All,
Interbike (www.interbike.com) is an incredible opportunity for bike collectives, do we (as a collective of collectives and co-operatives) want to set up complimentary advocacy booth there? This would be next to IMBA, Thunderhead Alliance, LAB, Adventure Cycling, etc.,...
The main concern is that we can get the materials created for the booth and then have enough people to staff the booth through the event. So in order to commit to this, we need people to commit to going now. Hopefully we can come up with booth materials at Bike!Bike!
HI Jonathan
I work with Community Cycles Boulder. I have been wanting to get to Interbike for the past 4 years and have yet to make it. This year u will finally get there.
would be intersted in Helping with the booth and i know some good folks from IMBA here in Boulder that will be going.
I saw another post u had that said register now for $25? where can i do this?
look forward to meeting you and lots of others at Bike Bike in a month.
Talk to you
All,
Interbike (www.interbike.com) is an incredible opportunity for bike collectives, do we (as a collective of collectives and co-operatives) want to set up complimentary advocacy booth there? This would be next to IMBA, Thunderhead Alliance, LAB, Adventure Cycling, etc.,...
The main concern is that we can get the materials created for the booth and then have enough people to staff the booth through the event. So in order to commit to this, we need people to commit to going now. Hopefully we can come up with booth materials at Bike!Bike!
-- 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 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org
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I'm curious what other community programs are doing (can't get to bike bike this year)...
We give away a free bike (not complete) after someone volunteers 2 hours and takes a 'bikewell class' (covers safety, laws and repair). We got a $10,000 city grant for helping low and moderate income people, and they really liked the emphasis on creating bike commuters, not just giving away free bikes. For 9 years we ran the shop like a festival- people filled the shop everyday and built bikes and rode them away (over 3,000). This change we made has worked well- it has created just enough structure without losing the grass roots feeling.
Who else does a program like this? (I'd happily send anyone the grant we filled out- I think most cities have funding like this. Though I think it's best to minimize any govt funding.) -Bob g.
We sort of follow the unstructured festival approach at the Bike-dump.
Not sure it is really the best approach. I'd like to find some method
which encourages people to contribute more, while still recognizing that
a free 70's 10-speed missing half it's parts isn't worth all that much.
Graham
Bob Giordano wrote:
I'm curious what other community programs are doing (can't get to bike bike this year)...
We give away a free bike (not complete) after someone volunteers 2 hours and takes a 'bikewell class' (covers safety, laws and repair). We got a $10,000 city grant for helping low and moderate income people, and they really liked the emphasis on creating bike commuters, not just giving away free bikes. For 9 years we ran the shop like a festival- people filled the shop everyday and built bikes and rode them away (over 3,000). This change we made has worked well- it has created just enough structure without losing the grass roots feeling.
Who else does a program like this? (I'd happily send anyone the grant we filled out- I think most cities have funding like this. Though I think it's best to minimize any govt funding.) -Bob g.
It's a valid concern- why have someone put in time/effort/(and maybe a small donation) for a broken 70's bike? But when you have a nice shop, tools, all the parts, a volunteer structure for helping that person learn to fix the bike, and then they can literally get out of car culture, it starts to make some sense. I'm glad we did the 'no requirement' thing for 9 years- it really built up some altruistic bike culture. But this latest move has been good (requiring the vol time and class). No one has complained, everyone has really liked it. We have 3 trained vols that offer the class.
A positive factor is that people have to be serious about wanting a bike, not just the 'drop in throw parts together and try to ride off.'
Here's another possibility- ask for 2 volunteer hours, and give them a brief pamphlet on the local bike laws and issues. Create your own text- do not simply hand out the official City brochure (or start with the city brochure and quickly adapt your own). -Bob, Free cycles.
ps. we concentrate most people doing the 2 hours into one wednesday night session, and then if that does not fit their schedule, we find tasks during open shop.
Graham Stewart said:
We sort of follow the unstructured festival approach at the Bike-dump.
Not sure it is really the best approach. I'd like to find some method which encourages people to contribute more, while still recognizing that a free 70's 10-speed missing half it's parts isn't worth all that much.
Graham
Bob Giordano wrote:
I'm curious what other community programs are doing (can't get to bike
bike this year)...
We give away a free bike (not complete) after someone volunteers 2 hours
and takes a 'bikewell class' (covers safety, laws and repair). We got a $10,000 city grant for helping low and moderate income people, and they really liked the emphasis on creating bike commuters, not just giving
away free bikes. For 9 years we ran the shop like a festival- people filled
the shop everyday and built bikes and rode them away (over 3,000). This change we made has worked well- it has created just enough structure without losing the grass roots feeling.
Who else does a program like this? (I'd happily send anyone the grant
we
filled out- I think most cities have funding like this. Though I think
it's best to minimize any govt funding.) -Bob g.
In Salt Lake we give free bikes away through partnerships, letting other goodwill organizations pre-qualify the need and refer the individual down to us.
http://www.slcbikecollective.org/content/view/79/40/
That we don't have to judge someone or ask them if they are low income. In most cases each organization has one person designated to refer people to us, which allows us to create stronger relationships with that organization and creates a very manageable pool of people that are asking for bikes.
This doesn't really seem to compete with the volunteer-to-earn-a-bike type work either. I think there is a fair shake of folks who are interested in learning skills and donating some time who also make bikes in trade. Some can otherwise "afford" bikes, but contribute to work off stuff. Jonathan, are we actively tracking the number of bikes that go out to volunteers?
Eric
slcbikecollective.org
On 7/16/07, Jonathan Morrison jonathan@slcbikecollective.org wrote:
In Salt Lake we give free bikes away through partnerships, letting other goodwill organizations pre-qualify the need and refer the individual down to us.
http://www.slcbikecollective.org/content/view/79/40/
That we don't have to judge someone or ask them if they are low income. In most cases each organization has one person designated to refer people to us, which allows us to create stronger relationships with that organization and creates a very manageable pool of people that are asking for bikes.
-- 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 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org
On 7/16/07, Bob Giordano mist@strans.org wrote:
It's a valid concern- why have someone put in time/effort/(and maybe a small donation) for a broken 70's bike? But when you have a nice shop, tools, all the parts, a volunteer structure for helping that person learn to fix the bike, and then they can literally get out of car culture, it starts to make some sense. I'm glad we did the 'no requirement' thing for 9 years- it really built up some altruistic bike culture. But this latest move has been good (requiring the vol time and class). No one has complained, everyone has really liked it. We have 3 trained vols that offer the class.
A positive factor is that people have to be serious about wanting a bike, not just the 'drop in throw parts together and try to ride off.'
Here's another possibility- ask for 2 volunteer hours, and give them a brief pamphlet on the local bike laws and issues. Create your own text- do not simply hand out the official City brochure (or start with the city brochure and quickly adapt your own). -Bob, Free cycles.
ps. we concentrate most people doing the 2 hours into one wednesday night session, and then if that does not fit their schedule, we find tasks during open shop.
Graham Stewart said:
We sort of follow the unstructured festival approach at the Bike-dump.
Not sure it is really the best approach. I'd like to find some method which encourages people to contribute more, while still recognizing that a free 70's 10-speed missing half it's parts isn't worth all that much.
Graham
Bob Giordano wrote:
I'm curious what other community programs are doing (can't get to bike
bike this year)...
We give away a free bike (not complete) after someone volunteers 2
hours and takes a 'bikewell class' (covers safety, laws and repair). We got a $10,000 city grant for helping low and moderate income people, and they really liked the emphasis on creating bike commuters, not just giving
away free bikes. For 9 years we ran the shop like a festival- people
filled the shop everyday and built bikes and rode them away (over 3,000). This change we made has worked well- it has created just enough structure without losing the grass roots feeling.
Who else does a program like this? (I'd happily send anyone the grant
we
filled out- I think most cities have funding like this. Though I
think it's best to minimize any govt funding.) -Bob g.
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Hi Jonathon, Well, sadly I will not be able to make it to Bike Bike this year, although Ignacio from Bikes Across Borders and hopefully Nathan from the Austin Yellow Bike Project should be up there. In regards to your idea about Interbike, I think that it is a good one and I would be interested in helping out in whatever way possible. We here in Austin are not so far from Las Vegas and I would be interested in going to the event. Keep me posted on group plans. Take care, Sachi Bikes Across Borders Cycle Circus Austin
On Thu, July 12, 2007 8:33 am, Jonathan Morrison wrote:
All,
Interbike (www.interbike.com) is an incredible opportunity for bike collectives, do we (as a collective of collectives and co-operatives) want to set up complimentary advocacy booth there? This would be next to IMBA, Thunderhead Alliance, LAB, Adventure Cycling, etc.,...
The main concern is that we can get the materials created for the booth and then have enough people to staff the booth through the event. So in order to commit to this, we need people to commit to going now. Hopefully we can come up with booth materials at Bike!Bike!
-- 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 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org _______________________________________________ thethinktank mailing list thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollective s.org
Put me down as a maybe... I'll be there unless there is some kind of disaster here!
Been a while since I worked at Interbike. I get nightmares just thinking about Vegas, so it would be good to be there with some good folks!
Peace,
Andy
All,
Interbike (www.interbike.com) is an incredible opportunity for bike collectives, do we (as a collective of collectives and co-operatives) want to set up complimentary advocacy booth there? This would be next to IMBA, Thunderhead Alliance, LAB, Adventure Cycling, etc.,...
The main concern is that we can get the materials created for the booth and then have enough people to staff the booth through the event. So in order to commit to this, we need people to commit to going now. Hopefully we can come up with booth materials at Bike!Bike!
-- 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 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org _______________________________________________ thethinktank mailing list thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollective s.org
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All,
I have signed us up for an advocacy booth, but it would be nice to have more than one organization staff it. Here is the registration form for attending:
http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Interbike
participants (7)
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Andy Dyson -
bikesacrossborders＠riseup.net -
Bob Giordano -
Eric Estlund -
Gary Gingras -
Graham Stewart -
Jonathan Morrison