SPOKES has been operating in Richmond, CA for four years and has had Great success unveiling the hidden bike culture in Richmond.   SPOKES has been stimulating economy and green mobility in the heart of Richmond’s Downtown renaissance, and creating the resources and space for a city of 259,000 people with no bike shop.  SPOKES customers not only buy bikes and repair and maintain their bikes, but also congregate and cultivate a movement of healthy living and mobility.  

During this time, SPOKES notoriety and work has been recognized and the SPOKES model requested by communities in San Pablo, EL Cerrito, Berkeley, Oakland, San Leandro, Los Angeles, CA, Atlanta, GA, Minneapolis MI, and in Washington DC.

Calling all community and community bike minded businesses and organizations.
Oakland SPOKES is launching a hyper local/National Community Bike Organization (CBO) Campaign and is setting up a community bike lounge in partnership with Pop Up Hood Oakland to host “Bay Built Bikes” by East Bay Area Community Bike Organizations (CBO) and, local mechanics/builders and bike art vendors.
This Bike lounge will display and consign Bikes built by Bay Area mechanics as part of the campaign Headquarters for SPOKES National’s Community Bike Organization Project.  Our goal is to collectively advocate for earmarked City, State, and Federal Funding of our communities’ CBO Projects.  This lounge will have commuter accessories, and catered café fixings from Awaken Cafe, Bicycle Coffee, Numi Tea, and Rock the Bike smoothies in its cool Old

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465 9th street Oakland

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.   We will be having daily opportunities for you as **members to reserve space to do workshops, and host bike-related social events.    

Our soft opening will be held in conjunction with Oakland’s First Friday on May 3rd 2013. Following that, our grand opening will take place in the middle of the Bike to Work After Party and we will be hosting the official Bike to work “After Party -After Party”.  We plan to have DJ music by Abel Dee and special guests and perhaps some Bike Flix to keep the pedals turning.   

The lounge will have a map of the East Bay covering an entire wall as focal   accent.  This map will have pushpins for all the CBO’s. Bike routes will be marked out on the map in red and will begin from the SPOKES Community Bike Org Hub on the map along routes to each site pinned on the map.  This map will serve as a visual guide to patrons of where all our shops are located in reference to each other the hub and their lives.   The SPOKESHOP community bike lounge will also provide your organization with a space for exposure in Downtown Oakland where you can showcase your bikes, bike art, bike jewelry and swag for sale.

Each member shop or org will need to contribute their high quality logo and a “Bay Built Bike” or bike product(s) to be part of the for sale consignment exhibit.   We will highlight your logo, branding and location on a string of *banners in the lounge.   Your product or bike will be mounted on the wall or rack with a short bio of your organization and name of the builder or artist behind the product.  All sales will be tracked as consignment and you will have the opportunity to refresh your line of products as it sells.  Our goal is to help our businesses or organization further penetrate the bike movement and bike industry and send business as well as awareness to the customers in your community. Through crowd funding and a capital campaign, we intend to raise funds to advocate for bikes as part of community economic development.

In order to participate, we require you to be a **member of the Community Bike Collective.
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc

This successful model will serve as a hub of resources for cyclists in East Bay by providing them with maps and quick commuter tips.  
Increase your sales and impact while celebrating green mobility today. Join us now!
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
*To have a banner in the Oakland SPOKESHOP Community Bike Lounge we do require a $25 fee and consigned product subject to our approval for our gallery consignment space.
**There is no Membership fee for this inaugural group, as SPOKES wants to encourage our founding member organizations to jump on the bandwagon and participate on collective bargaining for funding and resources.  
Inaugural members will have links to their business or organization on our website member page and a placard in the shop.