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LEASE A BIKE
Need a bike to get around campus?
Click here for lease information and application ...
VOLUNTEER
Would you
like
to volunteer to
help repair, paint, or maintain bikes? Volunteers learn a wide variety of bike maintenance skills and earn access to work on their own bikes. Click here for details.
DONATE A BIKE
We welcome donations of sturdy bikes that are in
good working condition. If you have a bike that you'd like to donate, please
click here for more information. To drop off donated bikes (contact us first
please) here's location information to the MSU Bikes Service Center.
• Check out the web site for the Campus Bike Programmers network which MSU Bikes helped start. Also, check out detailed
data on university/ community bike services/ programs around N. America (Excel file). Email your organizational
information to us and we'll add your program. Also consider joining the Campus/ Community Bike Program Coordinator Listserv to network and correspond with others who are running programs or in the process of setting one up. We have approx. 80 on the list (as of 1/29/09). Just send a blank email (no subject line required) to: join-campus-biking@lists.wisc.edu
Also consider joining our Yahoo group for access to other resources: http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/campus_bikes/
• Working Bikes Co-operative, a
Chicago-based non-profit organization recycling bikes locally and
delivering them to communities in need at low cost to provide sustainable
development within their communities. They've shipped thousands of bikes
and parts to Nicaragua, Cuba, Kenya, and Ghana.
• Pedals for Progress, bicycle recycler
and redistributor around the world to developing countries.
• Community Cycling Center, Portland, OR, runs the impressive Create a Commuter Program.
• Recycle-A-Bicycle, Brooklyn, NY. Recycle-a-Bicycle is an innovative, fun youth training and environmental education initiative that has taken root in New York City public schools and respected after-school youth programs. RAB promotes everyday bicycle use, and it is a great place to learn bicycle mechanics, interact with positive, forward-thinking NYC youth. Our retail shops are the place to find that city bike you need.
• Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Portland, OR
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) is a non-profit membership organization working to promote bicycling and improve bicycling conditions in Oregon and SW Washington. Since 1990, the BTA has worked in partnership with citizens, businesses, community groups, government agencies and elected officials to create communities where people can meet their daily transportation needs on a bike.
• Bicycle
Friendly Campuses Project, run by the City of Toronto
• BikeShare,
Community Bicycle Network, Toronto
• AMS Bike Co-op at the University of British Columbia
Also, see our Other Advocacy Programs page for more bike advocacy programs around the country/ world. |