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.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Friday Take Apart


I don't care if Monday's blue

Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too

Thursday I don't care about you

It's Friday, I'm involved


Monday you can fall apart

Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart

Oh, Thursday doesn't even start

It's Friday, I'm involved


Saturday, wait

And Sunday always comes too late

But Friday, never hesitate...

To come and take apart.


(Stolen and butchered from The Cure's "Friday I'm in Love")


This Friday from 6-9pm we're having a party! Yes folks it's that time. We've sold, given away, and even forced them upon our unsuspecting friends, family, and even customers but we're not quite done. There are 30 bikes left that have gone unclaimed and now are doomed to the recycler.


Fear not, they will live on in everything from baseball bats to buildings to even other bikes. Some of them will even wind up in (I'm sorry to say) cars. However, every pound we recycle is one less pound we have to dig out of the ground.


Before they can be recycled, we will endeavor to reduce and reuse every bit possible. To do so we must pull all the usable parts and separate out the non-metal pieces for specialized recycling. This requires disassembling of all 30 bikes! EG: THE FUN PART! If you have no clue how a bike works, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn without worrying about breaking something!


This Friday from 6-9pm (and every Friday till we're done) we will be stripping these bikes down to bare frames. We'll be cranking the music and rocking out while stripping down (the bikes). Pizza and soda will be provided.
(Picture Credit: Atomic Zombie's AfterBurner Chopper Bicycle from Instructables)
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