We will be closed for the holidays from Wednesday December 21st – Wednesday January 4th. We hope everyone enjoys some time with friends and family.
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Sunday, 20 November (this Sunday) All are welcome to bring their bikes for basic maintenance, repair and winterization. We need a few more mechanics and general volunteers to help out, too! If you would like to volunteer, please let us know as soon as possible. Volunteers should arrive at 11:30am, and check in at the Logistics tent at the northeast corner where they will direct you where to go. On the event day, our team can be reached at 416-837-3033, or 647-702-8963. Please contact us for further information. The BikeSauce shop at Broadview and Dundas E. will still be fully operational. Another action-packed week ahead in the lane: 1. Sauce Volunteer Meeting!: TODAY! Nov 9, 7pm 1. Satan Made Me do It! Red Arrow Alleycat: Oct 29, 6pm
Last Saturday, someone came into the shop, and built a chain tensioner from discarded parts. Its quite common to find out we do not have the part necessary for a particular repair, turning what would be a simple repair into a Tricky repair. This, is no longer a repair. When you take it on yourself to re-invent something that is cheap, mass produced and works reliably. You quickly lose sight of the shore. Its most likely you will give up after wasting countless hours circling around the problem, trying to make this fit into that, or looking for sizes of bolt that don’t exist. The technical details will pile on top of each other until you give up. However, once in a while, very rarely in fact…. it works. Against all odds, your idea becomes a real object. You can point at it and show other people and they will think “Hunh.. I wonder why no one else has made this?” You have discovered something beyond bike repair. Maybe its better than the existing solution, maybe not, but anyone who sees it, knows its possible. Next time they encounter this problem, they will remember your solution alongside all the other ones that work, and it is merely a Worrysome repair. Mark (our intrepid maker) did not know much about bikes, or part manufacture. Those of us at the shop who knew what he was getting into, made Worried faces and told him that this would quickly become more difficult than he anticipated. However, over the next six hours he mashed together two rear derailleurs, a front derailleur, some chainring bolts, a lot of swearing, and rode out with a functional chain tensioner for his no-budget single speed mtb. It gave adequate tension and a perfect chain line. I have never seen anything like it. So take a good look everyone, this was not bike repair.
yep… we are closed this Sunday and Monday. We will be busy setting up a display for our fancy new TRELOCKs, thats right, bikeSauce finally sells locks and good lights. Thanks as always to our friends at the Bicycle Commons who have connected us with distributors and products that a shop our size ordinarily would not have access to.
cheers!
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