Join Blue Bikes This Thursday!
At Buffalo Blue Bicycle recycling bicycles is a zen experience – a simplistic yet sometimes daunting machine is broken down to its barest components and reworked, re-oiled and put back together as a whole. The sum of all these parts is the most efficient human transport machine created. When you are out riding a bicycle that you have given new life that provides a smooth, comfortable ride; you experience a satisfying feeling of accomplishment. Riding a bicycle is an experience that brings back childhood memories for many of us. Unfortunately that was the last time many rode. The bicycle, as the forefront to all our motorized transportation, is to some no more then a childhood recreational device. At Buffalo Blue Bicycle we want to re-think bicycles and are out to dispel that myth!
Bicycles offer a cheap, reliable, healthy, comfortable and fun experience for the user and are much more then a recreational tool. Don’t believe us? Come and join Blue Bicycle this Thursday March 29th at our workshop located at the corner of Colvin and Linden (http://buffalobluebicycle.org/workshop.php) at 7:30pm. You will get a chance to visit, see our operation in progress and meet some great new people. At 9pm we will put the tools away and go for a ride heading straight to Delaware Park and enjoy the city on two wheels. All are welcome and we plan on continuing these rides throughout the summer on the last Thursday of every month.
Whenever I see a person on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells
Buffalo Blue Bicycle 65 Niagara Square Room 607 Phone: 716-851-4052
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sbrof
I totally agree, with the bones of Buffalo built around a walkable lifestyle it is easy to commute via bike to most parts of the city. It would actually be easier if small efforts were made to make the life of a bicyclist easier.
If you ever want any pictures of bike infrastructure from others places let me know I have takes a decent amount of images from my travels.
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StreetcarSuburbanite
Don't forget that Buffalo's flat geography makes our city the perfect place to get around on two wheels! The Netherlands and Denmark have great bike cultures and those countries are both very flat.
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sbrof
Same with Germany. They have hills, snow and love their cars also but they have also promoted and grown a strong bike culture in the past 40 years. Remember they built the first highways and definitely use cars like a status symbol like the US so I think we could learn a lot from how they have learned to share the road and infrastructure with bikes and pedestrians.
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Bizzles
How does one go about joining this fantabulous organization if they cannot make the meeting on Thursday?
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JBooth
Buffalo Blue Bicycle is available for anyone to join. Workshops are held every Thursday evening from 7:30 - 10pm and Sunday from 1-3pm. For more information visit www.BuffaloBlueBicycle.org
We are always looking for volunteers and you dont need to know how to fix bicycles to do so!
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scooter
We should all read and get behind another article that has gotten no attention on BRO.
The Greenway plan has been approved.
I think this is headline news for our community.
I'm not a bicycle nut.....but how great will it be when we can walk/run/bike along our waterfront/riverfront from buffalo to niagara falls and beyond.
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peacemonger
scooter- there was an article up yesterday on BRO about the approval of the Greenway Plan... it's great news that no one seems to be paying enough attention to. Maximizing our natural assets and setting aside money to take care of them is a great step forward for our entire region!!
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