The Bike Library is a project to make bicycles accessible to students, to endow them with an understanding of bikes and to create a community of sustainable local transportation.
The Culture and the Community of the Bicycle
A student directed and student lead class Offered this quarter, Spring 2008, will be a Student Directed Seminar oriented around students learning the history, local and global culture, safety, and sustainability of biking. The class is being facilitated by Eva Stevens, who is the Sustainable Transportation Campaign Coordinator, Sarah Olson, Lauren Scott, Saylor Flett, and Bill Hogan. In this class students will not only be participating in action oriented projects such as putting on bike to school day at a middle school and making a public art peace; they will also be making ten bikes! Students will be working on assembling these bikes each week and learning about bike building and repair. The bikes from this class will then go on to be part of what is called a bike library, where students can pay a small membership fee and be able to check out a bike for free. We are currently looking for a permanent space for the bike library to he housed, but as of now we received funding for all the tools and equipment to maintain the bike library, as well as the funding for the first ten bikes.