The Firefly Bike Collective

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

2009-12-18T08:17:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone. We are sad to inform everyone that the bike collective will no longer continue as it was. We are consolidating our stock and keeping only the community bike project running. In other words, we will no longer be open once a week for repairs but will be running the community bikes by appointment. We are donating our stock to the TACOLY Bicycle club. They are a new bike co-op in liberty city. check out their website. We need everyone's help that available on Sunday Dec. 20th to help us organize the frames and parts for Tacolcy. We will be meeting from 4-7 as usual... It would be nice if we could have all the bikes out of the shack so they are all easily accessible.

Notes:
-Dec 20th important date as it will be our final meeting date. ( Getting bikes ready for TACOLCY)
- We are still interested in doing work shops, bike rides, and any other fun activities you all might have in mind, so keep us posted on your ideas!
-Community bike project still running strong! email sleeperspeaks@riseup.net to make an appointment to borrow a bike.
-And check out TACOLCY Bike club.

Cranksgiving!!!!!!! Saterday Nov. 21st 2009 + Bike collective meeting Sun.22nd @ 5pm

2009-11-12T15:30:00.000-08:00

An alleycat food drive! Come support, all non perishable food will be donated to Camila's house. Most definitively sounds like an awesome way to contribute to your community! For more info: www.miafixed.com/cranksgiving

****Also bike collective will not be open Sunday Nov. 15th. Sorry guys I have mad homework to finish up before the semester. If you want to volunteer, please contact me at sleeperspeaks@riseup.net****

***** Bike Collective meeting at the Firefly 219 NE 20th street. 5 p.m. Sunday the 22nd ****** .

BIKE COLLECTIVE CLOSED TIL OCTOBER 18TH

2009-10-06T09:28:00.001-07:00

Sorry to anyone this inconveniences but we will not be able to open til the 18th of this month due to lack of volunteers. I have received a few emails about projects and it would be awesome if you came by on the 18th from 4-7pm.

**UPDATES*

2009-09-06T13:33:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone,
Since our last post we have installed a door to our bike collective shack on the cheap! It had too be done... no more stolen bikes!!!! We are continuing with Sunday as our collective meeting/work day. This seems to be working out fine, thanks to our awesome member Phillip. Thanks Phillip. He and I will be alternating work days. We are always in need of more volunteer. With a good size COLLECTIVE the regular operating of this endeavor is no sweat. Please email me at sleeperspeaks@riseup.net to volunteer. Also our community bike project is still operating smoothly with only one unfortunate event...(((( Vincent Eugene: Last seen 07/17/09 with a Sun Cruiser, black )))). If you want to go for a ride or need to borrow a bike for short period of time, make an appointment to pick up a bike (sleeperspeaks@riseup.net) Its free, its fun, be safe! hahaha

We are always in need of good/ usable tools and parts.
*inner tubes
*cables/ houseing
We always welcome new volunteers.

For community bike info contact
sleeperspeaks@riseup.net

We also take suggestions. This is a community project, let us know how we can better make connections, or how you would like to be involved.

CHANGES ON WORK DAYS!!!!

2009-08-12T17:36:00.000-07:00

After our meeting it was decided that Sundays 4 to 7pm would work out better as a work day for more accessibility. We will not be open Thursday anymore. Sorry if this inconveniences anyone, but if you really need to get in this Thursday the 12th please email me at sleeperspeaks@riseup.net and we can work something out.

UPDATE / MEETING August 6 at 7pm

2009-08-03T08:48:00.000-07:00

Thanks to all the volunteers, Bands, and bike collective members who made this fundraiser a success! We raised a good amount and will be purchasing a tool set. We accept donations on a regular basis, to donate please email sleeperspeaks@riseup.net. The bike collective will be open this thursday from 4-7. Then there will be a meeting to discuss possible work day change. If you would like to be a part of the bike collective please come to the meeting at 7. The meeting is
august 6 and should run about an hour. Thanks again to all who made the event possible!

Yo Check It!

2009-07-22T08:25:00.000-07:00

Sorry to inform everyone that Tyger beat has just dropped. Other band TBA

Bike colective meeting update

2009-06-09T16:18:00.000-07:00

We are keeping the Thursday as our meeting date. This week Thursday the 11th, we need everyone who can come out to help rebuild our roof. We are going to make a wooden roof, so we'll need as many hands as we could get. The Thursday of the 18th we will have a wheel truing workshop that to a very kind donation! Also we set a date for the bike collective fundraiser----> Friday July 3rd. If you know of any bands that might want to play, please let us know so we could get in contact with them.

* June 11- roof repair day
* June 15- Bike master plan summit! 6-8pm Jose Marti Park ((( Link below)))
* June 18- Wheel truing workshop
* Bike collective fundraiser Date TBA- most likely in early July

we look forward to hearing from you, and seeing you guys at our next meeting.

Bike collective meeting!!!!!!!!!!

2009-06-04T14:25:00.001-07:00

Lets meet, hang out, and make plans. We want to schedule work days, workshops, fundraisers, and a maintenance day.
Maybe there is a better day to meet? ( we want more people to show up)
Its would be nice to learn new skills. ( Maybe you could do a workshop)
- welding
-truing wheels
-fixing brakes
- anything really
We still don't have enough funds to buy a tool set ( lets have an awesome FUNdraiser!)
And our roof caved in again ( we could schedule a day to fix the roof... permanently? with all this rain, a tarp roof just don't cut it! )

Tue. June 9th 7pm at the Firefly 219 NE 20th st

Come out and help create a sort of collective you want to see.

Planning a fundraiser

2009-05-07T14:03:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone. The bike collective has been running smoothly since our last meeting. We've been able to turn out bikes on a weekly basis and hope to continue on this trend. We running low on funds and are planning our next fund raiser. If anyone has any ideas, we are open to them. We hope to make it a fun experience so bands, games, and other types of ideas are encouraged. This is our wish list. These are tools that we keep needing while doing a repair and would love to be able to finish bike completely here without trips to the bike shop. There is usually someone here to receive donations.

Crank puller
Cone wrench set
Derailleur cable and housing
Brake cable and housing
Headset wrench
Freewheel tool(s)
Spoke wrench
Bottom bracket pin(s)
Bottom bracket socket tool
Chain whip
Lock ring tool/(Bottom bracket)
WORK STAND

Other bike donations are always welcome.
contact us at sleeperspeaks@riseup.net or 305-510-9852

Hooorah!!!

2009-04-17T08:11:00.000-07:00

NEW BIKE COLLECTIVE DAY IS THURSDAYS FROM 4-7:30PM!
we are going to be needing some help this thursday

for this workday our plans are;
#1 reorganization of the shed
#2 preparing bikes for bike miami
#3 constructing a new roof for our storage shed

we look froward to seeing everyone, and are excited to begin anew!

thanks to our new volunteers. may gobb be with us on this journey into space

bike collective this weekend cancelled 4/11/09

2009-04-10T08:18:00.000-07:00

sorry. no volunteers no bike collective.

meeting date: 4/16/09 (thursday) to discuss the future of the bike collective/ new possible meeting times. 7:30pm

other bike collectives welcome. we are possibly searching for other collectives to donate to/get ideas from.

305 510 9852

sleeperspeaks@riseup.net

Thanks to all who support the bike collective

love kevin+ sleeper

BIKE COLLECTIVE MEETING!!!

2009-01-21T14:50:00.000-08:00

Come make plans for the future. Thursday... this one... 8pm at the Firefly.

UPDATE UPDATE

2008-12-28T09:35:00.000-08:00

We have been having some good turn outs. People have been coming out pretty regularly, and their bike are almost complete! We are glad to have some more participation. Art Basel was pretty awesome around the neighborhood. We lent out a small troupe of community bikes for those who came from out of town. The community bike project went well for it's first run and is now continuous. Those interested in borrowing out a bike can contact us on the firefly website or can try us at the house phone. We have been having tall bike workshops with the help of our new friend Chris. Four community tall bikes are in the works. We still need more people who are interested in being apart of the collective. We are also looking for different projects to work on or for people who want to put together workshops. We always welcome donations and want to meet other people who know how to write for grants that might want to lend us a hand. All and all
the bike collectives wallet is getting pretty thin. we are thinking about throwing another fundraiser? ...Any ideas? Let us know!

2008-12-14T04:45:00.000-08:00

Hello ya'll!

The bike collective needs you're help! We want your suggestions on tools we should buy, skills you want to learn, and things you think we should be providing for the community etc. So far we only have about 3 dedicated volunteers, but that is very limiting. We have created this space in order for cyclists of all types to come learn, teach and hopefully walk away with some golden treasures hidden in our damp little cave of donated bikes and parts. If you have an idea for an event we should put on, that you would like to put on, or ways for you to volunteer and help that aren't on our traditional 2-6pm Saturday schedule just e-mail us back!

** As an update were very happy to announce our community bike project!!

In town? No bike? We have a small fleet of community bikes ready to be ridden and enjoyed by all! From road bikes, to hybrids, single/fixed road conversions…contact us for more details.

-The Firefly Bike Collective

MEDEVIL BASH/ WORK DAY SATURDAY!!!

2008-11-06T09:51:00.000-08:00

ok ok ok ok ok ok o k o k

SO!

This weekend is The Fireflys 2-year Aniversary. It is Medevil theme. No utensils. 7PM 7PM 7PM

HUGE potluck dinner+ epic medevil cardboard battle+ man-o-war drinking games.

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

ohhhhhhh

and this saturday (november 8th) is a bike collective workday. 2pm-6pm come help fix community bikes and fix yours up to!!!!

BLACK METAL BIKE RIDE TODAY AT 5PM

2008-10-26T09:58:00.000-07:00

FIREFLY BIKE COLLECTIVE HOSTS:

BLACK METAL BIKE RIDE

MEET AT GOVERNMENT CENTER (DOWNTOWN MIAM) AT 5PM

CORPSE PAINT, VEGAN PIZZA BIKE RIDE TO JIMBOS

WERE MAKING A BLACK METAL MUSIC VIDEO THERE

ITS GONNA RULE

party this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-10-22T09:59:00.000-07:00

ok included in your 5$ (or hopefully you donate or come on bike and its 3$) is a keg or two, bike games and a show....so im hoping you'll tell all youre friends. about this friday!!!!!!!!!!

lets all hope for no chipped teeth =X

BIKE COLLECTIVE PARTY

2008-09-17T13:11:00.001-07:00

pictures of the collective!

2008-09-17T09:29:00.000-07:00

guard dog

hey ya'll

2008-09-15T10:33:00.000-07:00

just so you all know, the next bike collective workday which was gonna be the 27th is cancelled since were all gonna be at the critical resistance conference in oakland. so the next workday is OCTOBER 4 (saturday) 2-6pm.

thanks to everyone who came out saturday. REALLY productive workday.

we re-did the bike shed roof, fixed up a good 15 bikes which are gonna shipped out around florida for farmworkers who have no other means of transportation

if ya'll are interested in what critical resistance is: www.criticalresistance.org

until then see ya'll around...were gonna have some pictures up soooooonnnnnn

We've got our own page now!!

2008-09-10T14:39:00.000-07:00

HOOORA! The Firefly Bike Collective now has a blog/website that you can check to see when were holding events/workdays/ to see our wishlists and possibly other goodies that are going on that are (or not) bike related.

see ya'll soon