Whats Cooking with Bike Coops

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Whats Cooking with Bike Coops?

• BikeBakersfields Bike Kitchen
• -Larry Lara Jr.
• Davis Bike Church/UBC Bike Kitchen
• -Ted Buehler
• Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen
• -Jeffery Rosenhall
• San Francisco Bike Kitchen
• -Brian Cavagnolo Mario Bruzzone

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The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen

• Building Community One Bike At a Time.

Thursday September 13th, 2007
California Walk/Bike Conference
Jeffery Rosenhall, SBK Board Secretary
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Wheres the Kitchen at?

• Sacramentos Oak Park Neighborhood, the citys
  first suburb.

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About Us

• Community-focused
• 100 Volunteer organization
• Supported by memberships, donations, bike and
  parts sales
  
• Non-Profit, 501(c)3 organization

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Our Mission

• Our mission promotes
• bicycle transportation and self-sufficiency
  through bike maintenance,
  
• access to low-cost bicycles,
• Community-based bicycle safety training

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Grand Opening June 24th, 2006

• Signed-up new members
• Shop tours
• Music (alt, grunge, punk)
• Local microbrews (and cider!)
• Raffle (with fabulous prizes!)

and 1 year anniversary party June 24th, 2007
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A Virtual Tour
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More on-site at the SBK
A volunteer scavenging bike parts in Broke Bike
Mountain
Building bikes in Broke Bike Mountain
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Daily services

• Bike tool use
• Sharing knowledge to help customers fix their own
  bikes
  
• Sales of refurbished bikes for modest price
  (40.00 - 80.00)
  
• Sales of used parts (very low cost 5)
• Provide a space for all cyclists to gather,
  relax, and discuss bicycling (culture)

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Bike Maintenance courses

• Offered in the evening at
• -Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op and in the
  Kitchen itself
  
• Other classes/clinics
• -Cyclocross racing clinic
• -Winterize Your Bike fender party
• Future classes
• -Bike safety
• -Intermediate and Advanced maintenance
• -Wheel-building?
• -Trailer building??

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Bike-in movies
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Bike swaps

• Two swap and counting
• Advertised locally (our site, craigslist,
  flyers)
  
• Provide a space for sharing and selling gear to
  other enthusiasts, collectors, and everyday
  riders
  

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Applying for non-profit status

• Board members selected, incl. President,
  Secretary, and Treasurer
  
• Paperwork completed and filed with the Secretary
  of State.
  
• 501(c)3 non-profit status approved April 2007.
  (took 9 months!)
  
• Allows expansion of current programs
• Board elections in December 07
  

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Future Program ideas

• Earn-a-Bike Program in collaboration with other
  Sacramento cycling groups
  
• Road 1 Bike Safety Courses (U.C.E.)
• Monthly Bike-in movies
• Promote Brick House Art Gallerys Second
  Saturdays group bike ride
  
• Web-based e-store for parts bike
  sales?
  
• Shop expansion this fall

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Whats Cooking?
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Connecting with theSacramento Bicycle Kitchen

• Stop by the shop!
  36th and Broadway
  
• Visit the website www.sacbikekitchen.org
• Email us info_at_sacbikekitchen.org
• Call 916.731.8167

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