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Do you have art, a place to stay, car, or your human time to show and share with Standard Bike Repair? If so, thank you. Ryan will see the email and reach out to you. Project is set to happen in January 2018, thus it may be a quick response.
Who, What, Why, How
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Crowdfunding: to build a bike shop.
Art, Used parts for the Bike Parts Library, a car, place to stay for two of us between Boulder and Arizona.
The bike shop above is at 1801 Chestnut in Denver, Colorado. This place is about 100 yards from where Ryan slept on a dirt patch, when he first moved to Colorado and worked at the restaurant, Watercourse, vegetarian cooking being his freshest sellable skill in 2005.
In 2015, Ryan, Steve Kiss, Brian, Rachel and Sophia built the bike shop above with a budget of $6,400. Ryan and Standard Bike Repair have been contracted to build one at 4949 N 7th St. in Phoenix, Arizona. Brian and I need a place to stay. We are looking to borrow or rent a car. Do you have art related to bikes that you want to donate to the bike shop? We have a budget of $4700. We will build workbenches, and buy pegboard. “Resources” come in a variety of forms. We are reaching out on Facebook to voice our, the bike shops, desires and needs to thrive and survive.
Even though, Ryan “owns” Standard Bike Repair, anecdotal evidence like the encouragement to every customer to fix their bike with Ryan in a process called Watch/Help/Learn, show that Standard Bike Repair is about as community as community gets. Drawing on that, we, Ryan company and family are showing ourselves to you and saying “We are building a bike shop in January 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona and we need art, a car, bike parts, wood, gas, places to stay along on the way. Our community can make this a better bike shop than the simple payment of $4700. For instance, a place to stay along the way reduces the amount we have to pay and thus increases the “take home” thus allows this awesome little business to take on and thrive on.
The power of things not named money: This ad is to crowdfund resources, not cash (the developer covers that). What Standard Bike Repair gets if they land a car, place to stay, meal, art, wood, bike parts is an opportunity to make a better bike shop at the same price and thus “further the brand” and lay the foundation for the bicycle commuting residents of 4949 N 7th St.
In today’s “razor thin margins” of bike shops and business, in general, the kind acts of Standard Bike Repair’s community is what gives it it’s competitive edge.
