Still slow but have had a few people in looking for bikes or B-a-Bs but no sales on either. With the warmer weather this week, we’ll likely be busier. I’ve got a half dozen bikes to safety check while the weather is cooperating.

Last week and today we made some more headway on the abandoned bike pile. Still coordinating with some other groups to take some of the junky bikes off our hands.

Tonight is the Bike Project Monthly Meeting.

The numbers:

Visitors: 23
Sales: $82
Membership: 1 for $30
Tire/tube: 1 for $6

On February 18, SARA approved a random sample of 2500 undergraduate students to be contacted by email as part of the Campus Transportation Survey. Sarthak Prasad filled out the SARA request on February 13. The sampled students can be solicited for participation in the study three times (one initial email and two reminder emails) between 3/3/25 and 3/31/25.

The 2025 Campus Transportation Survey has been finalized. The iCAP Transportation team aims to publish the survey in March and close it after 4-5 weeks.

F&S, MTD, Urbana, and Champaign are planning to host an event in April 2025 (around Earth Day 04/22) to give away the remaining lights and t-shirts from Bike to Work Day and Light the Night. Additional details are still being discussed internally. 

• Bike to Work Day:
  
  • 1565 Bike Month t-shirts purchased
  • 1274 registered
  • 775 participated/checked in
  • 1132 t-shirts given out
  • Leftovers at CCRPC: 413 t-shirts (Adults) and 20 t-shirts (Youth)
    
    • Youth Small - 10
    • Youth Medium - 10
    • Small - 122
    • Medium - 179
    • Large - 77
    • Extra Large - 26
    • 2XL - 9
• Light the Night: 520 light sets leftover. - https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/project-update/leftover-light-count. 

We have been surprisingly busy here at CBC so far this year. We’ve sold a few bikes thus far and seen a couple Build-a-Bikes head out the door—all good things!

Over the weekend, TBP volunteers and I tackled the abandoned bikes in the barn. Made some good progress and had almost a dozen folks on hand helping to sort/strip/move bikes out. Will have to take a few more cracks at it before we completely empty the space but got a good start. Great to see so many volunteers come out—many hands make light work!
 

The numbers (1/22 – 1/31):

Visitors: 73
Sales: 1,371
Bikes (refurb): 3 for $610
Bikes (B-a-B): 3 for $180
Memberships: 15 for $450
Tires/tubes: 4 for $19.50

Work order #11210744 is for Transportation Demand Management to pay for bagging City of Champaign meters for the delivery of shipping containers. This work order was converted to purchase order #A435424 and was closed on 1/17/2025. This task cost $300.

An article was published on the F&S website and announcement will be sent out soon regarding the approval of the 2024 Bicycle Plan: https://fs.illinois.edu/News/new-campus-bicycle-plan-approved-and-publis....

Purchase order #P2737487 for Transportation Demand Management to procure seven shipping containers from Mel Price Containers to store abandoned bicycles was closed on 12/18/2024. The total cost for the work order is $22,715.

As expected, we were slow last week. We held an instructional course but did not get any attendees as it was cold and snowy—no surprise there! We will schedule more classes next semester.

We’re still low on kids’ bike donations and hovering around 50 or so. Have a meeting with IMC folks this week to discuss logistics.

As a late decision, the Bike Center will be the starting point for a community bike ride this coming Sunday, December 15th at 2p, which will hopefully get some folks aware of our space that may not have been otherwise.

The numbers:

Visitors: 25
Sales: $209
Memberships: 2 for $60
Tires/tubes: 5 for $39