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Volunteer with bike walk tompkins!
Community Bike Shop
Our community bike shop provides quality mechanic support and a space for community members to wrench on their own bikes and purchase free-to-low cost refurbished bikes, parts, and components.
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- Mechanic volunteers have basic bike mechanic skills and can assist with walk-ins and other specific projects dictated by our lead mechanic
- Shop volunteers assist in other bike shop related tasks like organizing parts, cleaning refurbished bikes, and other essential tasks -
- Mechanic volunteers help BWT mechanic staff to refurbish donated bikes until they are safe to ride
- Volunteers who can put out bike donation calls in the community, help pick-up donations, and aid in the matching of refurbished bike to a new owner.
Advocacy
No time to wait for change! Be a part of the movement and join Bike Walk Tompkins in our local and state efforts to fight for safer infrastructure and policies for the most vulnerable road users.
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- Monitor local government meeting agendas for action items
- Attend meetings to give comments
- Sign & send letters
- Plug into list serves & community forums
- World Day of Remembrance (November) & Ride of Silence (May) event organizing
- Attend Safe Streets lobby days in Albany
- Participate in bike lobby day in DC
General Support
We have a lot of tasks that don’t fit neatly into specific categories, and they are great for volunteers who have irregular schedules or limited availability.
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- Handy tasks like construction, painting, and other crafts
- Dispersing of materials like helmets, paper advertisements, bike lights, and other giveaways
- Many of our events require a level of coordination to provide hospitality like refreshments and snacks
Seasonal Opportunities
STARTING in JUNE/JULY 2024: Learn-To-Ride Instruction
We provide 1-on-1 and small group instruction for adults and youth to learn how to ride a bike.
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Volunteer instructors commit to 1 lesson per week throughout the whole season (June-August)
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Volunteer bike mechanics attend 2 lesson per month (June-August) to perform basic safety checks on participants’ bikes and maintain our teaching fleet of bikes.
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Streets ALive! Ithaca
Streets Alive! Ithaca is, at its simplest, an afternoon where the streets are closed to cars and open to people to walk, bike, roll, dance, and play.
Lighted Bike rides
These are family-friendly community bike rides, aimed at encouraging rider safety and visibility.
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Full moon rides: Every Month; April-October
Halloween Parades: Saturday, October 28 & Tuesday, October 31
Solstice Ride: Thursday, December 21st -
Need volunteers for every ride:
- Lead & Sweep riders
- Intersection corkers to signal to other street users that a lighted group ride is coming through an intersection