would like to carry Do-It-Yourself hours forward into 2020 and test run DIY hours at the new BiCi Co. An upcycled bicycle converts a 1-mile walking job search radius to a 5-mile riding radius covering 25 times more area! BiCi Co.
for those that referred to the Bikes for Jobs program, connecting low-income adults to bicycles that connect them to interviews, workforce training programs, jobs, medical appointments, shopping, and more.
Volunteers tuning up adult bicycles at BiCi Co. It takes a lot of volunteer hours to tune up 80 bicycles over the winter for this Spring Break week each year. The DIY hours support tuning up bicycles for the April BIKELIFE event where teens from across the city take bike safety courses and take home a tuned up used bicycle, lock, light, and helmets. Several teens have followed this path to become staff mechanics at BiCi Co. These young people ride for both fun and transportation, and while in the shop they are building hand-on skills while also making social connections with volunteers and visitors from across the region that wouldn't happen outside the shop. Teens attend during DIY hours, and this campaign includes twenty sponsored teen one-year memberships for young people who complete the Earn-a-Bike program. With a staff member (or two) with master mechanic bicycle skills and several handy volunteers, we can up-cycle a whole lot of bicycles and get them under riders in the Hartford metro area. Aside from fixing their own bicycles the DIY hours are critical for volunteers that attend to tune up bicycles for the annual youth BIKELIFE and Bikes for Jobs programs. These DIY hours are critically important in our community for residents from Hartford and the metro region to maintain and accessorize their bicycle on a budget. We are raising funds with this campaign to carry our Do-It-Yourself bicycle repair (and learning hours). is a terrific project at the Center for Latino Progress. We can't do it without your help!īiCi Co. Your contribution will also fund a new school-based Earn-a-Bike project and a "Light the Night" safety campaign.
This campaign is critical to carry the Do-It-Yourself repair hours into 2020, and we are looking to expand that concept to the new BiCi Co. The range of destinations, employers, programs, and opportunities increases as a function of the radius SQUARED. Now expand that radius to five miles, an easy biking distance in the same thirty minutes. That includes most of Downtown, but doesn’t reach the West End, East Hartford, West Hartford Center, Windsor, or Wethersfield. Think about how many jobs exist within a walkable two-mile radius of the corner of Park and Main Street in Hartford. This critical program gets those most in need to work via sustainable and healthy transportation. On February 5th this campaign was updated to include our stretch goal of getting ' Bikes for Jobs' funded for 2020. members and supporters are the lifeblood of our community bicycle workshop. weather the COVID crisis while supporting essential transportation in our community and the Hartford region - DONATION AND MEMBERSHIP INFO HERE.
DIY BIKE WORKSHOP UPDATE
March 2020 Update - It's a wrap! The IOBY crowdfunding campaign closed in early March, and with the help of almost 100 supporters we exceeded the fundraising goal.
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