I&#39;ll forward this to our collective list and see what people think.<br><br>also, number 4 is hilarious.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:25 PM, andrew lynn <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:anyone@breathingplanet.net">anyone@breathingplanet.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">hi everyone.<br>
mad props to the grease pit!!!!  Mnpls rawked.<br>
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what do people think about a possible BikeBike NE?????<br>
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Our long ponderous car trip back combined with numerous people expressing interest in visiting us here in upstate NY hatched the idea of BikeBike Northeast April 2010.<br>
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This is the email where we put it out there and see what kind of feedback comes back.<br>
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Why BikeBike Northeast?<br>
1)we dont have to wait a whole year for that bikebike feeling.<br>
2)there is bikebike southeast, right?<br>
3)there are a bunch of shops in these here states over here that werent represented (consciously or unconsciously) at the nat&#39;l conference.<br>
4) hosting bikebike NE would help us jumpstart our summer building bicycle culture and community because it would be a local event as well as a broad regional one.<br>
5)this bikebike would show off our lack of infrastructure and midwestern motorist niceness, thereby strengthening bikebikers urban riding skills and temporarily importing cycling culture to help people understand what we are talking about.<br>

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What would happen at BikeBike NE?<br>
workshops &amp; discussions for fledgling shops, mini film festival, more welding, trailer building, exploring urban ruins on bike, an Albany-style alleycat, and bla bla bla.  whatever you all want to happen?<br>
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Where would this go down?<br>
primarily at the Sanctuary for Independent Media (<a href="http://mediasanctuary.org" target="_blank">http://mediasanctuary.org</a>), our awesome, volunteer-run community media center.<br>
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When?<br>
Seems like April 23-24 is OK.  before bike month, but most of the snow will have possibly maybe kind of melted.<br>
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Who?<br>
Delaware, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Ithaca, Montpelier, Burlington, New Hampshire, Boston, State College PA, Providence, Worcester, NYC, various known on-campus projects.....    and???<br>
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OK.  So this is really just the notes of an earlier brainstorm.   what do you all thinks????<br>
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Andrew &amp; the TBR crew<br>
<a href="http://troybikerescue.org" target="_blank">http://troybikerescue.org</a><br>
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