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Do-It-Yourself Hours Changing

sherribyer — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:09:38 -0700

Attention all DIYers!

As of the week of March 22, 2010, Tool Rental days will be changing. We will be modifying Tool Rental days for do-it-yourselfers to be only Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Otherwise, things remain the same: as long as we're open on those days, you're welcome to come and rent the tools and stands on a first-come, first-served basis. Mechanics will still be available to help you out.

The only difference will be that on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays the stand space is all reserved for our mechanics to get things done. Thanks for your co-operation, and see you soon!

Workshop Feedback Survey

sherribyer — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:46:58 -0800

Help us cater our workshops to our community more effectively. Or, maybe we're already doing such a great job that you don't have any suggestions!

Either way, if you have thoughts about what we're doing right, or what we can do better, or what else you'd like to see offered, please take a few moments to visit the survey at the link below and give us your thoughts.

Workshop Survey

Thank you!

Tales of a Yellow Bike - In the Community

sherribyer — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:06:46 -0700

Join director Tina Hahn (Life’s a Twitch) for a trip-by-bike that takes us to Beijing, Amsterdam, Bogotá, New York, La Rochelle, South Bronx, Manhattan, Paris and back to Toronto. She’ll be at the Revue on Friday, March 27, from 7 p.m. for a free public screening of her film, sponsored by local MPP Cheri DiNovo.

Bike safety tips

herb — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:28:11 -0800

Dredged out of CBN archives, this video shows some bike check safety tips that anyone could learn from. Before you ride you can follow the "ABC quick check" to check for play in the cranks, keeping the wheels on and that your brakes work properly. More CBN videos.

Buy-a-Bike Gift Program

sherribyer — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:57:18 -0800

Community Bicycle Network has been operating since 1993, with a mission to make cycling accessible to everyone at all levels of society. And, in the past year, we have returned to our original programming, which involves making re-used, recycled bicycles available, alongside bicycle repair training, and an attention to mechanical standards.

CBN has embraced, as one of our important mandates, a commitment to give away bicycles to people who otherwise cannot afford to own a bike. This affords mobility to financially-challenged individuals in the city, which in turn can help to make way for increased work options and better living conditions.

Your gift of $100 ensures that one more individual in Toronto can receive a free bike. In addition, we will send you a charitable tax receipt (if requested), and will send a gift card recognizing your gift to the individual of your choice.

Happy holidays, and thank you for your commitment to increased and sustainable transportation!

Community Bicycle Network

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Tales of a Yellow Bike - Screening

sherribyer — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:53:34 -0700

The festival, which runs from Oct. 22 to 26, is made up of more than 100 films and videos focused on the environment.

Hahn, director of Tales of a Yellow Bike, decided to focus her film on the importance of bicycles as the main mode of transportation after learning about Toronto's BikeShare program, which ran from 2000 to 2006.

The bicycle lending program, in which hundreds of members could rent yellow bikes at 16 hubs in the city, shut down due to insufficient funding.

"I wanted to do a film about bike sharing programs across the world," Hahn said. "Our first days of shooting happened when BikeShare shut down in November 2006."

Tales of a Yellow Bike tells the story of bike share programs in Europe, North America, Columbia and China and the perception of bicycles in various countries.

"In Amsterdam they have so many bikes they don't know what to do with them all," Hahn said. "In China they have 470 million bicycles. In China, bikes used to be the only mode of transportation. In Bogota, Columbia there are hundreds of kilometers of bike lanes."

So why is Toronto so slow at jumping on the bicycle wagon?

Bixi Bikesharing Visits Toronto

sherribyer — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:09:00 -0700

Bixi, Montreal's new massive public bike sharing system, will be visiting Toronto to show us a demo. They'll allow us to try out the system to get a glimpse of what is possible in Toronto after we multiply it by 1000.

Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation, Community Bicycle Network, and Toronto Cyclists Union will be hosting the event.

Bixi memberships cost $80 per year. A user can take a bike out from any of the 300 stations throughout the core - a station is always only 200 metres away. The first half hour of your travel is free with prices rising quickly after that. Most people will only need the bike for a half hour at most before locking it up at any available station. You can see more of how Bixi works at bixi.ca

Is this something you'd like for Toronto?

Location: Southeast corner of Bloor and Spadina

For more info:
Phone: 416.392.0290
Email: info@torontocat.ca

Public Bikesharing Forum

herb — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:27:41 -0700

Since Bikeshare's demise, we've been exploring ways to promote bikesharing on a wider scale. The City has committed to bring bikesharing back to Toronto and we helped to keep the conversation alive with the Bikes as a Public Good: what is the future of public bikesharing in Toronto? Forum which took place September 18 at Innis Town Hall.

One hundred people came out to hear three speakers talk about different bikesharing programs with an eye to the possibilities for Toronto. The speakers were David Boyce from Veolia Transportation, Herb van den Dool of the Community Bicycle Network, and Alain Ayotte from Stationnement de Montreal (the organization that will be running Montreal's Bixi public bike system).