TBAG Priorities and Volunteer Committees

Thanks again to everyone for weighing in on TBAG activities through the survey. Now that we’ve posted the survey results, we thought we’d let you know what plans TBAG has for the near future.

Through an arrangement with the City of Tempe, TBAG will now be getting all of the abandoned bikes left on buses, bike racks and the street. What are we planning on doing with all those bikes? Well, we’ll be taking the bikes in the best shape, outfitting them with helmets, lights and locks, and giving them to some local people in need (likely newly arrived refugees). More details on that later. Bikes in need of a bit of fixing up will be going to our friends at Bicycle Saviours. And we have something very exciting in store for the truly trashed bikes. Stay tuned for more details on that!

In the next couple of months, we’ll be helping to organize “Bikeapalooza” – the City of Tempe’s spring bike festival that occurs during Bike Month. If all goes well, we’ll also be putting on our first Bicycling 101 workshop in March.

Now that we’re getting all of this great stuff going, WE NEED HELP!!

We’ll be planning a volunteer meeting/party in late Feb/early March to assemble some volunteer committees (see below). We’ll post and email about that meeting soon. If you responded to the survey saying you were interested in volunteering, you’ll be hearing from us individually in the next few weeks. We’ll be looking for volunteers to run programs, as well as to generally help out within each committee.

If anyone’s antsy to help out in the meantime, please contact the appropriate person, below. We’re also looking for some catchy names for these committees and for programs – post any ideas in the comments.

Volunteer Committees:
1) City Coordination: Work with the City of Tempe on events, bicycle-friendly business designation, bicycling award, etc. (chris at biketempe dot org)
2) Social: Coordinate and host social events including Handlebar Happy Hour, movies, barbeques, etc. (mark at biketempe dot org)
3) Routes, Rides and Clinics: Set up recreational and casual rides, hold clinics (trailer building, bike commuting, etc.) and facilitate bike tours. (kate at biketempe dot org)
4) Giveaways: Develop bike and bike light giveaway programs (stan at biketempe dot org)
5) Bicycle Film Festival: Put on annual bicycle film festival event (TBD)

Stay tuned for lots of details on all of these things!