So if you haven’t heard yet, Freewheelin’ is a gigantic success, and has beaten our most optimistic expectations on its popularity. If you haven’t tried it out yet, we will be running it through Thursday at 7 PM, so stop by one of the seven downtown Freewheelin’ stations, and grab a bike. If you need directions to the nearest stations, just ask anyone on a bike with green Freewheelin’ labels all over it.
Meanwhile, here’s a great webvideo that explains the project well.
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Hey Everybody, I just got the info for the giant bike corral for the Thursday night DNC event at Invesco, Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. If you aren’t going to the event, this is the next best thing. Help your fellow cyclists by giving them an opportunity to ride in, rather than drive or take a bus. If you are interested, please contact volunteer coordinator Amanda Caldwell (amandaecaldwell@gmail.com).
Thanks everyone, and I hope you’re finding the bike scene at the DNC as awesome as I am.
Voulnteer Info:
1. Location
Rude Park – located at Decatur St. & W. 13th Ave. Just off Federal
2. Transport
Bike it in, or:
RTD Serves Routes- Coming from West - 14th Ave and Federal; Federal & West Howard Place; Federal & W10th; Federal & W Holden
Bus Stops 30; 30L; 36L; 49; L29 and More! Please refer to RTD Bus Schedules for your appropriate route.
Volunteer General Information:
· KEEP it GREEN! Please take public transportation or bike ride to Rude Park—there will be no special parking accommodations available to volunteers.
· We will have food provided by Specialty Sports and water onsite for volunteers, however it is best to bring lots of water of your own for your shift
· We appreciate your volunteering for the DNCC. Unfortunately there will be no passes or credentials provided to volunteers for the INVESCO event.
· We are working to provide TV access to the INVESCO event for our Bike Corral Volunteers—more on this will be provided as we get further information
· Volunteers will be provided temporary passes into the Rude Park rec center for breaks
Volunteer Schedule:
The numbers of volunteers will change throughout the day.
9:30- 4:00: 30
11:00-4:00: 30
3:30 -11:00: 60
8:30- 11:00: 50
(As you can see we need some overlap, ie from 11-4 we’ll need a total of 60 volunteers. And for the 8:30-11:00 110 total)
Breakdown and descriptions of these numbers are addressed below.
Based on the above time breaks, perhaps three overlapping shifts: 60 volunteers from 9:30 to 4:00, 60 volunteers 4:00 to 11:00, and an influx of an extra 140+ volunteers (totaling 200+) to work during peak checkout, from 8:30 to 12:00 midnight.
During check-in, only one lot will be open at a time, beginning with the ball park, then transitioning to the paved lot as the ball park fills up. The majority of volunteers will be located at the lot currently in operation, with a smaller crew left behind for security once the ballpark is full. Volunteers can be shifted between locations as needed.
General info /Job Responsibilities:
Hours of operation for check-in (11am to 11pm):
Registrars: At least 10 during hours of operation. Registrars will be at the entrance of each parking area , greeting arriving riders and checking to ensure they are credentialed to attend the Invesco event before allowing admission.
**Note** Only credentialed bicyclists will be allowed to park their bikes.
**Registrars are preferably a Bike Denver-affiliated or trained person with high level of organizational skills. ***
Entrance:
1. Registrar-
a. will ask riders to sign a “common” waiver Complete the paperwork with riders dropping off their bikes. This includes waiver agreement and acknowledgment of a firm closing time of 11pm, after which bike will not be retrievable until later.
b. Check for credentials. Only credentialed riders may park
c. No motorized vehicles may park (ie scooters, vespas etc)
2. Escorts:
a. escort accompanies each bike owner to the space where the rider will lay down their own bike
b. tape one corresponding ticket to the bike and hand the other to the owner **The importance of not losing valet ticket should be stressed.**
c. write the initials of the alphanumerically marked parking area on the ticket. Example: A7.
d. Ensure rider understands they must be back no later than 10:30 to retrieve their bike
Exit:
Hours of operation for checkout (Approx 9pm to 11pm)
3. All Volunteers:
a. Greet riders at the entrance, check to ensure that rider has credentials to have attended the INVESCO event.
b. Escort riders to their bike based on ticket number and lot location written on back of ticket.
c. Quickly escort rider and bike to exit gate.
d. Volunteer then returns to the entrance gate to assist the next rider.
e. Any situation in which the ownership of a bicycle is unclear or cannot be proven, a manager will be called to make an assessment, record identification and photograph the claimant and the bicycle in question.
4. Breakdown (Approx 11pm to 12am):
All Volunteers: Break down site. Move unclaimed bicycles to designated location.
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If you’ve been in a closet for the past few weeks, and missed all the opportunities to volunteer for the DNC, don’t worry, there’s more!
Our own Nick Bohnenkamp is operating a pedi-cab recycling program, and needs a few stout individuals to help make regular pickups during the week. You’ll get valuable pedi-cab experience, as well as help to minimize the impact of this event. Contact Nick if you can spare some time and energy for a shift.
We are also doing a big bike corral in Rude Park near Invesco for the Thursday night speech. If you didn’t get your community credentials, but still want to be a part of the action, this is your event. We will have a jumbotron to watch the event on while you help those lucky enough to get credentials, and smart enough to ride their bikes, park them in a big ballfield sized corral. Contact Will to volunteer.
If those links don’t work, just comment with how to get in touch, and I’ll find you.
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Come join us at the second annual New Belgium Tour de Fat on Saturday, Sept. 13th. Find us at the west side of City Park near the 21st Ave entrance on York St. Start the day off with a parade, followed by a day filled with vaudeville, great bikes to ride, and New Belgium’s line of great beers. Someone will be trading in their vehicle (complete with funeral!) for a custom made bike. Reverend Chris will be on hand to convert sinners to the enlightened way of bicycling.
For more information, visit http://www.newbelgium.com/vibe_tourdefat.php
http://www.followyourfolly.com/pdf/biketrade.pdf.
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Tuesday morning, yours truly, Josh B. and Nick B. got to help with media day for the DNC Bike Project. The early news shows wanted to feature it, and the bike building staff was not going to be there until the very reasonable hour of 9:00 AM. We volunteered to fill the four hours between 5 and 9, and put together bikes for the project in front of the cameras. We mostly assembled Specialized Centrums, which are pretty slick bikes - single speed with disc brakes - and totally fun to skid around on.
The most impressive thing is that this 30,000 square foot warehouse is getting full of bikes, and only 650 of the 1,000 are fully assembled so far, here’s what that looks like:
That’s a lot of bikes!
Josh and Nick taking it all in
I’m not usually up at this hour
Nick B of BikeDenver, Matt Barlow from BikesBelong
You can sign up to ride bikes during the DNC convention here: http://www.freewheelinwaytogo.com
If you’re in Minneapolis / St. Paul, Humana and BikesBelong are doing the same thing up there for the RNC.
One other sweet bike I tried out was the Schwinn Panther, a totally retro cruiser. This is going to be a lot of fun.
Here is Video from 9News of the event.
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The third public meeting for the Parker Road Corridor Study, Hampden to E-470, will be held on Thursday, August 21st at the Shalom Park Retirement Community meeting room, 14800 E. Belleview Dr. (behind the Goodwill on Parker/Belleview). This is the same location as the last public meeting held in May 2008. There will be an open house from 5:00 - 7:30 PM, with a brief presentation by the project team at 6 PM.
Please see the attached postcard, or the project website, www.parkerroadcorridor.com, for further information.
Your input at each step of this project is important to help shape this travel corridor! Please come to the meeting to provide your comments on the second level of improvements evaluation.
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