Africa to Velo-city

Africa to Velo-city

One Street has been discussing various ways to ensure that more African-born bicycle advocacy leaders can attend the annual Velo-city conference in order to share their experiences at this important international gathering. Velo-city 2013 in Vienna was our first attempt and we hope that future Velo-city conferences will see even greater success. If you have ideas for making this happen, please contact us.

In 2011 and 2012 we called this program City to Velo-city and partnered with the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) to offer partial scholarships to the most committed bicycle advocates in Prescott, Arizona, One Street's home base. In the summer of 2012 we shifted the program to assist our African colleagues because their innovative and courageous expertise in bicycle initiatives will bring such great value to the conference.

City to Velo-city 2012

City to Velo-city 2011

City to Velo-city 2011

City to Velo-city 2011

Thanks to all our donors and helpers who made our fundraising for this trip such a great success!  With the donations, auction, raffle, T-shirt and beer sales we raised over $3,000!

Starting in Amsterdam, we met the advocates and government officials who helped make this city the top-ranked bicycle city of the world with nearly fifty percent of all trips made by bicycle. We then traveled to Sevilla, Spain to participate in the international Velo-city Conference. 

The location of Sevilla for this longstanding conference series was particularly inspiring because just three years ago this city had virtually no people bicycling, much like Prescott. But after three years of successful bicycle initiatives, they now enjoy six percent of all trips made by bicycle—one of the most impressive leaps of any city in the world. Read more in this ECF press release . Also, this conference focused on what developing countries need to increase bicycling. Both of these themes were  particularly beneficial for the ambassadors and their work to make Prescott more bicycle friendly. Read more about the course and our fundraising efforts in this Daily Courier article, the local Prescott newspaper.

Prescott ambassadors who qualified for these scholarships were responsible for booking their own flights and lodging and registering for the conference in order to request a reimbursement from this fund. We also worked with our partners in the U.S. and Europe to lower some of these costs.  

Thanks to our 2011 Trip Sponsors!:

And thanks to our 2011 in-kind and individual donors who made our fundraising a success:

Austin Allred, Bikesmith, Ray Cage, Lula Cooper, Chris Darakis, Erika DeLeo, Hotel Vendome, Joe Miller, Nick's Feed Your Face, Prescott Coffee Roasters, Valerie Scheffler, Jesse Dean Smith, Tool Exchange, Whiskey Row Screen Printing.

• Bicycle course students refurbishing bikes for people in need and educating Prescott citizens and officials

Follow the latest activities of the Prescott College Bicycle Ambassadors on our Facebook group. 

Read more about the Bicycle course in this Cronkite News article.

For further information, contact Sue Knaup, One Street's Executive Director and teacher for the Prescott College course The Bicycle: Vehicle for Social Change: sue{at}onestreet.org or 928-541-9841

One Street Components

One Street Components

One Street Components compliments our Social Bike Business program for our parters around the world. These programs serve impoverished people who depend on their bicycles, so they need strong, repairable parts. Most of these programs start by refurbishing used bikes as they move toward manufacturing their own bikes. But without simple, durable, affordable parts, even refurbishing comes to a standstill.

Bike Shift Lever

Our first component was our Bike Shift Lever

Of its six parts, four are common items--bolt, nut, hose clamp, and bottle cap--and two are cast out of scrap aluminum using the techniques outlined in our book, Backyard Aluminum Casting.. The design offers these advantages over sport-only shift levers:

• Symmetrical – works on right and left sides.
• Works for all gear ranges.
• Easily repaired with common parts.
• Designed for people who depend on their bike, also those with weak or injured hands.
• Supports upside-down bike during repair.

The Bike Shift Lever also works for throttles and chokes on other sorts of machines such as yard equipment, small motorcycles, and boats. It is designed for easy production and repair by people
who rely on their bicycles every day.

TIPS FOR USE:

• Tighten the top bolt with a 7/16" or 11mm wrench to increase friction as parts wear in.
• Install so hose clamp screw is to the the front, to avoid knee hitting it.
• Choose housing hole that will loop housing to the front of the bike.
• Keep cable a bit loose to allow lever to rest at convenient position.

The initial production process was funded through a Kickstarter campaign in October 2013. The campaign is still posted at Kickstarter.com.

Other Potential Components

Other priorities we've heard from our partners:

• Basic, affordable rear derailleurs made with quality metal (not stamped pot metal) – last sighted in the 1980s;
• Basic, high quality chains for geared bikes that are affordable and don’t require the pin to be replaced every time the chain is broken – nearing extinction.

Let us know if you're struggling to find other bicycle parts for your program.

Shifting Trips to Bicycling

Shift to Bike

Shifting trips from the most expensive way to travel (driving) to the least expensive way (bicycling and walking) could save households up to 20% of their expenses each year. For some, this savings could mean the difference between life and death. For most, this savings will allow them to spend that money on local goods that will do far more for their local economies than burning this money as gasoline.

Unfortunately, in many developed countries, transportation infrastructure has focused almost entirely on providing for single occupant vehicle (SOV) transportation, creating a street environment that is not only unwelcoming to walking and bicycling, but is often deadly to those who choose these modes of travel. In developing countries, this issue is often combined with a lack of access to bicycles as well as dependable bike shops. So, while shifting trips from driving to bicycling or walking seems like a logical way to save money, many people do not have this option yet. 

One Street is helping advocacy organizations around the world change their community’s infrastructure through our Campaign Planning expertise and workshops. We're also bringing affordable transportation bicycles to distressed areas of the world through our Social Bike Business program.

The overall value that non-motorized transportation provides for communities is often underestimated. The Victoria Transport Policy Institute published a study on this issue. Here are their findings and a link to their website:

For more great info, read the full report on Quantifying the Benefits.

Now, compare this value to the cost of driving. The United States, as most people know, is the worst example of overemphasis on single occupant vehicle (SOV) provisions. According to a report by the Surface Transportation Policy Partners (STPP) called Driven to Spend, Americans spend an average of $7,781 per year on transportation in 2003. That is nearly one of every five dollars spent by American households each year! For more details on these findings, please look through both versions of this report:

Driven to Spend 2000

Driven to Spend 2005

Source: www.OneStreet.org

Social Bike Business Program

Social Bike Business Program

One Street’s international Social Bike Business program supports local leaders who are committed to providing disadvantaged people with affordable, quality transportation bicycles; job training; and jobs. The programs we support follow a sustainable business model, charging full retail for their products and services with microloans and subsidies going only to people who truly need them. They provide their services at a bicycle community center that’s open during normal business hours in a location convenient and welcoming to the most disadvantaged residents of their community.

Why Do We Need Social Bike Businesses?

• The lack of affordable, quality, transportation bicycles;
• Disadvantaged people and their neighborhoods are very poorly served by bike shops;
• The trend by the bicycle industry to move all production into environmentally and socially abusive Asian factories, thus escalating social problems;  
• Very few of the factories making bicycles serve their local disadvantaged people;
• Disadvantaged people can benefit most from affordable, quality, transportation bicycles.

What is a Social Bike Business?

• A place that welcomes and prioritizes disadvantaged people, open at least five days a week during normal business hours;
• Taps local non-profit, for-profit and government partners to build a local team;
• Provides refurbished (and even locally manufactured) affordable transportation bicycles to disadvantaged people;
• Provides cycling guidance to disadvantaged people;
• Provides jobs and job training in bicycle repair, bicycle manufacture, cyclist education, customer service, management and bike shop ownership to disadvantaged people;
• Supports financially self-sufficient certified social bike shops owned and operated by disadvantaged people trained through the program;
• All program employees and owners of social bike shops are paid a market salary;
• All profits increase service to disadvantaged people. 

What is not a Social Bike Business?

• Volunteer-run programs
• Bicycle racing and high-end bicycles
• Imported bicycles
• Profits above people
• Programs that don’t welcome the most disadvantaged people

One Street Can Help Your Program By:

• Offering guidance for planning and design of your local program;
• Providing proven models for the program; 
• Helping you organize your local team; 
• Helping you and your team raise initial capital to launch your program; 
• Offering train-the-trainer workshops in management, bicycle repair and manufacture;
• Connecting you to our growing network of Social Bike Businesses around the world.

Defying Poverty with Bicycles

Our how-to manual for the program, Defying Poverty with Bicycles,,, is available through your local book shop and online booksellers. This 206 page manual details all the various steps for succeeding with your own Social Bike Business program. 

Sue Knaup, One Street’s Executive Director, oversees the program. Sue brings her experience as the owner of a local bike shop for 13 years and her continued international bike industry connections.

This program offers a fresh look at solving the serious lack of access to bike shops and affordable, sturdy transportation bicycles for the majority of the world’s population. It offers a more efficient, global solution that keeps bikes close to where they are made as it lifts people from poverty forever. Through running their own bike business, or simply buying their own bike, people can save on transportation costs, increase their quality of life and create additional business opportunities.

This PowerPoint presents an overview of the program and some models around the world

Our Social Bike Business program brochure is a handy handout on the Social Bike Business program to help your efforts gain support for your program. Give us a call: +1-928-541-9841 or email sue{at}onestreet.org if you're ready to move ahead with your program.

This video reminds us of the pride of local manufacturing, sadly uncommon now. It even ends with American kids riding the bikes. And don't miss the pinstripers!:

This report outlines one community bike program's efforts to reach their most disadvantaged neighbors. 

Supporters 2010

OUR 2010 SUPPORTERS
Top Supporters - $1,000 and above: Cyclists for Cultural Exchange  New Belgium Brewing Company AmeriCorps VISTA  European Cyclists' Federation Margaret T. Morris Foundation  Ironclad Bicycles Team Estrogen   1% for the Planet
Super Supporters - $ 500 and above:
The Robin Lee Whittlesey Foundation Write Now Design Interbike Prescott College Sue Knaup
Supporters - $100 and above:
ADFC the German cycling federation Anonymous Clint Brown Centre Region Bicycle Coalition Green Mobility Network Nathaniel Hoag Look.net Suzanna McDougal Karen Nozik Nigel Reynolds Thomas Stokell

Supporters 2013

OUR 2013 SUPPORTERS
Top Supporters - $1,000 and above: Cyclists for Cultural Exchange  New Belgium Brewing Company      * Marianne Knaup European Cyclists' Federation  Ironclad Bicycles The Robin Lee Whittlesey Foundation
Super Supporters - $ 500 and above:
Clint Brown Dick Hartley Sue Knaup Darlene Wood Laura Zeman-Mullen
Supporters - $100 and above:
ADFC the German cycling federation Tomas Bertulis Larry Black Joan & Ed Burtelow Ray Cage John Crosby Mary Jo Crosby Johanna Hawley Margaret Hickman Jim Knaup Look.net Karen Nozik Rich Olken Turney Postlewait David Rapp Tom Wilcoxen

African Programs

African Programs

Africa to Velo-city: We're helping our African colleagues attend this topnotch international bicycle advocacy conference.

One Street to Uganda: We ran this program 2010 through 2012 to send our executive director to Uganda to assist with a bicycle program there.

City to Velo-city 2012

City to Velo-city 2012

We built on last year's success for Velo-city 2012 in Vancouver, Canada June 26-29. This year we expanded our fundraising efforts, including another fun event, to offer scholarships to community advocates from Prescott Alternative Transportation (PAT). 

Thanks to everyone who made our fun-filled (and bike-filled) fundraising event on April 26th at the Park Plaza Liquor & Deli  in Prescott such an outstanding success! Proceeds from the event have ensured that all ambassadors will make it to the conference!

Three ambassadors joined us at the conference:

• Greg Hull is a PAT staff members for their Safe Routes to Schools program.
• Justin Devine is PAT's most active volunteer.
• Taylor Kuyk-White coordinated this year's City to Velo-city program.

All three enjoyed rubbing elbows with some of the world's most effective bicycle community designers, advocates and officials at the Velo-city conference in June and bringing best practices back to Prescott to help transform it into a place where everyone wants to bicycle.

Thanks to our 2012 City to Velo-city Sponsors!:

We also thank our 2012 in-kind and individual donors who are helping make our fundraising a success:

Ray Cage, Bikesmith, Burgess Raby, Jim Knaup, Nick's Feed Your Face, Old Sage Bookstore, Bill's Pizza, Raven Cafe, Grunt Design, Taylor Kuyk-White, Page Springs Cellars, Napa Smith Brewery, Albertsons, Sage Regina, The Raven Cafe, Greg Hull, Framing Gallery, Skyler Jess, Sue Knaup, Michael Keefer, Bob Sheetz, and Bill Fiscus.

One Street Press

One Street Press

Our books inspire people to improve their communities and appreciate bicycles. All are availble at bookstores and online booksellers worldwide. Proceeds support One Street's service to bike programs.

• Bike Hunt: A Memoir
• Cures for Ailing Organizations
• Backyard Aluminum Casting
• Defying Poverty with Bicycles

Bike Hunt: A Memoir

In the early 2000s, Sue Knaup’s dream job at the Thunderhead Alliance, a bicycle nonprofit, descended into workplace abuse. Her Bike Hunts became her lifeline back to her former, courageous self as a bike messenger, river guide, and hitchhiker when no one could bully her.

Bike Hunt: A Memoir is a tragic love story of an enchantment with and sacrifice for a magical machine. In the end, it is a story of hope and resilience for anyone who has ever let themselves slip away into ambition.

Hear Sue Knaup discuss the book and her experience writing it:

•       Watch a TV interview,
•       Listen to a podcast,
•       Listen to a radio interview.

Most local book stores can order it for you. It is also available at online booksellers around the world e.g. Barnes & Noble (best availability for U.S.), Amazon, Kalahari (za), Fishpond (au), Libri (de), etc. Check your favorite online bookseller. (If you can't find it through vendors, we have some copies available through our Store.)

Cures for Ailing Organizations

Cures for Ailing Organizations uses easy diagnosis steps and proven remedies to help nonprofits and social enterprises out of common struggles.

Sue Knaup taps her 40 years of experience working for nonprofits as well as her emergency medical response training to show readers proven methods of reviving important organizations.

Most local book stores can order it for you. It is also available at online booksellers around the world e.g. Barnes & Noble (best availability for U.S.), Amazon, Kalahari (za), Fishpond (au), Libri (de), etc. Check your favorite online bookseller. (If you can't find it through vendors, we have some copies available through our Store.)

Thanks to our wonderful donors on Kickstarter who made its publication possible! 

Backyard Aluminum Casting

Build your own scrap aluminum foundry for casting Bike Shift Levers or whatever else you have in mind. 

Most local book stores can order it for you. It is also available at online booksellers around the world e.g. Barnes & Noble (best availability for U.S.), Amazon, Kalahari (za), Fishpond (au), Libri (de), etc. Check your favorite online bookseller. (We are currently sold out of our copies.)

Defying Poverty with Bicycles

Defying Poverty with Bicycles is our how-to manual for our Social Bike Business program, now available through our store for shipping in the U.S. 

 Most local book stores can order it for you.It is also available at online booksellers around the world e.g. Barnes & Noble (best availability for U.S.), Amazon, Kalahari (za), Fishpond (au), Libri (de), etc. Check your favorite online bookseller. (If you can't find it through vendors, we have some copies available through our Store.)

Take a look at the Table of Contents to get an idea of what you'll find in the book.

Social Bike Business Budapest

Social Bike Business BUDAPEST

A Bike for Everyone!

What is Social Bike?

Social Bike Business has come to Budapest!

This innovative program will establish a neighborhood center that brings transportation bicycling intothe lives of disadvantaged residents of Budapest – spearheaded by the NGO ZöFi (Hungarian YoungGreens).

The Social Bike Business concept was originated by One Street, an international non-profit organization based in Arizona, USA. Included in the concept is the establishment of a bicycle manufacturing operation,a Social Bike Community Center, a job training program targeting socially marginalized people, social bike shop(s), and last but not least affordable transportation bicycles.

The Social Bike Community Center

The plan is to create a Community Center which provides a (bike) cultural space, and includes also classrooms for the training program, bike repair area and small office. Ideally, a large enough facility will include the manufacturing space and bike shop.We are currently looking for a suitable space in the 8th District, easily accessible and welcoming to socially marginalized people. Also at this stage we are seeking funding as well as logistical and in-kind support to ensure a successful launch of the Social Bike Community Center.

Our Business Model

The Social Bike Business program couples the principle of social business with the for-profit structure, yet serving in first place the needs of socially marginalized people. The program entails a local training center that trains and employs impoverished locals to refurbish, design, manufacture and distribute affordable, quality transportation bicycles to people in need. This involves a qualifying process of individuals entering the program, to make sure that they are inneed and also will have the commitment to complete the program.

Social Bike Shops

Most of the product distribution is done through social bike shops established by the program in the target neighborhoods. These bike shops are owned by locals who have been trained in bicycle business management at the center. Those who graduated from the job training program have learned not just to repair and manufacture bikes, but also how to successfully run a business - skills that can be applied anywhere!

Our Step-by-Step Strategy

The first stage is the crucial one where we go beyond the initial planning and brainstorming phases, and get into actual work, laying the foundations for the job training program. As we have been awarded our first financial support, weare able to rapidly develop our program in the fall of 2010. 

Stage 1 – Laying the foundations

• a) Develop Partnerships
• b) Initiate job training program
• c) Develop curriculum, including job training certification
• d) Business Plan development
• e) Write funding proposals for the next stages

In order to fully launch the first stage we have already gathered a core team of people who are enthusiastic about coordinating and developing the program. This stage includes launching the first job training program, targeting twenty individuals who will learn bicycle repair skills. We are also concentrating on job-placement strategies from the very beginning.

Stage 2 – Setting up the Social Bike Community Center

• a) Classroom space with seating to accommodate up to 30 students
• b) Reception area featuring interactive educational displays and exhibits
• c) Small office/administration area
• d) Provide refurbished used bicycles
• e) Bicycle repair training stations including tools, electronics and training materials
• f) Upgrading the center: waste-free, public art, recycle bike parts

Once we have secured a location, we will be able to expand our job training program and include new modules and an expanded curriculum. Our full-timestaff will ensure smooth operations and a welcoming cultural space.

Stage 3 – Expanding to include manufacturing

• a) Social bike prototype completed with guidance from existing manufacturers
• b) Fully equipped bike manufacturing and repair space
• c) Curriculum to include manufacturing, jobs access, bike business owner training
• d) Development of bicycle museum
• e) Expansion of activities into rural parts of Hungary

With the center up and running, the training program in full gear and the center brimming with life, we can expand the operations to include bike manufacturing, as well as adding new components or spreading to other locations.

What next?

We will be happy to further discuss this exciting program with you, and we are open to your input. The success of this program will depend on finding backers who are able to catch the vision and would like to support our efforts. We are open to the further direct involvement of interested parties!

About us

http://zofi.hu/projektek/socialbike

Social Bike Business Budapest coordination:

• One Street International (www.onestreet.org)

Budapest Social Bike Business Program coordination:

• Hungarian Young Greens (www.zofi.hu)
• Cycling Hungary Alliance (www.kmsz.hu)
• Periferia Foundation (www.periferiaalapitvany.hu) 

Supporters 2008

Supporters 2008

Supporters 2011

OUR 2011 SUPPORTERS
Top Supporters - $1,000 and above: Cyclists for Cultural Exchange  New Belgium Brewing Company European Cyclists' Federation  Ironclad Bicycles The Robin Lee Whittlesey Foundation
Super Supporters - $ 500 and above:
Write Now Design Interbike Prescott College Clint Brown Ray Cage Chris Darakis Sue Knaup Darlene Wood
Supporters - $100 and above:
1% for the Planet ACE Committee ADFC the German cycling federation Anonymous Dorothy Baxter Joan & Ed Burtelow California Bicycle Coalition Thomas DeMarco Gerry Lynn Hamilton Johanna Hawley Greg Hull Bruce Hustedt Marianne Knaup Look.net Suzanna McDougal Lindy Messerly Esteban Abad Balderas Muñiz Karen Nozik Nigel Reynolds Mike Rubbo Team Estrogen Paul Simpson Thomas Stokell

Bike Industry

Bike Industry

The bike industry’s importance in the world market is increasing. In 2007, 124 million bicycles were manufactured compared to 50 million cars (Source: Earth Policy Institute). Even per capita with an increasing world population, the number of manufactured bikes is continuously rising (Source: UN Population Division). For more specifics on the U.S. bike industry, please visit this report from the National Bicycle Dealers Association.

Meanwhile, it is getting harder for many bicycle manufactures to continue their production in their own country. Janet Larsen mentions, in an essay for the Earth Policy Institute, that more than half of all bikes per year, are manufactured in Asia with China as the leading player (learn more). Most of these bikes are built for sports and recreation riding.

Nevertheless, diverse cultures, varying levels of commitment from governments to increase transportation bicycling, and the needs of specific populations, ensure a demand for different types of bicycles.

In developed countries, bikes are often used only for sports and recreation because streets are not designed for bicycling. With current trends focused on sports and recreation, manufacturers compete with each other over high-end sports bicycles while forgetting about basic, high quality bicycles. So, potential new riders are often turned away from bicycling because they cannot afford to invest so much in something so new to them. Those who choose to buy a bike on a tight budget have to settle for poorly built and assembled bikes from mass merchants that are dangerous and often impossible to ride. Otherwise they have to pay the higher price for a bike shop bike with accessories (i.e., front shock, 24 gears, expensive geometry, etc.) they do not need.

This also hinders the increase of cycling in developing countries where the bicycle is often the only affordable and efficient way to travel. But even in these countries, the quality of bicycles is often so bad that they do not hold up to everyday transportation use and replacement parts are seldom available.

But this problem also presents the opportunity for increasing the bicycle market in all areas of the world. More and more urban regions of developed countries are seeing the bike as a sustainable alternative to motorized transportation and enjoying new commitments from government agencies and the public.

Also in distressed areas where people cannot afford a car, cycling could play a bigger role. Some organizations like One Street are developing programs that provide good quality, affordable transportation bicycles as well bike shops that can service these bikes. Find out more about One Street’s Social Bike Business program here. 

Source: www.OneStreet.org

Cycle Tourism

Cycle Tourism

In the past, cycle tourism was not a significant consideration for tourism associations, accommodation vendors, mass transit, or others engaged in the tourism industry. Vendors assumed that tourists with bikes were not a wealthy target group. Transit agencies only saw carrying bikes as a hassle without any benefit to them. These misconception prevented cycle tourism from growing.

But more and more the tourism sector has recognized the remarkable potential of cycling. Several factors are responsible for the growth of cycle tourism around the world:

• Cycling tourists are often in a higher income bracket than most tourists
• Tourists recognize the bike more and more as a vehicle which is good for their health
• Tourists realize the enjoyment of slow and contemplative travel
• Accommodation vendors recognize the profit potential of single-night guests
• Plenty of Maps and Routes programs have been launched
• Bike friendly transit agencies are enjoying an increase in ridership
• The bike industry has recognized the profit potential of cycling travelers and is offering quality touring equipment
• Cycling athletes are choosing to travel by bike to attractive places where they can train.  

So cycle tourism is steadily changing from a curious activity by a few cycling activists to a mainstream opportunity for recreation. With the increasing demand for good cycling infrastructure, high quality equipment, and suitable accommodation, a sleeping market has been slowly awakening over the last 10-15 years.

Bike Santa Barbara County is an excellent example of a cycle tourism website.

In some regions of Europe, accommodation vendors are enjoying business growth by proudly welcoming cyclists. They offer safe places for bikes, ample food, bike tools, regional information and other features that make bike tourists feel welcome.

The BED & BIKE program run by the German cycling advocacy organization, Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club (ADFC), is a best practice model for this. Today more than 4,500 vendors take part in ADFC’s BED & BIKE program. Find more information on their English website.

Of course, we also continue our work with local organizations to improve street designs and add trails and paths to communities, both essential for increasing cycle tourism. Find out more on our Street Design and Trails & Paths web pages. 

For a terrific example of promotions for cycle tourism take a look at this Danish cycle tourism brochure!

Route finding is also an essential part of trip planning for cycle tourists. Take a look at these sites for some examples:

EuroVelo – European cycle routes

Adventure Cycling – U.S. cycle routes

Topic Routes are becoming a popular way to increase cycle tourism, especially for regions and Tourist Boards. These regions don’t only offer pleasant street, paths and trails. Cyclists follow routes with certain themes like architecture, history or monuments. For an excellent example, visit the German National Tourist Board. And for a broader view on the importance of sustainable tourism, make sure to take a look at this paper from the United Nations on Climate Change in the Tourism Sector.

Source: www.OneStreet.org

One Street to Uganda

One Street to Uganda

One Street to Uganda was a program we ran from 2010 through 2012 to raise funds to send our executive director to Uganda to assist our Social Bike Business program partner Ride 4 a Woman.

Thanks to all of our wonderful donors for the January 2013 trip (see below), we actually exceeded our minimum fundraising goal! These funds helped build a brand new bicycle workshop, supply it with professional bicycle tools and provide new bicycles to eight graduates of the bicycle mechanic training course that Sue Knaup taught while she was there. Here are a few photos from the trip:

^ Raise your hand if you want to be a bicycle mechanic! ^ Scrubbing forks.

 ^ New bike worshop in action.              ^ Eight new bike mechanics, eight new bikes.

Ugandan culture discourages women from riding a bicycle or repairing anything. Even though most Ugandan women and many men disagree with this taboo, the result is that few women have even tried to ride a bicycle or use mechanics’ tools. 

One Street has been working with Ride 4 a Woman (R4W) in Bwindi, Uganda since December 2009 to build their nonprofit that is empowering women with bicycles. In January of 2011, One Street's executive director, Sue Knaup traveled to Bwindi, Uganda bringing her experience in organization development and as a former bike shop owner. While there, Ms. Knaup offered R4W's leaders bicycle program and management training. More than 200 R4W members took part in the workshops during her visit.

Most of the thousands of women in the Bwindi region spend their days and well into each night managing their households. They carry water, dig their family’s garden, care for their children and animals, clean the house, and ensure everything is running smoothly. This leaves no time to learn a trade to earn money and very little time to learn from each other.

With the bicycle riding and repair skills R4W can teach them, they will break free from the confines of Uganda’s evolving culture and learn career skills they can use to bring income to their families. Even just obtaining a bicycle will save some Bwindi area women hours each day because bicycling is at least six times faster than walking. 

R4W's leaders and staff are still new to bicycle programs themselves. During her first trip Ms. Knaup taught them the basics, her second trip offered next level training 

A huge thanks to our trip supporters!:

Cyclists for Cultural Exchange 

The Robin Lee Whittlesey Foundation

     * Marianne Knaup

• Lucy Brown
• Tomas Bertulis
• Joan Burtelow
• Ray Cage
• Kathianne Crane
• John Crosby
• Mary Jo Crosby
• Toni Denis
• Joe DiBuduo
• Johanna Hawley
• Margaret Hickman
• Jim Knaup
• Silda Mason
• Lindy Messerly
• Nancy Owen Nelson
• Turney Postlewait
• Lib Randall
• David Rapp
• Carol Russell
• Leo Sobottka
• Daniel Wasserman
• Tom Wilcoxen
• Shirley Willis

Social Bike Business Prague

Social Bike Business for Prague

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Supporters 2009

OUR 2009 SUPPORTERS
Top Supporters - $ 1,000 and above:
New Belgium Brewing Company C.I.C.L.E. European Cyclists' Federation     Ironclad Bicycles Margaret Brooks
Super Supporters - $ 500 and above:
Interbike Prescott College Sue Knaup
Supporters - $100 and above:
ADFC the German cycling federation Centre Region Bicycle Coalition Cyclists Inciting Change thru LIVE Exchange (C.I.C.L.E.) Darlene Wood Green Mobility Network ListServe.com Mary Cash Matt Kellerman Reta McCarty Thomas J. DeMarco, M.D. Thomas Stokell Ulrike Pechmann

Supporters 2012

OUR 2012 SUPPORTERS
Top Supporters - $1,000 and above: Cyclists for Cultural Exchange  New Belgium Brewing Company      * Marianne Knaup European Cyclists' Federation  Ironclad Bicycles The Robin Lee Whittlesey Foundation
Super Supporters - $ 500 and above:
Write Now Design Interbike Clint Brown Anonymous Sue Knaup Darlene Wood
Supporters - $100 and above:
1% for the Planet ADFC the German cycling federation Tomas Bertulis Bikesmith Larry Black Joan & Ed Burtelow Ray Cage John Crosby Mary Jo Crosby Johanna Hawley Margaret Hickman Hicks Dental Group Hotel Vendome Greg Hull Michael Keefer Jim Knaup Taylor Kuyk-White Look.net MADShirtz Lindy Messerly Napa Smith Brewery Rich Olken Page Springs Cellars Park Plaza Liquor & Deli Turney Postlewait Burgess Raby David Rapp Bob Sheetz Gayle & Robin Stallings Team Estrogen Tom Wilcoxen