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.

Friday, August 14, 2009

August 14th Chain Links


With school starting hundreds of bicycle riding teens and 20 somethings are descending on the capital city. What does this mean? More bikes to steal! While FSU students are providing more opportunities for thieves, Drexel students can feel a little safer. If you're a potential thief and use the Internet to improve your stealing abilities I'd recommend avoiding wikihow.


First: Bike theft affects us all. Whether it's our bike or someone we know, all who bike have a story ends with a bike that's gone forever. Well, students at Drexel University can rest a little easier knowing that at least one thief has been caught.


Second: Thieves in the know use a pen cap to crack most Kriptonite locks. Thieves trying to learn might use a trick they learned from wikihow. Let's just say that if you see someone lugging a car jack toward a bike rack you might want to call the cops. (NB: They're still looking for someone to explain how to "pick a bike lock.")


Finally: I love bike cops as much as the next person, but I still find this article hilarious. My favorite line "Among the tips they've picked up: your chin strap can choke you in a fight, it's not good etiquette to ditch your bike in front of your partner and it's important to stay in shape — if you arrive at the crime scene out of breath, you're not much use." This is what they came all the way from Canada to hear?
(Photo Credit: "Cop on Child's Bike" from txroadrunners.com)

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