Agenda for Bike to Work Day and Light the Night: July 28, 2022
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A temporary bike rack (4-looper) was installed in the Bike Cage at ECE on July 25, 2022! A 3-loop and 2-loop bike rack will be purchased in FY23 for ECE. When the new bike racks arrive, the 4-looper will be replaced with the 3- and 2-looper.
All, I was out Mon - Thurs last week sick. My staff covered admirably but, invariably, there are things they were uncomfortable taking on. Just an opportunity for further training! We had one Build-a-Bike be completed and another almost made it out the door at the last minute on Friday.
On Friday we had a visitor from Danville who is working on an Eagle Scout program rehabbing old bikes and donating them to local charities. We were able to donate 3 bikes and a handful of parts.
We also had a new hire start on Friday, received a handful of nice bike donations earlier in the week, and will process those donations this week. We’ll also work on getting a few more bikes on the sales floor as we approach August. Or maybe more accurately: AUGUST. It’ll be a doozy of a month.
On Sunday, July 31st, The Bike Project is hosting a community bike ride, so we’ll let folks know about that.
The numbers:
Visitors: 18*
Sales: $499
Bikes: 1 for $200
Build-a-Bike: 1 for $50
Memberships: 1 for $30
*Likely higher actual #; technical difficulties in my absence.
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
Illinois Newsroom article by Sydney Wood about "University of Illinois tags students’ bicycles with stickers for campus bike clean-up." Read the article attached or read it online at: https://illinoisnewsroom.org/the-university-of-illinois-tags-students-bi...
Bike at Illinois confirmed an allocation of $5,100 for Bike to Work Day and Light the Night events. Following is the breakdown:
University Housing also agreed to donate food and refreshment at all eight or night campus BTWD welcoming stations, in the amount of $1,500.
217Today broadcasted an interview about the removal of abandoned bicycles on campus as part of the campus clean up process. You can listen to the interview at the 2:10 minute mark in this episode.
Also, check out the Illinois Public Media WILL episode for July 15, 2022 here: https://will.illinois.edu/217today/episode/217-today-to-atone-for-racial...
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All, Business as usual this last week. Still can’t keep enough bikes on the sales floor to meet demand but we have had an uptick in Build-a-Bikes. One B-a-B was finished on Friday and another started the same day.
This week we are helping out with a Safe Routes to School Bike Rodeo program by providing the basketball courts for their learn to ride course.
Thanks to Todd for putting a sizeable dent in our scrap pile, as we’ve been getting a lot of non-repairable bikes donated lately (unfortunately).
The numbers:
Visitors: 29
Sales: $862
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $235
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Memberships: 6 for $180
Tires/tubes: 14 for $136
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
Any bicycle that still had the orange tag, were confirmed to be abandoned and marked in the ArcGIS Field Maps application. This phase was completed by end of June. Parking was asked to remove all the abandoned bicycles after the July 4th weekend. Parking started removing bicycles after July 9th.
All, Hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend! We got a load of wheels/tires donated last week that we’ll be working to process this week. We’re up to 5 bikes for sale right now and should have a couple more done by the time we open tomorrow. Had one completed Build-a-Bike, which is always nice. Another person started their own B-a-B project and seems to be enjoying the process.
This week I’ll make a run to the Urbana Bike Project for some parts/supplies for various bike builds here and hopefully get a few more bikes on the sales floor.
The numbers:
Sales: $729.25
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $300
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Memberships: 3 for $90
Tires/tubes: 7 for $82
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
Fox news picked up the F&S Announcement about Abandoned Bicycles on 6/30/22. Read this article below or online at: https://foxillinois.com/news/local/u-of-i-dont-leave-your-bikes-behind
Also attached is the pdf of this announcement.
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U of I: Don't leave your bikes behind
by WCCU/WICS Staff
Thursday, June 30th 2022
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCCU/WICS) — The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign is dealing with an abandoned bicycle problem.
Each summer the staff with the University of Illinois Facilities & Services and the parking department identify and collect unwanted bicycles on campus.
Any bike left on university property gets an orange sticker that reads, "Remove this tag by 6/30/22, or your bicycle will be removed."
If the bicycle is still there on Tuesday, July 5 it will be impounded.
If your bike has been removed and you'd like it back, email bike@illinois.edu with your bicycle information.
If you have an old bicycle you'd like to donate, you can drop it off at the Campus Bike Center (51 Gregory Drive, Champaign) or the Bike Project of Urbana (202 S. Broadway Avenue, Room 24).
Click here for more information.
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Attached is FOX news article regarding the university's problem with abandoned bicycles:
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/u-of-i-dont-leave-your-bikes-behind
The article emphasizes,
"If your bike has been removed and you'd like it back, email bike@illinois.edu with your bicycle information.
If you have an old bicycle you'd like to donate, you can drop it off at the Campus Bike Center (51 Gregory Drive, Champaign) or the Bike Project of Urbana (202 S. Broadway Avenue, Room 24)."
All, Last week we were able to fix up and give away 10 kids bikes to ISCU (Immigrant Services of Champaign-Urbana). Great to pass along valuable bikes to a valuable cause, and nice to clear some space in the Bike Center. We also virtually sold out of bikes, as we were down to a single for-sale bike on Wednesday. Fixed up 2 more for Friday but that’s likely not going to cut it, so we’ll move to finish a few more builds this week.
We had one person start on a Build-a-Bike on Friday. Hopefully should be done today or Wednesday.
Numbers:
Visitors: 31
Sales: $1,289.80
Bikes (refurb): 4 for $$675
Memberships: 7 or $210
Tire/tubes: 3 for $24
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
Please see attached the excel spreadsheet that was used to analyze the responses gathered during the Mode Choice Survey 2022.
All, Short week with the observed Juneteenth holiday on Friday. We’ve steadily been receiving donations but most of them are doomed for the scrap pile. But at least we’ll get some decent parts off them.
Got a few bikes in the queue that should make the sales floor by end of week.
The numbers:
Visitors: 22
Sales: $568.19
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $215
Memberships: 7 for $210
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
Initial tagging was completed by June 20, 2022
All, We’re still working our way through our donations windfall. Open hours have been steadily busy, but it’ll be interesting to see how the extreme heat of the next couple weeks impacts visit numbers.
We are selling bikes about as fast as we can build them, especially since we’ve been too busy to build much during shop hours.
This week we will only be open Monday/Wednesday and closed Friday for Juneteenth (observed).
The numbers:
Visitors: 31
Sales: $915.30
Memberships: 2 for $60
Bikes: 3 for $595
Tires/tubes: 7 for $60
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator
Please see attached the ridership overview for the month of May 2022.
All, We were closed Monday for Memorial Day and so were only open W/F last week.
Thanks to the generosity of a local bike shop, we were absolutely inundated with donations—something to the tune of 15-20 bikes. Then two community folks dropped off even more donations. Needless to say, I’ll be processing these all week.
I dropped off flyers with WRC last week, too, in the hopes of expanding our reach to folks that haven’t already come into CBC.
The numbers:
Visitors: 15
Sales: $557.95
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $180
Build-a-bike: 1 for $30
Memberships: 4 for $120
Tires/tubes (new/used): 12 for $76
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator