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, September 1, 2009

Septermber 1st Chain Links

Today's theme for chain links is "Fish". No reason, I just like fish. It doesn't even relate to today's links. Airbags, banks with brains, civil disobedience, and a fight over a coastal road and not one mentions a fish.

First: Let's get this straight. We wear helmets to protect our heads while biking but car drivers don't need special equipment? That's just not fair! Well, to make things a little more equal (you'll still need a helmet) one company is trying bicycle airbags!

Instead: Might we try just riding on safer roads? 3 feet of clearance is all these riders ask. They'll even fight for it.

Surprisingly: Even with the dangers of biking in the big city, some people are still looking to go green. To help, the notoriously slow thinking banking industry is helping people buy bikes.

Hilarious: I recommend listening to "flight of the Valkyries" while reading this story.

(Photo Credit: Fish Biker from Flikr user scottlondon)
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