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Two Bikes to Borrow

To all Blue House Guests and IJburg residents,

When we visited The Blue House, we decided to get some bikes. We were excited to find Recycled Bicycles on Valkenburguerstraat, in central Amsterdam run by Vitor. (www.recycledbicycles.org) He salvages and is donated abandoned bikes (strictly without locks) and parts, found around the city and recycles them into good working condition. We ordered two and the next day he had them ready - one silver and one dark red. Both with the traditional Dutch back braking system. They glide perfectly!

We had some great cycles (in all weather conditions), through IJburg’s construction site, over the new cycle bridge (a must for all visitors!) and through streets east, west, north and south. We had one incident when a peddle fell off! The next day we went to Vitor who fixed it immediately (he gives a one month warranty with all his bikes).

We decided to leave the bikes at The Blue House for guests and IJburg residents to borrow. So if you need a bike or two for a day or more, all you need to do is pick up the keys and accessories from Irene or Daniela (Wednesdays & Saturdays) at The Blue House. If you would like to book them in advance you can email info@blauwehuis.org. With the keys comes a DVD to watch! This shows an interview with Vitor at Recycled Bicycles, a bike tour of IJburg and a trailer for ‘IJ Build’ a documentary about the building of IJburg that we plan to make over the next two years.

In exchange for the use of the bikes, we would like a record of the various routes taken, so to build up a resource of personal cycle maps. Please make a simple sketch mapping your cycle route. Showing places you’ve visited, sites of interest, landmarks or anything else you’ d like to others to know about and drop this off when you return the bikes.

Also if there’s anyone in IJburg planning to set up a recycled bike making or maintenance workshop we’d like to know about it. Please leave your details at The Blue House!

We hope you enjoy the bike ride!

Please tell your friends. We’d prefer the bikes to be used rather than rust in the rain.
We will be back at The Blue House early summer 2007!

Best wishes

Pilot Publishing, Amy Plant & Ella Gibbs
laburnum_pilot@hotmail.com


Pilot Publishing travels, runs workshops, maintains a library, publishes different kinds of material with all sorts of people. Each publishing project that we do is different, evolving from the people we meet, the situation and local context. We have an expanded notion of 'grass roots' publishing allowing the content to determine the form (ie it could be anything from a magazine, leaflet, poster, fanzine, comic to audio CD, film, live event etc etc). Pilot Publishing was born in 2004 out of 'Laburnum Pilot - a street magazine, made with people who live, work and pass through Laburnum Street'. Since then, Pilot Publishing has worked with different communities, educational settings and public spaces, making publishingprojects with varied resources, time scales and outcomes.

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