Welcome to the GBP Blog

This is the Blog associated with our main website TheGreenBicycleProject.org

The GBP has merged with Damn Good Bikes LLC. Please visit the new blog for more recent updates.

We are the GBP. Our mission is to keep bikes on the road and thus keep cars off. We call this “Bikecycling”; that’s recycling, but for bikes. The concept is simple. Take a bike that’s no longer wanted, broken, or even bound for a landfill and apply a bit of knowhow and a lot of elbow grease and you get a bike that can last someone for years. These bikecycled bikes are sold at a price that covers only our costs in repairing them so as to provide bicycles at the lowest cost possible. All of our bikes are repaired and tuned by a mechanic so that from the moment you pick them up they are ready to hit the road. Take a look below for our current project bikes and completed rides.

Location:
We are located in the US Storage facility at Capital Circle NE and Mahan Rd. While have moved into our new store, we are in the same complex. To get there follow the road through the complex, around the 90 degree bend and make the first left (at the tree). We'll be the first store front on your right. Sound complex? The best way to find us is to follow the bikes!

Buying our bikes:
Please visit our main website at thegreenbicycleproject.org for information about buying our bikes. You may also email us at Thegreenbicycleproject@gmail.com.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

New bike and the cost of doing bussiness

Tallahassee has some problems, every city does, and by most measures they're small. Tally doesn't have LA's gang problem, NO's water, or even Seattle's rain. Tally has a road bike shortage. Gasp! As is the case with any shortage, the price of road bikes increases until quantity demanded falls to a point where supply and demand are stabilized. Welcome to Econ 101. The problem is, you (the blog reader) and I (the blog writer) think that road bikes should be valued at a certain point. The GBP is built on this. The market doesn't agree, thus forcing us to raise prices to compensate for increasing costs. Why the long winded explanation? Because we have a new road bike in the shop! WOOT! Unfortunately it's only one and it's not the high end model we had all hoped. On the brighter side, it's a very nice Panasonic mid sized men's bike with 15 speeds. We're pricing it at $150 for two reasons. 1) It's below our cost and 2) we're pissed that the Braves are 7 games out and tied with the Marlins. Oh, and we want to provide good bikes at the most reasonable price we can. But mostly the Braves part.

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