Oddbean

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 It must be said bitcoiners tend to be quite trustworthy, friendly and reliable. I'd quite like a director of bike shops and independent  bike people who a vwpt bitcoin payment. Even if you weren't paying in bitcoin it would still actually be quite useful as an indication of a high probability that they are a gonna be decent and friendly lol. Does such a thing exist? Probably not specifically bike builders, but craft/trade people? #asknostr

I'm on a quest to find a 2nd hand bike builder who isn't charging insane hipster prices to build me my perfect budget cromoly workhorse;)

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 Omg amethyst typos everywhere lol ffs

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 Build a relationship with a local bike shop. Ask if they would accept bitcoin. I can help set up BTCpayServer for them. They can instanlty convert it to fiat if they want, but that's not a good idea.

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 Too bad all the bike shops are total fiat or straight-up commie.

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 Yeah kind of looking for people who maybe just work from their lock up building bikes who are off the radar, word-of-mouth, btc-in-hand :)

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 But yeah, sounds about right lol.

I'm ok with them being lefty / anarchists tbh, I just want a decent person, not charging ridiculous prices,  or catering to the highend hipster. It's so hard to find

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 Here in the US, just about every major and mid-sized city has a conflation of anarchists and eco-fanatics that run some sort of community bike collective. Where I live, there is a shop run mostly by volunteers that fix up old bikes and sell them to in-need families or trannies on the cheap.

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 We have that here too, sorta lol

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 you found a bike shop that accepts bitcoin?

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 No:(

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 Still looking for bike repair/bike builder that accepts bitcoin did find this directory tho.

https://www.wheretospendbitcoins.co.uk/location/london.html


Quite like that there is a Man And Van out there accepting bitcoin:

https://eastlondonmanwithavan.com/

We should get him on nostr, we need more White Van Men on here :)

#asknostr

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 Check @BTCMap.org

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 No luck but cool website.

This is actually the sort of thing which would be super useful for someone who hasn't got an official store maybe. Like they are building in a hired studio or their garden shed or lock up. Less overheads. Not looking for fancy hipster bike stores. Looking for tinkerer bike genius  who understands lower budgets lol

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 What’s wrong with your bike?

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 Currently, new bottom bracket, cassette and chain. Also wheels are potentially bad lol. I just bought it a while ago cos it was local on FB market place and cheap, steel frame. In a rush. Keeps needing bits and bobs, all adding up to a fair amount, and was thinking I should save and get a decent old cromoly workshorse/basic tourer instead. Something that will actually last a lifetime with better (2nd hand) components to begin with. Rather than keep spending on repairs and replacements. 

Really it could be a building project, but I'll need to learn how to do that and have more free time (which I don't really have). So sort of looking for someone who builds bikes as a living. Maybe slightly off the official bike store grid

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 Ok sounds like a lot of little issues, sorry can’t help in this case. Having the right tools is crucial and unfortunately a necessary investment for repairing on your own…

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 Yes there's also that. I wouldn't know where to begins and wouldn't have the tools. Although there are workshop places you can go for free that have tools and people to help you. But they tend to be on when I'm at work :(

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 Best opportunity for orange pilling someone there ;)

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 Yeah maybe, but also don't want to overload them. I'm already asking for something quite convoluted lolol

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 😂

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 Man in shed building bikes cash in hand / btc lightning in hand economy style directory for wider trades/skills/services.
That's the idea.

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 That’s me 😂 but I’m not in the UK

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 Like Pinkbike marketplace but with Lightning?

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 Exactly! 👍

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 Was thinking more services like repair and build, but yeah also selling of bikes, frames, parts etc. but generally trades people. More like TrustATrade or something. But yeah all of the above lol

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 @BTCMap.org why is it not possible to search ie for a country/city/region and a certain trade, coffee, bicycle / bike, pc service etc? Then, API to every Nostr client to form a marketplace? @damus @Nostur @Iris @Amethyst & others

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 Do you code?

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 I can barely remember the code to get into my phone

(No)

Lol🤗

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 Heard of Scrum?
Reckon you could product manage it if I found you some devs?

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 No idea what a scrum is. 

I wouldn't trust me with anything like that tbh.

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 Haha fair.
Shout if you come across anyone who wants to help make it.

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 What are you planning on building? 👀

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 Decentralised pinkbike

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 Cool. Is there no place here where people list projects for other people to jump in on? I'm sure you can make a post about it and tag all the asknostr hashtags and what not 🤔

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 Don Valerio (🇲🇽 ) still does custom jobs for pro athletes; he's also cool and fun with couriers and bikers that come hang to his workshop
I think he doesn't do chromolly, but good old fashioned fierrolly (steel)
Las time I visit I talked them about bitcoin and drop a seedsigner to his apprentice... Might visit soon again for service 🤔