Hobart Bike Kitchen

Ride to Work Day 2011 provided a great oppoptunity for HBK to hit the road.

The Mawson Place breakfast saw Lance, Steve and Sam dishing out some bike care and having a chat with many of morning crowd to spread the good word of Bike Kitchening.

But that wasn’t enough for Lance, he had his long bike loaded and so he fitted in an afternoon session for the travellers heading up the South Hobart Rivulet track and setup a mini session there between 5-6pm.

He provided oil or air to about 10 people, and chatted to about another 5-10 about stuff. Which, I’m sure you’ll agree, made it a highly succesful bike hour!

Rivulet mini-session

All the gear you can see Lance carried on the bike.

Thanks very much Lance for taking the HBK message to the streets, but also for a terrific lesson in bike packing.

Let’s get ready to party.

We’re getting out party pieces ready for the upcoming Sustainable Living Expo which is on 5-6 November 2011.

You can have a look at the bikes that we’ll for the auction. This year the plan is to have the bike auction only on the Sunday so that you’ll get the chance to browse on both days if that suits you, or just come on Sunday and check out the bikes for yourself.

This is our once a year fund raiser and ensures we can keep providing wonderful bikes back to the community in a way everybody can be part of.

If you’ve got some time to help in preparing the bikes, it could be as simple as giving one the clean and polish it needs to look it’s Sunday best, we’d love you to come along to a Sunday Session and join us.

If you’re looking for a bike that’s a little bit special that’s ready to go this is the opportunity that only comes along once a year.

So check out the page Auction Bikes – 2011

Well it’s more the case of HBK going to YouTube.

Angus Ashton has put a HBK bike to good use and you can see it’s guest appearance on his video

Sometimes you gotta break the rules. Like crossing on a red man. Not locking your front door. Walking backwards up an escalator. Wearing odd socks with pants that are too short. Wearing odd pants with socks that are too short. And so on.

Well, add one more to the list – Finishing a HBK session after 5 o’clock. After a spiritual afternoon giving the people of Hobart all the bike learning our bones had to offer, the skies darkened and we realised the error of our ways, the witching hour was here and there was no stopping it. While we had busied ourselves with work the whispers of night had crept into our very minds and now compelled us to new tasks.

So by the light of a bicycle chain oil lamp, we set about the city inserting spoke cards, repairing tyres and correcting the braking clearances of any innocent bicycle left alone.

At least thats what I heard.

Some people say it never happened.

- Better go check your bike… -

(more…)

You know all that stuff we get taught about what makes people feel valued in the workplace & how positive feedback is worth as much as a pay rise or other rewards so it was great to get this letter

Hi bike kitchen people,

thanks

How good is that! We’ve got joy, exercise, family togetherness & peace all brought togther by a Bike Kitchen bike, a bit of time and a pair or two of dirty hands.

With apologies to Darren Hanlon
What joy it’ll bring, piece of metal and two wheels

Bike Love,
from all at Hobart Bike Kitchen

We’ve always wanted everone who comes in contact with the Bike Kitchen to feel they can contribute in some way.

So we’re expanding the use of our Google group to share ideas and keep in touch with you a bit more than just the weekly advice on the Sunday Sessions.

You’ve been invited to Hobart Bike Kitchen

Hi everyone,

we here at the Hobart Bike Kitchen have been happily working away at recycling bikes and donating them for about 18 months now, and we are soon planning on undergoing a bit of change. We really want to keep growing and keep getting better but we need more help!

One of the things that the core group of organisers would really really like is to get a few more people actively involved with discussions, decisions and organisation of the kitchen.

As a first step to this, I’m inviting everyone to join our online discussion group. At present there are a very few of us who use this, but its a valuable way to start getting some broader discussions about the directions that we are heading and how we are going to actually get enough help to be able to keep getting bigger and better.

I understand that there are probably only a few of you on this list who would like to take this extra step, but rather than send this invite only to people whose names I know, I thought it would be much better to make it an open invite – after all, coops are all about community and sharing, not about having a small core group of managers…

If you would like to join up, please do so and over the next couple of weeks I’ll make a real effort to approve membership requests as they come in. Have a look at our past discussions to see how we run, and start making some input when you want!

cheers!

Lance
Hobart Bike Kitchen.

You can subscribe by clicking the following URL:
http://groups.google.com/group/hobartbikekitchen/subscribe

It’s a new year and often a time to look back as much as look forward so some of you may be interested in how we got started.

Here’s a link to the original discussion on Facebook started by Gus.

It still very much sums up our aims and aspirations.

I’d like to either embed the article or export from Fbook, but neither are simple tasks so you’ll need to follow the link.

But don’t worry there’s still much to look forward to, soon you’ll be seeing our new trailer, we still on the lookout for a more central location and as discussed above we want to get connections with the local bike groups etc…

So here’s to a terrific 2011.

Bike Love, Mark

Sam has been going to do some posts but he’s been keeping his light under a bushell.

He’s been busy in the Kitchen but to catch up on what’s been happening you need to be checking out Healthy Transport Hobart

Here’s a couple of images to show what he’s been up to.

and had a great day. The weather was miserable so it was great to have an indoor venue, and on top of that a good crowd of people with bikes in mind.

Rather than bore you with my words these pcitures tell the story.

Our thanks to Aimee and Bridget for all their organising, and the lovely news from Aimee
“Best thing for us out of the event was to see the lady and her son in the last picture riding their new bikes to school on Monday! Exciting stuff.”

Big Bikes

Little bikes

Cool Bikes

Well tuned bikes

Serious work required bikes

Bikes to the left of them, bikes to the right

Serious bikes

Bikes to go

We’ve been looking forward to it for a while now, and now it’s time for Goodwood Bike Kitchen Day.

Goodwood Community Centre and the Hobart Bike Kitchen combine to give you a great afternoon of bike fixing and making fun.

We’ll be at

Goodwood Community centre
2 Acton Crescent
Goodwood 7010

Here‘s a google maps link if you need some help.

Usual time of 2:00 – 5:00.

If the weather is looking bad, don’t worry there’s space in the hall for us.

So bring along your bikes, bike parts and tools if you’ve got them. We’ll have bike stands and tools and parts and bike chefs and lots of enthusiasm for all things bike.

Plus, you can join us for afternoon tea.

Whether you live in Goodwood or not you’re welcome to join in, so lets show the good people of goodwood the good times to be had on a bike.
What more could you be waiting for? See you Sunday.

Goodwood Bike Kitchen Day