Hobart Bike Kitchen

Hello Hobart Bike Kitchen champions,

In support of social distancing measures and recognising the need to protect vulnerable groups in our community from the corona-virus (COVID-19) situation, we have decided to prioritise the health and safety of our volunteers, you (our valued community) and employees of the Tas Health sector and close the doors of the Hobart Bike Kitchen workshop until things improve.

Stay safe, look after your bikes and each other in these challenging times

Be the best version of yourselves and practice generosity and compassion wherever you can.

Look forward to seeing you all for our grand re-opening party!

Best wishes

HBK crew

This piece from @Chris_Boardman is brilliant in it’s thoughtful, considered, undeniable simplicity.
Why any major city doesn’t do this is quite beyond me; for a very small public spend, the economic & social benefits are off the scale.
Thanks to @inthewoodshed

Well it’s an immersive cultural experience.  A warm and friendly place to connect with people, great music, performance, art being created LIVE! plus bike recycling/repair, organic veggies.

The wonderful people at Kick Start Arts are developing Musiq Garden where you’ll have the opportunity to be part of your community and enjoy live music, art , food, drinks, … and Hobart Bike Kitchen will be there to do some bike recycling/repair (as well as enjoy the music, art, food, drinks, …).

So if you didn’t get enough Dark Mofo, or you want more, or you just a great evening for all the family your Friday nights are

Click Musiq Garden to get the details.

Here’s the July/Aug program.

Launch Party – Friday July 6th 5-8pm

You all know Matt as one of the wonderful and ever reliable Bike Kitchen chefs.

As President of HBK he also does a power of work in making sure we continue to connect with many other areas of the bike community and you’ll find him at at Derby smashing some trails or out on the mountain leading a Bicycle Network ride.

The post is a bit late but the Bicycle Network Tasmania’s social rides program was recognised last year at the Tasmanian Community Achievement Awards.

To read more click on Matt.

While the sites been quite for a while I hope you’ve been keeping in touch with what’s going on at HBK via fbook.

But if you haven’t seen it there here’s a cool event you might want to ride along to. But don’t worry if cycling the family to Mt. Nelson is a bit too hard you’ll be able to spin the legs when you get there and help power the entertainment.

Happy cycling, HBK

Are you interested in a retro cycle, perhaps something from 1997 and earlier that might be road or track related.

We have a once a year auction to raise the funds that keep us operating for the rest of the year.

There are some great forums on Facebook and similar where people who have an interest in these bikes get together, generally to share pictures and to offer for sale but not to auction,

We’d like to share with you what we have to offer on this special weekend as there are some bikes that deserve the love of someone with a real passion for them.

Please have a look at what is on offer this year in Auction Bikes – 2016

in particular you might like

Kerry Hopkins

Peugeot Classic Roadie

Repco Superlite

We’re happy to take offers if you can’t attend, or to follow up on any questions you might have re size etc..

We’d also be happy to organise delivery, at your expense,  if you’d like.

We’re going to be with all the wonderful people at the Sustainable Living Festival once again.

There will be more stuff coming soon about the Auction Bikes so come back and check that out. In the meantime here’s the run down.

Join us in imagining an AWESOME future this November.

Sustainable Living Festival, 12 – 13 November, Prince’s Wharf 1.

Be inspired by creative expressions of Awesome through story, poetry, music, art, circus and more. Join experts and leaders as they share their own visions of Awesome in the Festival discussions. Speak with our fabulous line up of exhibitors, including the team from TESLA (in Tassie for the very first time) with their new Model S. Smell, taste and delight in some of Tasmania’s finest culinary offerings in our cooking demonstrations.
The Sustainable Living Festival is the place to get the skills, resources and connections you need to take that next step towards your own awesome future.

Follow the Festival online and on Facebook for all the juicy details
and exciting program updates: slt.org.au and facebook.com/sustainableliving.tasmania

Yes folks, the Electric Light Bike Orchestra rides again.

Dark Mofo is upon us once again, so we’ll be heading out to add some colour, movement and sound to the mid-winter festival.

Lance has had time to add to the repertoire of light driven sound devices, we’ve charged the batteries and turned up the speakers so please come along on Friday 10th June.

We’d love you to join us.

Bring all your lights, the more colourful the better.

Meeting at the Cenotaph from 8:30pm, and heading off en-masse at 9:00pm.

We’ll head off to Evans Street and around the waterfront area. We’ll be out for a couple of hours and you can join us for as little or as long as you want.

Head over to Fbook to let us know you’re joining the event  or like the ELBO page to see some clips and images of what will be rolling out.