Congratulations to our newest recipients of our Certified Greener Campus Programs as we finish out the semester.

Green Chapter:

Alpha Phi Beta (Alpha Chapter), Gold, Recertified December 2022

Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity, Gold, Recertified December 2022

Green Event:

Chancellor's Office for Special Events President and Chancellor’s Holiday Reception, Certified December 2022

Keep up the great work!

All, [Ed. note: Apologies for getting this in late.] We’ve finalized our Kid’s Bike Giveaway date/time with the Bike Project and have been working through our supply of donated bikes. Serendipitously we got nearly a half dozen kids bikes donated last week, even before we put the word out on the giveaway event.

This week we kept working through that supply. I was out on Tuesday/Wednesday but visits have been lower since the cooler weather hit.

While we’re working on the kids bikes we’ve also been able to fix up a few for-sale bikes, sitting at about 6 done and ready to go. Still have a large supply at the warehouse, which I’ll have more time to tackle after the 17th (date of the Kids Bike Event).

Next week I’ll move over the finished kids bike to Urbana as we’re running out of space for them here.

The numbers:

Visitors: 25
Sales: $185.50
Memberships: 2 for $60
Misc. parts: 19 for $95.50

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator

The transportation iCAP team met on Friday, December 2nd at 3:00 P.M. CST to discuss electric vehicle charging, and updates on bike shelter procurement for the university. Due to a software error, the meeting minutes were not recorded.

Link to meeting recording: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_u3g573fb

In the past weeks,  Aparna reviewed the  BFU Application to understand the scope of work, did research/literature review work, and familiarized herself with the current initiatives taken by the university at present to combat bike thefts. Moreover, she also had a conversation with a transportation staff from UCLA and ASU who had recently reached out to me on their ideas/approach on this topic for a qualitative aspect of this project. The same was also discussed with her capstone advisor, Prof. Lindsay Braun to go over the progress and find better clarity. 

[11.7.22] All, Last week we completed the bike donation event with Working Bikes. Thanks to some Bike Project volunteers we were able to pack their truck full of bikes in about an hour and a half. Unfortunately, they were unable to take all of the abandoned bikes as there are about 50 left. I’ll work with TBP to deal with the remaining junk bikes as well as the ~200 we’ll keep for refurbishment.

Last Thursday we were donated another pull-behind trailer, upping our count to 3 of them now. I will discuss with TBP ideas to make better use of these, as they take up a lot of space and we have zero demand for them.

This week we will reinstate the First Visit Free policy as the cooler weather sets in.

The numbers:

Visitors: 47

Sales: $508
Bike (refurbished): 1 for $225
Memberships: 1 for $30
Tires/tubes: 12 for $61

[11.14.22]

All, I was out sick for a portion of the non-open hours, but we were still able to get a few bikes on the sales floor and strip some bikes. This week I’ll grab some more of the good bikes from the barn and we’ll get to fixing those. We reinstated First Visit Free and were able to help folks get rolling.

I had an interview last Friday with a potential new hire and we’ll be having a staff meeting this week to get some of our new staff up to speed as well as provide a refresher for the returning staffers.

Next week we will be closed for Thanksgiving break. We’ll reopen Monday, 11/28/22.

The numbers:

Visitors: 45
Sales: $434
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $100
Memberships: 4 for $120
Tires/tubes: 8 for $103

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator