Author: markpa

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

We have continued to do lots of great Sunday Sessions, but we just haven’t been turning them into blogs posts.

Mainly because we’re so busy with bike tools in hand that we don’t get to take any photos, and as you can see from the following stories the adage about a picture being worth a thousand words holds true.

So courtesy of Liam and the Healthy Transport Hobart blog here some wonderful examples of how bikes connect people, and of the work HBK is doing.

Hobart Bike Kitchen meets Hong Kong

HBK – Bike Testing

HBK – Wheelin and Dealin

and here’s one more of a beautiful Tassie Cycles mixte that’s now getting plenty of bike love
Coastal Vintage Bike Action

We had a wonderful time at last years Sustainable Living Expo, and the money raised from our bike auctions has been the funds that have underpinned our operation this year.

So we’ll be back at Sustainable Living Expo this year on the 6th & 7th of November.

Each day we’ll be auctioning 6 bikes, the auctions will be at 11:00 am Saturday and 11:45 Sunday on the main stage.

We’ll be putting images of the auction bikes up over the next couple of weeks. So if you want to take the quick way to a new steed that’s been serviced by HBK, then keep your eye on this post and get along to the Sustainable Living Expo.

We’ll let you know which bikes will be Saturday or Sunday.

Saturday
Raleigh Tourer
Merida single speed
Kuwahara mens 12 spd
Apollo 12 spd
Raleigh Misty
20" Trials bike
Sunday
Celebrity ladies 12 spd
McBains gents classic
Trek 2300
Specialized Hardrock
Road Chief
Peugot Course

For more pictures and info. on the bikes go to Auction Bikes 2010 page.

We hope that everybody who has the chance will join Ride To Work Day.

Ride to Work Day is a national event and is about encouraging workers to feel good and have fun by commuting to work by bike and experiencing the health, financial and environmental benefits of riding.

You can register for Ride to Work Day at http://www.bv.com.au/ride-to-work/ and be in the draw to win a Trek 7.6 FX bike valued at $1,999 as part of registration prize worth over $2,200. There are a number of other prizes in other categories as well.

One of the core events of Ride to Work day is the community breakfast program which is held around the nation. This year Hobart will again have the
Hobart Waterfront Breakfast – CyclingSouth will again organise a Hobart breakfast for people commuting to the Hobart CBD by bike from 6am to 9am at Mawson Place.
Clarence City Council are providing a “pit stop” from 7am to 9am on the eastern end of the bridge.

Hobart Bike Kitchen will be having a display in the pavilion at Mawson Place so please drop in and say Hello.

If you don’t have your HBK spoke card we should have a few more available, so make sure you bike helps spread the word for good fun and good bikes.

We look forward to seeing you at Mawson Place. Not only can you enjoy free food and hot beverages thanks to Bakers Delight (official supplier of Ride to Work CBD breakfasts), Bananas Australia, Hobart City Council & CyclingSouth. But if you’re worried about how you’ll look, you can get Helmet hair repair thanks to ABC local radio.

There are free bike checks courtesy Ken Self Cycles, as well as info. on Bike crash insurance from Bicycle Tasmania and RACT Bike Assist to get you back on the road when your bike breaks down (but after coming to Bike Kitchen that’s not a problem).

Bike Love,

Hobart Bike Kitchen

Well now we’re actually one and a bit as I’ve been a bit slow with the posts of late.

If you check through the archives you’ll see our first post with a lovely pink lady and our first big session from September 2009.

Since then it’s been onwards and upwards.

With Gus and Pete off to other climes, Ollie, Lance, Sam and Steve have come on board. We’ve continued to deliver some great Sunday Sessions and are looking forward to many more.

Please come back soon to have a look a the bikes we’ll be taking to Sustainable Living Expo (6th/7th November) and we look forward to seeing you there.

We’ll also be at Ride To Work Day breakfast at Mawson Place on Wed. 13th October so drop by and grab a HBK spoke card if you don’t have one, or ask about how you can join is in getting more bikes on the road.

Bike love,
Mark

Well maybe it should read stuff I like and generally it seems most of the Bike Kitchen likes bikes & music & cool technology & opportunities where all this can be enjoyed.

The Bicycle Music Festival and Rock The Bike are two related sites which brings all these ideas together.

How do you like the idea of a 2000 watt pedal-powered PA system, or that the entire audience/band/stage/crew completely packs-up everything they bring (stage and musical equipment too) onto bicycles, and travels as a large group to the next festival stop. There are no sag-wagons or equipment trucks hauling the amplifiers and other heavy gear – everything is hauled by bicycle.

The Bicycle Music Festival has all this and more plus 15 bands so I reckon they would have rocked out this years festival at the end of July.

Do you think that Hobart deserves a Bicycle Music Festival? Interested in making it happen, let us know and we’ll see how many like minded individuals put their hand up.

Rock The Bike has a great line in interesting bike products such as Rock The Bike Fender Blender Pro for all your festival smoothies

But have a look at the Choprical Fish Party Bike which generates all the power needed for its inbuilt sound system

Highly recommend a bit of a search to check out his Flickr photostream and other articles about the making of the bike.

Does it really matter to getting more bikes on the road, probably not.

But anyway we’re incorporated now which allow us to do a number of things

Act as an Organisation – to get a bank account, sign a lease or register trailer as HBK we need to be incorporated.

Tax Deductible – once incorporated we can apply to ATO to be a charitable organisation and then donations can be made tax deductible

To be able to apply for any other grants we’ll need to be incorporated as govt. will only provide funds to incorporated bodies. We’ve really appreciated the help from Bike Tas. but this will allow us to apply in our own right.

You can see theCertificate of Incorporation and our Constitution.