User:Angel

Angel York (she/her) learned to ride a bike in ~1989, joined the Bike Collectives Think Tank Listserv in 2009 and this wiki in 2011. Bikecollectives.org admin. Wiki Admin. ThinkTank admin. <a rel="me" href="https://toot.bike/@bike"> </a>

Bike Collectives volunteered or worked for include

• Davis Bike Collective, 2008-2012 (including Bici Bici 2011)
• Bike Farm of Portland, 2013-2015
• Bike!Bike! Everywhere! 2021 - present

Community Bike Shops visited include

• Salt Lake Bike Collective (including tagging along with a friend to one of their formative meetings at the Coffee Garden) 2002, I think. Oh hey, their wiki page corroborates my date. Plus a few visits in its current main location (as of whenever I wrote this some time in the 2010s)
• One of the ones in New Orleans, probably. If any of them existed in 2005. I was so impressed by the place, so it must have been. Confirmed! Described it to someone and they confirmed that it was the one that is apparently no longer there.
• Bike Church in Santa Cruz both at its original location on Church Street and its current home: 2005-2007
• (The former) Davis Bike Church, 2008
• Assorted visits to the Sacramento Bike Kitchen circa 2010
• Bikerowave in Los Angeles for Bici Bici (during which visit I also got to experience a CicLAvia), 2012
• Bike Kitchen in San Francisco, 2014
• Our Community Bikes in Vancouver, BC, 2014
• New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Coop in NYC, 2017
• Community Bikes in Santa Rosa, CA, 2020 & 2021
• SLO Bike Kitchen in San Luis Obispo, CA 2022

Bike life outside of community bike shops

Davis, CA

• Participated in the World's Largest Bicycle Parade 2008 Attempt
• Rode Whymcycles in a Picnic Day Parade, probably 2009?
• Served on the City of Davis Bicycle Advisory Commission, 2008-2011
• Occasional volunteer with Davis Bicycles!, 2009-2012

Portland, OR

• Worked the front desk @ Pedal Bike Tours, 2014
• UBI Introduction to Bicycle Mechanics class. [Note: I would mainly recommend this well-organized class if you can't volunteer at community bike shops, where you will learn all the same things for free while helping others] 2015
• Volunteering at or for Sunday Parkways, 2014 -2016
• Completed NACTO Urban Street Design Guide Training and volunteered at the BTA Active Transportation Summit, 2015
• PSU Traffic and Transportation Course sponsored by PBOT, 2015
• Bike Loud PDX Treasurer, 2015
• Portland Summer Bike Count, 2014-2017. In 2014 I won "Board Certified" for most skateboarders counted at a single site. Their end-of-season awards are a super-entertaining read. Participated in their first 24-hour bike count.
• Organized Portsmouth Parkways, a Pedalpalooza ride in 2016 & 2017
• Go By Bike Bike Valet, 2016 - 2019
• Host on Warm Showers 2019

Involvement in non-bike volunteer-run orgs

Portland, OR

• St Johns Food Share - It was like dumpster diving, but institutionalized. 2016-2019
• Portsmouth Neighborhoood Association - Transportation Chair, 2017
• North Portland Tool Library 2016-2020
• Parking Reform Network Communications Intern, 2020-2021

Bike tours longer than a few days, all on recumbents

The above map covers trips prior to 2022

• Florida to California with Aaron Wickstrom, 2005
• Toronto to Iowa with Charlie DeTar, 2006
• SLC to Reno to Sacramento to Santa Cruz with Meara McClenahan, 2006
• Portland to Davis with Darin Wick, 2011
• North Bay to Sacramento & back, then up to Portland, all with Darin Wick, 2018
• Salt Harvest: Portland to Whalen Island County Campground and back with Darin Wick, 2019
• Hazelnut Harvest: Portland to Salem and back with Darin Wick, 2019
• Bike move: Portland to Ferndale with Darin Wick. Was supposed to be to Santa Rosa, but we got cut off in all directions by the annual literal apocalypse (see definition 3), 2020
• Santa Rosa to SoCal (with a detour through the Central Valley with Meara McClenahan) and back with Darin Wick, and small dog, 2022

Rides in motor vehicles since June 2018

• 2018 - Ferry, to get across the SF Bay
• 2018 - Aerial tram, to get to work once or twice
• 2019 - Elevator when being escorted to a study (got paid $40 to learn I have a high pain tolerance)
• 2020 - Used the elevator daily to move a cart at work for about a month
• 2020 - Elevator in a skyscraper that didn't seem to have stairs
• 2020 - Bike move got cut off in all directions (except back the way we came) by California's annual apocalypse. Darin's father picked us up with his pickup truck.
• 2021-22 - Darin got an e-assist for the tandem. So any time I'm on the tandem, there's a chance I'm riding a motor vehicle. According to the State of California, it is a class 2 electric bicycle. Great on the knees, rough on my morals, whines like an induction stovetop burner, amazing for intersections.
• 2022 - Darin talked me into putting solar e-assist on my Flevotrike. I find myself biking a little harder when I use the e-assist, too, which is counter-intuitive until I think about it, and also pretty neat. Apparently I use the e-assist to... bike as fast as everyone else does without e-assist.

Bikes etc.

• Lightning Thunderbolt (2005~2008) - recumbent bike
• Lightning Phantom (~2009-2012) - recumbent bike
• Burley Taiko (2013-2019) - recumbent bike
• Volae Expedition Pro (2020) - recumbent bike
• Vision R82 (2018-2020 shared custody) - recumbent tandem bike
• Flevotrike (2016-2021 shared custody) - moving bottom bracket recumbent trike. NOTE: this bike can be rough on the ulnar nerve if you have ulnar nerve issues.
• Bikes at Work 96A Bicycle Trailer (2015-present shared custody) - utility trailer
• Semi homebuilt tandem recumbent with sail and now e-assist (2021 shared custody)
• Flevotrike (2022) - this is the same trike listed above. But Darin extended the frame, replaced the trunk, built dog basket to my copilot's exacting specifications, added e-assist AND dynohub, replaced the axle and bottom bracket shell, added overhead solar panel. It's only technically the same vehicle. And custody is no longer shared. It looked like a golf cart with solar and pedals, but it was too top-heavy. So now the solar panel has its own Burley flatbed.
• Not listed: various other Burley-type trailers.

My friends on the wiki (add yourself!)

• Bikefarm
• Clairedehm
• DarinWick
• Eugene
• Etienneh
• Godwin
• Ifny
• Leonardo_Peña_Garcia
• PositiveSpin
• Recumbent_Rider

Comments

Tell me about your bike collective! And/or your experience with bikes! --Angel York (talk) 16:35, 8 March 2016 (PST)

Hey look, a job board! "The RAR Jobs Board is a job listing to increase hiring for BIPOC and FTWN-B folks in the cycling and outdoors industries." [note: the FTWN-B means femme, transgender, women and non-binary.] --Angel York (talk) 10:36, 30 June 2021 (PDT)

Hey look, another job board! When jobs get posted to the ThinkTank, they can now get cross-posted here. --Angel York (she/her) (talk) 14:31, 2 May 2022 (PDT)