Proposal: pay for repairs and own the blue 'Lizard King cargo bike

there are two acoustic bullit cargo bikes which originally belonged to a bike project at UoB some of us (@Nick Cooke and I) were involved in. The co-op finished and since then there has been no clear owner - they were previously at the student housing co-op but reclaimed as they were not in use. Now Tom wragg from SCD has one (he invested some of his own cash into an attempt to turn it into an e-bike - battery had a fault) - which will move to SCD and there is another in my garage which will also move to SCD.

I want to propose that at least the blue one gets owned by coopbrum. The reason for this is that they are often used by different people - in the past my house paid for repairs as we used it for a weekly shop, but now we can’t fit it in our garden we can’t use it for that. I want other people to continue to have access, but don’t want to have to pay for all the repairs myself - and largely use Bike Foundry’s electric bullit which I have access to when I need one.

At the moment the bike is unlocked and stored in my garage in Harvest close Stirchley. I think we should also get it a dedicated lock for people to use when they are out and about. There is a key to access it with me, mani, and one in Birmingham Bike Foundry (can borrow this during opening hours).

Currently it has around £80 of repairs due and a lock would be £30 ish quid.

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makes sense in my view

Hopefully we can afford this! Let’s check balance after all the Punch Up stuff has come through. Hold on this for two weeks.

i support the proposal. i guess the only question i have is, unless i’m missing something, i’m not clear on where it would live? i guess it’s a decent size?

It’s quite large but it would live in the bike shed at SCD quite happily and until then the Sean garage idea is doable. I’m in favour of it as it keeps the asset in co-op hands forever and it’s no longer appropriate for ex-Federici people to have to pay for repairs

Once in SCD I would support some sort of tech solution for bookings with a key safe so people can check it out

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