Bike Suggestions Please

[Dancingcrone]

Hi,
I'm a first time burner coming from the UK. I reserved (and paid for) two bikes with Rat's Bikes, and now I learn that he is not responding to queries. I sent an e-mail a week ago just asking to confirm that the reservation was still OK, and haven't heard anything. What do I do? Cancel and try to find another bike hire? Buy two cheap bikes and find someone to accept them when we go?

Suggestions please.

Thanks,
Linda

[mulch]

I rented from these guys for this year

http://www.playabikerepair.com/

Listed on the resources page burningman.con

Don't know much about it except for what is on their website and a couple of posts here.

[Canoe]

have you seen?
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... 86&t=64578

[Dancingcrone]

I did see the thread on Rat's Bikes, but figured I'd start a new one as there was nothing conclusive.

Thanks for the suggestion mulch, I've booked! It seems it would be cheaper to buy - but I can't be doing with the aggravation. And they deliver to BRC, great.

Thanks from a very happy bunny

[fairyrowen]

Hi, i have a bike hired from Kiwanis bikes in Reno but i dont need it now. Let me know if you're interested?

[Sundial]

I rented from these guys for this year

http://www.playabikerepair.com/

Listed on the resources page burningman.con

Don't know much about it except for what is on their website and a couple of posts here.

Am I the only one that finds this company (not to mention the entire resources page) a bit unsettling?

[Elorrum]

I rented from these guys for this year

http://www.playabikerepair.com/

Listed on the resources page burningman.con

Don't know much about it except for what is on their website and a couple of posts here.

Am I the only one that finds this company (not to mention the entire resources page) a bit unsettling?

Yes I do, but it usually calls down a shit storm of newspeak when you point out the lack of clothes on this emperor. People make a living off Burning Man. I think it was this group that was asking for "camp mates" to work, er I mean volunteer, on playa, and then live at a hotel in Reno for two weeks after (being paid) fixing the bikes for next year's commerce.

[Sundial]

I rented from these guys for this year

http://www.playabikerepair.com/

Listed on the resources page burningman.con

Don't know much about it except for what is on their website and a couple of posts here.

Am I the only one that finds this company (not to mention the entire resources page) a bit unsettling?

Yes I do, but it usually calls down a shit storm of newspeak when you point out the lack of clothes on this emperor. People make a living off Burning Man. I think it was this group that was asking for "camp mates" to work, er I mean volunteer, on playa, and then live at a hotel in Reno for two weeks after (being paid) fixing the bikes for next year's commerce.

Okay. Well, it isn't my intention to open that can of worms. Just making an observation.

Lets get back to bikes now.

[BBadger]

Burning Man is an altar to commodification, even if the permit stipulates that you can't sell things on-playa. Everything outside the gates, BM-branding and BLM permits aside, is fair game.

[maladroit]

Burning Man is an altar to commodification, even if the permit stipulates that you can't sell things on-playa. Everything outside the gates, BM-branding and BLM permits aside, is fair game.

That's our cargo cult, for sure.

[BoyScoutGirl]

I got a bike from the Keystone grocery store (Save Mart) on Sunday last year. Picked out a bike outside, paid $50 at the register and traded the receipt for the bike. I believe this was organized by Kiwanis. They had maybe forty bikes around midday. My priorities: right height, working brakes (had to adjust them closer myself, as the pads were worn), working gears. All the tire widths were the same, so everything else was more or less decorative.

The tube on the front tire sprung a leak on day one, but I had brought a spare. Once I replaced it (with some help from an awesome bike repair camp), it was a trusty, rusty steed for the event, and I biked all over the place.

Make sure you have a plan for disposing of/donating the bike after the event.

[Canoe]

I got a bike from the Keystone grocery store (Save Mart) on Sunday last year. ... I believe this was organized by Kiwanis.

Yes the Kiwanis provide those bikes. But you can't count on getting one there. Bonus if there is.

...there's no mention of t the coral of bikes at the Savemart on Keystone?...

Those are Kiwanis Bikes. During Burning Man, when they have a few extra ready to go, they may put some in the Keystone Coral and keep some at their base for purchase during their Burning Man pickup hours:
* We also have a limited number of bikes for sale on-site for anyone who didn't make a reservation.

The quantity available this way is so small, and intermittent, adding it to JRS would mislead people into thinking they could count on getting a bike this way.