Archive for January, 2009

Bike Oven Class Series – Brakes

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DaveM
on January 23, 2009
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January 28, 2009
7:00 pmto10:00 pm

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Wednesday January 28, 7:00pm – 10:00pm

The Bike Oven presents the class, “Bicycle Rim Brakes”.

A comprehensive overview of traditional rim brakes for road & mountain bikes. Class will cover caliper, cantilever, and v-brake style braking systems. Future classes will review disk brakes separately. History, design, maintanance, adjustment, and repair will be covered.

The class will consist of a lecture (approx 20 min) describing bicycle brake history, development, design, and operation of the various types of rim brakes. Next will be a short demonstration of the removal, inspection, service, repair, installation and adjustments to a road caliper type of rim brake. Finally, students will get a chance to remove, disassemble, inspect, repair, service and reinstall their own rim brakes.

Students should bring their own bikes to work on. Some shop bikes will be available.

Class is limited to 8 students. RSVP by emailing us at info@bikeoven.com

Note: As of Wednesday morning, we still have some openings for the class. So, just show up tonight and participate.

Bikes & Parts Sidewalk Sale

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DaveM
on January 15, 2009
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January 17, 2009
8:00 amto11:00 am

Saturday Jan. 17, 8:00 – 11:00 am

The Oven will host a sidewalk sale/blowout on bikes and parts this Saturday. Bikes $10 and up. Parts start at $1. Find cheap transportation or your next project ride.

Road, mountain, crusier, BMX bikes – too many to list/show. Wheels, tires, gears, brakes, frames, forks, etc. Everything sold “as-is”, but there will be hidden gems.

Bike Oven Tutorial Series – Gears & Derailleurs

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DaveM
on January 8, 2009
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January 14, 2009
7:00 pmto10:00 pm

gears.jpgWednesday January 14, 7:00pm – 10:00pm

Our next tutorial will focus on gears, derailleurs, chains, shifting, and the drive train. We will cover the basics of adjusting shifting on multi-speed bicycles with friction and index shifting. Installation, alignment, and inspection of derailleurs and shifters will be reviewed. We will also cover basic inspection of the drive train including chain and chainring wear and chain replacement. There are no prerequisites for this session and no prior mechanic experience is required.

 Please bring your bike or project to work on if you wish. But shop bikes will be available for the class.

Class is limited to 8 students. RSVP by emailing us at:
david.matsu at gmail dot com

A suggested donation of $10 is requested. $5 donation for active volunteers.

(Note: the shop will be closed for this class. No other shop use while in session.)

The Oven’s tutorials are designed to help new and current volunteers get up to speed on various common repair tasks we see in the shop so that they can participate in the madness we call the BikeOven…priority will be given to those who want to become full fledged volunteers. But we can fill open spaces with anyone who is simply interested in gaining new skills.

Upcoming classes include Brakes tentatively scheduled for January 28th and Wheel Truing for February 11th.

 UPDATE: Class is full. Watch for future classes or visit us during normal hours for help and training.

Fuzzbeast Art Show/Spoken art ride January 10,2009

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blackwomansidekick
on January 5, 2009
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January 10, 2009
6:30 pmto11:00 pm

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For this month’s art show we a hosting Fuzzbeast. If you are not familiar he responsible for the sharpie bike signs all around the city. They will be large scale drawings. The reception is at 10pm when everyone gets back from the Spoken Art ride.

The Spoken art ride starts at the corner of York and Figueroa at the flagpole at 6:30pm leaves at 7pm. Josef will take you on a special route showing you the new galleries and ofcourse mo york. If your nice he’ll take you to the taco stand in someones back yard. Not a fast paced ride. Its chill and you stop at the best art galleries in the city.

Then back at the oven for the party , we still have frankenstein the pinata, still filled with candy since we didnt blow him to pieces last month. The kiddie bikes are ready and waiting to go on some races. It’s our tradition we arent gonna stop just yet.

recap

ride at 6:30pm

party at 10pm easy yes it is that easy and guess what we have a heater!!!!YAEh!!!