Author: markpa

Well it’s been business as usual for the last couple of months.

Sunday Sessions have been happening, we’ve just been busy on the tools rather than taking photos.

We enjoyed having special guest chef, Phillipe from Whitehorse, Canada to one of our Sunday Sessions.

Liam and Pete have made a big start to reorganising the Bike Kitchen yard – all the branches are cleared and we can access the fences.

There is plenty to do in making the best use of the space so it’s easier to store the bikes and frames and for you to find what you need. So if you have the time and no bike chores to do you can still come along to a Sunday Session and give us a hand with the reorg.

We also had a go at valet bike parking for Kidsfest held at the Botanical Gardens on 21st March. Unfortunately, the rain get the cyclists away (well it kept lots of people away) so we didn’t get to spread the good news about HBK as we hoped.

We hope you enjoy Easter as we have a kitchen free weekend, but we’re already making plans for a big session on the 11th.

Well we hope you will be next Monday (1/4/2010).

You can listen to Edge Radio on Monday morning for Pete and Mark when we chat with Bazza & Macca about Hobart Bike Kitchen.

99.3fm or stream http://131.217.118.2:7990/EdgeRadio.mp3

Should be sometime betwen 8 and 9am.

It was great to see a few friends of HBK getting out and putting their bikes to good use.

Summer Survival saw Ant of Third Place Communities putting in the hard yards as an individual competitor.

Liam and Galen of Healthy Transport Hobart teamed together for the 2 person teams, and Liam loved the kayaking.

For HBK Mark got on the road bike for the Matthews Mob and followed team rules “stay on the bike, don’t come last”.

No times are being posted here as we wouldn’t want to embarrass anyone, it just good to see bikes out on a summers day and these hard workers for our community having some fun.

We’ll see if we can get some photos of the day.

Well he’s not dead, he’s not even badly injured but Gus, the King of Bike Kitchen (he’d hate that term), is off to do some more great bike things on the mainland.

Gus has been accepted into Architecture at the University of Newcastle, or more properly the School of Architecture and the Built Environment in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment. There Gus will be able to take his engineering knowledge and his bike love to become Australia;s answer to Jan Gehl.

Reading this article from Jan Gehl you could replace Sydney with Hobart and it would be a great start for the new government.

Anyway Gus has promised he’ll be keeping an eye of HBK and will be dropping in when he can.

But that doesn’t mean we’re going away. Pete and Mark will be keeping the Kitchen on the boil, it just makes room for another bike chef or two. So if you’re interested in taking part just drop us a line.

It is a great pleasure to be able to say that Hobart Bike Kitchen has had our Community Capacity Building Grant approved. You’ll be hearing more from us as things progress.

We’ll be working to have a mobile presence so that we can work with a number of community groups.

You’ll have seen in the Whats been happening post that we’ve been working with Migrant Resource Centre and we’re looking to increase our engagement with them, Colony 47 and others.

Cheers, from a very pumped Bike Kitchen Team

While we’re the Hobart Bike Kitchen we hope that we’re connecting with a broad range of Tasmanian cyclists, and here is a Launceston initiative that we wholly support. So if your in Launnie and can help them grow their cycling culture here is a great opportunity (and if your in Launnie and want to talk Bike Kitchens we’d love to hear from you).

Active Launceston are seeking expressions of interest for providing services for their Active Bike 2010 program.

Service Required: 2 suitably qualified and experienced persons to coordinate 1 hour cycle and education program.

Focus: ACTIVE BIKE is a program aimed to encourage more community members to use bikes as a form of transport and for physical activity. The program will run over a 10 week period during spring and autumn encompassing cycling education and both on and off‐road cycling sessions.
The program will familiarise participations with safe cycling routes within the city of Launceston and help them to discover recreational trails across the municipality.

For more info. see this pdf.

We’ve been quiet over the Chrtistmas/new Year break and hope you’ve enjoyed yourselves as well.

If you’re looking for some nice bike reading have a look at bike and bicycle tags on http://www.doobybrain.com/

There’s some nice stuff there, and the fixie lovers will enjoy A Taste of The Toast.

Look forward to seeing you all soon.

Hello,

I am seeking community involvement in an exciting new music performance project Pursuit for the Opening of Mona Foma in Hobart on January 9th. Acclaimed artists Jon Rose and Robin Fox are bringing together a pedal powered orchestra with some specially built bicycle instruments, to create a soundscape in the Mona Foma festival hub for the opening weekend.

You can be involved in a number of ways, from riding your bicycle in the performance – as part of the Unlikely Orchestra (ringing bells, horns or singing)- to participating in workshop builds of new bicycle instruments to be included in the performance. We would love to include cyclists from all over Tasmania in this performance.

There is meant to be a pdf for if you are interested in being a part of this event, but if it’s not working please contact Penny Camens at enquiries@mofo.net.au

Call for involvement

and here’s a link to give you some idea of what it might look like. PURSUIT

Ride your bike to the Walk Against Warming in the Florentine Valley!

This year’s Walk Against Warming starts at 12 noon on Saturday 12th December in Tasmania’s Upper Florentine. The walk will be part of a global day of climate action, coinciding with international climate talks in Copenhagen. Come along to the Walk against Warming and find out how forests help fight climate change, and the positive opportunities for expanding our renewable-energy and low-carbon industries. Make your voice heard! Join the call to world leaders for a strong and fair global climate deal at the Copenhagen climate talks.

Make your trip to the Walk Against Warming carbon neutral. Ride your bike to the Upper Florentine, arriving Friday night, in time to join in the fun. Arrangements will be made for all your gear, the journey will be pre-planned and guides will be with you on the day. Please note: there are a number of hills that you will need to ascend and descend on route to the Upper Florentine.

To find out more about the bike ride, call Jess at Environment Tasmania on (03) 6224 6319 or email climate@et.org.au

For more info about the Walk Against Warming, visit www.et.org.au

It’s obvious we think bikes are a great tool for good, here is a site that shows some of the impact that they can have in African communities

World Bicycle Relief

They also have a gift giving program if you’re a bit challenged by the upcoming gift giving season.