This news blog is designed to bring you up to date with the latest happenings at Velocipede. For more info about Velocipede Bike Project, please check the links above and to the left!
Bike Clinic Canceled tonight!
February 8, 2010
Dear friends,
I’m sorry to announce that the bike clinic series: brakes will be postponed until the next time(2/22). This snowstorm is serious!
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Snow day!
February 7, 2010
Sorry folks, once again we’ll be closed today, Sunday the 7th. Go out and build a snow bike!
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Snow Day: Women’s Night Canceled.
February 2, 2010
Hey everyone, once again we’re sorry to say but we will be closing Womens/Transgender night tonight due to the snow that’s due to arrive at 5pm. We hope everyone have a warm and snowy evening.
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Shop Closed Today (Sun, January 31st, 2010)
January 31, 2010
Hi everyone,
due to the weather/extreme coldness of the shop, the shop will be closed today. I want to apologize for any inconvenience this causes, and hope to see you all at an later date.
-Velocipede
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GHCC’s Tour de Greater Homewood.
November 5, 2009
Hi everyone! The Greater Homewood Community Corporation (GHCC) are having a pretty amazing memorial ride this sunday honoring the fallen cyclist John Yates. The ride will begin at 1pm at the University of Baltimore Gordon Plaza (Maryland and Mount Royal) and suggested donations will benefit GHCC youth programs, of which Mr. Yates supported tirelessly.
For more info, please visit the North Baltimore Bicycle Brigade
and we hope to see you there!
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Fundraiser for Gabby!
September 14, 2009
Hey Everyone!!!
Our dear friend and collective member Gabby will soon be heading off on a bicycle tour, taking her south and then west across several states. Along the way, she will visit several bicycle co-ops with the goal of gathering new ideas and spreading love. Gabby needs our support to embark on this ambitious project. This Friday, Velocipede will be holding a fundraiser party. There will be music, dancing, and of course, beverages.
The evening’s entertainment is provided by:
Abiku
DJ Jonathan
DJ Dubar ( Molly from Ponytail )
suggested donation of $3
$1 boh!
spread the word, come and dance and wish gabby an awesome trip.
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Bike! Bike! Day 2
August 29, 2009
Continuing on…
We woke up and headed back to the Bedlam Theatre for breakfast (which was the bomb,) and proceeded to attend various workshops. Unfortunately, Lars and I did not gauge the setup time correctly and basically abandoned the first session because we thought it’d end in the middle of the second “Welding hands on” one. It turns out we probably had enough time to attend the first one and then went onto welding. Regardless, the time was not wasted; We went to The Hub a worker owned collective shop that was so successful they managed to open two locations. The structure and shop reminded me of Baltimore’s own Baltimore Bicycle Works and it makes me excited in the future of that shop as it slowly grows into a success story like The Hub.
We got back in time for our welding handson demonstration. We got a quick safety lesson from Jeremy, our instructor. We got a basic lesson on MIG welding, and he set us loose to basically sand parts of a dissembled bike and to connect them into each other into some sort of diabolical crude tribute to old steel frames.
That’s Anton with the torch.
My second workshop was one on “Working with At-Risk Youth.” Overall I think it went okay. We talked about how to engage “difficult” youths and kind of ended up talking about just kids in the shop in general. There were talks about strategies of dealing with problems such as tool theft or altercations in the shop.
I think due to the recent influx of kids in our shop I’ll be focusing on workshops that deal with this. I will be gathering notes on possible solutions to this and hopefully will implement something by next summer (when I predict it will be even more chaotic.)
After the second workshop of the day (2 and a half hours!) we went on the Critical Mass ride. Apparently this ride was 600 people strong. We rode for about 2 hours from Minneapolis to St. Paul and back and besides the occasional temper flareups between motorists and some of the more confrontational bicyclists it went well.
We finished off the night with a dance party at the Bedlam. I of course tried to represent Baltimore.
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Bike! Bike! Day 1
August 28, 2009
Hi everyone, Boson from Velocipede here.
I figured I’d write a little bit about this year’s trip to Bike!Bike!, an annual international conference of non-profit bike projects. This year the event is taking place at the Grease Pit in Minneapolis. Thursday was a meet-and-greet, followed by shop hours for visitors (such as myself) to fix up a loaner bike for the weekend.
We arrived at the Bedlam Theater by light rail directly from the airport (talk about amazing public transportation). The Bedlam Theatre is a community theatre that also houses the Grease Pit.
The Grease Pit was chaotic in the best possible sense: crackling full of energy.
Friday is our first day of the conference so I’ll write more afterwards. So far Minneapolis is gorgeous and it’s an exciting time; people from all over have convened here in Minneapolis for this weekend and it’s an amazing experience to encounter all these people who are passionate about using bicycles as an educational and empowering tool to help their local communities
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Women/Transgender night closed tonight:(
June 9, 2009
sorry to announce this but we’ll not be able to have shop night tonight.
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Gears and Chain Theory Clinic Moved To 6/8
May 25, 2009
Dear Veloci-members:
Due to my forgetfulness of today (may 25th) being Memorial Day, I had earlier scheduled tonight to be a clinic on Gears and Chains. We will be moving this clinic to the next available day (June 8th). Sorry for the late notice.
Have a good Memorial Day!
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