	Jason
March 30	Autumn Sky & Michelle Blades	Jonathan, Clinton
March 22	Spring Break! Night Ride to Winters	Angel
March 15	Wheelbuildling	Jonathan, Robbie
March 8	Movie: Quicksilver	Jason
March 1	How to clean your bike	Jason
Feb 22	Volunteer Consensus and Facilitation Workshop	Jason
Feb 1	Headsets	Roi, Jonathan
Feb 1	Potluck and short stories	Jonathan
Feb 8	Cranks & Pedals	cancelled
Feb 8	T-Shirt Screen Printing and Bike Jewelry	Angel, Jason
Feb 15	Cables	Robbie
Feb 15	Game Night	Robbie
Jan 25	Frames with James	Jason
Jan 25	Movie: American Flyers	Jason
Jan 18	People Skills	Angel, Jason
Jan 18	Jewelry from Bike Parts	Angel, Obijan
Jan 11	Tube patching and tires	Jonathan, Angel
Jan 11	Music: Nat Lefkoff, Ricky Berger and Garrett Pierce	Clinton, Jonathan
Jan 4	Derailluers	Jason, Matt, Jan
Jan 4	Movie: The Triplets of Belleville	Jason
Dec 21	Consensus	Angel, Jonathan
Dec 21	Winter Solstice Night Ride to Winters	Angel, Jonathan
Dec 14	Bike Hacks: bucket panniers and tire fenders	Jason, Roi
Dec 14	Screen printing	Jason, Roi
Dec 7	Brakes	Jason, Darin
Dec 7	Meet the Davis Bike Committee	Jason
Nov 30	Bottom Brackets	Robbie, Darach
Nov 30	Music (Andreas)	Robbie
Nov 23	Hubs: A look into the grease	Jason, Janaki
Nov 23	Thanksgiving potluck with poetry reading	Jason
Nov 16	Wheel truing: with and without a stand	Angel, Jonathan
Nov 16	DIY Fenders	Darin, Jason
Nov 9	Tools. An overview of ALL the tools we have and what they do	Jason, Jonathan
Nov 9	Movie: The Bicycle Thief	Jason

Ideas for fun

How-to workshops: bucket panniers, DIY fenders, coaster brake rebuilds, Scraper and/or mutant bike building/retrofitting
Rides: night rides to Winters, casual town rides, coaster brake rebuild relay
Creative: screen printing, T-shirt designing, radio promo, flyer making, designing, distributing
Sporting: bike polo, races, planning for such
Entertainment: movie night (perhaps a fallback), acoustic or otherwise quiet music, open mic night, poetry reading
Improving the space: workparty, mural designing, painting
General potluck, homebrew tasting, and carousing!
Guest lectures
some time in April: a reshowing of the davis bike film fest. a few weeks before the reshowing on campus. see angel or davis bicycles for more info.

Workshop Topics

Consensus
Meeting facilitation
Coaster hubs
Wheel hubs
Freewheels and cassettes and chains
Wheel truing and spoke replacement
Wheel building & rim straightening
Patching tubes, removing and reseating tires
Cranks: taper, cotter pin, hollow core. Removing, reseating, rethreading pedals
Bottom brackets, types, rebuilds
Unfreezing frozen parts
Brakes (standard), cables housing, levers, types, pads, balancing, aligning
Brakes (disc)
Shifters and deraileurs
Headsets, crown races, cups, stems. Threaded v threadless.
Bike fit
Bike lights
Shop management, greeting, teaching, conflict resolution
Collective Philosophy (why not sell bikes, fix bikes, gender, class, anarchy, consensus, roots)
Money. Economics, pricing, purchasing, reimbursement
Tools. An overview of ALL the tools we have and what they do
Bicycle cleaning
Basic metal working