Archive for February, 2009

Bike Oven Class Series - Disk Brakes

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DaveM
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February 25, 2009
7:00 pmto10:00 pm

Wednesday February 25, 7:00pm - 10:00pm

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

A comprehensive overview of disk brakes for road & mountain bikes. History, design, maintanance, adjustment, and repair will be covered.

The class will consist of a lecture (approx 20 min) with a brief review of all bicycle brakes: history, development, design, and operation. More detail will be given regarding hub type brakes, with disk brakes in particular. Next will be a short demonstration the removal, inspection, service, repair, installation and adjustments to mechanical and hydraulic disk brakes. Finally, students will get a chance to remove, disassemble, inspect, repair, service and reinstall their own disk brakes.

Students should bring their own bikes to work on if possible. Limited shop bikes will be available.

A suggested donation of $10 is requested. Donation fee waived for
current volunteers.

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

Bikes & Parts Sidewalk Sale

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DaveM
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February 21, 2009
8:00 amto11:00 am

Saturday Feb. 21, 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.

Talk the Bike/Bike the walk Bike advocacy strategy and Workshop

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blackwomansidekick
on February 15, 2009
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talk-anyone2.jpgSunday February 22 at 6pm come for some donuts and coffee and to strategize and plan and do bike projects on our own . Im tired of hearing people talk about change and shit happens. We have an army of bikers why not initiallize them and get stuff done on our own. Raise our own funding if we have none, make our own sharrows, paint curbs red so that bikes can fit on the street plus all your ideas on how to infiltrate the city and bring down people that dont help us but are assigned to positions of power. So we’ll talk, assign assignments and go out paint a sharrow or a bike lane somewhere in the second half of the meeting.Let’s group up to get more done. Every 3rd sunday at 6pm tentatively we’ll be able to get more done and really get organized.

Bike Oven Class Series - Wheel Truing

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ubrayj02
on February 11, 2009
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February 11, 2009
7:00 pmto10:00 pm

Hey you bumpy wheeled ridazz! Come by the Bike Oven on Wednesday night and learn the basics of wheel truing.

Wednesday Feb 11, 7:00pm - 10:00pm

This class will focus on wheel truing (straightening) and spoke adjustment. There are no prerequisites for this session and no prior mechanic experience is required. Anyone is welcome to attend. You will be given a brief overview of wheel design, construction, evaluation, tensioning, spoke replacement and tools and will then have an opportunity to practice on actual wheels.

Shop wheels will be used, but please bring your own as well for extra practice.

Class size is limited to 6 students. Secure your spot by emailing Josef at: ubrayj02 at yahoo dot com. Or call: 310-902-5439

First confirmed, first served. Walk-ins will only be admitted if class size permits.

(Note: the shop will be closed for this class. No other shop use will be allowed 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.

A suggested donation of $10 is requested - but if you’re broke you’re broke.

Caste no bar.

Panty Raid Art Show and Spoken Art Ride 2/14/09

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karizmatic
on February 9, 2009
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February 14, 2009
6:00 pmto11:00 pm

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This month we are hosting Ashley Gibbons, she does art with Panties and welcomes donations of panties. Bring as many panties as you can to the art show or the art ride.

The art ride will start at the flagpole at york and figueroa at 6:30 leave at 7pm Bring panties and we’ll wrap them around fences and poles as a show of ashley’s earlier gorrilla art work with panties. The ride will go rain or shine and everybodt loves wet panties, sorry i couldn’t help myself. Then we head back to the oven for fun wait the westside took that phrase, for an amusing time, i mean, pinata, peach panty punch and you thought arad was full of roofies wait till you taste the punch. Fun for all that didnt go to Salton Sea. Party at 10pm at Bike Oven

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Meeting Summary

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karizmatic
on February 9, 2009
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This month we talked about a lot of different stuff: bike donations to a non-profit, selling scrap parts, and much more.

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Ride in Movie/ Four French shorts

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blackwomansidekick
on February 4, 2009
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February 8, 2009
7:30 pmto9:30 pm

lajette-chrismarker_lg_1233289513.jpgRide in Movie at the Oven/Four french movies

02.8.09
Sunday February 8th at 7:30pm

Hey it’s time to warm up your special someone or find someone. It’s the week before the big v-day and you get a chance to test out your moves and your partner with this bike in Movie and it is soo french, it will set the mood and the oven now has mood lighting. I’ll be testing out some soju cocktails on your guys for the following week and much food faire to see what will be perfect for valentines’ Panty Raid art show at the oven the following saturday. Free. Donations appreciated for food.

Four French movies all about 20-30 minutes long each

Red Balloon
silent/color you could bring your deaf friends
Le Jetee
go to the past and the future see the world destroyed but love every minute

A jaque Tati movie

bike messenger old school style

Les Mistons/ Truffaut
being young and riding a bike through the country side and taking a dip in the lake

plus chicken leather will show his bag of tricks in the begining

free popcorn

3706 Figueroa/Pasadena Ave Highland Park
www.bike oven.com