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Daniel Say <say@sfu.ca> writes:

>......... and in reply got:

>From tcwillus@sfu.ca Fri Nov 19 14:36:45 1999
>Return-Path: <tcwillus@sfu.ca>
>Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:31:51 -0800
>To: say@sfu.ca
>From: Tyrone Willushaw <tcwillus@sfu.ca>
>Subject: Bike parking information

>Regarding bicycle parking, you cannot lock them to handrails or any
>structure that impedes pedestrian traffic. Also, locking bikes to
>handrails, stairs or any other exits from buildings is a violation of the
>BC Fire Services Act and/or Industrial Health & Safety Regulations. You
>could be penalized for this. As you probably know, being as you come up to
>SFU on bike regularly, bike riding in an area not designated to be used as
>a roadway is strictly prohibited. Basically, bikes are subject to ticketing
>and/or impoundment, like cars, for being parked in any area other than
>those designated for that vehicle. 

>So where CAN you park bikes? There are bike racks available to you at
>several locations, specifically, the "tunnel" between the Chancellor's Gym
>and West Mall Centre, and the Academic Annex. If I find out about other
>locations before the next issue of Campus Beat, I will be sure to include
>it in the article on bikes. 

>As for the use of a Presta/Schrader valve pump and patch-kit, I'm afraid
>this is something you will have to get on your own. 

>	So park only in designated places, and no, if you have
>	a flat and no spare, then you'll have to walk your
>	bike down the hill after hours.  Sigh....

Okay Daniel, I am officially _sick_ of your whining! 

1) There's a hell of a lot of places to park a bike. The racks are all over
the place. I don't think I've ever seen a full one, either. Well, maybe the
racks by the Gym.

2) If you're so chuffed about this stupid pump patch-kit issue, here's not
one but _two_ different ideas about what to do:

-get together with about 10 other bicyclists (find them through the Peak,
PiRG, whatever, I don't care) and agree to share a locker rental. Get ten
do not copy keys cut or get a combo lock. Then put a pump and patch kit in
the locker. Total cost to each rider: $2.50/semester plus about $10 up
front for your share of a really good pump and kit. Oh, maybe another
$2/year for new patches.

-write to the head of Traffic & Security. Ask if they would accept the
_donation_ of a pump and patch kit, along with regular donations of patches
(set up an endowment; I don't care) in exchange for the space to store them
and making them available for public use. Total cost to you: $100 up front,
maybe $20/year for patches, depending on whether word gets out.

Daniel, you work up here, so I'm pretty sure you could afford a $100
extravagance. Hell, I could afford that, and I'm getting married in 8
months. As for the possibility you could afford $12.50, I won't even
entertain discussion.

Thank you. Now shut the heck up about this! In fact, if you promise never
to post another article complaining about these daft issues, I will
personally donate $10 to this most unworthy cause.

Share, Damnit! Enjoy!  (also TM)
--
            Ryan Cousineau, rcousine@sfu.ca
   I was listening to Chris Gaines before he sold out.

Campus security does have a pump..actually it's a compressor. and if you'r nice
to them, then i think they let you use it/help you use it. Let's be honest,
they're looking for something other than walking around looking like the cops
from the beastie boys sabotage video to do.

as for other bike locks, there's a set of locks/rails outside kinesiology/
engineering 8000 level. very convenient for asb people like me.

as for gettingstuck up the hill without a spare tire..
hmmm.. that happened to me once at about 1am when i was living around metrotown
in the summer. it was the worst 4 hour+walk with my bike on my back home 
ever. i got lots of thiking in though... walking the earth like kane from kungfu.

sooo..i now keep a spare tube in hte pit and a pump in my locker.


Daniel Say <say@sfu.ca> writes:




>  Hoping for a friendly bike response from the new SFU
>"Campus Beat" patrol people, I wrote:

>"   Thank you for the first issue of the Campus Beat (Beat? Capitalized?)
>" 
>"   I realize that cars and parking make the loudest sound, but
>" I'd like to see some articles about the two wheeler lockups,
>" both motorcycle, and more importantly bicycles, now that 
>" all buses will have bike racks on them every day up and down
>" the hill.
>" 
>"   Where can't we lock our bikes?  Can we use trees, any upright
>" pillar etc? Our office?
>" 
>"   Since we have a bike on campus, no spare tire, nor a gas station
>" for quick flat repairs anymore, will Campus security keep a 
>" Presta/Schrader valve pump and patch-kit so that we can get 
>" home if the unthinkable happens on the clean SFU roads?
>" 
>"   When the weather closes in with snow, where is the best place
>" to stay warm while waiting for buses to get up the hill to get
>" passengers to take down in a snow/ice/heavy-rain situation?
>" 
>" 				thank you
>" 
>" 				Daniel Say
>" 				say@sfu.ca
>" 
>......... and in reply got:

>From tcwillus@sfu.ca Fri Nov 19 14:36:45 1999
>Return-Path: <tcwillus@sfu.ca>
>Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:31:51 -0800
>To: say@sfu.ca
>From: Tyrone Willushaw <tcwillus@sfu.ca>
>Subject: Bike parking information

>Thank you for your email in response to our first issue of the Campus Beat
>Newsletter.You brought up some interesting questions that I'll definetly
>see about putting in the next issue. But you won't have to wait that long
>for the response - for here it is:

>Regarding bicycle parking, you cannot lock them to handrails or any
>structure that impedes pedestrian traffic. Also, locking bikes to
>handrails, stairs or any other exits from buildings is a violation of the
>BC Fire Services Act and/or Industrial Health & Safety Regulations. You
>could be penalized for this. As you probably know, being as you come up to
>SFU on bike regularly, bike riding in an area not designated to be used as
>a roadway is strictly prohibited. Basically, bikes are subject to ticketing
>and/or impoundment, like cars, for being parked in any area other than
>those designated for that vehicle. 

>So where CAN you park bikes? There are bike racks available to you at
>several locations, specifically, the "tunnel" between the Chancellor's Gym
>and West Mall Centre, and the Academic Annex. If I find out about other
>locations before the next issue of Campus Beat, I will be sure to include
>it in the article on bikes. 

>As for the use of a Presta/Schrader valve pump and patch-kit, I'm afraid
>this is something you will have to get on your own. 


>Again, thank you for your questions. It is always good to get feedback from
>newsletter readers.
>		Regards,

>			Campus Beat Editor
>			Annique-Elise Goode  

>----------------------------------

>	So park only in designated places, and no, if you have
>	a flat and no spare, then you'll have to walk your
>	bike down the hill after hours.  Sigh....
--
_______________________
Frederick Ghahramani
Smart Sense Innovations 
Phone: (604) 939-5135    

What about getting stuck on the mountain with a broken car? I see no
car service shops around. It is a far more complicated ordeal to have your
car towed than it is to get your bike fixed. Just because I'm evil
and inconsiderate enough to operate a combustion engine and don't bike
about with a halo on my head doesn't mean that my needs should be
disregarded when I am just as much if not more inconvenianced when my car
breaks down than if some biker gets a flat tire ;)


In sfu.general Daniel Say <say@sfu.ca> wrote:
:   Hoping for a friendly bike response from the new SFU
: "Campus Beat" patrol people, I wrote:

: "   Thank you for the first issue of the Campus Beat (Beat? Capitalized?)
: " 
: "   I realize that cars and parking make the loudest sound, but
: " I'd like to see some articles about the two wheeler lockups,
: " both motorcycle, and more importantly bicycles, now that 
: " all buses will have bike racks on them every day up and down
: " the hill.
: " 
: "   Where can't we lock our bikes?  Can we use trees, any upright
: " pillar etc? Our office?
: " 
: "   Since we have a bike on campus, no spare tire, nor a gas station
: " for quick flat repairs anymore, will Campus security keep a 
: " Presta/Schrader valve pump and patch-kit so that we can get 
: " home if the unthinkable happens on the clean SFU roads?
: " 
: "   When the weather closes in with snow, where is the best place
: " to stay warm while waiting for buses to get up the hill to get
: " passengers to take down in a snow/ice/heavy-rain situation?
: " 
: " 				thank you
: " 
: " 				Daniel Say
: " 				say@sfu.ca
: " 
: ......... and in reply got:

: From tcwillus@sfu.ca Fri Nov 19 14:36:45 1999
: Return-Path: <tcwillus@sfu.ca>
: Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:31:51 -0800
: To: say@sfu.ca
: From: Tyrone Willushaw <tcwillus@sfu.ca>
: Subject: Bike parking information

: Thank you for your email in response to our first issue of the Campus Beat
: Newsletter.You brought up some interesting questions that I'll definetly
: see about putting in the next issue. But you won't have to wait that long
: for the response - for here it is:

: Regarding bicycle parking, you cannot lock them to handrails or any
: structure that impedes pedestrian traffic. Also, locking bikes to
: handrails, stairs or any other exits from buildings is a violation of the
: BC Fire Services Act and/or Industrial Health & Safety Regulations. You
: could be penalized for this. As you probably know, being as you come up to
: SFU on bike regularly, bike riding in an area not designated to be used as
: a roadway is strictly prohibited. Basically, bikes are subject to ticketing
: and/or impoundment, like cars, for being parked in any area other than
: those designated for that vehicle. 

: So where CAN you park bikes? There are bike racks available to you at
: several locations, specifically, the "tunnel" between the Chancellor's Gym
: and West Mall Centre, and the Academic Annex. If I find out about other
: locations before the next issue of Campus Beat, I will be sure to include
: it in the article on bikes. 

: As for the use of a Presta/Schrader valve pump and patch-kit, I'm afraid
: this is something you will have to get on your own. 


: Again, thank you for your questions. It is always good to get feedback from
: newsletter readers.
: 		Regards,

: 			Campus Beat Editor
: 			Annique-Elise Goode  

: ----------------------------------

: 	So park only in designated places, and no, if you have
: 	a flat and no spare, then you'll have to walk your
: 	bike down the hill after hours.  Sigh....

>
>
> So where CAN you park bikes? There are bike racks available to you at
> several locations, specifically, the "tunnel" between the Chancellor's Gym
> and West Mall Centre, and the Academic Annex. If I find out about other
> locations before the next issue of Campus Beat, I will be sure to include
> it in the article on bikes.

If I recall, there is a bike rack outside of the South Science Building (the
one that houses the IMBB), too, I think on the east side... Sort of between it
and the chemistry wing. I don't own a bike, never looked closely, so I could
be wrong.

Melanie

rcousine@sfu.ca (Ryan John Cousineau) writes:

>I will personally donate $10 to this most unworthy cause.

In timbits, Ryan?

Cheers,
Kaye