This news blog is designed to bring you up to date with the latest happenings at Velocipede. For more info about Velocipede Bike Project, please check the links above and to the left!
Best of Baltimore!
August 14, 2008
Hey everyone, we got picked as Best Green Transportation Initiative by Baltimore Magazine!
“Bikes whiz by frequently on the streets of Portland and San Francisco. In Baltimore? Not so much. But Velocipede Bike Project, 4 W. Lanvale Street, 410-244-5585, wants to change all that. The cooperative project collects donated bikes, teaches people how to repair them, and provides affordable, refurbished bicycles and parts to its members. To join, you pay a monthly fee of $33 or give three hours of volunteer time. Once you’re an official co-op member, you can pick out a frame, fix up a bike for yourself, and call it your own.”
Thanks Baltimore Magazine!
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Wheel Building Class!!!
May 29, 2008
update! the wheelbuilding class has been pushed back one week.
We’re pretty excited to announce that Tim is going to host a 3 part wheel building class starting Monday, June 9th (with subsequent classes on June 16th and 23rd).
We hope to see you there!
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last minute update/reminder!!
May 2, 2008
Don’t forget to come tonight to the art opening 7-10.
Plus 2 bands have just been added to the line up! Abby Mott and Baby Teeth come check then out…it should be super fun!!!
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Art and music Velocipede this Friday!!!
April 29, 2008
(Art about tricycles–curated by Orlando M Johnson)…Yeveto will be gracing us with their beautiful music as well
THIRD WHEEL
A study of the Trike
At Velocipede– 4 W. Lanvale St.
May 2-25 2008
Opening Reception Friday May 2, 7-10pm
WORKS BY:
Alyssa Dennis
Charlotte Benedetto
David Cunningham
Kathy Fahey
Laurent Hrybyk
Orlando Johnson
PERFORMANCE BY:
Yeveto
$5 Donation Suggested
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Kiersten’s Cakes, Now Child Sound Stage, Graham Wimbrow, Rachel Y.
http://www.myspace.com/yeveto
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tonights class canceled
April 28, 2008
Sorry for the late notice, but tonight’s class is canceled… We will be re-vamping our class schedule and will have a new improved one in short notice!!
thanks!
-the folks at velocipede
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Bike Touring Workshop Notes
April 18, 2008
The bike touring workshop was a huge success: The workshop attendance was between 30 and 40 people. Audience age ranged from my “young” age to young adults. The presentations were well received and enjoyed by the audience.
Rod and Delieep has made available a PDF version of the General Equipment Information handout and it can be downloaded here (You might need to install Acrobat Reader to read this.)
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Bike Touring Workshop!!!
February 26, 2008
BICYCLE TOURING WORKSHOP
MONDAY, 24 MARCH 2008
7:00 – 9:00 PM
VELOCIPEDE BIKE PROJECT
#4 W LANVALE STREET
Join our three speakers who have toured in the United States and internationally. The two workshops will discuss equipment, planning and cost as well as day-to-day life on the road. The skills learned at these workshops can be applied to any tour, whether it is self-supported tour, a supported tour or a metric century. In addition to the workshops, there will be several fully loaded touring bikes to view after the workshops. The shop will remain open till 10:00 pm. Please join us. Velocipede is located 1/2 block S of the Charles Theater between N Charles Street and Maryland Avenue.
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Shop Organizing Day- Sunday, March 2nd
February 25, 2008
Hello veloci-friends!
This coming Sunday, March 2nd, Velocipede will be holding a Shop Organizing Day instead of regular Sunday shop. Hours will be from 12 noon to 6ish. All hours worked will count as volunteer hours to be used for co-op membership and parts. There will also be FREE FOOD for all workers, including some for the vegans among us.
The focus this time will be on weeding out our parts inventory so that it fits better in the space. We will also be weeding out unclaimed bikes that have been in the shop forever, and identifying those claimed bikes that have not been worked on in months so they can go back into the unclaimed section. The goal will then be to create more orderly sections for the bikes. We will also need some neat and organizationally skilled folks to clean up the benches/work area and our “office” area.
This is a great chance to rack up volunteer hours and network with fellow bike lovers!
Hope to see you there!
In velocidarity,
the folks at Velocipede
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closed this evening
February 20, 2008
snow is snowing so go play!!!! We’ll be closed:(
We”l try to be open tomorrow!
-the folks at velocipede
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RIP Sheldon Brown
February 6, 2008
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/index.html
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/02/sheldon-brown-w.html
Sheldon Brown, Web’s Cycling Guru, Dies
By Jenna Wortham 
February 05, 2008 | 7:41:41 PM
Text by Ryan Singel
Sheldon Brown, a beloved iconoclast bicycle tech guru, died Sunday from a heart attack. He was 68.
Brown championed fixed gear bikes for years before they became essential fashion items for hip kids in New York and San Francisco and had a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of obscure bike parts, odd tire sizes and non-standard gear ratios. He was known for his generosity in helping DIY bike builders with their projects, for his love of weird old bikes, and his passion for cycling.
Brown had been suffering from multiple sclerosis since 2005, which kept him from riding any of his dozens of two-wheeled bikes since September 2006. Brown is survived by his wife and two adult children.
Brown worked as the technical guru and Webmaster for Harris Cyclery in West Newton, Massachusetts. In columns for cycling magazines and in essays on his blog, Brown championed bike technology that he loved - internal hubs, fixed gear bikes (including a fixie tandem) and homebuilt tandems. He gently ridiculed the current marketing rages of the cycling world (carbon fiber, titanium, racing bikes for everyone, etc.) every April 1 with fake new product announcements such as a titanium credit card with holes drilled in it to reduce weight.
Brown’s decidedly non-fancy website was a vital resource for cyclists, rich with hints on how to break in a Brooks leather saddle, technical explanations of the workings of 60 year-old internal hubs, and instructions on how to build a tandem from two old steel bike frames. Brown even lauded Shimano’s much maligned Biopace chain rings (a non-round chain ring once made by Shimano).
See also Patch.com, a planned memorial ride Thursday in Salt Lake City, Cycle Ninja, and MetroCyclist.
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