blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1.  What ESLR have you excelled in most in your senior project?
     I would say that out of all of the ESLRs I excelled most in being an effective user of technology.
2.  Please explain why you think you have excelled in this ESLR.
      By learning how to effectively use the Cal Poly library and database I took advantage of the technology that allows me to seek ot better quality research easier..
3.  Provide evidence from your senior project to support your claim (evidence is a photo of something you are doing, photo of something you made, etc).
My Working bibliography has gotten better as I found more research.

Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1.  What is the best way to sustain a profitable bike shop?
2.  My third answer to my essential question is having a good economic background.
3.  "Even after working in a bike shop for nine years, I still learned more in that one hour than I have in those nine years."
You can have a good mechanical background but if you have no idea how to even form a business plan you have no hope to make money. Running a bike shop takes more than simply selling a bike and changing a tube once a month. it takes knowledge of supply and demand and how to advertise and where to build your bike shop.
4. Jeremy Smith the owner of a new profitable bike shop.
5.  I plan to study more economics that include small businesses.

Working EQ and Possible Answers

(1) What was the working EQ you used during your presentation?
What components go into making an efficient bicycle?

(2) not changing my eq

(3) What are possible answers to your current working EQ? 

1. A proper frame set up for the required situation.
2. Friction-less parts.
3. Aerodynamic designs.

Blog 2: Bicycle Repairs and Fabrication

My Topic and Why?

My hobby and passion has been bicycle riding since the day I learned how to. Bikes of all kinds have interested me in the simplicity and variance of the one idea. The idea of you getting an immediate product from the energy you put into this machine give me a feeling of accomplishment to know that when I reach my destination via my own perseverance gives me a satisfaction of knowing I made the effort and it paid off. I want everyone else to appreciate that feeling of accomplishment within themselves. However, if someones bicycle they own is unsafe and unable to be ridden, I want to be able to help that person to once again regain the ability to enjoy their bike. So for my project I would like to study every aspect of the invention of the bicycle. My goal is to one day help more people experience the feeling of going as far as they are willing to take themselves.

• iPoly Citizen:  I plan to help customers with any problems they may be experience with their bicycles by teaching them when and how to properly change gears, if they have them, so they can use their bike to its full extent. This will help become an iPoly citizen by making me happier knowing that now this person will no longer struggle while using their bikes, but instead become a better overall rider.
• Effective Communicator:  I plan to watch and learn as much as I can from my mentor as he teaches me easier ways or doing things when repairing parts or adjusting them to the customers liking. this will help me communicate more by allowing me to follow directions and instruction quicker so that after time I can become a better rider because I will know how to adjust my own bike in a way that is properly suited exactly to myself.
• Effective Learner:  I plan to pay extrememly close attention so that I learn as much as I can without using up too much of my mentors time. I will research more about the techniques and proper procedures for going about repairs on certain parts from the company's ,that manufactured the bike, own directions. 
• Effective User of Technology: I plan to use the database that the store has set up to research the best value of parts for customers that are serious about the bikes they own so to not overcharge them for parts that will not hold up to the standard I will trying to uphold. Also I will use the many tools and machines we have set up in the shop to my advantage in making my job easier when repairing the bikes.