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GOT PARTS? Open call for vendor tables at the February 6 Bike Winter Swap and Urban Bike Expo


This Winter, Chicago Bike Winter is presenting the first annual Bike Winter Swap Meet and Urban Bicycle Expo on Saturday February 6, 2010 at Jak's Tap at 901 West Jackson Boulevard in Chicago's West Loop.

Individuals, clubs, non-profits, frame-builders, powder coaters, stores and shops, and bike fiends and friends of every flavor are welcome and encouraged to rent a table. It's cheap, it's fun and it goes to a good cause....keeping Chicagoans on their bikes year-round. Something you don't need or have too many of may be just the ticket for someone else's build. You win, they win, Bike Winter wins, the people of Chicago win, etc.

Here is the price structure:

Non-profit groups including bike clubs, locally based Individuals or companies with 3 or less employees - $25
Locally based companies with 4 to 12 employees - $50
All other companies and individuals - $100

To rent a table please send an email to expo@bikewinter.org and we will get you signed up.

Thanks and look forward to seeing you all there.

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Permalink Reply by Jane Healy on February 9, 2010 at 9:57pm
As far as I know (and I've been involved with BW since at least 2002), no volunteer has ever been paid for doing Bike Winter work. Far from. I know that I've spent at least $100 on supplies over the years for workshops (not even touching the cost of commuting to events in far-flung locales for this far southside gal), and haven't recouped a cent of that. Nor was I planning or expecting to.

BikeWinter stickers, organizing classes, covering room rentals, advertising and printing costs, 'gifts' and handouts to get people to come, fleece for balaclavas, reflective gear, lights... all that costs money. Asking people for donations only makes sense. Of course not all of us have deep pockets to cover the cost of this stuff. Those people who have more often need only to be asked to give generously.

The volunteers give of their time, their ideas, their cash, and their knowledge to get more people on bikes. They don't do it to get paid. 'Nuff said.

Jane

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