I was going through the last of my photos from our trip to the Bay Area and while none of them fit with the posts I already wrote, I still thought they were worth sharing.
Check out the gallery below to see the photos.
Bicycle Tucson
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Hey, those are some nice pics of our shop! Not sure why you say we are not “like a co-op” though. There are different kinds of cooperatives – we are a worker coop (like Box Dog Bikes and Nabolom Bakery), which means that the workers cooperatively own and operate the business. In fact, we just had a membership meeting last night talking about Stuff until 10 pm. There are other kinds of coops – consumer co-ops (like REI), producer co-ops (common in the agricultural industry especially dairy), and housing co-ops. Anyway, I love Tuscon. I saw some amazing bike art the last time I was there at the big fix-up-your-bike place that I’ve forgotten the name of and went on a bike camping excursion into the desert.
Thanks for the info Danita. I was going on info some of the guys at the shop told me and what people here in Tucson think of when we hear bike co-op.
We think of BICAS, which is the place I think you are referring to in your comment.
I suppose we tend to think of a non-profit type place that helps people work on their bikes, informs and educates.
Based on what some of the mechanics told me, they said it wasn’t really a co-op so I went with it.
It’s really cool that you guys are employee owned. I didn’t know that. I’ll change the caption to reflect the info you provided.
Thanks again for checking in.
And yeah BICAS is damn rad.