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SVBC Bicycle Exchange work day
Mar 28, 2012The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition helps needy families and individuals through our Bicycle Exchange, which repairs used bicycles and donates them to our partner community service organizations. Our warehouse and workshop is fully outfitted with storage, repair stands and tools for year-round operation. All we need is you!
The Bicycle Exchange meets on selected Saturdays throughout... read the whole note.
SVBC Bicycle Exchange work day
Mar 28, 2012The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition helps needy families and individuals through our Bicycle Exchange, which repairs used bicycles and donates them to our partner community service organizations. Our warehouse and workshop is fully outfitted with storage, repair stands and tools for year-round operation. All we need is you!
The Bicycle Exchange meets on selected Saturdays throughout... read the whole note.
SVBC Bicycle Exchange work day
Mar 28, 2012The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition helps needy families and individuals through our Bicycle Exchange, which repairs used bicycles and donates them to our partner community service organizations. Our warehouse and workshop is fully outfitted with storage, repair stands and tools for year-round operation. All we need is you!
The Bicycle Exchange meets on selected Saturdays throughout... read the whole note.
SVBC Bicycle Exchange work day
Mar 15, 2012The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition helps needy families and individuals through our Bicycle Exchange, which repairs used bicycles and donates them to our partner community service organizations. Our warehouse and workshop is fully outfitted with storage, repair stands and tools for year-round operation. All we need is you!
The Bicycle Exchange meets on selected Saturdays throughout... read the whole note.
Used bike drive in Los Altos
Mar 15, 2012The SVBC Bicycle Exchange is partnering with GreenTown Los Altos on March 31 to hold a used bike drive at Santa Rita Elementary School, located at 700 Los Altos Avenue in Los Altos. Please contact Jack Miller at millerjack999@yahoo.com if you are available to help at any time between 10:30 am and 2:00 pm. We will screen and accept bicycle donations and work with student mechanics to clean and... read the whole note.
Join the SVBC Policy Advisory Committee
Feb 16, 2012SVBC is looking for at-large members to join our Policy Advisory Committee (PAC). The PAC, as the name suggests, is an advisory committee only, but its decisions are heavily relied upon by the Board of Directors and the Executive Director to make decisions regarding positions and advocacy initiatives that the organization chooses to pursue. You can read the committee charter here.
It's a bag stuffing party for Santa Clara County!
Feb 09, 2012Join SVBC at our annual Bike to Work Day bag stuffing party as we prepare the thousands of bags that will be distributed at 70+ Energizer Stations throughout Santa Clara County. If you’ve attended in the past you know that stuffing a BTWD musette bag can be as fun and rewarding as receiving one at an Energizer Station.
As always, the bags will be filled with goodies and cycling... read the whole note.
Our fantastic volunteers have Stanford Football fans biking
Dec 07, 2011We have some pretty amazing volunteers here at SVBC. We know it, they know it, and Stanford Football attendees REALLY know it. This season, our army of bike parkers, led by Jim Manitakos, Rob Robinson, and the incomparable Ellen Fletcher, guarded over 5,500 bikes at Stanford home games. Many of the games are at night; sometimes it was cold, or windy, or raining. The shifts are a real... read the whole note.
Left Coast Live seeks bike parking attendants
Sep 30, 2011The following request comes from the organizers of Left Coast Live:
The Left Coast Live Music festival on Saturday, October 8th, from 3:30 to 11:30, features 25 Rock, Jazz, Soul, Roots Americana and Latin Alternative artists, as well as a Silent Disco. In part because the Left Coast Live organizers are bicycle advocates themselves, and want to encourage folks to come the green and... read the whole note.
SVBC packs 'em in at Stanford football home games
Sep 07, 2011At the first home game of the Stanford football season, SVBC volunteers parked 883 bikes, 70 strollers, and a number of other items not permitted into the stadium. SVBC and Stanford offer this service to keep hundreds of attendees out of their cars when heading to the game. If you're headed out to see the Cardinals toss the pigskin, bring your bike and put our volunteers to work! There are... read the whole note.