Casa Robino

The biketour is an eco-mobile action community

The biketour is an eco-mobile action community

The biketour is an eco-mobile action community

Critical Mass! Pakistan

http://www.cctv.com/program/worldwidewatch/20090805/112274.shtml

Casa bike locks are old and tricky. So far, though, every one I've tried has a trick to getting it open, quickly and reliably. Even if you've already read this, feel free to ask me or someone else who's read this or been shown these tricks - sometimes a personal demonstration helps, too. Enjoy:

There are two common tricky points that make casa locks confusing...

1) sometimes twisting the key doesn't actually "unlock" the lock (the key doesn't do anything unless you twist it in just the right way), and

You're in Morocco with your pasta madre. You've got friends - friends are easy to make down here - but they probably only have a toaster oven in their kitchen. That might suffice for a tiny loaf, but just around the corner, right in your neighborhood, is a magical building that's not only more appropriate for family-sized breads, but also much more social, more connecting.

The Moroccan public oven.

This place is great! And it couldn't exist without the draw of all the local families - truly a bastion of the community.

I've been in the Ciemmona 2009 in Rome - it holds the Critical Mass Interplanetary.
It was a very beautiful event, stimulating and creating this consciousness to use the bicycle.
We were in 2 or 3 thousand people, riding through Rome's roads, for hours, all the day long, until the night.
People participating from many countries other than Italy, like France, Spain, Brazil, Indonesia.
And of all ages, from babies on the chests to old people. Also, lots of artists, playing and juggling during the ride.

We got gypsy and Mirtilla working last night.

Hooray, we now have 12,5 working bikes. After three weekly bike-repairing days we finally got all bikes working minus two. As it was the third Thursday today that we were fixing bikes (this time it was Shaun and me) outside of the house, we had more people stopping over to ask if we could help them with their bikes. So we helped two neighboors with their bikes, and we even had a lady stopping to ask if we could repair some of her bikes for some small cash.

the working bikes we currently have are:

Once in a while the bike-police goes around the neighboorhoud to take away bikes that they think are useless. Be aware, they will make these decisions for you. First they will put up an orange sticker on the bike, and after a week they come back to cut your chain and steal your bike without any mercy.