The Bike Center received a few more donations and started processing the abandoned bike pile which they'll continue to tackle throughout the week. There was a mention in E-Week for their Kids Bike Giveaway and already have donations lined up. 

Visitors: 66
Sales: $575.10
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $140
Memberships: 8 for $240
Tires/tubes: 9 for $69

They finalized the date and times for our Kids Bike Giveaway event: 12/14/24 from 2 – 4p at Urbana IMC building, so they submit work orders for signage/posters/social media posts. Thus far, we’ve gotten zero donations of kids’ bikes, but between both shops we have ~15 to start working through. 

They'll also have their first instructional class on how to fix a flat tomorrow.

Visitors: 69

Sales: $1,153.50

Bikes (refurb): 2 for $395

Memberships: 20 for $600

Tires/tubes: 22 for $163

The Bike Center hired 2 new staff members and got a new inventory of kids' bikes that are already in the works of getting fixed up. Posters are printed and hung at CBC for donations to the Kids’ Bike Giveaway. Posters and flyers were also given to Urbana staff for them to display in their space. 

Visitors: 110

Sales: $1,153.50

Bikes (refurb): 1 for $200

Memberships: 20 for $600

Tires/tubes: 22 for $163

The Transportation iCAP Team had their first meeting for the fall semester! Exciting to review projects where they were left off and pick them back up. The minutes are attached. We introduced the projects for the year and discussed what next steps look like for them.

Total white: 520

Total red: 537

Alma Mater

White: 182

Red: 198

Ikenberry Commons

White: 155

Red: 164

Hellene Greenway

White: 183

Red: 175

All, Another busy week with the fun addition of Bike To Work Day and Light The Night. Haven’t seen the numbers yet but both events went well,  I believe. Friday was surprisingly slow here, which was great since I had staff out sick. We had a BTWD participant follow up and volunteer with us on Friday, which was great.

With the previously mentioned events out of the way, it’s on to prep for the abandoned bikes being released to us soon. Space is at a premium, so we’ll have to get creative and/or judicial in the bikes we utilize. Hope to get a few more bikes on the sales floor. We also already have one bike ready to go for our Kids Bike Giveaway.

The numbers:

Visitors: 103
Sales: $1,230
Bikes (B-a-B): 3 for $150
Memberships: 19 for $570
Tires/tubes: 25 for $187

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center

Total Registrations: 1212

Location breakdowns:

Alma Mater: 359

Campus Bike Center: 79

Campus Disability Resources & Educational Services (DRES): 43

Campus National Soybean Research Center (NSRC): 31

Campus Orchard Downs: 62

Campus Recreation Center East (CRCE): 206

Campus Research Park: 102

Campus Vet Med: 19

Champaign Downtown: 78

Champaign Wolfram Research: 40

Mahomet Middletown: 10

Rantoul Downtown: 5

Savoy Recreation Center: 28

St. Joseph Downtown: 5

Urbana Brookens Center: 33

Urbana Downtown: 105

Sarthak sent out an email to all campus Bike to Work Day welcome stations to thank them for their work and participation in this event. All remaining t-shirts and swag would be returned to the MTD Training Facility on 09/19 between 2-6 pm. Special thanks to Paul Jensen and his team at F&S Public Functions who provided the tables, chairs, recycling, and trash for today’s event as well as the Housing department for providing food and refreshments to all eight campus welcoming stations.

A campus wide email was sent out for feedback on the 2024 Campus Bicycle Master Plan. It encouraged students and faculty to look through the master plan and fill out the public input feedback form. The offical online email link can be found here.