Hi Dave - thanks for sending in the info on two organizations no less!!
 
I really appreciate it. I love the pics of kids on your site and the cool tool boxes you guys have developed.
 
If you have another moment, I am also interested in group bicycle rides and am looking for information on the development of this activity. For instance, it would be great to get a sense of when organizations themselves began organizing group rides and how you decide where to lead the rides  - parks, beaches, historic sites... obstacles, weather, resources...

Certainly, any information on community-supported bicycle-oriented organizations and group rides you think I ought to know is welcome.

Sincerely, Jordan

Jordan Stewart
Architect, LEED AP
Urban Studies Pre-Doctoral Fellow
City, Culture, and Community
Tulane University
jstewar6@tulane.edu
C: 415-297-0941
http://tulane.edu/ccc/
 
 


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:04 PM, dave baker <bikebaker@yahoo.com> wrote:
hi jordan,
this is dave from The Bike Works in Silver City, New Mexico. our program grew from an after school riding program that was born around 1999. in 2005, we evolved the program into a community bike workshop with the establishment of a 3000 sq. ft. shop space. 
I was also around for the founding of The Yellow Bike Project in Austin, Texas. We were founded in 1996 with our first release of yellow bikes on jan. 25, 1997. 
Thanks for your work,
Dave Baker


On Apr 3, 2013, at 11:57 PM, J Stewart <news.jstewart@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Think Tank -

I am doing research on the use of bicycles, collectives, and group rides this semester at Tulane in New Orleans, the site of Bike!Bike! X.

To complete my project I am collecting information from websites and email requests. Some of you may have seen my message previously, sent from jstewar6@tulane.edu. I am aiming to create a geographic analysis map or two, not dissimilar to yours on Google, that also includes the date of the founding of the organization. I plan to use this location and date information for an analysis of the progression of US collective bicycle organizations with other spatial data. The information on bicycle collectives provided on your website is pretty extensive.

It has been suggested among the responses I have already received that you guys have a fairly current dataset and that it might be updated to included founding date of the organizations. Then, this might be shared with me for my use in this project.

I am writing to explore that option with you. Having put some effort into creating this and other data sets, I acknowledge that the data has some value. Perhaps we could negotiate a partnership. If you have some interest in the final analysis, I would be happy to share this, provided you would be willing to permit me to use the product of the data for my own presentations and products as a student as well.

Sincerely, Jordan


Jordan Stewart

Architect, LEED AP

Urban Studies Pre-Doctoral Fellow

City, Culture, and Community

Tulane University

http://tulane.edu/ccc/

jstewar6@tulane.edu

C: 415-297-0941

Also news.jstewart@gmail.com.

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