I would agree that having 80 or 90 (was it that many?) folks from all over the southeast who are passionate about bicycles and bike collectives will be a really good thing for Louisville. That's why I chimed in and said something about being against having the BigBike!Bike! in Minneapolis - there is already what, almost a 5% bike mode share going on there. Not to diss places that have some of the highest bike mode shares, they're probably better places to organize a large conference out of, but there are places where biking is relatively in it's infancy (Louisville has less than a 1% mode share) and a truly grassroots thing like this could really spark some conversation - if you have it in a place that is struggling.
 
Just some thoughts.
 
- Eli
rachael spiewak wrote: 
> Same description goes for the previous Southeast version (ATL, > 1/2009). It will only help. 

> -rachael 

> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Carolyn Braunius <brauniusc@yahoo.com > <mailto:brauniusc@yahoo.com>> wrote: 

> Hi Victor and all. :) 

> We love BikeBike and plan on coming to Toronto for BIKEBIKE this 
> year by bike and hopefully with reinforcements from the northeast. 

> Our thoughts behind bikebike NE was we knew there were a lot of 
> small shops or shops that are trying to get off the ground who 
> would love to get some of that special bike bike feeling, but 
> couldn't make it to Minneapolis and might not be able to swing the 
> big trip to Toronto. > 
> They also might not know about the special magic of bikebike and 
> can come to a meeting and get a little dose of the magic, before 
> falling inlove with the international event. 

> We also wanted to create a stage to address some of the specific 
> bike culture challenges we face in the north east. We love all of 
> those cities that have bike paths and bike racks, and let kids 
> ride their bikes to school, and we want to have a space where we 
> can make a plan to help bring some of those really wonderful 
> things to places where we don't quite have that yet. 

> We also like to hang out with y'all and promise to do our best to 
> throw a good party :) 

> Cheers, 
> Carolyn 

> www.troybikerescue.org <http://www.troybikerescue.org
> > "When shall we live if not now?" - M.F.K. Fisher 


> --- On *Sat, 12/12/09, mylifeinthenow@gmail.com 
> <mailto:mylifeinthenow@gmail.com> /<mylifeinthenow@gmail.com 
> </*?'mailto:mylifeinthenow@gmail.com>>/* wrote: 


> From: mylifeinthenow@gmail.com 
> <mailto:mylifeinthenow@gmail.com> <mylifeinthenow@gmail.com 
> <mailto:mylifeinthenow@gmail.com>> 
> Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] 4 BikeBikes. 
> To: thethinktank@bikecollectives.org 
> <mailto:thethinktank@bikecollectives.org
> Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 5:03 PM 

> Bike! Bike! NE is still going on in Apri as a warm up for May 
> is Bike Month! 

> -----Original Message----- 
> Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:56:48 pm 
> To: "The Think Tank" <thethinktank@bikecollectives.org 
> <http://mc/compose?to=thethinktank@bikecollectives.org>> 
> From: "N.O.Bike Project" <nolabikeproject@gmail.com 
> <http://mc/compose?to=nolabikeproject@gmail.com>> 
> Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] 4 BikeBikes. 

> My bad, there are 4. Hmmm. 

> winter.snowy.rose@gmail.com 
> <http://mc/compose?to=winter.snowy.rose@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > What about the eastern one about new York area in April or may? 
> > Is that still on? 
> > 
> > ChloĆ© 
> > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: "N.O.Bike Project" <nolabikeproject@gmail.com 
> <http://mc/compose?to=nolabikeproject@gmail.com>> 
> > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:39:55 
> > To: The Think Tank<thethinktank@bikecollectives.org 
> <http://mc/compose?to=thethinktank@bikecollectives.org>> 
> > Subject: [TheThinkTank] 3 BikeBikes. 
> > 
> > Hey y'all. 
> > 
> > In response to the query about a running tally. There are 3 
> BikeBike!'s 
> > that I know of. Louisville and Boulder in the spring (on the 
> same 
> > weekend-March20) and Toronto in the summer. 
> > 
> > Personally I think regional bikebikes are a great idea. My 
> only concern 
> > is that there may be a lower turnout at the big annual 
> event. I guess 
> > we'll see what happens. 
> > 
> > -Victor. 
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