From barry.isralewitz at gmail.com Fri Mar 17 00:01:34 2017 From: barry.isralewitz at gmail.com (Barry Isralewitz) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:01:34 -0500 Subject: [Bikecoop-announce] Volunteer for Light Your Bike! Light giveaway in Champaign Message-ID: Hello, Light Your Bike is coming, this April 2! With 3 hours to install over 250 free bike light sets, we'll need a good-sized crew of volunteers. This is the first time we've had an all-off-campus mass light install in Champaign-Urbana; we'll be at scenic Douglass Park in North Champaign. Big thanks to a generous donation from Prairie Cycle Club for making the event possible. You can sign up for a 1.5-hour or 3-hour shift here: http://thebikeproject.wikispaces.com/light-your-bike-2017 Volunteering is generally a lot of fun -- people are very happy to get free bike lights! Light Your Bike Free Bike Light Giveaway in Champaign Sunday, Apr. 2, 2017 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m (volunteering from 1:45 to 5:00 pm) Location: corner of Fifth St. and Tremont St. (along the west edge of Douglass Park), Champaign, IL Early-shift volunteers: please note the 1:45 pm start time (i.e.not 2 pm); getting volunteers organized early will help us get a jump on long lines. Optional training sessions: ---- There will be two chances to go to a short training session for those who haven't participated before, those who want a refresher, or those who want to practice with this year's models of reflectors and lights: - Mon., March 27, 2017, 6:00 pm--6:45 pm, at the Downtown Urbana Bike Project, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana, IL. (enter via south side basement door). - Sun., Apr. 2, 2017, 1:00 pm--1:45 pm, corner of Fifth St. and Tremont St. (along the west edge of Douglass Park), Champaign, IL Training will cover reflector install, difficult light install cases, educational materials, and more. We will also have a battery install event to get the lights ready in advance: - Wed., March 22, 2017 6:30 pm -- 9 pm Downtown Urbana Bike Project, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana, IL. (enter via south side basement door) Better to show earlier in the evening, just in case we assemble all the lights before you get there... About the giveaway: We'll be installing, completely free, over 250 "be seen" Planet Bike LED light sets; that makes over 500 blinky lights, counting front and rear. Don't forget to tell your friends about the giveaway, but remind them: lights are only installed directly onto bikes. "If you want free lights, bring your bike." Share the Facebook event, https://www.facebook.com/events/405381636480679/ to spread the word! "Light Your Bike" is a program of The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign and Prairie Cycle Club. Hope you can volunteer! Cheers, Barry Isralewitz Volunteer, The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign -- Barry Isralewitz barry.isralewitz at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Light Your Bike_tiny.png Type: image/png Size: 16749 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rshahoei at gmail.com Mon Mar 27 21:01:26 2017 From: rshahoei at gmail.com (Rezvan Shahoei) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:01:26 -0500 Subject: [Bikecoop-announce] March Monthly Meeting and more Message-ID: Folks, The spring is finally here and we have about a month to warm up for the National Bike Month in May. Get out there to ride, volunteer at the shop hours, put lights on bikes, meet and eat pizza. *Monthly Members' Meeting* We will have our monthly members' meeting at *6:30pm this Wednesday, March 29 *at the IMC location (basement). We'll discuss the agenda at *https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GpVZ8FJXREgoa48X1EW3X2lonmNtqhJO5jUbNBsNncI/edit *. If you have anything to add, either edit the agenda (email contact at thebikeproject.org if you need editor access) or email contact at thebikeproject.org with the agenda item you'd like us to add. There will be pizza and beer. *Volunteer Orientation* We started our monthly volunteer orientation sessions last month which went successfully. These sessions are open to anybody interested in making a staffing commitment on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. We go over the basics of staffing, how to help even if you don't know much about bikes (yet), and answer questions you might have. This month's session is *this **Thursday Mar 30, 5:30 pm *at our location in the IMC basement. *Light Your Bike Event* The bike project will be installing 500 high-quality Planet Bike Blinky Lights (image attached) onto 250 bikes. This will be the first mass bike light install in North Champaign. The event is held at *2:00 - 5:00 pm on Sunday, April 2,* at the *Fifth St. and Tremont St. Corner *by th*e Douglas Park *in * Champaign*. The flyers for the event, in English and Spanish, are attached and the Facebook page for the event can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/405381636480679/. Please spread the word. For volunteer signup please go to: http://thebikeproject.wikispaces.com/light -your-bike-2017. *The Bike Project is in need of volunteers for the Hours* We need volunteers for the *Tuesdays* and *Sundays* hours at the IMC shop. Also we are hoping to get volunteers in order to restart the *Saturday* hours as well as the *Women and Trans *hours. If you're interested in volunteering, please come to the meeting, the staff orientation, or drop an email to contact at thebikeproject.org. *Friday Rides * Thanks to the BikeFace, we have Friday rides. Here's a link to the BikeFace's Facebook page where you can find information on future Friday rides: https://www.facebook.com/BikefaceUIUC/. Hope to see you all *this Friday at 5:45 pm at the Campus Bike Center* (608 E. Pennsylvania Ave, Urbana, IL). The ride departs at *6:00 pm*. Cheers, Rezvan Volunteer, The Bike Project -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pb-blinky-safety.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 71758 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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