but we love him anyway. Check out a few new videos he’s added to the polo library.
Fixed and free? The best of both worlds.
Making a mallet, quick and dirty.
EVENT TONIGHT! The New Amsterdam Project: Human powered cargo trikes
STREET TALK! (Tonight)
The New Amsterdam Project: Human powered cargo trikes; paving the way for sustainable delivery services
Tue. Apr. 29, 7 – 8:30 pm
by Andrew Brown, founder and CEO of the New Amsterdam Project
@ LivableStreets office space, 100 Sidney Street, Central Square, Cambridge
free and open to the public, donation suggested, beer/sodas provided compliments of Harpoon Brewery!
We invite you to attend, learn & be inspired by the recently launched, Cambridge-based bicycle delivery service, the New Amsterdam Project (NAP). NAP provides human-powered pick-up and delivery services for local businesses, organizations and universities. Founder and CEO, Andrew Brown will be discussing the inspiration behind the cargo-trike fleet and how the company will transform the Boston metro area.
When it comes to urban delivery services, the New Amsterdam Project’s fleet of human-powered trikes is quickly becoming a strong competitor to conventional vans and trucks. Thanks to their compact design, these cargo vehicles –which accommodate up to 600 lbs.– can easily navigate urban congestion and require a fraction of the space otherwise needed for parking/ delivery by a car, van or truck. And, as a zero-emissions transportation service; the NAP is able to offer clients and their communities an environmentally sound alternative for their transportation needs. Their clients include: Boston Organics, Taza Chocolate, Petsi Pies, and many others.
The New Amsterdam project was recently featured in a Christian Science monitor article: “Cargo trikes nudge delivery trucks in Cambridge, Mass.; A Cambridge, Mass., delivery company is using industrial tricycles to deliver goods in efforts to curb global emissions.”
This event is sponsored by LivableStreets Alliance
Click here for more information
http://www.livablestreets.info/node/1388
Walk/Ride day
Join architects and thousands of others in the Boston area on April 25 for the monthly Walk/Ride Day sponsored by the Green Streets Initiative. Held the last Friday of every month, participants wear green and use green transportation. Raffle prizes and retail discounts are available; visit www.GoGreenStreets.org for details.
Event: Bikeways in the Emerald Necklace?
Boston’s Greenways: Eight Missing Links
Tuesday April 22
6:30 p.m.
Northeastern University
The April 22 event will serve as Northeastern Professor Peter Furth’s civil and environmental engineering students’ official final presentation for their senior design class with five teams presenting. The students have created group projects to design bikeways/walking paths for challenging sections of the Emerald Necklace. The presentations will be in room 108 Snell Engineering Center at Northeastern University. The Emerald Necklace Conservancy is co-hosting this event with Fenway Alliance, Mass Bike, Walk Boston and the Solomon Fund.
They got some press here, and bostonbiker dug up some more info here
David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
Design a bike rack for Mission Hill
Dingleberry, this has your name written all over it… link to the request for qualifications
Deadline: Thursday, April 3, 2008
Eligibility: Open to professional artists/designers based in Massachusetts. Art/design students may also apply for this project.
Budget: Total, all-inclusive bike rack budget including design, fabrication and installation is $7,500.
Mission Hill Main Streets (MHMS) invites qualifications for the design, fabrication and installation of a multiple-unit bicycle rack. Funding for one bike rack is currently available, but a replicable design for potential fabrication of additional racks is desired. A youth component will be integrated in the development of the project. The location of the bicycle rack will be selected in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston prior to proposal development.
bicycle film festival call for entries
the bicycle film festival is looking for polo and bike films for inclusion in the fest. submission deadline is extended to march 7 – send something in and get famous!
they also suggested that we might have a way to partner with them for actual festivities – any ideas? even just distributing a flyer to their locations might be great and get us some new meat. perhaps a tournament that weekend? their dates are still TBD but apparently they are looking at august.
Come out and play, pussies!
come play, 2/24 noon – the courts are clear!
introducing: bike polo forums!
we now have up and running new bike polo forums! take a look and send me ideas for how to make it better. we’re a bit restricted on design, but hey, it’s free.
