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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! 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.
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. HELP MAKE YELLOW BIKE'S NEW HEADQUARTERS A REALITY! 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) Holiday Closures - YBP Shops Closed Tuesday 12/23 - Friday 1/2 COLLECTIVE MEETING CHANGE OF VENUE - Since we are now operating out of our much smaller Treasure City Satellite 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. 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 the 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. PBS Documentary about our human powered move and moving forward towards our new shop -
This is
documentary of
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 . |
