Please don't schedule Bike!Bike! 2007 over Interbike.
I went to Interbike for the first time this year, and while I do have
to acknowledge the retail consumerism -- there was a beautiful
underbelly of resources. I talked to key people at Park, Pedros,
Bikes Belong and Planet Bike just to name a few. For anyone who uses
tools and promotes commuting, you would be crazy NOT to go.
Booths are free to non-profits, so the Salt Lake City Bicycle
Collective is going to try and set up a table next year -- maybe even
do a seminar on community bike shops. But then I was thinking this
should be a collaborative effort of all collectives -- we should go in
numbers and demonstrate what a complimentary resource WE ARE to the
retail industry.
On other notes, aside from the below wholesale messenger bags, tools,
and you-name-its, there was one of the largest Alley Cat races I have
ever seen and Critical Mass on the strip. So if you go, ignore the
crap and concentrate on the stuff that matters to you -- there is
still plenty of that.
--
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison
Project Coordinator
Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective
2312 S. West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
w: 801-328-2453
c: 801-688-0183
www.slcbikecollective.org
On 10/5/06, andy@neighborhoodbikeworks.org
andy@neighborhoodbikeworks.org wrote:
> Dear Bovine,
>
> Don't recognize your alias so I don't know if I know you. If not,
> greetings from Philadelphia. Thanks for the heads up... I was even
> thinking of going to Interbike next year, but it is usually such a
> miserable experience for me that I wasn't thinking of going that much...
> (I hate conusmerism and Vegas in more or less equal amounts that seem to
> offset the fact that there are bikes there, most of which don't have
> electric motors)
>
> Is interbike a common destination for Bike-Bike atendees? If so, then
> it's obviously a bad time. Thankfully, there's more than one weekend in
> Sept; the first and second are not so good for us, but anything's better
> than August over here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> > Late September is interbike
> >
>
>
> --
> Andy Dyson, Executive Director
> Neighborhood Bike Works
> 3916 Locust Walk, Philadelphia PA 19104
> www.neighborhoodbikeworks.org
> (215) 386-0316
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