Last Thursday I attended a meeting with some of the interested parties. One gentleman is excited about creating a Bike Swap once a month on campus. This would attract bikers interested in a flea market focused on bicycles. The booth fees would go to the Green Academy's bicycle club.
Another gentleman is a retired teacher and loves to build very nice bikes. He wants to teach bike mechanics.
A former Woodside student is helping design the bike club by working with the students until he goes back to college in Sonoma next week.
A couple of students showed up because they are interested in bicycles and want to participate.
One of the shortcomings of the infrastructure is that there is no storage for donated bikes. The poor beasts have been sitting out in the nasty weather getting less and less attractive. I volunteered to build a storage unit and now I find that my interest in electric bikes has me building a shed! (It brings me back to my happy days of theater set building on my college campuses. University of Oregon, UC Santa Cruz and Dominican College in San Rafael.)
So yesterday, I rode my bike to Home Depot and loaded up the materials needed for the shed. Mac, the college student, helped me and as we finished, Josh Rubin showed up with the school van and a couple of students to drive the materials back to Woodside. He left a little bit before I did and I got to campus with about 2 minutes of his arrival time. They had only unloaded 1 board when I arrived! Point being that the electric bike, for relatively short trips in town is just as fast as driving. (But not as good at hauling a ton of building materials.) I was very happy to be able to demonstrate the speed and efficiency of electric bike travel.
What the heck? Denver, CO - June 2010
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