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ANOUNCEMENT ARCHIVE
Building up at Webberville - Since reaching substancial completion, where the contractor turns over the keys to the building, YBP volunteers have finished the mexanine, pergola, front deck and landscaping! We anticipate getting our certificate of occupancy and setting up shop shortly to prepare for our Ribbon cutting on Wednesday April 28th at 9am and our Grand Opening Celebration. Click here to view pictures of the building progress. We'll also be calling work parties to finish out the shop, so stay tuned for opportunities to help out. Sign up to volunteer to help finish out the building here Clown Dog Bikes 10th Birthday Party - Thanks to Clown Dog Bikes for throwing a great benefit for our new shop on Easter Sunday and for performances from Free Range Bastards, Wood grain, Eastside Alcohol. Austin Bike Poster Show Deadline April 30th - Submit you poster design to the Austin Bike Poster Show for the chance to be 1 of 25 artists selected by a panel of Yellow Bike volunteers. The selected posters will be on display at the Frame Corner - 5601 Adams Avenue. Artists keep 70% of sales during the show.
Webberville Shop is Now Open - Thanks to everyone who made this a reality. Check our schedule page for our first shop schedule. Webberville Final Touches! - We moved out of the Monroe shop at the end of February, and now all of our energies have been directed towards finishing our Webberville shop which will be open shortly, very shortly. We thank again the Austin Musicians' Health Clinic for providing us with that great space all this time. Certificate of Occupancy is in our hands! - We have now completed our building inspection process and the building is ours officially. Now all we have to do is setup shop in preparation for or ribbon cutting and grand opening. Click here to view pictures of the building progress. We'll also be calling work parties to finish out the shop, so stay tuned for opportunities to help out. Webberville Grand Opening Celebration - May 1st 4-8pm - Join us for a family friendly celebration of our new shop. Featuring shop tours, $1 BBQ sandwiches, and performances. Click to enlarge poster. Webberville Ribbon Cutting Ceremony - Wed April 28th 8:30-9:30am - Join us for the morning hoopla with our benefactors, City representatives, the media, fresh brewed coffee, and the folks that made this project a reality. Event schedule: Building up at Webberville - Since reaching substancial completion, where the contractor turns over the keys to the building, YBP volunteers have finished the mexanine, pergola, front deck and landscaping! We anticipate getting our certificate of occupancy and setting up shop shortly to prepare for our Ribbon cutting on Wednesday April 28th at 9am and our Grand Opening Celebration. Click here to view pictures of the building progress. We'll also be calling work parties to finish out the shop, so stay tuned for opportunities to help out. Sign up to volunteer to help finish out the building here. 2nd AnNual Austin Bike SuMmit - April 9th and 10th - This year's bike summit will a place to meet, share ideas, and collaborate with other people working hard to make Austin a more bicycle friendly city. Friday evening's social kickoff will begin with a ride at 6pm and end with a party at Bike Texas. On Saturday there will be a full day of workshops to choose from on topics including: disseminating bike education, resolving on-street conflicts, bike-friendly buisnesses, Austin's bike infastructure, making bicycling viral, local advocacy efforts, social rides, advocate training, and more... Click below to visw the postcard and visit lobv.org/summit/ for more details. View Schedule | RSVP
The Austin Yellow Bike Project (YBP) is a community supported ALL-VOLUNTEER 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing human-powered transportation for the people of Austin, running a community bike shop, and educating kids and adults. Clown Dog Bikes 10th Birthday Party - Easter Sunday, April 4th, Red's Scoot Inn (1308 E. 4th St), 5pm. Music includes Free Range Bastards, Woodgrain, Eastside Alcohol, and others to be determined. Proceeds to benefit YBP.
Last month for the Monroe Shop! - We will be moving out of the Monroe shop at the end of February to make room for SXSW festivities. Because our Webberville shop will be open shortly we have decided to focus all of our energies there. We are thankful to the Austin Musicians' Health Clinic that provided the space since August. Treasure City Shop Closed - Treasure City Thrift Store is relocating to 2943 E 12th Street this month so we will be moving our shipping container to Webberville to prepare for the opening of our new shop. We are going to send all of the parts and bikes currently located at our Treasure City shop to Monroe to bolster supplies there. The new Webberville shop should open in the next few months. 2009 Limited Edition Fundraising Tee Shirt Series - For the rest of this year we will be releasing a new monthly tee that will feature designs from one of a dozen highly respected local and national printmakers whose work can be seen here. Each Shirt is a limited edition stamped from 1 through 99 and all proceeds will go to the Yellow Bike Headquarters Fund. This is a great way to commemorate your contribution toward realizing the positive future of cycling in Austin. Visit the www.YellowShirtProject.com for full details. Building up at Webberville - The Webberville Shop now has a roof, walls, insulation and windows. They are working on framing out the bathrooms and finishing the plumbing and electric. We anticipate that our contractor will complete their work by mid January. That leaves the rest of the month for Yellow Bike volunteers to build the mezzanine, pergola, and deck out front. We estimate that we are only 4k short on funding. Chip in that last bit through a Donation or our Microlan Program. Stay tuned for opportunities to help out. View more pictures here. YBP MICROLOAN PROGRAM $75k Raised and only $10k to go - After learning that our arrangement with the city will prevent us from taking out conventional loans because we will have no collateral, Yellow Bike kicked off a micro-loan program to raise the rest of our projected construction costs. We're asking anyone who supports YBP's mission and who has some cash in the bank to loan it out to YBP and literally build community in the form of the new YBP headquarters. We'll repay your loan within 5 years, and give you a better deal than you can get in your savings account at the bank at 3% interest. Put your money to a good use, then get it back - plus interest! For more details visit our Microloan page. We did it ! - The lease is signed, the construction contract is signed, we have an approved site plan and between our cash and microloan pledges we have have the money we need to pay the construction contract. We still want to raise another 10k through the microloan program for contingencies but we are on the home stretch. No joke. And you know what else? We've broken ground! Click here to view pictures. BONESHAKER: A BICYCLING ALMANAC BOOK TALK AND RIDE Boneshaker is a Bicycling Almanac that believes that the bicycle, when conceived of and used appropriately, can become a tool for social change and community building. Modeled loosely after the War Department’s 1941 Soldier’s Basic Field Manual, Boneshaker fashions itself to be the practical bicyclist’s literary periodical-style handbook. Join us for a reading by editor Evan P Schneider from the third issue of Boneshaker (BA 42-300), which will be followed by a leisurely ride and libation stop! New Belgium's Bike in Cinema (LOBV Benefit) and Tour de Fat (YBP, ACA, ridge riders Benefit) - Two screenings benefitting LOBV will happen at dusk at the Triangle. Goonies on October 8th and Bottle Rocket on October 15th. See the sweet poster! Merely days after the screenings the Tour de Fat will be rolling through town to bestow reverly on us leave behind and significant donations to local bicycle groups. Thank goodness for this employee owned brewery with a socially progressive mission statments that was all inspired by a bike tour (read the full story)! HELP MAKE YELLOW BIKE'S NEW HEADQUARTERS A REALITY! Battle of the Non-Profits - Rugged clothiers Patagonia have invited us to participate in their Voice Your Choice environmental campaign. We'll be tabling at their Congress Avenue store from 1-5 pm on the Saturdays of September 26th, October 3, and October 10th, "competing" for your votes with Poder Texas and Ecology Action. The "winner" gets an environmental service grant of $2,500, and the "loser" gets a measly $1,000. Everyone wins, but of course we want to win the most - so come grab some wool socks and get your vote on! Talking Heads - In town to promote his new book, Bicycle Diaries, musical genius and cycling advocate David Byrne will be hosting a panel on bike advocacy at Austin's Paramount Theatre on September 27. Entitled Where We're Going and Where We've Been: Bicycles, Cities, and Transportation in Austin, the panel will include Rob D'Amico (League of Bicycling Voters), Annick Beaudet (City of Austin Bike/Ped Program), Jana McCann (ROMA Design Group), and Mr. Byrne himself. YBP is so excited about this that we're kicking in for the venue rental, so come out at 7 PM to listen, discuss, and maybe even score an autograph! Premier sponsors are LOBV, The Yellow Bike Project, Bicycle Sports Shop. The event is also sponsored by Austin Cycling Association, Mellow Johnnys, New Belgium, Ride2Walk.com (Lone Star Paralysis Foundation) and Tyrex Ltd, Texas Gas Service, and HEB. Admission is free. the 21st Street Coop Bike Project is currently under construction. They will be holding off further open shops until Mid July when the expect to have everything finalized and ready for a grand opening. They will then be hosting open shopsand helping you with your west campus bicycle needs. See schedule below for details for the latest. They are still looking for donations to cover the construction costs. Contact coopbikeshop@yahoo.com with questions and visit the 21st Street webpage for more details. YBP 12th Birthday Party! We'll be throwing our 12th birthday bash at Red 7 (611 E. 7th St.) on Thursday, May 21st with Austin's own Shearwater headlining. The Theater Fire (DFW), The Yellow Bike Gospel Choir, and Buttercup (SA) will be filling out the bill, so mark your calendars now and make sure to ask off work Friday so you can stay late and enjoy the fun. Doors open at 9:00 p.m.
ASK THE CITY COUNCIL TO VOTE YES ON THE 2009 BICYCLE MASTER PLAN UPDATE - THUR MAY 21ST / 6PM / CITY HALL @ 2ND & LAVACA GROUP RIDES LEAVE FOR CITY HALL FROM:
Afterwards, join the improv ride ending up at 9pm at Red 7 (611 e. 7th) for YELLOW BIKE'S 12TH BIRTHDAY PARTY! If you can't make it, Let others know that this is an important moment for cyclists to be heard. View the PDF Flier to print and hand out. Ladies shop on select Saturdays in may 9:30-11a - Bike repair workshop for ladies coordinated by ladies. Come out before the Saturday 11am open shop shop starts to get a head start, a workstand, and some new bike repair skills (5/2 5/9 and 5/23). Local City Council elections are this Saturday, May 6 - If you didn't already know, this is a big one for Austin cyclists, so get out there and do your thing! Be a good citizen, and encourage your friends, relatives, and acquaintances to cast a ballot as well. Our shop will be closed for May Day - Read more about the holiday and our reasons for closing on Friday May 1st.
PBS Documentary about our human powered move and moving forward towards our new shop (view documentary) -
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Austin Yellow Bike Project's most recent (June 21st, 2008) human-powered move. This time we moved our big 4500 sq.ft. headquarters into storage trailers on the site of what will be
our new, improved headquarters, which we hope to have completed by Spring 2009. If you'd like to help make this happen, please come by our small satellite shop at 1720 East 12th St during open hours, or if you'd like to donate some cash to the cause, you can do so here . Bikes Across Borders Community Bike Shop (map) Treasure City Shop Closed Saturday 3/7 - It is time for our annual coordinator retreat. This year we are biking out to Bastrop State Park to seek the wisdom in the Lost Pine Forest. We'll see you back on Monday. YELLOW BIKE AT THE DOWNTOWN FARMER'S MARKET - Exciting news! We've been having lots of fun at the Downtown Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 9am - 1pm, and are expanding our offerings in this space. In addition to general information, t-shirts, and access to a full tool kit and repair stands for your basic bike maintenance needs, we'll be offering some instructional demonstrations for folks who want to acquire new skills. (read more - full schedule) Treasure City Shop Changes - Due to a code inspection issue, we have torn down the Treasure City Yellow Bike shop and relocated our operations to our shipping container on the east side of the thrift store. Though we are operating out of less space than before we still have a full schedule so stop on by. We are excited about shortly starting construction on the Webberville headquarters and as always appreciate the support from Treasure City Thrift Store for giving us a home while we are without a home. PERSPECTIVES: 10 COUNTRIES, 10,000 MILES, 13 MONTHS and 2 BIKES - Thursday, March 5th, 6-9 pm, at IF+D, in downtown Austin at 208 Colorado - Come for an evening presentation, slide show and photo exhibit of a bike through Asia. In 2006 skot! started riding his bike from Athens, Greece through 10 countries in Asia. In Pakistan he met up with Danielle, where they rode thru Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka together. Other countries ridden through and, presented in photos and slides, are Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan and Western China. Holiday Closures - YBP Shops Closed Tuesday 12/23 - Friday 1/2 ALL YBP SHOPS NOW AT OUR TREASURE CITY SATELLITE SHOP - As of July 1st, 2008, the 51st street shop is permanently closed. The existing structure will be demolished in order to make way for a new road into theU Mueller Airport Redevelopment. On June 21st, the bicycling community came out in droves to participate in the human powered move of the 51st street shop. We moved the contents of the shop into storage at its new headquarters site at 1200 Webberville Rd. In the meantime, we've expanded our hours and parts storage capacity at our small Treasure City Thrift location (In the yellow shed to the left of the thrift store), but won't have room to store bikes for folks to earn. Hence, Earn-a-Bike will have to wait till our new shop opens. In the event of steady rain the Treasure City shop will be closed since most of the work area is outside and not weather protected. We are in the site development/construction process of building our new headquarters, and won't have a big warehouse shop space again until it is complete; we hope to have the Webberville shop up and running by Spring 2009. HOPES DASHED FOR a "Professional" FUNDRAISER MAILOUT - We'd like to apologize for a printer error in our recent mailing (it actually wasn't the volunteers this time!); the printer put the wrong address on the return envelopes. Don't worry, though, that IS the address of a YBP board member and we WILL receive your checks! Please do use those return envelopes and make your check out to The Yellow Bike Project. Thank you for your understanding and support! Ride on! Treasure City Shop Closed - Due to a code inspection issue, we must tear down the treasure city shed, which we will do on Saturday Jan 3rd. We will not resume shops until after we regroup at our collective meeting on Jan 6th. Future shops at Treasure City will be run out of our shipping container. Due to the severe lack of space for storage will will only be offering repair assistance but will not be able to accept bicycle donations and will have a limited supply of used parts. Stay posed for updates and shop hours.
YELLOW BIKE AT THE DOWNTOWN FARMER'S MARKET - Exciting news! We've been having lots of fun at the Downtown Farmer's Market on Saturdays from 9am - 1pm, and are expanding our offerings in this space. In addition to general information, t-shirts, and access to a full tool kit and repair stands for your basic bike maintenance needs, we'll be offering some instructional demonstrations for folks who want to acquire new skills. (read more - full schedule)
COLLECTIVE MEETING CHANGE OF VENUE - Since we are now operating out of our much smaller Treasure Ciry Sattelite shop, our collective meetings will be held at the Texas Bicycle Coalition building at 1902 E. 6th Street until Spring 2009 when we have a main shop back on line.
Events / Shop closures for October - The Treasure City shop will be closed several times this month for special events.
51st street shop CLOSED! - As of July 2008 the 51st Street is closed. All of our current operations are now out of our much smaller Treasure City shop. We have expanded storage capacity at our small Treasure City thrift location, but won't have room to store bikes for folks to earn. Hence, Earn-a-Bike will have to wait till our new shop opens. Since most of the work area is outside at Treasure City we are going to check out only six tool sets and stands. If you need to work on your bike we recommend that you show up early to minimize wait time.
JULY COLLECTIVE MEETING - Since the 51st as of the end of June will be no more our July collective meeting will be held at the Texas Bicycle Coalition building at 1902 E. 6th St. 51st street shop closing this month! - This month (June 2008) all 51st street shops will be all-volunteer. Earn-a-bike projects must be removed from the shop. For the first two weeks of the month we will be building as many bikes as possible in preparation for a huge bike sale happening at Frankenbike 34 hosted at the 51st Street shop on June 14th. The next week will be spent packing up for our human powered move to our new headquarters site. We need all the help we can get so volunteer and help out! Human Powered Move Part II - 2.4 miles, 11 years of bike parts... Frankenbike #34 - Saturday Noon-4pm June 14th at the 51st Street Shop - We are hosting a Frankenbike at our 51st street shop in it's final weeks of operation. We are trying to make as many bikes rideable as possible to sell at the austin-notorious roaming bicycle parts swap meet. Funds generated for YBP bike and parts sales will help with construction costs for our new headquarters facility. Stop by any scheduled shop night to volunteer and help build up bikes for the sale. VIEW OUR SHOP SCHEDULE! - In preparation for closing all shops are volunteer - Always up-to-date for your convenience (view schedule). You can also view the Austin Bicycle Advocacy Calendar. YBP SURVEY - Click here to take the survey now! We've recently been thinking of ways to gauge what kind of impact the Yellow Bike Project has on the cycling community in a city like Austin. We hope that our free bike repair workshops empower people, like few other education efforts can, to depend on their bikes for transportation. Still, we're always interested in getting feedback on our effectiveness as an organization and new ideas on how to better realize our vision. ybp's 11th birthday party, Bike Art Show and Fundraiser!! - Celebrate the work of Austin’s grassroots bicycle community and join us for bike related fun, including gold sprints and yellow bike races, a raffle and silent auction art show, live music by Magnifico, Foot Patrol, along with No Big Deal, Blackholicus, and Hollywood Gossip, beats by DJ Brisket and DJ Katastrophik. There will also be 16mm bicycle films by Jeff Newbury. $5 suggested donation at the door. All proceeds go to The Yellow Bike Project and their new building construction. When: Saturday, May 31st, 6pm to 2am
YBP SURVEY - Click here to take the survey now! We've recently been thinking of ways to gauge what kind of impact the Yellow Bike Project has on the cycling community in a city like Austin. We hope that our free bike repair workshops empower people, like few other education efforts can, to depend on their bikes for transportation. Still, we're always interested in getting feedback on our effectiveness as an organization and new ideas on how to better realize our vision.
51st street Shop closed on Thursday May 1st! 51st street Shop closed for Bicycle summit at UT - Saturday May 3rd 9am to 4pm - CAMPO is hosting an Austin Bicycle Summit to kick off Bike Month 2008. The Summit is an event to promote improvements in bicycle and pedestrian transportation in the region by sharing ideas and bridging disciplines. If you are interested in getting involved in bicycle advocacy registrater here for free! Read more. 51st Street Shop Closed Monday 4/7 for... Over 100 people attended to show their support for Bicycling issues at the 2008 ACA hosted, City Council Canidates Forum. View Sign-in roster | See pictures of event. *rescheduled* - Bicycle Issues at CITY COUNCIL - 10am thursday march 20th: Two very important issues for bicyclists will be brought to City Council at this meeting. You can show up 3 days prior to the meeting and vote your position on the two issues using the computers in the lobby of City Hall or show up in person to the meeting and speak or just show your presence.
Bicycle Issues at CITY COUNCIL - 10am thursday Febuary 28th: Two very important issues for bicyclists will be brought to City Council at this meeting. You can show up 3 days prior to the meeting and vote your position on the two issues using the computers in the lobby of City Hall or show up in person to the meeting and speak or just show your presence.
YBP to Host ACA meeting - Yellow Bike to host Austin Cycling Association's (ACA) February general meeting at the 51st street shop at 7pm. There will be no Monday night shop as a result. All are invited to attend the meeting and to see what another great local Austin group is doing to promote cycling. Branch out - get involved! The ACA Organizes Austin's Bike Month, hosts LAB cycling instruction in safe cycling, gives free helmets to kids, prints the Southwest Cycling News, and hosts weekly rides including their yearly fundraiser the Armadillo Hill Country Classic.
150 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR YELLOW BIKE FUNDRAISER! - New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat is happening again in Austin on October 20th at Fiesta Gardens from 11am to 6pm. Proceeds from the event will go to three Austin area cycling groups: Yellow Bike Project, Austin Cycling Association, and Austin Ridge Riders. We need 150 volunteers to staff various aspects of the event from ID checking to tear down. Some positions require TABC certification, which New Belgium will pay for. Please email us at if you are interested in volunteering. This has been a large fundraising event in the past and we would love your help in pulling it off (read more about the Tour de Fat). FREE SKOOL CLASSES AT YELLOW BIKE - The Free Scool Austin is a collectively run educational network that emphasizes "freedom of thought" as much as "free of charge." We are teaching a two part frame frame up bike building class this month at our shop as part of their program. Unfornatuly these classes are full but they are always offering new adult classes.
WE NEED HELP! BECOME A COORDINATOR - This month due to several coordinators out on vacation we are only able to offer THREE SHOPS PER WEEK. We are increasingly in need of additional shop coordinators to allow us to accommodate new volunteers and help make their time at the shop productive and educational. If you've been around the shop for a while and are feeling more comfortable with bike repair, you can help. Here's how it works: read more... SIGN UP for our Monthly Newsletter to be notified of updated shop hours and current projects. Simply enter your email address in the box box below and confirm through your email account. Read our September Newsletter Online. Information on YBP offering a bike repair class, 150 Volunteers needed for Tour de Fat (Help Out!), Coordinator Apprenticeship Changes (Start Now!), Green City Festival, Free School.
SIGN UP FOR OUR BIKE REPAIR CLASS! (Four part class on Sundays in November from 5-8pm for $40) - Do you feel like our open shops are overwhelming? Crowded? Intimidating? Looking for a calmer learning environment with a planned curriculum taught by our wonderful volunteer coordinators with attention to spare? We think we have a solution!
In November, we are offering a 4 part bike repair class on Sundays from 5-8pm. The class will cover almost everything: repair basics; overhaul and repair of brakes, hubs, bottom brackets, and derailleurs; truing wheels; and road safety. The class will be capped at 10 participants , which should feel like a private session compared to our 40-50 person open shops. The cost of the 4 part class is $40, which will go to support the work of Yellow Bike. Participants with perfect attendance will be rewarded with an Earn-a-Bike (your choice of used parts from our shop to build the bike of your dreams). By the end of the course fixing up your Earn-a-Bike will be easy and fun! To sign up for the class send us an email with your contact information. We will contact you and send confirmation of enrollment once payment for the class is arranged. YBP IN THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE - Read an excellent article written by Dan Mottola of the Austin Chronicle about our 10 years of service and challenges with finding a new shop location (read article). Check out our press page for a catalogue of published articles on The Yellow Bike Project! AUSTIN GETS SILVER LEVEL BIKE FRIENDLY CITY RATING - On May 24th the Mayor of Austin officially proclaimed May in Austin as Bike Month. The announcement was made to commemorate the Silver Level Bike Friendly City rating given this month by the League of American Bicyclists. Congratulations to Austin's new Bike Program Coordinator, Annick Beaudet, and Staff for their work. Read Austin's profile on the League of American Bicyclists website to see how Yellow Bike helped Austin achieve the silver rating.
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SHELDON BROWN MEMORIAL RIDE - Sunday 2/10 4pm AT THE Lamar Pedestrian Bridge -
