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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.
Bikes are supplied with an MSU bike permit, lock and key and should be
locked whenever they are not in use. Riders are expected to obey all
relevant traffic laws, as well as MSU's
bicycle ordinances.
We advise riders to also get familiar with the
MSU Bike Impound
rules since our bikes are not exempt to any of the rules. Riders are
strongly encouraged to wear a helmet; riders must supply their own helmets.
Bike permits are free, good for 2 years and can be applied for online
here
(click on the link "CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE VEHICLE REGISTRATION" at the top
of the page).
- Since bicycles aren't legally allowed to ride sidewalks on campus (this
is not generally enforced) if you get hit by a car crossing via a ped.
crossing the bicyclist will be in the wrong & possibly ticketed; the
same would be true with other bicycle/ ped, bicycle/ skater accidents
on sidewalks. In general car drivers don't look for cyclists on sidewalks &
most bike/ auto accidents happen at sidewalk/ cross-road/ drive
intersections.
- Pedestrians have right-of-way; give extra room to peds talking on their
cell-phones.
- Bikes need to be locked to bike racks to be "legal" on campus; no trees,
fences, etc. or they might get impounded by DPPS.
- U-locks should ideally go thru the back wheel and bike frame to the rack;
don't lock just the front wheel to a rack since a thief can simply loosen
the front wheel and take the rest of the bike.
- If your bike gets a flat or have any other mechanical problem come to our
public workshop on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Click
here for more information.