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	Yellow bicycle program -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Yellow bicycle programs are one variation on an international movement to provide environmentally friendly transportation options to citizens.
		The goal of these programs is to reduce the use of automobiles for short trips inside the city and cuts down on traffic congestion and air-pollution.
		In this version of the program, bicycles are kept at volunteer-run "hubs" or "kiosks" throughout the city.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/ye/yellow_bicycle_program.htm (250 words)

	VBF Archives
		Bikes received that have gears in excellent working order are released with the gears.
		What distinguishes our yellow bikes from others is an iron collar that is curled around the bike frame when the collar is red hot.
		On each bike will be a stick-on label with language disclaiming the responsibility of the City and CHABA for any injuries or the death of people using the bikes.
	www.vabike.org /archive/ar01_3a6.htm (746 words)

	Yellow Bike Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Yellow Bike programs are one variation on an international movement to provide environmentally friendly transportation options to citizens.
		Yellow Bikes are also known (more generally) as community bike projects.
		One of the first community bike projects in the United States was started in Portland, Oregon in the mid-1990s and took the approach of simply releasing a number of bicycles to the streets for un-restricted use.
	yellow-bike-program.wikiverse.org (391 words)

	Community Bike Programs: Case Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Copenhagen program is one of dozens of free-bike programs in Europe and North America, in communities as diverse as Denver, CO, Portland, OR and Olympia, WA.
		All the programs are cut from the same wheel, but each has its own spin, somewhat reflected in the names: white bike, pink bike, yellow bike, green bike and checked bike.
		The bikes were reduces to single gear bikes and fixed-up to insure that the brakes work and that the tires were sound.
	www.ibike.org /freebikerpt.htm (2650 words)

	Yellow Bike :: About
		For community bike programs to be successful, it needs to have involvement, input, and participation from the community itself.
		The implementation of community bike programs should not be impeded by the interest of a single business which has it's own interests in mind.
		We will share information specific to the Hampshire Community Bike Program here on this web site, and our findings which may be useful for bike programs in general are made available on the communitybike.org web site.
	bike.hampshire.edu /about (296 words)

	Yellow bikes a go, depots -- July 25, 2003
		The group that brought the Yellow Bike program to Peterborough is pedaling to city hall next month, in hopes of securing liability insurance.
		While the yellow bicycles hit Peterborough streets July 13, the bike racks or depots have yet to be set up around the city, says Cathy Hooper, one of the Yellow Bike co-ordinators.
		The Yellow Bike crew is heading to city hall Aug. 11 to make a presentation, ultimately asking the City for the go-ahead to set up depots.
	www.peacefulcommunities.ca /2003/July/july25.htm (331 words)

	Bike Update : Thunderbay IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The group is currently working on a proposal to submit to the city suggesting that some of the 110 repaired bikes at the city landfill site remain in the city to start a Yellow Bike program.
		Yellow bikes are uniformly painted bicycles that can be obtained by anyone free of charge at various stations throughout the city and be returned to any station.
		In the meantime the priority is to move the bikes out of the snow to a sheltered storage space in order to minimize degradation of the bikes over the winter.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=2307 (313 words)

	The Oberlin Review \\ News Article
		The 300 bikes, part of the Department of Safety and Security's yellow bike program, were melted down by the Buildings and Grounds department in March.
		Under the yellow bike program, 300 bikes were supposed to be available for students to borrow and use whenever needed.
		James said the yellow bike program was meant to replace giving the old bikes to the Oberlin Police Department, where they are sold at their annual bike sale.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1998.04.17/news/yellow.html (617 words)

	Access: Yellow Bikes Help Make Campus Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Several of the bikes, spray-painted a recognizable yellow from fork to stays, were spotted earlier in the month at the all-campus Block Party.
		The campus chapter of the national Yellow Bike Program is the brainchild of Nick Bertulis '98, Tim Feinstein '99 and Sam Newbury '02.
		Yellow bikes, a fleet of modest mounts painted yellow and left about for anyone's use, "first started in Amsterdam about 10 years ago," Bertulis says.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /Publications/Access/May1998/Bikes.html (483 words)

	Yellow bike a go in June -- February 21, 2003
		The Yellow Bike program exists in various states and Toronto recently started its own, says Cathy.
		The Yellow Bike group received funding from Eco Action and the Ontario Public Interest Research Group donated space for a workshop.
		Children's bikes aren't part of the program, but any which are donated will be repaired, and passed on to children in need, the group notes.
	www.peacefulcommunities.ca /2003/February/feb21.htm (396 words)

	Yellow Bikes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The bikes weren't that good to begin with, most of them rather quickly either got 'stolen' or kept, the ones that I still saw on the streets after a few months all had mechanical problems.
		When both systems were in operation, the ten- or more-speed bikes that were capable of being tuned and used with all their speeds were made into Yellow Bikes.
		Any bike with shifting problem was converted (crudely, usually by fixing the ders onto one cog/ring combo via the limit screws and cutting the cables) to single-speed and made into Red Bikes.
	www.bikeforums.net /archive/index.php/t-57582 (1428 words)

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		Courtesy of communitybike.org, here are the types of programs: Anarchic Program The most basic type of community bike project uses donated bicycles, which are brought to working order, usually painted a bright or distinct color, and simply released into the community.
		Bike can be kept as your own for up to 6 months, giving riders time to get familiar with riding it.
		Bikes may be recycled or new in the fleet.
	www.msu.edu /~maynar26/yellow/BG/septhandout.doc (1712 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The focus of the program is on benefiting the campus, the Durham community and the environment by supplying bicycles for use on the UNH campus and within the Durham town lines.
		The UNH program was created using the Vancouver, British Columbia, "Yellow Bike" program as a model because that was one of the programs in existence that uses a lock and key method to deter vandalism of the bikes.
		Newman said that future plans for the "Yellow Bike" program are "to develop educational programs for alternative modes of transportation." She added that the program is "about not driving your car.
	www.seacoastbikes.com /yellowbike.doc (807 words)

	Community Bike Programs, Bike Libraries, Bicycle Sharing, Bike Coop, Bicycle Collective
		Provides affordable rentals (Yellow Bikes), free bikes for kids, access to tools and parts (for a small fee) and a non-hierarchical environment where people can teach each other about bike repair and other activities which increase self-reliance (like silkscreening and VCR repair).
		By providing the public a bike that is ready to go, with air in the tires, that is already maintained effects more bike riding by the public.
		Bikes are all painted yellow and contain safe riding and liability limitation stickers.
	www.ibike.org /encouragement/freebike.htm (2826 words)

	WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Dial-A-Bicycle (Rental)
		The Yellow Bike Project was a utopian vision of urban bonhomie, and thus in theory fit perfectly into Portland, which is a primordial soup of creative ideas for improving urban life in a sustainable context, and full of folks willing to live those ideas in the most basic ways.
		Smart Bike is a product of the Ashdel street furniture design firm, a subsidiary of transnational communications corporation Clear Channel, which may mean that the endeavor is primarily underwritten by putting ads on the bikes.
		Bikes with GPS on board are a pretty good idea, from the pov of getting the bikes back, although it also means that riders can be tracked...
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/000899.html (1025 words)

	Whole Earth: Commons on wheels - Portland, OR community cycling program - includes information on cycling programs - ...
		The programs are also meant to encourage healthy, alternative means of transportation, and to save old bikes from premature deaths at the dump.
		The program is well on its way to reaching a critical mass of new bikes, a number which the organizers hope will keep the bikes visible and useful in the city, even after the thieves have taken their toll.
		The Yellow Bike Project, like other community bike programs, may turn out to be an experiment not only in trust, but in adapting an urban commons on wheels to a culture short on trust.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0GER/is_n94/ai_21260278 (857 words)

	The Yellow Bike Story
		The signs also indicated that the bikes were to be used at your own risk, to be returned to a main street after use, and for repair to contact UCAN with our number.
		It turned out that 50 of the bikes were repairable and the 25 bikes that weren't we cannibalized and turned them over to our local scrap metal dealer.
		It truly romanticized the yellow bike and people really began to see what a positive community event was unfolding in front of them.
	c2.com /ybp/story.html (1128 words)

	The Peterborough Lets exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		With federal funding from Eco Action, the Peterborough Yellow Bike Program will be up and cycling in early summer.
		Yellow Bike is part of OPIRG and meets regularly at their offices (740 Water @ Parkhill), on the 2
		Children’s bikes will not be part of the program, but any which are donated will be repaired, and passed on to children in need.
	www.pipcom.com /~ptbolets/yellowbike.html (346 words)

	Yellow Bike Program -- Cover Letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		It is interesting that the program has been picked up nationally and is now known as "The Yellow Bike Program".
		This is a bit overwhelming to us but everything about our yellow bikes has been more exciting and magical than we had anticipated.
		The fact that our program is off the ground and is working gives us the confidence to share our experience with you in the hope that it will help you in your community.
	www.c2.com /ybp/cover.html (318 words)

	Bicycle - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		There seem to be isolated incidents of the use of the mountain bike as a scouting vehicle for U.S. Special Forces in the invasion of Afghanistan and battles against the Taliban.
		Depending on the type of cycling the bike is designed for, the cassette may be "flat" as on a road bike, meaning that the differences from one gear to the next are 1 tooth apart, or much more varied as on a mountain bike.
		The increasing use of larger tires on mountain bikes presented a problem however, as the wheels were too large to fit inside calipers of moderate size and weight.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Bicycle (3112 words)

	Downtown Management Commission-GettingThere-5 years of free rides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The bikes are rebuilt and maintained by local high school students, who get paid for the work and build skills and camaraderie with the experience.
		On hand was State Senator Dorothy Rupert and Nick Forster of the syndicated radio show E-Town, (on which the Spokes for Folks program has won an 'e-chievement' award.), Jan Ward of the DMC introduced the student mechanics themselves and on view were some shining bright green examples from the environmentally-friendly 'Spokes' fleet.
		Program coordinator Jan Ward feels this is a sign of the program's maturity; "People in Boulder accept the program and are supportive." Jan said.
	www.gettingthere.com /features/spokes99.html (382 words)

	CITY STARTING "YELLOW BIKE" PROGRAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The City of Gainesville is gearing up to start a community bike program, otherwise known as "yellow bikes." Later this fall the program will need volunteer help.
		"Yellow Bikes" are one-speed coaster brake bikes that are painted hideous yellow both to identify them and to prevent theft.
		The bikes are left in downtown areas to be used by any citizen for downtown errands or transportation.
	www.gccfla.org /1999/octyellow.html (175 words)

	Austin Yellow Bike Project Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Yellow Bikes are lock-free, and are not to be taken inside or held onto except for the time that the rider is actually on the bike.
		The Yellow Bike Liberation Crew is on the constant lookout for incarcerated community bikes, and we free them when we find them.
		These are "open" shops where any adult individual, supervised minor or minor who has completed the Kid's Shop may come in and use the Yellow Bike shops to work on their own personal project.
	www.austinyellowbike.org (600 words)

	urban cartography: The Yellow Bike
		In Charlottesville, Virginia, their Yellow Bike program was scaled back due to the theft and vandalism.
		Portland, Oregon, one of the first cities in the U.S. to start a Yellow Bike program, has had trouble keeping it alive, and despite comeback attempts, has allowed it be absorbed into another set of community bike programs under the name Create-a-Commuter.
		During a recent trip to Munich, I was tempted by the James Bond-like action of their Call a Bike system, where you need credit card information and secrets codes to take a bike for a ride.
	www.urbancartography.com /2005/03/the_yellow_bike.html (245 words)

	What is up with the yellow bikes? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		needs a bike to ride, they just ride it to their destination and leave it in a bike rack for the next person to ride.
		Although the city council does not officially endorse the program because of the risk of financial liability, they did OK the city's donation of the bicycles.
		Once Lerch acquired the bikes and had the means to get them on the road, she looked for funding to buy parts.
	orion.csuchico.edu /Archives/Volume36/Issue12/Dimensions/Wiuwtybike.html (708 words)

	BikeShare \| Community Bicycle Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		BikeShare is an innovative community bicycle-lending program in downtown Toronto that provides its members with access to a fleet of bright yellow bikes.
		Use the bike for a couple of hours or the whole day and then drop it off at any hub - not just the one you signed it out of.
		Whether you need transportation for errands, shopping or to get to school or work, travelling by bike is a fun and healthy alternative to the car and a great complement to public transit.
	www.communitybicyclenetwork.org /bikeshare.html (253 words)

	The HooK: NEWSBOX- Fade to black: So goodbye yellow bike racks
		The yellow bike program is officially dead, so it's perhaps appropriate that on Friday, May 7, city workers painted the yellow bike rack by City Hall fl.
		Alexis Zieglar, new head of the Community Yellow Bikes of the Piedmont, says the disappearance of the yellow bikes-- and now their matching racks-- is no reason for despair.
		In fact, he says, there are hundreds of donated bikes awaiting good homes in the former yellow bike shop behind the Hampton Inn on West Main St. Now referred to as "community bikes," the two wheelers are free to anyone who volunteers for a minimum of an hour.
	www.readthehook.com /stories/2004/05/13/newsboxFadeToBlackSoGoodby.html (213 words)

	Yellow Bike Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The "Yellow Bike" program quickly put 200 bicycles on the street, then worked toward a goal of 800 more.
		The 21st Century Learning Program is offered to students...
		An awards program was held during lunch, at which...
	www.wikiverse.org /yellow-bike-program (391 words)

	TMA-Gearing
		Greater Mercer TMA is proud to introduce freewheels™ neighborhood yellow bike program, our award winning, mobility project for commuters, residents and visitors to the Princeton area.
		The program allows people to hop on a free bike, travel to their area-destination, and then drop it off at a designated freewheels™ bike station.
		With over 32 programs throughout the country, 'yellow bike' programs have proven successful in local attempts to alleviate congestion and improve the quality of life by giving communities a fun, easy way to get to where they need to go (did we mention it's free!)
	www.gmtma.org /freewheels.htm (342 words)

	Yellow Bike Coalition of St. Paul & Minneapolis, Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		If you ever visited us in our old bike cave, (or any of the personal garages in which the Yellow bikes were once built) you will know what a big step it is for us to finally have an easy to find, above ground presence.
		At the request of a program supporter, we repaired four small children's bikes and a tricycle, which will be given to children who's mothers are on AFDC.
		We set her up with a bike and city map and she spent a hot day seeking as many statues as possible before her 1 day visit came to an end.
	www.yellowbikes.org /News.html (922 words)

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