We told you we’d have bike safety trivia questions.
This past Sunday, we held our November bike safety event (indoors!) from 2-5 PM at the MIT Z-Center. In addition, we had our free power-washing outside, free bike safety check-ups and repairs by Bike Boom, bike registrations, free food, music, and a really great community of cyclists who were super upbeat!
Some changes we made to this event: 1) BIKE TRIVIA! From feedback, we realized that people did not like standing and waiting in line – so we thought, why not peer-educate?? So educate we did. In a previous blog, you’ll notice the chalkboard was covered with bike safety questions prepared as a team effort. Will Reyes, our Bike Safety Officer, prepared the final Q&A sheet and some handy tips that were distributed at the first table you saw walking in. 2) We implemented Will’s new indoor layout, completely different from what we had last year, which meant everyone could simply park their bikes and then mingle, eat, even dance. 3) We had glow-in-the-dark PN2K wristbands for everyone who answered five questions correctly plus raffle tickets for a pair of free bike lights – Thank you Jay Morgan, our newest volunteer, for totally owning your volunteer role on the first day!
Beyond Will and Jay, a huge shout-out also to Dingfang who interacted with every single person who walked in, helping them sign up with PN2K and taking their credit card payments when they wanted helmets/bike lights/membership/T-shirts, etc. She is truly agile and adept! Yaoming was Mr. Muscle-Man as he helped with all the heavy-lifting of boxes from home base to the event, plus all the photography to come, so the memories can live on! Mad props to Ari from Bike Boom for being awesome and come out to help on your day off (!!!) Thanks to Roy for taking care of some really poor conditioned bikes (one bike had an upside down fork) that were bought at the MIT auction (folks, saving money in the short-term is not always cost-effective!) Thanks to a really great dude called Raul who has single-handedly helped make our bike kids’ video a reality (by singing What Does the Tanuki Say — It’s for the kids!) and Rebecca from Xtecher for capturing all this on film. James, thank you also for being a hero for this young lady who had a trouble finding the hole in her tire – creative solutions: use soap and find the bubble! (For those who don’t know, James is also helping to make information on where bikes are stolen a thing – watch this space on our website under “Cyclists’ Corner” as this is further developed)
Till next time, Keep Calm & Pedal On!
Upcoming dates:
Friday, 11/13: MIT convoy bike ride to Boston Bike Party’s Dreams Vs. Nightmares. RSVP Here. Leaving MIT W20 @ 6:45 PM.
Frida, 11/20: Our big November GBM – come out and meet other PN2K members (6-7 PM in building 1-132)
Full photo album can be found by clicking here.