Eugene Bicycle Works will be holding another session of bike repair classes on Saturday mornings starting in October. Classes will be held at EBW from 9 am to 12 pm, Saturdays, October 2nd, 9th and 16th . Topics covered include: Basic Maintenance and Preventative Care Components Professional Tool Use Advanced Tuning and Repair The class [...]
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Mobile Cannery Gears Up
This year, Skinner City Farm, the community garden located two blocks from CAT’s shop, received a Eugene Neighborhood Matching Grant to have a mobile cannery constructed. Here are a few pictures from our first test run and canning demo. Tracy Gagnon, the cannery project’s coordinator, along with CAT staff and CAT’s two new apprentices, James [...]
Recent Goings-on at CAT
Our second group of apprentices just wrapped up their session at CAT. Here, Barrett Hafner makes his exit on a brand new fully loaded HPM Long Haul and an HPM Hauler trailer. Barrett built the bicycle during the program and completed the trailer on his own time. We also built a Long Haul for Tyler [...]
Human Powered Network Established
The Center for Appropriate Transport, through its Human Powered Machines Apprenticeship Program is establishing a distributed manufacturing program for its cargo and recumbent bicycles. Learn more here.
Comments from the Second Group of Apprentices
Kayvon Bahramian, Gainesville, Florida via Brooklyn, New York Too good to be true? Maybe. Where else can you go to study welding, brazing, machining, farming, composting, vermiculture, sewing, and CAD? The CAT apprenticeship program offers all of the equipment needed, as well as a framework for exploring and honing ideas of what it means to [...]
