Collectives,
As you know there are over 110 collectives in North America.  As I learned at Bike Bike last year no two bike collectives are the same.  Despite our differences we have a common goal, we're all working in our own way to get more people riding bikes more often.

That being the case I think our work merits national and international media attention.  I've been thinking for a while about how we might get our work into the media.
Bike Bike offers us a great opportunity to do this.  Before Community Cycles heads out for this years conference we'll distribute a press release discussing the conference, why we're going with an emphasis on the international movement.  I think if all the collectives attending this years conference should do something similar.  Maybe we can create some buzz and get picked up by the AP or something.

I personally would like to see the bike collectives to be as well known other re-use places like Salvation Army, Value Village and others.  When it comes time to get rid of a bike or pick one up on the cheap the local bike collective should be first on the list.

I think using the national media is a great way to show the world that bike collectives are more than your local co-op.

What do you guys think?

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Rich Points
Community Cycles Director
http://CommunityCycles.org
Rich@CommunityCycles.org
720-565-6019

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