The Next Generation Of Bikes

THE TNGoB GROUP

2009-08-13T11:18:00.000-07:00

2009-08-13T11:03:00.000-07:00

its mook mane....
this the last day and its been a blast,but its said too say goodbye too my homies.lol
i had a great time with these people but we gotta apart from them till next summer.the program was a blast, it was strange at first but i got use too it. the whole idea of the program was too get people too use thier bikes or ride thier bikes.it was hard at first because we didnt know anything too know about bikes.it was a strugle but we did it and it was success.
peace,till the next time yall see!

An Introduction To TNGoB

2009-08-13T10:56:00.001-07:00

Hi guys, Paris again.

Today I'm here putting up the brainchild of the Bike Temple group: Our Podcast! Its simply an overview of the groups goal and what we had done so far. It's a tad bit late, but rather late than never, right? Enjoy!

My Experience With The Program

2009-08-13T09:47:00.000-07:00

My summer as an intern with the Bits program has been a very exiting and eye opening experience. With my group, Bike Temple, I have learned a great deal about not only bikes, but the cyclist community as a whole. I've learned about the pro's and cons of riding a bike versus driving a car. I've learned the names or nearly all of the parts of a bike. I've also learned that there are tons of ways to customize a bike. At the beginning of the program, when we were counting bike racks, I felt as though it was going to be a long summer, but the six weeks have come and gone, and now I look back wondering " Where did the time go?". It was great getting paid for all the work we've done (for back to school supplies) but to be honest I would gladly have done it just for the experiences and to meet the people I've met. It's been a wild ride, but this looks like this is the end. Ride on, Temple. Ride on.

2009-08-13T09:12:00.000-07:00

Whats up its Dave again. This program has been pretty good so far. I had fun all throughout the program. I became friends with alot of new people who are real cool. When the program first strated I did not like it to much, but after a while it started to become fun. Each day we all had our ups and downs but overall it was fun. When we first started it was only three of us in the group then throughout the program the group started to grow now all together there are six of us.

2009-08-13T09:02:00.001-07:00

Ay yo whats up this FATIMA again...

Well I'm back this time with information about the BITS program. Well In the begining when i first started it was alright I didn't really like it because we had to talk about bikes through the whole program and i just thought i knew it was going to be corney but as the days went by it got better and better. like when we had to make our blog i liked it we all made the program FUN as we were all working. Also when we went to the Tech Center and we had to record that was the most FUN that we did even though we talked about bikes we still had fun recording in the lil studio jawn because we heard our selves and how we sound. had to count bike racks that wasn't so fun but after awhile it got better.And as for our mentor Anish he was cool, But through it all i really did like the program.

2009-08-13T08:40:00.000-07:00

Hi its Devon, Wellll today will be my last post for the bike temple program and its just about the experience I had here at bike temple, the poeple I met and what my overall thoughts are. Well i want to start with that this program was a six week program that started in july and the program was really interesting I would say. Welll after reading all of our post you should alread know that this group was all about bike and anything to do with bikes. I found that it was interesting because i didnt know that bike had a or could a positive in pack on the earth and the way we live our lifes .... I found that u could save almost three times has much riding a bike than u would driving a car.

2009-08-12T11:51:00.000-07:00

its mook again mane.

The bicycle shop map that we created (Right hand side) is there to inform bicyclists that there are many bike shops were they can get their biked repaired or upgraded!

2009-08-12T11:41:00.000-07:00

What's up it's Derika again

It is the last week of the Bits program and so far it's going okay. At the beginning of the program I didn't like it because the fact that we had to do our project on bikes. Now as I was getting use to the people that I was in the group with and learning more about what we was doing our project on. I no the people in my group well enough to work with them better and stand up in front of them and not be shy. So now that I know what's going on I'm liking it and getting to no why people ride their bikes all the time instead of taking a car. The whole program is okay and its good for people that don't no how to use a computer or no how to blog about whats going on in your everyday life.

Unique Bike Rack

2009-08-12T09:29:00.000-07:00

By: Fatima Givens and Derika Savage
Gravity wall bike rack information and picture:

"The anti-gravity design of this unique bike rack firmly holds the bicycles without using any hardware like screws, bolts, or fasteners. The bike rack is coated with black epoxy to give it a stylish appearance and improve resistance to moisture, rust, and other factors. The bikes are stored one above the other with independent adjustment arms on each of the two levels."

Size: 79"tall x 26"wide x 19"deep.

• "This product ships directly from the manufacturer
• This product can't be expedited
• Sorry, we can't ship this product to AK, HI, Guam or Puerto Rico
• This product eligible for international shipping"

**where i got my information from the links are written below.**

**{Links: www.acehardwareoutlet.com, and www.organize.com/gravbikracwa.html}**

2009-08-12T09:23:00.000-07:00

Whats up this Dave. I am writing about the bike rack map that my group created. The map consists of all the bike racks located on Temple's campus. The reason why we made the map is because my group and I wanted to make things much easier for people to be able to find the different bike racks located on Temple's campus.

2009-08-12T09:11:00.002-07:00

its mook mane sup doe.
Its sad to say that the program is ending...
but the person that i will remember
IS TOMMIE.
HE FUNNY AS EVER man.
the first time i met him he played this joke on me,he pretended that he had to fire me.he had everybody wait outside and he was talking to me and he was like "The economy is bad and they gonna have to let people go so he said im fired"
i was mad so im like dang yo you could of called and told me this instead of coming to work for no reason! So i got up and left and when i walked in the hallway everybody was standing there laughing, i felt salty.
but that's the day i knew Tommie was cool!
and then as the weeks go on we be having portfolio training every Friday and it be fun.
we learned how too do a lot of thins working with Tommie and the portfolio training.
then we had a lot to do for the portfolio training,it was a lot but we got it done and it was fun.

Breaking News: Paris blogs again!

2009-08-12T09:11:00.001-07:00

Hi again, my fellow commoners

It's Paris and, I know it's been a while, but I'm back on the blogging scene with a story to tell and pictures to share!

Not too long ago me and a few of the members of my group, Bike Temple, went out into the world on bikes! That's right, we actually saddled up and headed around campus on our own trusty aluminum steeds. After being pushed back a whole week and switching our portfolio training day we finally got to reap the rewards of our hard work: a brisk cycling trip around campus on a great day. Another of the mentors in the program, Zack, accompanied us on the trip and was nice enough to even lend us three bikes to use, talk about generous! Although the ride was extremely entertaining, it also had a malicious intention hidden within: We were learning the course an average student would take throughout the course of the day. There was only one element missing as we rolled through campus: people. The hundreds of people that are usually packed in the walkways and squeezed on the sidewalks were absent, but having been on campus during the school year I can imagine what it would be like.

So, after a half hour of pedaling the day was coming to a close and we headed back to USB to clock out and end the workday, but before we did we made sure to get a few pictures which I gladly share with you, the people.

2009-08-11T13:41:00.000-07:00

It's FATIMA and I'm back again

Well today I'm going to tell all you guys what we did on friday the 7th. We as in Devon, Anish Paris, & Zack we all went bike riding around temple campus we rode by the Gladfeltor Hal,l took pictures, we rode from broad and diamond St. to 12th and diamond St. and we rode our bikes for about a half an hour it was nice I haven't been bike riding since I was about 8 years old so you guy's know I had me a BLAST it was me, Devon, Anish, Paris, and Zack but we all had fun we rode by the engineering building again it was fun and if you all where there I know you would've had fun to, and NO im not just saying this because of the program but we really had fun. you can ask everyone that went and they'll be glad to tell you that we ALL had fun. But that's all for now ill get at you guys on another day ard you guys I'm out of here, I'm going to let someone else tell you about it but HOLLA BACK... DEUCES :-)

2009-08-11T12:07:00.000-07:00

Yea Devon's back!!!

Hey everybody, today is august the 11 and I"m reporting to you about what happened in bike temple on august the 7th. Yeahhh I know its kinda late but hey , it was the weekend u know i had to have some fun. But, anyway when we got to work we had to got though some nut ass interviews which took all day and like 45mins before we got off that's when everybody wants to start talking about riding bikes. So you already its about to be the end of the work day and nobody wants to go out on bikes but since it was going to kill time only about half the bike temple group when including me. So we took the bikes out for a quick 30min ride around temple campus, they told us how difficult it was when your trying to get to class when driving and how it trying to find a parking space and then when there's so many cars surrounding you sometimes you have to get some friends like Ashly to pick you up in your car and move it over just so u can get out of the lot. Then they just also pointed out different building and what they was call.

2009-08-06T11:29:00.000-07:00

Hey guys...It's FATIMA and Now i know you guys missed me?

Yes Fatima's here i know i was gone for a minute but now I'm back at the jump off and I'm back this time with information about bicycle handlebars. Did you guys know that there are a dozen types of handlebars.... and did you also know that for every type of bicycle there are different types of handlebars.well if you didn't know know you know.And guess what else they also have automatic handlebars insted of pushing the little poke out turning stick at the top of your bike where the handlebars are at to change your gears we now have automatic handlebars where you can just push the button and it changes the gear for you. that's amazing and it's made in the U.S.A... but I cant tell you any more information.. that's your assignment to do.but thats all for now guys see you next time... DUECES....

2009-07-29T11:46:00.000-07:00

Its Lance Sup.

there's a website about crazy new ways technology has is help bicycle users to park their bikes
and it will be sucured. there is a model call the bike tree. its a device that holds you bike in tree shape machine. it holds your bike 10ft from the ground and it has a umbrella that protects it bad weather.

2009-07-29T10:11:00.000-07:00

Lance again sup.
as you know there are many different types of bicycle racks. on a website that Paris found, it had a bike tree,a mechanical tree that when you swipe a card through the slot and it will actually takes the bikes up into the slots of the tree, its so decent.

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2009-07-29T10:10:00.000-07:00

Whats up it's Derika

It is many different types of bikes racks. If u riding your bike and it's to hot for you or you just don't want to ride your bike no more you can get on the bus and put your bike in front of the bus. You can put your bike on top of your car if you going away out of town. Put on back of car, on a truck,outside a building. A Deluxe Double is a bike rack that you hang on the wall it hold two bikes and you can put it anywhere so that is the different bike racks that you can use its not only bike racks that you can put up on the side of the building.

Gravity Bike Rack

2009-07-29T09:52:00.000-07:00

Hey FATIMA'S back... remember me? hope so...

Hey you guys...did u miss me this week? well i missed you... and guess what I'm back again with more information about some amazing bike racks and guess what this it's called A Gravity bike rack. Gravity bike racks is a more outstanding bike rack it's basically just a wall-bike stand built for two or four bikes, And of course the helmets. but to get back on track a gravity bike rack is a better shape and looks better than them plain bike racks that we have here on campus but at least we have some bike racks am i right? because some people don't have any at all on there campus... and the gravity bike rack it stands on the wall and it needs no installation no building against the walls no mountain hardware just place it against the wall put your bike on it and go like i said before it just needs a location to be put at. Gravity bike can hold up any sources of bikes a mountain bike anything as long as it's not more than 100 pounds and it's 12.5".from the wall its just the perfect thing for garages, school anything u name it. and its made of sturdy steel tubing i know its aw-some right? you have to love it but once again it's Fatima and that my assignment on gravity bike racks thanks see ya next time.... deuces :-) .....

Week Four

2009-07-27T11:23:00.001-07:00

Paris is back, again ^_^

Today we will be reporting some data that we had collected while we were out and about on campus. In a previous week we had went out and tallied the number of bikes compared to bike racks. We grouped the racks according to which building they were closest to. After a long day of counting we came up with a spreadsheet containing our data, which we turned into percentages. The data showed what buildings got bike traffic and which ones different. Our assignment for the day was to shed some light onto why some buildings got traffic and some didn't.

Of the thirteen locations we recorded along our path, the College of Engineering technically had the highest bike traffic, with a ridiculous 150%. How did we come up with 150%?, simple. There happened to be more bikes than there were spaces in the bike racks. When the open spaces were filled, people chained up their bikes to the rack any way they could. It definitely looked crowded. The actual highest bike count goes to Tyler Hall, which had a well rounded 100% usage. Every single slot was used up on each of Tyler's three full and two half racks. I figure that because the building was relatively new and fresh, people flocked to it. I think that's a pretty reasonable assumption, because when we were there the landscape was littered with college students on lunch and socializing.

After Tyler the numbers just get bleaker and bleaker. From Weiss Hall's 75% usage and Payley's 59% all the way down to Gladfelter, with just under 20%, and Beury Hall which crapped out at 0%. The numbers are all over the chart, but theres a simple explaination for all of them: Location. Depending on how close a building was to the "heart" of campus its rack usage either increased or decreased. Also, the placement of the bike racks made a difference. At some of the places the racks are nearly hidden, so nobody uses them.

I think awareness about the bike racks is a major issue, and we'll see what we can do to about it our future endeavours.

Week Four

2009-07-27T11:18:00.002-07:00

Whats sup its Lance with some new ish!

Looking at the chart of bicycle usage, I found out that the majority of the temple students use Tyler school bike racks to park their bikes. the bicycle racks they don't use is located at the Biology Life Sciences Center. The ratio shows also that a lot of people ride their bikes to and off campus, they use their bikes because of the fact that with a car, you will be spending more time looking for parking spaces, whereas in a bike all you have to do is find a rack or a gate to chain your bike up. Bikes are also helpful to you when your running late for classes.

Some Field Work:week three

2009-07-27T11:18:00.001-07:00

Hello FATIMA is back again

Yes its me Fatima and I am back once again....I will start out by saying today we walked around Temple's Campus and we wrote down majority of all the locations and the percentages on the bike and the bike racks. First I will start with the beaury Hall and BLS and it had 0%/100% of the bike racks where used at BLS and The Beaury Hall, In Ritter Hall it was 35% out of 100%, at the student center there was 5% out of 100% used, at Gledfeltor Hall there was 11.10% out of 100%, In Paley there was 53.30% out of 100%, In at The Tech Center there was 59% out of 100%, In the Tuttlemen Center there was 67.60% out of 100%, an Tomlinson there was 25% out of 100%, In the Weiss Hall there was 75% out of 100%, out off all these locations there where only two of them that was full and that was In Tyler and the Science of Engineering building they both where successfully 100% full and I'm going to tell you why. The reason is because most students park there bikes on gates and poles instead of the bike racks now i think thats because all of the buildings and Halls DON'T have bike racks that why the students park on poles and gates and truthfully i think they should have atleast 2 bike-racks in all the halls and buildings and the center and they might not have to worry about anyone parking there bikes on poles, buildings, and gates ETC. And in conclusion thats what our group did...

Week Four

2009-07-27T11:18:00.000-07:00

Hey its Derika

Today i will be writing about the percentagees and the locations of the bike racks that people use and don't use. In the location of BLS and Tomlison their are 0% bike racks used. Most of people don't like to put their bikes on the bike racks because sometimes they maybe want their bikes to be close to their location and don't have to walk far. In theTyler Hall their was a 100% or bike racks used so that was alot. Gladfelter their was 11.10%, tech center was 59.0%, the student center was 5%, ritter Hall was 35%, Tuttleamn with 67.60%. Their are many different percentages not everybody use the bike racks to put their bikes up ,because maybe where the bike racks at its nowhere their location.

Week Three

2009-07-27T09:36:00.002-07:00

Paris, once again.

Today was a very productive day for Bike Temple. Soon after the work day began we were hurried to a room down by the main office, and another group, by the name of Philly Green, interviewed us about all the things we have done so far. Philly Green is the group that we share our Portfolio Training sessions with. They asked us about the purpose behind our group, how we felt about the assignment, and even what we had learned about the topic so far. I did my best to stand out, as usual, and I think that as a group we made a good impression. After they had asked us all of their prepared questions and written down our answers we flipped the script on them and asked them some questions of our own! We basically asked variations of their questions, just to see if they were really on point with their assignment. We found out that they were blogging as a group instead of individual parts of a whole, like us, so instead of having five blog posts they had only one. Maybe they’ll take an idea from us and save themselves a bunch of trouble.

After we were interviewed, Bianca gave us a list of numbers. She said that we were to go outside and take note of the actual number of bikes on each of the bike racks, then record the location and number of spaces filled on the paper. We figured that it would be easier to mark off the building that the each rack was closest to, so with that in mind we headed out. We knocked the ball out of the park on this one, pretty much doing exactly what we needed to do. We were on point all day! The paper that Bianca had given us had fifty spaces, but we had marked off at least one hundred of the nearly five hundred designated bike locking spaces. Soon enough lunch time rolled around, and because we had stayed on task the entire day we were given an extra fifteen minutes for lunch! I think Bianca’s starting to ease up on us, little by little. After lunch we came over to Anderson hall and began today’s written and typed assignments. We are going to have a guest speaker tomorrow, so we each wrote five questions to ask him. We also had to write a page about the Bits programs for our original mentor, Anish, who is on a mini vacation right about now and last but not least we had to write a blog for today. So, this is Paris, signing off from Anderson.

Week Three

2009-07-27T09:36:00.001-07:00

Hi, David's back.

Today was good during break. We had a forty five minute break. Isn’t that amazing? Today we counted bikes in the sun. We walked around the whole campus counting out how many bikes there was on each rack. Believe it or not most of all the racks were full. Each member of the group was interviewed for about five minutes. They asked different questions. For the rest of the day we had to do computer work which was kind of fun. We got to interact with the rest of the people that works at Temple. No one got on bad terms today. Today was a fun and chill day.

Week Two

2009-07-27T09:05:00.000-07:00

Today was much better than yesterday. Everyone in the group got along with each other. Our group leader treated us all with respect. Today each member created a poster about bikes and each person presented their posters. Each member of the group did pretty well. After that we all went to lunch. After lunch we went to the tech center and watched a video then answered questions and discuss them as a group. Out of all the days being at the job I would have to say this was one of the best days. I guess I just had to get use to a controlling female. Overall I enjoyed being here. Everyone had a better attitude toward things.

Week Two

2009-07-27T08:53:00.000-07:00

Whatsup? Lance again,

Today we made poster in what we’re doing for the blogs .we some interesting posters, we also presented them. Then we went out to eat, we ate for a little bit and came back in. after we went into a building to watch videos about biking.

The videos were very interesting because they are a lot of people in other countries and cities then Philly that uses their bikes for their commute, Portland; everybody uses their bikes for their commute. Then we had to fill out a sheet that had question about the videos we seen.

Today's Work:week two

2009-07-27T08:51:00.000-07:00

Hey! its me FATIMA

Today when I got to work we went to room 405 inside the USB building to wait for David to arrive. Who is another person in our group. Then we went to the Tuttlemen Center and we made posters on trying to promote our assignment and we all got finished we presented our poster one by one to Bianca. Later we went on break to eat for a half an hour. We then went to the Tech Center and watched about 3-4 short videos on biking.

Later that day we answered questions on the paper about the videos we had seen inside the Tech Center, After we all got finished the questions Bianca let us go one by one read a question and then answer it. We all had to read our answers to see if we had them correct or not. In conclusion that’s what we did today.

Week Two

2009-07-27T08:49:00.000-07:00

Hi, Paris again.

Today my group and I started off the day by heading over to a classroom in Tuttleman. In that class we each created a poster to promote our assignment, Bike Temple. We were supposed to be creative with the visuals, then top it off with a description and a presentation that explained how it related to the overall project. After each of the interns presented, the others were asked to give feedback on how well the presentation was. We were asked to point out something good and bad that the presenter did, and how we thought they could improve their presentation. My presentation was of a super cool looking bike with the caption “There’s no such thing as a girl bike”. My caption addressed the issue that some people had with riding bikes: undue embarrassment. After we all had presented, Bianca told us that this exercise was to get us to work on our presentation skills. She reminded us that at the end of the six weeks of work, our group would have to present what we have done and explain our understanding of the topic to the entire program. I’m glad she did this, I had almost forgotten.

After we finished up with the presentations and made some last minute adjustments to our posters we left Tuttleman and went on our break. Following the break we headed over to the Tech Center. Bianca had reserved a breakout room for us. There was a little wait, but once the wait was over we went in and sat down to watch three videos Bianca had prepared for us. After the videos, we had to answer questions about what we had seen. The videos addressed the rising trend of bike ridership across America and around the globe, Who knew that the bike was so popular abroad? One of the videos focused on Portland, Oregon, where an amazing 6% of the population rides Bikes as their main mode of transportation. Although 6% does not sound like a lot, compare that to the national average of barely 2%.

Introduction

2009-07-27T08:42:00.004-07:00

Today when I came to work I couldn’t find my group so I had to go to the office. The lady in the office told me they was in the office on the 4th floor. I went to the 4th and I saw them. We all came down together so we can go outside and take pictures of all the bike racks. We all walked around temple campus to take pictures of where people lock their bikes up at. Most of the people locked their bikes up on the pole and some on the bike racks. We went to go get something to eat and after we ate we went back outside and took some more pictures of the bikes racks. When we was finished we came to Anderson Hall and got on the computers and wrote about what we did today.

Introduction

2009-07-27T08:42:00.003-07:00

Hi, my name is Paris and I am enrolled in a summer internship program called BITS. My group is called Bike Temple and there are six interns in the group. The goal for our group is to spread the word about bike ridership on and off campus and try to influence people to leave their cars at home, get on a bike and ride! We plan to do all sorts of things, for example, we will be asking people to complete a survey we created all about bikes. We are making nice progress towards our goal. So far we have taken to the streets and taken count of the nearly 500 total bike racks on campus (by hand no less). We have brainstormed numerous ideas about how to make the assignment much more exiting and interesting, and today we have created this blog- to record all of our actions, thoughts and ideas in a convenient, easy to use format. Today marks the first day of our blogging journey. So here, from Anderson Hall, I bid you farewell and hope you follow us.

Introduction

2009-07-27T08:42:00.001-07:00

Today I came into work on time. Then we went to the 4 floor and sat down for a little bit and then we talked about what we were going to do today. When the group got outside we disgusted what we were going to do, then we got the camera and started to take pictures. We went all over the campus, we seen new bikes, old bikes, and even strange bikes. We looked at some bike racks that had bikes chained up to it, and some were regular. I seen a friend of mine that graduated from my school too. then we went to get something to eat, and walked around the campus some more and took more pictures of bikes and bike racks!

My Introduction:week one

2009-07-27T08:41:00.000-07:00

Hi! My name is FATIMA and this is my introduction...

When I first came to work earlier today everyone wasn’t there so we went to the fourth floor and waited in room 405 for five minutes. When we left we had seen Derika. We than went outside and we all decided to walk around Temple Campus. While we were on Temple Campus we counted the bike racks that we seen all around campus. We noticed how everyone don’t park their bikes on the bike racks like for instance if you are at the Science of Engineering Building you will notice how there is only 1-2 bike racks and it only holds up about 4-8 bikes on the bike racks but on 1 separate bike rack it only holds up 3-4 bikes and if all of them are field you won’t have any where to park your bikes. And I discovered that people also park their bikes on the gates if there aren’t any more places to park your bikes. In conclusion that’s what wew did today when we walked around Temple’s Campus.

Introduction

2009-07-27T08:40:00.000-07:00

Hi my name is David Taylor and I am enrolled at the 2009 summer Bits program. This is my third year working here. Today started off very shaky. Our group consist of six members. When I arrived I was told that we had a new group leader until Friday. I thought it was gone be easy and we would be able to get over. Little did I know she did not play? When I finally meet up with the group we had to walk around and take pictures of all the bike racks on Temple’s campus. After we accomplished everything we got to eat lunch. After lunch each member of the group had to create a blog entry, which consisted of what we did throughout our day so far. Reply Forward Invite bike temple to chat

Introduction

2009-07-13T12:08:00.000-07:00

The group members today gathered at the center to talk about what was going to happen today. First, was the map, we had to find how to make a better map that shows where most of the bike racks are. We want to put this on the map so that people could have a better way of locating the closest racks to where they were going. Before, we could go and just put bike racks on the map we first had to take the old map and walk around campus and find a lot of the bike racks and put them on the old map. So that when we go to make a new it will show exact was u can go to store your bike. Our reason for this is so that people will stop locking their bikes to poles and gates. After walking one block on the campus several bike racks was spotted by our group.