All, with warm temps last week the shop remained busy. Friday there was even a line for stand time. Wednesday morning was the bike census. It was wonderful weather for it and I think it went well! One CBC student staffer and a CBC volunteer extraordinaire volunteered for the event, which I was happy to see. Thanks, Leah and Rick!

On Friday, a Bike Project Volunteer came and picked up all the scrap we’d accumulated in the last few weeks, which will help immensely in organizing and storage.

Programming alerts: This week is the Campus Sustainability Celebration on Wednesday so the shop will be closed for that; and next Monday (30th) I will be out of town. I will post on the website and Facebook for both closings. (And of course, signage on the door.)

On to the numbers:

Visitors: 99
Sales: $1,066.45
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $159
Bikes (B-a-B): 2 for $210
Memberships: 10 for $300
Tires/tubes: 24 for $124

Sincerely,

• Jake Benjamin
  Campus Bike Center Manager

On October 21, 2017, the Student Sustainability Committee held a voting meeting for Fall 2017 projects. First, the committee approved the scope change for the Illini Bike Share. Next, the committee examined the 34 submitted proposals to select which proposals would get funded, declined, or moved to Step 2. SSC funded seven proposals at this meeting.

All, last Monday we had the bike warehouse move out event on Monday. As I mentioned last week, we moved out about 317 bikes. Some of the bikes we kept and moved back to the CBC have already been claimed as build-a-bikes, which is great. The rest will be cleared out at a TBD date.

Belatedly announcing this but: Lily and I and Amy tabled at an event at the Union on October 5th.  It was a University employee expo of sorts. The very first person I spoke with was misinformed about safe passing distance for cars, something I was able to correct. It was a welcomed change and challenge to inform a lot of vehicular road users about how to interact with bicyclists and pedestrians, considering all the gripes I heard from employees about walkers and bikers—as most employees drive to work from out of town (or at least the ones I spoke with do). I was also pleased to see a lot of familiar faces of people that have visited the Campus Bike Center.

This week is the bike census, happening on Wednesday. Hopefully we’ll get good weather and a good snapshot of the state of bicycle parking on campus.

The numbers:

Sales: $635.50

Memberships: 13 for $390
Bikes (Refurb): 0 for $0
Bikes (B-a-b): 0 for $0
Tires/tubes: 10 for $54

Sincerely,

• Jake Benjamin
  Campus Bike Center Manager

Day version:

https://ednawebtest.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/BIF/stackv2/graph.html

Week version:

https://ednawebtest.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/BIF/stackv2/graph.html?week

The real-time water-use meter for the greywater piping system (still using potable water), is scheduled. The work is scheduled to be done 11/23 – 11/25, 2017.

On October 10, 2017, the Student Sustainability Committee held a full committee meeting. During this meeting, Lily Wilcock and Morgan White presented the Illini Bike Scope Change. Upcoming events and subcommittees were also discussed.

All, nothing major to report last week. Shop was open, people came in, same as usual. I coordinated with Working Bikes for our shipping event that happened yesterday. We packed up 317 bikes to go back to their warehouse in Chicago and then onto South Africa. There are still 67 bikes left that WB said they will return for later this fall. There is also a collection of the good bikes we are saving for ourselves. Those total about 50 or so.

Our new policy of allowing for free used tubes hasn’t caused any problems. Maybe 5-10 people have taken us up on it. Surprisingly one person insisted on patching despite the free tube. That might change next Spring/Summer. It will also help to expedite peoples’ stand time, as it’s obviously quicker to grab a used tube than mess with patching.

Tomorrow is the Bike Census. I will be helping Lily with that. I will also be shuttling the good bikes from the warehouse back to CBC and moving some over to the Urbana shop as well. CBC is currently packed to the gills with bikes.

The numbers:
Visitors: 91
Sales (overall): $1,221.50

Memberships: 11 for $330
Bikes (refurb): 3 for $555
Bikes (B-a-B): 0 for $0
Tires/tubes: 18 for $132

Sincerely,

• Jake Benjamin
  Campus Bike Center Manager

Hello all!

Tomorrow morning is the bike census and it is going to be a blast! The weather looks great and the campus will be very seasonally fall like.

Tomorrow’s event starts at 10 AM and ends at 11 AM. You can finish early! But please finish your whole block or let me know! Training for the event is crucial, because as you start you might start asking some questions about what counts and other questions. Attached is the instructions we will be going over in training tomorrow. Event training starts at 9 AM-9:05-ish. I will have print maps for notes or problems.

REMEMBER TO CHARGE YOUR PHONE TONIGHT!

Download the app Collector by ESRI sometime today from your respective app store. It is free. There is a log in to the bike census. It is here:

Username: BikeCensus

Password: bikecensus2017

Timeline for Tomorrow:

9 AM to 9:45 AM will be training and answering all questions at the Illini Union, South Patio

10 AM to 11 AM will be counting.

11 AM – 11:45 AM if you can, please drop off paper maps for any racks that were not on the map and need to be hand entered. If you can’t, just scan or take a picture and email it to lwilco2@illinois.edu or jvwhit@illinois.edu

Map Block Assignment

Map link is here: http://goo.gl/Cbq9Fj

Honestly, I cannot thank all of you volunteers enough. Personally, I love technology and I love it when we can use it to make our communities better. Thank you for your hard work and James Whitacre at the Scholarly Commons and I will be typing away to process this information and get it in your hands and the hands of campus planners, engineers, architects, and administration.

With all this being said, tomorrow have a good sense of humor, walk and bike quickly, and have fun counting every bike we can!

Thank you,

Lily Wilcock and James Whitacre

Visiting Active Transportation Coordinator

Facilities and Services

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Give to the Campus Bike Plan Fund at http://go.illinois.edu/bikefund

Dr. Ximing Cai presented the attached presentation to the SWATeam members at the beginning of fall 2017.