posted Sep 21, 2011 10:09 AM by Corvallis Bike Collective
If your kids have outgrown their bikes or you’ve got an unused bike that’s been taking up space in your garage, mark your calendar for Thursday, September 22. That’s the date of Corvallis’s first annual Bike Swap/Sale, to be held in conjunction with World Car Free Day.
Donations and/or consignments of ride-able child and adult bikes, tricycles, trailers, etc., may be dropped off at Central Park (across from the library) on September 22nd between the hours of 11 am and 6 pm. The sale will begin at 12 noon and continue until 7 pm, overlapping with the World Car Free Day Festival in Central Park from 4 to 7 pm.
The Corvallis Bicycle Collective (CBC) is spearheading the Swap/Sale in collaboration with the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition’s Transportation Action Team, organizer of World Car Free Day in Corvallis. The CBC will help participants assess the value of their bikes and will keep 15% of the sale price to handle transactions, enabling them to use this event as a fundraiser.
The CBC is a non-profit organization, comprised entirely of volunteers and dedicated to making safe, affordable, working bikes accessible to people in our community. They also educate bikers about bicycle maintenance, repair, and safety.
Don’t miss this great opportunity! Help turn your old bike into someone else’s “new” bike – and find another one for yourself in the process. For more information about the Bike/Swap Sale, contact Rose Clarke atrose.madeline89@gmail.com or 541-224-6885.
To take the Car Free Day pledge or to learn more about what’s happening on World Car Free Day in Corvallis, go to www.sustainablecorvallis.org
or call 541-230-1237. Sponsors of Car Free Day include the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition, City of Corvallis, Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), Cascades West Rideshare, Corvallis Bicycle Collective, Corvallis Clinic, Corvallis Cyclery, First Alternative Natural Food Co-op, Footwise, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, Oregon State University, Peak Sports, Safe Routes to School, Sedlak’s Shoes, and the OSU Student Sustainability Initiative. |
posted Aug 25, 2011 2:33 PM by Corvallis Bike Collective
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1) From downtown Corvallis, head east on Van Buren Avenue out of town (and county).
Cross the Van Buren Bridge. If you're biking either take the wooden slat path, yield to other traffic and pedestrians and enjoy views of the Willamette River. If you ride on the road, stay to the right as far as you are comfortable.
After you cross the bridge, you'll come down a hill to a light at the intersection of the Hwy 34 Bypass. Note that automobile traffic will be picking up speed. Stay right and stay visible.
We are south east of that light (cross 34 and turn right). You look that way and see us across the park in a light blue green building. If you're walking, you can head straight across the Alan Burg park to our shop. If you're on a bike, we recommend that you avoid this route because it's full of tire-puncturing blackberries.
4) If you're biking (or of course driving) stay on the road for about 75 yards past the light. Traffic will be picking up to full speed, so stay right and stay safe. At Ireland Lane take a right.
5) Once you've turned on to Ireland, stay to the right and on the pavement.
6) Keep right and the Y (technically Roche Lane) until you reach our light blue-green building. Stay to the right of the building and head around the back to find our shop.
From above, it looks like this:
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posted Aug 22, 2011 3:19 PM by Bobby Mauger
The Corvallis Bicycle Collective is nearing time for its (2nd annual) elections for its board. According to our bylaws, only members of the organization are eligible to vote in elections or run for positions.To become a member, you must:(1) fill out a membership form (either paper or online). If you have not done so, please fill it out here. (2) Within 2011, donate EITHER (i) $40 to the Bicycle Collective (you can do that here) OR (ii) 4 hours volunteering, NOT including hours donated in exchange for parts, bikes, or discounts.
If you are interested in serving on the board, please email us and/or show up to our next meeting, tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6PM at our site.
If you have questions about your membership status, or to notify us of volunteer hours completed, please email me at bobby.mauger <@t> gmail.com.
Thanks,
-- Bobby Mauger, Treasurer Corvallis Bicycle Collective |
posted Jul 22, 2011 3:53 PM by Bobby Mauger
Read more: http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/ced93dd0-b3f4-11e0-9bff-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1SsSRZynM
After more than a year of searching and false starts, the volunteers of the Corvallis Bicycle Collective are tuning up bikes again in a new headquarters on loan from the city of Corvallis. The nonprofit is trading landscaping, youth classes and bike tune-ups for the use of the workbenches and storage space of a shed on city-owned land just south of Highway 34 at 33900 S.E. Roche Lane (off of Ireland Lane) next to Alan B. Berg Regional Park. On Thursday, collective volunteers taught bike repair skills to nine teenagers from the Corvallis Parks & Recreation Youth Volunteer Corps. The youths wanted to take 12 bikes donated to the city or abandoned in city parks and make them ridable in time for use at a community event - the Campeones de Salud (Champions for Health) Sixth Annual Soccer Tournament, scheduled for Aug. 12-14. Ron Georg, a bike technician from Utah; Paul Atwood, a former partner for BikeE; Rose Clarke, former Student Sustainability Initiative transportation coordinator; and Vernon Huffman, a long distance cyclist and longtime volunteer with the collective, served as teachers for the day. Twelve-year-old Kevin Massie, a Linus Pauling Middle School student, listened attentively to Georg, as he showed a cluster of the city's teenage volunteers how to grease the ball bearings in a bike's axle components. It was a more technical lesson than on the first day, when the young people learned how to change tires and adjust handlebars. Shelby MacCollin, 16, a Corvallis High School student who began volunteering with the summer program three years ago, said that she plans to use her new skills to help her mom fix up her bike. After helping to string new brake cables on a bike, Mersedes Engle, 15, said she had a new understanding for how the brakes work. "I actually learned something," she said. After a year at CHS, she'll attend Annie Wright School in Seattle this fall. Inside the collective's new building are stacks of about 80 donated bike frames and shelves holding the functional remains of bikes that the collective has taken apart over the years. Among the mishmash of gears are finds such as a unicycle, a frame for a tall bike (two frames welded together so that the rider sits about five feet up) and a low-bike frame, where the seat is only about six inches off the ground. "There's a lot of junk, but there are some gems hiding in here," Atwood said. He picked up a smallish iridescent red and blue frame and said, "This could be a great bike for someone." According to Atwood, volunteers who rebuild two bikes with the collective can then build one of their own. "If you put it together yourself, you'll know exactly how it works and how to keep it working," Atwood said. The collective was on "pins and needles" hoping that approvals from the city and Linn County would come through to use the new site, Huffman said on Thursday. Now that they have it, the collective's revolving cast of about 40 volunteers is busy organizing the space and preparing to take in new donated bike parts. "There's so much good energy coming together," Huffman said.
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posted May 30, 2011 3:40 PM by Bobby Mauger
Due to our hopes to reopen a location on the south east corner of the proposed (although now likely canceled) slip lane, the Corvallis Bicycle Collective unanimously voted to send ODOT the letter below, also attached as a PDF.
We are writing to inform you that the Corvallis Bicycle Collective, a non-profit organization, is unanimously opposed to the proposed slip lane connecting the south bypass to Hwy 34. We expect our members and friends to frequently bicycle from downtown Corvallis to Ireland Lane, off the south side of Hwy 34. If built, the slip lane would make this trip much more dangerous for bicycles than it is now. The access lane proposed to the north of Hwy 34 would not alleviate the problem and would not provide bicycle access to the south.
The plan does not seem to comply with the Oregon Bicycle Bill (ORS 366.514). We are relieved to hear that ODOT now plans to discontinue this project. |
posted May 25, 2011 9:59 PM by Bobby Mauger
The Corvallis Bicycle Collective has recently completed negotiations with the City of Corvallis Parks and Recreation to use a portion their Flomacher Building east of Corvallis for our shop. To formalize these agreements, the City must next approve them.
There are two very important meetings coming up. Please attend both if you possibly can to speak in favor of this agreement with Parks & Rec. We don't expect any opposition, but a show of public support will facilitate a positive decision, so please bring all your friends.
Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Group
7:00 AM Fri-3-June
500 SW Madison Ave, Corvallis
Corvallis City Council
12:00 Noon Mon-6-June
Downtown Firehall Upstairs
400 NW Harrison Ave, Corvallis
I hope you join us and step up and speak for the Bicycle Collective. Publicly thank Deb Curtis for having the foresight to recognize the potential synergy of this agreement. Also, point out how well aligned the CBC is with the City's sustainability goals and help everybody to recognize what a good thing it will be for the whole community when we have a place to work on bikes again.
--Vernon Huffman |
posted May 9, 2011 11:54 AM by Bobby Mauger
Congratulations to us. No more paperwork; no more equivocating answers. We're finally tax exempt. That means that your qualified donations to the Corvallis Bicycle Collective are now tax deductible (if, as an individual you itemize your taxes using schedule A on your 1040... ask your tax preparer for more information). This status is retroactive to all donations made after June 9, 2009 (our date of incorporation).
The determination letter is attached.
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posted Mar 18, 2011 6:47 PM by Corvallis Bike Collective
Dear CBC and friends,
Just a reminder that if you're free we are having another work day tomorrow starting at 10AM. Bring old clothes, water, food, paint trays, rollers, gloves.
Other things we could really use: A open bed pickup truck that we could use for moving storage and shelving onto our site.
If you have one, send me a text or email. Thanks,
Bobby - (541) six-twelve-0009
Only two weekends until our opening. |
posted Mar 14, 2011 12:09 PM by Corvallis Bike Collective
by Vernon Huffman
Bobby and
I used up the rest of the paint Sunday. Those old walls were thirsty. Glad Ken
was able to score that "load bearing paint." While it would be
wonderful to have an angel show up with a paint sprayer and a gallon or two of
white to do the rafters, I can't imagine rolling and brushing those rough,
difficult to reach places. Exterior paint can probably wait until after we've
replaced the north roof (which may be another year). The shop is much brighter
and cleaner than it's been before.
I believe
Joel is in the lead role for electrical work and moving stuff from storage, but
there are lots of other things to be done. I hope to climb up and finish the
roof before I take off Thursday (going to Whidbey for a few days). Among the
tasks that could be done now:
- Chopping the hanging wall off
the NW corner, giving access to the north alley, where I believe we've
decided to accept donated bikes and parts, possibly creating a gate from
the removed wall section;
- Clearing, leveling, and
controlling mud south of the pad where the racks go and elsewhere around
the perimeter of the shop;
- Building a service window into
the smaller opening in the inside wall with a shutter that can be latched
open or closed;
- Installing a mail slot in the
NW corner, with thought given to where the mail slipped through it will
land;
- Securing the siding to the pole
on the SW end of the wall, maybe using a 1X4 as a nailer;
- Creating a soak, filter, store,
and recycle system for solvent, maybe from a small sink with a foot pump;
- Building and installing
cabinets with bench tops that can easily be latched securely at night. We
have access to a full shop with a resident cabinetry expert whose back is
no longer up to the work.
If you have any inclination to perform these or other tasks,
please let us know how we can remove any obstacles so it can happen soon. The
Grand Reopening is getting closer every day. Thanks! |
posted Mar 11, 2011 10:03 AM by Bobby Mauger
We're getting closer and closer to our April 2, grand reopening. The shop construction is almost complete, the inventory will soon be moved back in, and we'll be back opening. There are some things you can do to help us get there.
Donate (or better yet, become a member) - By the time we reopen, we'll have spent over $1500 moving in to our new space. While hope shop visitors will keep us afloat, more money will help us provide more tools and space for the community to work on bikes, and directly provide bikes to those who need them the most.
Volunteer - Email CorvallisBikes@gmail.com or fill out one of our surveys on our volunteer page. We expect to have a workday every Saturday from here until our reopening.
Specific supplies needed
-- Shingles and other roofing materials
-- A desktop computer
-- Paint, brushes, rollers, & pans.
-- 100' of Romex 10 or 12 guage 3 wire, a wall box with at least two 15 amp circuit breakers, and if practical a meter -- Items for our grand reopening fundraiser/raffle - especially coupons or any product that shows off your company's finest work.
Contact us if you're able to provide any of these items. Thank you!
We'll be taking bike and bike part donations soon when we reopen. |
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