Re: [TheThinkTank] Question - Role of Community Bike Shops in Bike Advocacy
In Los Angeles, The los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition does the heavy lifting in this department. leaving us at the Bicycle Kitchen to focus on wrenching and empowering more regular folks to just ride their bicycles. This creates a larger pool of potential allies and advocates increasing the chances that the more politically minded among us will meet and the necessary magic will transpire.
Like build it and they will come, wrench and they will roll!!
jim
--- On Sat, 5/4/13, Jason Tanzman jason.tanzman@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jason Tanzman jason.tanzman@gmail.com Subject: [TheThinkTank] Question - Role of Community Bike Shops in Bike Advocacy To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013, 12:37 PM
Hey all,
I'd love to hear stories of community bike shops explicitly involved in bike advocacy. I interpret "bike advocacy" pretty broadly but am thinking along the lines of fighting for bike lanes, changing bike-negative laws, pushing for complete streets policies, etc.
I'm spending some time thinking about the role of community bike shops in the bike advocacy movement. One theme I've been reflecting on - and I welcome people's thoughts, comments, push-back, etc - is this. The bicycle advocacy movement is limited in its potential in part because of the lack of diverse community leadership and participation from traditionally under-represented communities (we/they are a bunch of old white men). Community bike shops have an incredible diversity of experiences and connections to traditionally under-represented communities, but a lack of intentional engagement in policy work limits community bike shops' ability to have a broad-reaching and long-term impact. I'm trying to understand how really grassroots organizations can have a more broad-reaching impact - and where community bike shops have succeeded (or failed) in using our networks to involve people in influencing legislation or government investments.
I welcome any stories that in any way touch on the relationship between community bike shops to advocacy initiatives!
Jason Tanzman Cycles for Change
I asked about this issue back in November, and since then we've gotten slightly more involved in infrastructure issues than in the past. Working with the Santa Ana Parks Dept. (who did most of the work), we helped coordinate a trip for Orange County residents out to Long Beach to take a biking and walking tour of the impressive improvements to bike/ped infrastructure they've implemented there. We have flyered and electronically announced a few community meetings relating to a circulation element update and the county bikeways master plan. We have also commented publicly on a specific bike trail extension. This was mostly pretty easy stuff to do (a facebook post takes a minute or two).
From my beginner's perspective I'd say there's sort of two sides to advocacy. There's community outreach and then there's communicating with various politicians, city engineers and staff, consultants, etc. I'd say the former is mostly about distributing news about how people can be involved in implementing infrastructure and sharing information and dialogue about available options, and the latter is about providing expertise and putting pressure on various 'decision makers' as the public's representative, and trying to tie people together. There's a lot of middle ground where cleverness and understanding come in. I just read Mia Birk's book Joyride about getting stuff going in Portland, Oregon, and one of her standout strengths, aside from persistence, was effective communication. She put a lot of effort into understanding people and helping different groups understand each other and work together.
I'd say from my limited experience that most community bike shops are strong in aspects of community outreach that many advocacy coalitions are not, while advocacy coalitions are often made up of people who by virtue of their political persuasion, personalities, and professional standing are better able to connect with the "higher-ups". I think community bike shops can connect people with their coalition and definitely broaden the base of the advocacy movement.
-Paul
The Bicycle Tree P.O. Box 11293 Santa Ana, CA 92711 http://www.thebicycletree.org info@thebicycletree.org
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 12:57:36 -0700 From: jamesbleds0e@yahoo.com To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Question - Role of Community Bike Shops in Bike Advocacy
In Los Angeles, The los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition does the heavy lifting in this department. leaving us at the Bicycle Kitchen to focus on wrenching and empowering more regular folks to just ride their bicycles. This creates a larger pool of potential allies and advocates increasing the chances that the more politically minded among us will meet and the necessary magic will transpire.
Like build it and they will come, wrench and they will roll!!
jim
--- On Sat, 5/4/13, Jason Tanzman jason.tanzman@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jason Tanzman jason.tanzman@gmail.com Subject: [TheThinkTank] Question - Role of Community Bike Shops in Bike Advocacy To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013, 12:37 PM
Hey all,
I'd love to hear stories of community bike shops explicitly involved in bike advocacy. I interpret "bike advocacy" pretty broadly but am thinking along the lines of fighting for bike lanes, changing bike-negative laws, pushing for complete streets policies, etc.
I'm spending some time thinking about the role of community bike shops in the bike advocacy movement. One theme I've been reflecting on - and I welcome people's thoughts, comments, push-back, etc - is this. The bicycle advocacy movement is limited in its potential in part because of the lack of diverse community leadership and participation from traditionally under-represented communities (we/they are a bunch of old white men). Community bike shops have an incredible diversity of experiences and connections to traditionally under-represented communities, but a lack of intentional engagement in policy work limits community bike shops' ability to have a broad-reaching and long-term impact. I'm trying to understand how really grassroots organizations can have a more broad-reaching impact - and where community bike shops have succeeded (or failed) in using our networks to involve people in influencing legislation or government investments.
I welcome any stories that in any way touch on the relationship between community bike shops to advocacy initiatives!
Jason Tanzman Cycles for Change
Oakland SPOKES is launching a hyper local/National Community Bike Organization (CBO) Campaign and is setting up a community bike lounge in partnership with Pop Up Hood Oakland to host “Bay Built Bikes” by East Bay Area Community Bike Organizations (CBO) and, local mechanics/builders and bike art vendors.
This Bike lounge will display and consign Bikes built by Bay Area mechanics as part of the campaign Headquarters for SPOKES National’s Community Bike Organization Project. Our goal is to collectively advocate for earmarked City, State, and Federal Funding of our communities’ CBO Projects. This lounge will have commuter accessories, and catered café fixings from Awaken Cafe, Bicycle Coffee, Numi Tea, and Rock the Bike smoothies in its cool Old town Location. We will be having daily opportunities for you as **members to reserve space to do workshops, and host bike-related social events.
Our soft opening will be held in conjunction with Oakland’s First Friday on May 3rd 2013. Following that, our grand opening will take place in the middle of the Bike to Work After Party and we will be hosting the official Bike to work “After Party -After Party”. We plan to have DJ music by Abel Dee and special guests and perhaps some Bike Flix to keep the pedals turning.
The lounge will have a map of the East Bay covering an entire wall as focal accent. This map will have pushpins for all the CBO’s. Bike routes will be marked out on the map in red and will begin from the SPOKES Community Bike Org Hub on the map along routes to each site pinned on the map. This map will serve as a visual guide to patrons of where all our shops are located in reference to each other the hub and their lives. The SPOKESHOP community bike lounge will also provide your organization with a space for exposure in Downtown Oakland where you can showcase your bikes, bike art, bike jewelry and swag for sale.
Each member shop or org will need to contribute their high quality logo and a “Bay Built Bike” or bike product(s) to be part of the for sale consignment exhibit. We will highlight your logo, branding and location on a string of *banners in the lounge. Your product or bike will be mounted on the wall or rack with a short bio of your organization and name of the builder or artist behind the product. All sales will be tracked as consignment and you will have the opportunity to refresh your line of products as it sells. Our goal is to help our businesses or organization further penetrate the bike movement and bike industry and send business as well as awareness to the customers in your community. Through crowd funding and a capital campaign, we intend to raise funds to advocate for bikes as part of community economic development.
In order to participate, we require you to be a **member of the Community Bike Collective.
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
This successful model will serve as a hub of resources for cyclists in East Bay by providing them with maps and quick commuter tips.
Increase your sales and impact while celebrating green mobility today. Join us now!
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbchttps://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
Much conversation here from California, we have yet to have our Governor sign a 3-foot minimum safe passing law! Come on California Bike Collectives, lets all get behind this one. We are putting the request for calmer street actions, for safer auto and truck passing of bikes, and eliminating the close 'buzz' passes. Assembly Bill AB1371 is going toward the governor for a third time.
We at LibraryBikes.org have been a large player in pushing this law (see www.BikeSacramento.org). Many people come to our shop and are discouraged to take bike riding seriously for transportation because it is not safe enough. We need this minimum standard that 20 other states have already approved, a minimum of 3-feet space between bikes and passing cars.
This advocate cry in California stated from our shop more than three years ago! Yes advocacy works from bike collectives.
Bill Wright Burton Director, LibraryBikes
On May 4, 2013, at 3:31 PM, "Brian Drayton" brian@oaklandspokes.org wrote:
Oakland SPOKES is launching a hyper local/National Community Bike Organization (CBO) Campaign and is setting up a community bike lounge in partnership with Pop Up Hood Oakland to host “Bay Built Bikes” by East Bay Area Community Bike Organizations (CBO) and, local mechanics/builders and bike art vendors.
This Bike lounge will display and consign Bikes built by Bay Area mechanics as part of the campaign Headquarters for SPOKES National’s Community Bike Organization Project. Our goal is to collectively advocate for earmarked City, State, and Federal Funding of our communities’ CBO Projects. This lounge will have commuter accessories, and catered café fixings from Awaken Cafe, Bicycle Coffee, Numi Tea, and Rock the Bike smoothies in its cool Old town Location. We will be having daily opportunities for you as **members to reserve space to do workshops, and host bike-related social events.
Our soft opening will be held in conjunction with Oakland’s First Friday on May 3rd 2013. Following that, our grand opening will take place in the middle of the Bike to Work After Party and we will be hosting the official Bike to work “After Party -After Party”. We plan to have DJ music by Abel Dee and special guests and perhaps some Bike Flix to keep the pedals turning.
The lounge will have a map of the East Bay covering an entire wall as focal accent. This map will have pushpins for all the CBO’s. Bike routes will be marked out on the map in red and will begin from the SPOKES Community Bike Org Hub on the map along routes to each site pinned on the map. This map will serve as a visual guide to patrons of where all our shops are located in reference to each other the hub and their lives. The SPOKESHOP community bike lounge will also provide your organization with a space for exposure in Downtown Oakland where you can showcase your bikes, bike art, bike jewelry and swag for sale.
Each member shop or org will need to contribute their high quality logo and a “Bay Built Bike” or bike product(s) to be part of the for sale consignment exhibit. We will highlight your logo, branding and location on a string of *banners in the lounge. Your product or bike will be mounted on the wall or rack with a short bio of your organization and name of the builder or artist behind the product. All sales will be tracked as consignment and you will have the opportunity to refresh your line of products as it sells. Our goal is to help our businesses or organization further penetrate the bike movement and bike industry and send business as well as awareness to the customers in your community. Through crowd funding and a capital campaign, we intend to raise funds to advocate for bikes as part of community economic development.
In order to participate, we require you to be a **member of the Community Bike Collective. https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
This successful model will serve as a hub of resources for cyclists in East Bay by providing them with maps and quick commuter tips.
Increase your sales and impact while celebrating green mobility today. Join us now!
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
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I was lucky enough to serve on the Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen Core as well as the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates' Board of Directors, and I can say that while there seems to be a lot of opportunity for alliances, the skillsets required for political/planning advocacy and "retail"-level advocacy are very divergent. In a nutshell, SABA exists to build bike lanes; SBK exists to fill them.
SABA spends a lot of time cultivating contacts with local developers, city and county transportation and planning officials, local businesses, business organizations, and elected officials, in a way that would really be distracting to SBK's mission. SABA's also undertaken initiatives that SBK wouldn't have the organizational capacity for: foremost in my mind was an effort to develop a full plan to redo two dangerous intersections, utilizing existing traffic control devices and city GIS mapping. Again, not something SBK would think to handle. SABA has also helped fill seats at city council meetings on important bike projects and helped develop and distribute talking points to attendees.
Part of this is organizational capacity; SABA is twenty years old and has a budget for paid staff, while SBK is seven years old and has repeatedly signed on to maintain an all-volunteer staff. At the same time, SBK has a street cred and populist mentality that allows it to really hammer the same people that SABA has to play nice with. It's nice to have both.
All that aside, if you can develop a grassroots maintenance collective with the wine-and-dine (or the populist politics) skills necessary to win over transportation officials, more power to you.
--Ryan
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Bill Wright librarybike@hotmail.comwrote:
Much conversation here from California, we have yet to have our Governor sign a 3-foot minimum safe passing law! Come on California Bike Collectives, lets all get behind this one. We are putting the request for calmer street actions, for safer auto and truck passing of bikes, and eliminating the close 'buzz' passes. Assembly Bill AB1371 is going toward the governor for a third time.
We at LibraryBikes.org have been a large player in pushing this law (see www.BikeSacramento.org). Many people come to our shop and are discouraged to take bike riding seriously for transportation because it is not safe enough. We need this minimum standard that 20 other states have already approved, a minimum of 3-feet space between bikes and passing cars.
This advocate cry in California stated from our shop more than three years ago! Yes advocacy works from bike collectives.
Bill Wright Burton Director, LibraryBikes
On May 4, 2013, at 3:31 PM, "Brian Drayton" brian@oaklandspokes.org wrote:
Oakland SPOKES is launching a hyper local/National Community Bike Organization (CBO) Campaign and is setting up a community bike lounge in partnership with Pop Up Hood Oakland to host “Bay Built Bikes” by East Bay Area Community Bike Organizations (CBO) and, local mechanics/builders and bike art vendors.
This Bike lounge will display and consign Bikes built by Bay Area mechanics as part of the campaign Headquarters for SPOKES National’s Community Bike Organization Project. Our goal is to collectively advocate for earmarked City, State, and Federal Funding of our communities’ CBO Projects. This lounge will have commuter accessories, and catered café fixings from Awaken Cafe, Bicycle Coffee, Numi Tea, and Rock the Bike smoothies in its cool Old town Location. We will be having daily opportunities for you as **members to reserve space to do workshops, and host bike-related social events.
Our soft opening will be held in conjunction with Oakland’s First Friday on May 3rd 2013. Following that, our grand opening will take place in the middle of the Bike to Work After Party and we will be hosting the official Bike to work “After Party -After Party”. We plan to have DJ music by Abel Dee and special guests and perhaps some Bike Flix to keep the pedals turning.
The lounge will have a map of the East Bay covering an entire wall as focal accent. This map will have pushpins for all the CBO’s. Bike routes will be marked out on the map in red and will begin from the SPOKES Community Bike Org Hub on the map along routes to each site pinned on the map. This map will serve as a visual guide to patrons of where all our shops are located in reference to each other the hub and their lives. The SPOKESHOP community bike lounge will also provide your organization with a space for exposure in Downtown Oakland where you can showcase your bikes, bike art, bike jewelry and swag for sale.
Each member shop or org will need to contribute their high quality logo and a “Bay Built Bike” or bike product(s) to be part of the for sale consignment exhibit. We will highlight your logo, branding and location on a string of *banners in the lounge. Your product or bike will be mounted on the wall or rack with a short bio of your organization and name of the builder or artist behind the product. All sales will be tracked as consignment and you will have the opportunity to refresh your line of products as it sells. Our goal is to help our businesses or organization further penetrate the bike movement and bike industry and send business as well as awareness to the customers in your community. Through crowd funding and a capital campaign, we intend to raise funds to advocate for bikes as part of community economic development.
In order to participate, we require you to be a **member of the Community Bike Collective.
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
This successful model will serve as a hub of resources for cyclists in East Bay by providing them with maps and quick commuter tips.
Increase your sales and impact while celebrating green mobility today. Join us now!
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbchttps://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
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In Boulder we do both a bike co-op/ community bike shop and we are the advocacy group. It mostly has to do with it being kind of a small town for 2 membership groups and the people involved. I got involved with Community Cycles, but my background was being the E.D. of the Philly Bike Coalition and over 15 yrs being employed in bike advocacy. It has some issues, but I think overall it gives the bike community & our members a lot of value. The issues for the org would be in prioritizing resources.
I think the co-op movement would have a lot to gain from being more involved and more professional around advocacy issues. I would say that the traditional advocacy groups do a good job of getting things done for bicyclists, but I can think of a number of issues where either the traditional bike advocacy movement is either not quite aligned with the interests of community bike shops, or things that could go a long way to helping community bike shops are totally ignored by the advocacy groups - mostly relating to funding and changes that could really go a long way to advancing the capacity of community bike shops. But these are either just not on their radar or are just not important to them. I think this applies more to the national orgs- who would have more control over working for changes that could impact a lot of community bike shops- than on the local level. But I still think even on a statewide level in my state, community bike shops should be brought into the conversation more than they currently are.
Urban repair squad, guerrilla artist attacks car landscapes into bike friendly infrastructure. We paint bike lanes with washable paint. Host parking meter parties on public streets. Its not a solid pillar or a solution in our community but In Toronto, Canada...anything is better than what we are up against.
For anonymous security rational i'm not giving name of community bike spaces, but if was not for them we would not have had support we would need to fuel guerrilla art campaign.
Contact me directly if you need more info about our campaigns
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Sue Prant sue@communitycycles.org wrote:
In Boulder we do both a bike co-op/ community bike shop and we are the advocacy group. It mostly has to do with it being kind of a small town for 2 membership groups and the people involved. I got involved with Community Cycles, but my background was being the E.D. of the Philly Bike Coalition and over 15 yrs being employed in bike advocacy. It has some issues, but I think overall it gives the bike community & our members a lot of value. The issues for the org would be in prioritizing resources.
I think the co-op movement would have a lot to gain from being more involved and more professional around advocacy issues. I would say that the traditional advocacy groups do a good job of getting things done for bicyclists, but I can think of a number of issues where either the traditional bike advocacy movement is either not quite aligned with the interests of community bike shops, or things that could go a long way to helping community bike shops are totally ignored by the advocacy groups - mostly relating to funding and changes that could really go a long way to advancing the capacity of community bike shops. But these are either just not on their radar or are just not important to them. I think this applies more to the national orgs- who would have more control over working for changes that could impact a lot of community bike shops- than on the local level. But I still think even on a statewide level in my state, community bike shops should be brought into the conversation more than they currently are.
-- Sue Prant Advocacy, Development and Walk & Bike Month Director Community Cycles 3172 29th Street Boulder, CO 80301 Phone: 303-564-9681 e-mail: sue@communitycycles.org www.CommunityCycles.org http://www.communitycycles.org/
Join the movement! Become a Community Cycles member http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/membership-form.html
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Bill Wright librarybike@hotmail.comwrote:
Much conversation here from California, we have yet to have our Governor sign a 3-foot minimum safe passing law! Come on California Bike Collectives, lets all get behind this one. We are putting the request for calmer street actions, for safer auto and truck passing of bikes, and eliminating the close 'buzz' passes. Assembly Bill AB1371 is going toward the governor for a third time.
We at LibraryBikes.org have been a large player in pushing this law (see www.BikeSacramento.org). Many people come to our shop and are discouraged to take bike riding seriously for transportation because it is not safe enough. We need this minimum standard that 20 other states have already approved, a minimum of 3-feet space between bikes and passing cars.
This advocate cry in California stated from our shop more than three years ago! Yes advocacy works from bike collectives.
Bill Wright Burton Director, LibraryBikes
On May 4, 2013, at 3:31 PM, "Brian Drayton" brian@oaklandspokes.org wrote:
Oakland SPOKES is launching a hyper local/National Community Bike Organization (CBO) Campaign and is setting up a community bike lounge in partnership with Pop Up Hood Oakland to host “Bay Built Bikes” by East Bay Area Community Bike Organizations (CBO) and, local mechanics/builders and bike art vendors.
This Bike lounge will display and consign Bikes built by Bay Area mechanics as part of the campaign Headquarters for SPOKES National’s Community Bike Organization Project. Our goal is to collectively advocate for earmarked City, State, and Federal Funding of our communities’ CBO Projects. This lounge will have commuter accessories, and catered café fixings from Awaken Cafe, Bicycle Coffee, Numi Tea, and Rock the Bike smoothies in its cool Old town Location. We will be having daily opportunities for you as **members to reserve space to do workshops, and host bike-related social events.
Our soft opening will be held in conjunction with Oakland’s First Friday on May 3rd 2013. Following that, our grand opening will take place in the middle of the Bike to Work After Party and we will be hosting the official Bike to work “After Party -After Party”. We plan to have DJ music by Abel Dee and special guests and perhaps some Bike Flix to keep the pedals turning.
The lounge will have a map of the East Bay covering an entire wall as focal accent. This map will have pushpins for all the CBO’s. Bike routes will be marked out on the map in red and will begin from the SPOKES Community Bike Org Hub on the map along routes to each site pinned on the map. This map will serve as a visual guide to patrons of where all our shops are located in reference to each other the hub and their lives. The SPOKESHOP community bike lounge will also provide your organization with a space for exposure in Downtown Oakland where you can showcase your bikes, bike art, bike jewelry and swag for sale.
Each member shop or org will need to contribute their high quality logo and a “Bay Built Bike” or bike product(s) to be part of the for sale consignment exhibit. We will highlight your logo, branding and location on a string of *banners in the lounge. Your product or bike will be mounted on the wall or rack with a short bio of your organization and name of the builder or artist behind the product. All sales will be tracked as consignment and you will have the opportunity to refresh your line of products as it sells. Our goal is to help our businesses or organization further penetrate the bike movement and bike industry and send business as well as awareness to the customers in your community. Through crowd funding and a capital campaign, we intend to raise funds to advocate for bikes as part of community economic development.
In order to participate, we require you to be a **member of the Community Bike Collective.
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
This successful model will serve as a hub of resources for cyclists in East Bay by providing them with maps and quick commuter tips.
Increase your sales and impact while celebrating green mobility today. Join us now!
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbchttps://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
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-- Sue Prant Advocacy, Development and Walk & Bike Month Director Community Cycles 3172 29th Street Boulder, CO 80301 Phone: 303-564-9681 e-mail: sue@communitycycles.org www.CommunityCycles.org http://www.communitycycles.org/
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While CBC isn't directly involved in advocacy, many advocates meet in our shop. Corvallis Cycle City has many flavors of advocacy, ranging from the mainstream "bikes are vehicles, just like cars," to a more anarchist "bikes do not create a threat & have a prior right to the roads; traffic laws only exist to control cars."
Then there's Bike4Peace.
- Vernon
*Corvallis Bicycle Collective* www.CorvallisBikes.org http://www.corvallisbikes.org/ Twitter @cvoBikes http://twitter.com/cvobikes *Hours & Directions to Our Shop http://www.corvallisbikes.org/findUs* *(541) 224-6885*
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Sue Prant sue@communitycycles.org wrote:
In Boulder we do both a bike co-op/ community bike shop and we are the advocacy group. It mostly has to do with it being kind of a small town for 2 membership groups and the people involved. I got involved with Community Cycles, but my background was being the E.D. of the Philly Bike Coalition and over 15 yrs being employed in bike advocacy. It has some issues, but I think overall it gives the bike community & our members a lot of value. The issues for the org would be in prioritizing resources.
I think the co-op movement would have a lot to gain from being more involved and more professional around advocacy issues. I would say that the traditional advocacy groups do a good job of getting things done for bicyclists, but I can think of a number of issues where either the traditional bike advocacy movement is either not quite aligned with the interests of community bike shops, or things that could go a long way to helping community bike shops are totally ignored by the advocacy groups - mostly relating to funding and changes that could really go a long way to advancing the capacity of community bike shops. But these are either just not on their radar or are just not important to them. I think this applies more to the national orgs- who would have more control over working for changes that could impact a lot of community bike shops- than on the local level. But I still think even on a statewide level in my state, community bike shops should be brought into the conversation more than they currently are.
-- Sue Prant Advocacy, Development and Walk & Bike Month Director Community Cycles 3172 29th Street Boulder, CO 80301 Phone: 303-564-9681 e-mail: sue@communitycycles.org www.CommunityCycles.org http://www.communitycycles.org/
Join the movement! Become a Community Cycles member http://communitycycles.org/get-involved/membership-form.html
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Bill Wright librarybike@hotmail.comwrote:
Much conversation here from California, we have yet to have our Governor sign a 3-foot minimum safe passing law! Come on California Bike Collectives, lets all get behind this one. We are putting the request for calmer street actions, for safer auto and truck passing of bikes, and eliminating the close 'buzz' passes. Assembly Bill AB1371 is going toward the governor for a third time.
We at LibraryBikes.org have been a large player in pushing this law (see www.BikeSacramento.org). Many people come to our shop and are discouraged to take bike riding seriously for transportation because it is not safe enough. We need this minimum standard that 20 other states have already approved, a minimum of 3-feet space between bikes and passing cars.
This advocate cry in California stated from our shop more than three years ago! Yes advocacy works from bike collectives.
Bill Wright Burton Director, LibraryBikes
On May 4, 2013, at 3:31 PM, "Brian Drayton" brian@oaklandspokes.org wrote:
Oakland SPOKES is launching a hyper local/National Community Bike Organization (CBO) Campaign and is setting up a community bike lounge in partnership with Pop Up Hood Oakland to host “Bay Built Bikes” by East Bay Area Community Bike Organizations (CBO) and, local mechanics/builders and bike art vendors.
This Bike lounge will display and consign Bikes built by Bay Area mechanics as part of the campaign Headquarters for SPOKES National’s Community Bike Organization Project. Our goal is to collectively advocate for earmarked City, State, and Federal Funding of our communities’ CBO Projects. This lounge will have commuter accessories, and catered café fixings from Awaken Cafe, Bicycle Coffee, Numi Tea, and Rock the Bike smoothies in its cool Old town Location. We will be having daily opportunities for you as **members to reserve space to do workshops, and host bike-related social events.
Our soft opening will be held in conjunction with Oakland’s First Friday on May 3rd 2013. Following that, our grand opening will take place in the middle of the Bike to Work After Party and we will be hosting the official Bike to work “After Party -After Party”. We plan to have DJ music by Abel Dee and special guests and perhaps some Bike Flix to keep the pedals turning.
The lounge will have a map of the East Bay covering an entire wall as focal accent. This map will have pushpins for all the CBO’s. Bike routes will be marked out on the map in red and will begin from the SPOKES Community Bike Org Hub on the map along routes to each site pinned on the map. This map will serve as a visual guide to patrons of where all our shops are located in reference to each other the hub and their lives. The SPOKESHOP community bike lounge will also provide your organization with a space for exposure in Downtown Oakland where you can showcase your bikes, bike art, bike jewelry and swag for sale.
Each member shop or org will need to contribute their high quality logo and a “Bay Built Bike” or bike product(s) to be part of the for sale consignment exhibit. We will highlight your logo, branding and location on a string of *banners in the lounge. Your product or bike will be mounted on the wall or rack with a short bio of your organization and name of the builder or artist behind the product. All sales will be tracked as consignment and you will have the opportunity to refresh your line of products as it sells. Our goal is to help our businesses or organization further penetrate the bike movement and bike industry and send business as well as awareness to the customers in your community. Through crowd funding and a capital campaign, we intend to raise funds to advocate for bikes as part of community economic development.
In order to participate, we require you to be a **member of the Community Bike Collective.
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
This successful model will serve as a hub of resources for cyclists in East Bay by providing them with maps and quick commuter tips.
Increase your sales and impact while celebrating green mobility today. Join us now!
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbchttps://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
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IEBA was formed to get more people on bikes. The Redlands Bike BBQ was out on the street on market night helping people with there bike issues. Coming together made great sense. We provide all the paperwork so the co op can do what it does best. Plus IEBA has a successful program under it, feather in the cao as you will. Because there is this larger organization we can help other areas open bike co-ops. I think it's been a great partnership. Since I work full time as an advocate and vounteer at the BBQ, it gives me a great perspective of what is needed plus you can speak for both sides of the challenges that occur politically and on the streets. A great example is sitting in on all these active transportation meetings where officials discuss making improvements. Never does it occur to them to think "I should bike to work". I throw that challenge out there. And when they say "Well, my bike is not in riding shape", I say " Bring it or donate it to the Bike BBQ". It works. We have kids form our Bike workshops coming down, we have the Boy Scouts doing a bike workshop there, we have a middle school class coming in June to tune up and clean all our kid's bikes. When you share the same overall goal, getting people on bikes, and keep focused on it, it's not a big deal.
Mark Friis Inland Empire Biking Alliance P.O. Box 9244 Redlands, Ca 92375 909-800-4322 mfriis@iebikingalliance.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Drayton To: The Think Tank Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Question - Role of Community Bike Shops in BikeAdvocacy
Oakland SPOKES is launching a hyper local/National Community Bike Organization (CBO) Campaign and is setting up a community bike lounge in partnership with Pop Up Hood Oakland to host “Bay Built Bikes” by East Bay Area Community Bike Organizations (CBO) and, local mechanics/builders and bike art vendors.
This Bike lounge will display and consign Bikes built by Bay Area mechanics as part of the campaign Headquarters for SPOKES National’s Community Bike Organization Project. Our goal is to collectively advocate for earmarked City, State, and Federal Funding of our communities’ CBO Projects. This lounge will have commuter accessories, and catered café fixings from Awaken Cafe, Bicycle Coffee, Numi Tea, and Rock the Bike smoothies in its cool Old town Location. We will be having daily opportunities for you as **members to reserve space to do workshops, and host bike-related social events.
Our soft opening will be held in conjunction with Oakland’s First Friday on May 3rd 2013. Following that, our grand opening will take place in the middle of the Bike to Work After Party and we will be hosting the official Bike to work “After Party -After Party”. We plan to have DJ music by Abel Dee and special guests and perhaps some Bike Flix to keep the pedals turning.
The lounge will have a map of the East Bay covering an entire wall as focal accent. This map will have pushpins for all the CBO’s. Bike routes will be marked out on the map in red and will begin from the SPOKES Community Bike Org Hub on the map along routes to each site pinned on the map. This map will serve as a visual guide to patrons of where all our shops are located in reference to each other the hub and their lives. The SPOKESHOP community bike lounge will also provide your organization with a space for exposure in Downtown Oakland where you can showcase your bikes, bike art, bike jewelry and swag for sale.
Each member shop or org will need to contribute their high quality logo and a “Bay Built Bike” or bike product(s) to be part of the for sale consignment exhibit. We will highlight your logo, branding and location on a string of *banners in the lounge. Your product or bike will be mounted on the wall or rack with a short bio of your organization and name of the builder or artist behind the product. All sales will be tracked as consignment and you will have the opportunity to refresh your line of products as it sells. Our goal is to help our businesses or organization further penetrate the bike movement and bike industry and send business as well as awareness to the customers in your community. Through crowd funding and a capital campaign, we intend to raise funds to advocate for bikes as part of community economic development.
In order to participate, we require you to be a **member of the Community Bike Collective.
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
This successful model will serve as a hub of resources for cyclists in East Bay by providing them with maps and quick commuter tips.
Increase your sales and impact while celebrating green mobility today. Join us now!
https://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/programs-1/cbc
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Bill Wright -
Brian Drayton -
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Geoffrey B -
james bledsoe -
Mark Friis -
Paul Nagel -
Ryan Sharpe -
Sue Prant