Third Place Communities

Our friends at Third Place Communities have a lot of bike love and plenty of work in front of them.

If you have any time to give them a hand please have a look at the information below.

PLEASE HELP US TURN UNWANTED BIKES INTO CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR FAMILIES IN NEED

FREE LUNCH FOR VOLUNTEERS THANKS TO NANDOS

Most of you know about the Community Bikes Program where, alongside at-risk-youth we restore old-pushies for those in need.

Due to the amount of bikes we have to restore this year we’re hosting 3 renovation days where we invite the broader community to come & be a part of this process.

If you or anyone you know is interested please RSVP to me by email or phone.

Date: Sat 1st May 2010
Location: Geilston Bay High School
Time: 10am – 2pm
Lunch: Provided by Nandos

Don’t forget to RSVP.

Thanks

Anthony Edler

E: info@thirdplacecommunities.com
O: (03) 6234 8487
M: 0438 554 957

HBK keeping busy

Last Sunday (11th April) was a busy Sunday for HBK.

Sunday morning HBK featured on ABC Local Radio with Chris Wisby.

Unfortunately, we went to air earlier than planned and the stream ripper missed half the session. Hopefully we’ll be able to get it for posterity.

Then had a great Sunday Session with a group from Migrant Resource Centre. It was great to have so much happening and Georgi reports that 5 bikes went off in the bus and there’s a couple of more for next weekend to be finished.

We had a good band of helpers, thanks to Steve & Steve for joining in along with Pete, Mark & Galen.

You can see some photos of the action below.

Continue reading HBK keeping busy

and what’s been happening?

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.

Cleanup day fire

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.

Bikes are for play too.

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.

The King is Dead, Long Live the King

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.

Australia Day Weekend Session.

Last weeks Bike Kitchen was possibly the biggest yet. The backyard was filled with Bikes, Bike Kitcheners, Kids and a Dog.

Mark and his father with their completed Apollo which was gorgeous. It took a few sessions to get all the niggles out but all the effort was worth it!

Ollie built up another Apollo frame which I found a few bocks from HBK HQ on hard rubbish day. This frame was a full on racer and really light. Currently running ‘Ghetto’ single speed, (2 Chainrings and Cassette remain) this bike is the perfect steed for getting around town and to Uni.