Querencia Community Bicycle Shop

So we’ve had some interesting brainstorming sessions lately at the meetings. Check the meeting minutes (under the QCBS Documents tab) to see what I’m talking about. These public rides are good; they allow us to get in some repair time, but we want more. We get some flats, some minor breakdowns, and bike repair question time at the end, but we still want to educate more. This is the source of constant frustration for us: not having a shop space where we can teach more and hands-on about bike repair.

Until we hear back from the IRS regarding our 501(c)3 status and then find a graciously donated space, we have come up with a solution to do bike repair workshops!

A trailer! Kind of like this:

We will be able to pack multiple “workstations” (consisting of bike repair stand, tools, and maybe a small table) in a trailer along with extra bike parts and supplies. We drag it to one of the places that already wants us to do a workshop on their property, unpack the stuff, and voila! It’s a QCBS Shop Day, on location! A trailer would also come in handy when it comes time to collect people’s junk bikes that they want to get ride of.

So, this is a call to action for our community.

PLEASE HELP QUERENCIA FIND A TRAILER!

It doesn’t have to be like the one pictured. That is our perfect, dream trailer, but we’ll work with whatever is cheap or free. Even if it’s just an open air utility trailer or an old horse trailer, we’re prepared to put labor into enclosing it.

Email us at info@qcbs.org with any leads.

Let’s get this shop on the road!

…about how to fix a flat, about how to improvise when a screw goes missing- causing a fender to rub a tire, and what a freewheel looks like when it locks up. We learned where the central most Denton Public Libraries are. After looking through the 2000/2001 Denton Parks & Recreation master plan and pedestrian & bicycle linkages plan, we also learned that the city has done much research and thought about building a cycling linkage infrastructure. They maintain that increased bike lanes and bike insignia will attract more people to biking as an alternative mode of transportation!

I’m tellin ya, check out the plan and talk to the city about it if you’d like to know how it’s going.

Pre-ride gather at Emily Fowler

riding down Oakland st.

North Branch break

post ride repair time

Kati's freewheel problems

Querencia announces another public ride!

On November 1st, at 2pm, we’ll be taking a breezy tour of our public libraries in the center of Denton. We’ll be starting at the Emily Fowler branch at 502 Oakland st. We’ll head north to the North Branch Library and come back through the TWU campus to end at Emily Fowler.

The Denton Public Libraries are excellent, free resources for books, journals, dvds, cds, government docs, etc. In their collection, they have many books pertaining to all things 2 wheeled and human powered, including books on BIKE REPAIR! Check them out (literally):

Books on Anything Relating to the Bicycle (fiction and non-fiction)

Books on BIKE REPAIR

Books on Bike Trails and Touring (including recommended Texas rides)

Books on Bike Safety

The Library also houses a government document that is very important to our Denton bike community:

The 2000/2001 Denton Parks & Recreation master plan and pedestrian & bicycle linkages plan!!

This plan shows what the City has in mind for bike infrastructure for the future of Denton.

Come exercise and expand your mind for free with us.

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