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Posted July 24, 2008: Sharebike was interviewed by WDBJ7 news Posted June 15, 2008: Sharebike will be providing free bicycle repairs as a part of the Roanoke Library's Health and Safety Fair. Posted May 15, 2008: Roanoke City Council posted "bike route" signs connecting the Roanoke River Greenway and the Tinker Creek Greenway Posted May 12, 2008: WVTF's Dutchie Morelli "High Gas Prices Bring Change in Driving Habits:" Posted May 1, 2008: Sharebike provided four free bicycle clinics and led neighborhood rides as a part of Bike Month in Roanoke. Posted April 25, 2008: Sharebike was the recipient of the proceeds of the Roanoke Natural Foods raffle.
Posted April 15, 2008: Sharebike provided free bicycle clinics at Grandin Gardens, in celebration of Earth Day. Posted March 15, 2008: Sharebike participated in the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Posted January 8, 2008: Sharebike is open downtown Roanoke at 32 Market Square. Posted November 6, 2008: The Roanoke Times Sharebike article was picked up by the Associated Press, and printed in The Washington Post. See story. Posted October 30: Sharebike was mentioned by Jeff Sturgeon of the Roanoke Times. See story. Posted October 28: We now have several businesses who have agreed to partner with us. There will be free use bikes there as soon as the weather permits. See map. Posted October 15: Sharebike and Ridesolutions are partnering with Several area businesses. Ridesolutions will provide bike racks and signs, Sharebike will provide bikes, and the local businesses will provide manpower to sign in and out bicycles. If you would like to participate in this program, contact us. Posted August 29: A link to the livelightlytour has been posted. Here is an excerpt: "We love living small. We love living sustainably. We love telling others how to do it for themselves. So…we are hitting the road to spread the love! Beginning in the Fall of 2007, we are traveling the U.S. in an RV powered by straight vegetable oil. Yes! Grease! It’s free, baby. We are also remodeling the inside of the RV with sustainable, earth friendly materials. This blog will detail our journey…the people, the places, the adventures." Posted August 27: We had our first workshop (impromptu) on Saturday August 25. James, Paula, Reanna and myself were riding around when we saw an apartment complex with several piles of bikes. We talked to some of the people who live there and were told that they were mostly broken. It came naturally to all of us that this would be our first bike clinic. Two days later, we spent 3 hours fixing up every bike that came our way. It ended up being about 30, I think. Thanks to everybody who helped. Posted August 14: We have completed the schedule of workshops in the city of Roanoke. see list Posted July 29: Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine has mentioned Sharebike in their "Best Green Movement" article dated July 2007. Posted July 15: We have scheduled 4 bike repair workshops for different locations within the city of Roanoke. These locations will be in different quadrants of the city, and hopefully, there will be more workshops in Roanoke County in the near future. The City of Roanoke has suggested helping us with marketing as well as publishing future workshops in the "Play" quarterly magazine. We look forward to working with the City of Roanoke in the future works of Sharebike. Posted May 24: More bikes have been put out at the IGA store, as well as at Smith Park and the end of Wasena Park on the Greenway. Posted May 21: Fred Eckels of WVTF public radio has written a story on sharebike, to be aired Monday morning. Also, he is posting the story on their web site. Posted May 19: Bikes have been put out at the Super Save Fresh Food IGA store. A bike rack
with the sharebike.org sign, as well as instructions on how to use the program
was also posted. Posted May 18: There has been interest in group rides. Anyone interested in coordinating this, please contact us. Posted May 12: We plan on putting out the first 4 bikes at the Super Save Fresh Food IGA store on Sunday, May 13 Posted May 12: We have our first location approved to put bikes. The Super Save Fresh Food IGA, at the greenway on Riverland Rd. SE has agreed to let us put a bike rack and bikes in an excellent location. Thanks to Duane Howard for asking for their approval. Posted May 2: John Smiley of Roanoke has donated over 10 bikes, as well as boxes of parts to our organization. This was very nice of him. Most of these bikes are ready to roll, so we'll have even more to put out this month. Posted April 29: We are offering bikes in exchange for volunteer hours to those interested. We have already worked a couple of trades and think this will be a good bartering system that works for a lot of people. Posted April 28: We plan to release 10 bikes into the city of Roanoke by the end of May. We already have the bikes, but still are looking for a place to put them. A date will be announced later. Posted April 15: Share bike has a temporary storage area/workshop thanks to Gary McCorkle. He has allowed Sharebike to use his large basement to store bikes and recycle bikes. This is an important first step to get some bikes on the road. I am currently working on finding a place to put our first shelter. I have some ideas, and will post all the locations as they come available.
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