Hobart Bike Kitchen

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.

Vodpod videos no longer available.

Beautiful, finally worked out how to embed the Picasa slideshow into a WordPress.com post. See the earlier post https://hobartbikekitchen.org/2010/07/18/4th-july-slideshow/

When I get this right the below will be a Picasa slideshow rather than a link but in the meantime here are some images from what was a super 4th of July at Bike Kitchen.

it was nearly all too hard. We’re a wordpress.com site and can’t use the plugins that would do this.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

If you’re interested, or so I can remember what I did, here’s how to embed using VodPod.
Get the VodPod account.
Get the photos loaded from Picasa to Picasaweb.
In Picasaweb on the RHS find the Embed Slideshow link, choose the options you want and then copy the embed slideshow code.

Back on VodPod use Add Video and paste the code copied above. This should get the slideshow saved to VodPod.
As per http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/vodpod/ should be able to to create a new post.

There is also a Vodpod widget to embed video into sidebar, but that’s a bit hard to view (or so I reckon).

HBK 4th July 2010

The nomination for the Australian Cycling Awards was great recognition of what the Hobart Bike Kitchen is trying to achieve in creating a better, more bicycle friendly community.

So Gus and Pete got themselves organised and headed off to Canberra to rub shoulders with the great and good of the cycling world.

Pete also did an interview with Ryk Goddard of ABC Radio.

We didn’t ride off with a gong, but just being nominated in our first year was outstanding.

Mark did a follow up with Chris Wisby to keep promoting the HBK name.

It was sweet. We packed up the trailer, picked up some crew in town and headed to the Pulse centre in Glenorchy.

Just about all the bikes we brought along rolled out the door in operational order with a smiling customer aboard. A couple of projects that people brought along were also rejuvenated successfully.

At it again next week. Check out the pics.

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