Cycle to Dave Matthews Band Caravan (July 8-9-10)

As president of Chicago Velo Campus I and our other members are trying to define the best idea possible to be proposed to City of Chicago and Jam Productions.

As some of you certainly know, over to the South East side of the city, on the former United States Steel plant land, there are 2 projects taking place right now,

  • Chicago Velo Campus Interim Facilities, a UCI 166 mt. outdoor velodrome and a 1,400 sqf cycling-community center 
  • Dave Matthews Band Caravan 3 day  concert produced and managed by Jam Productions 

We have started to make a plan that hopefully can be soon presented  to our neighbors Jam Production and City of Chicago

We would like to provide the support they may need to manage a large number of cyclists going to the concert cranking pedals, not pumping gas,(at least on the way there...)

So I would like to know what you guys think about Chicago Velo Campus providing a Cycling Valet within our facility on 8th and Burley

We would keep the bike, return it to the rider at the end of the concert (only if not under influence)

Alternative options would be to leave the bike overnight and collect it a day later, or have it delivered home with 48 hours.

 

Please tell us your opinions/suggestions about this plans  

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Permalink Reply by Emanuele Bianchi on April 12, 2011 at 5:37pm

dont know details, heard 2 racing bikes have been stolen, don't have any more details.

for what regards the plans I'm so busy, it all started these past few days and I didn't even have a moment to reach Active Trans and discuss with whom should be involved.

Sunday I took lots of pictures of the 2.3 miles from the end of the lakefront path to the velodrome location, we must find a proper way to make this event generate a positive stream of actions, like fixing the bikelanes on the way to the velodrome

 

H3N3 said:

Sure, will contact you offlist.

Would be interested to hear what happened at Sherman Park. Have not had any reports at the Chicago Stolen Bike Registry.

Permalink Reply by Joel on April 13, 2011 at 4:31am
Have you considered legal liability and insurance issues of having a valet?  If you are advertising safe & secure bike valets, you will end up responsible for damage and any theft.  Using local kids as cheap/free labor sounds like a good idea, but what happens if something happens?  A "sorry, we can't seem to find your bike" or "um, it looks like the rear derailuer got busted" is going to result in more than just an annoyed customer.
Permalink Reply by Active Transportation Alliance on April 15, 2011 at 5:49am

Hey all,

 

Active Trans is restarting our Bike Valet program this summer. We're excited to be able to offer this service for events that hire us.

 

We're already contracted to provide Bike Valet (free valet parking for 500-600 bikes at a time) at Blues Fest, Bike to Work Day Rally, Lollapoolza and possibly Taste of Chicago.

 

We used to provide this through sponsorship from Chase Bank but the past few summers we've done it entirely by contract, event-by-event and lost money or broke even for most of the events.

 

We're planning to reduce costs this summer by hiring a manager and utilizing volunteers to operate the valet service.

 

Our insurance covers our efforts when we are contracted to execute bike valet at events.

 

If Jam wants to talk to us about providing a quote to run bike valet, we'd be happy to do so.

 

We agree with Howard that an event of this size should also consider a secure parking area to extend what is offered with bike valet. We'd be happy to work with Jam, Howard, Emanaule, etc. to figure out the best plan.

 

Thanks much,

Ethan Spotts, Marketing & Communications, Active Trans

 

PS: surprise, surprise but we'll be recruiting soon for summer outreach and bike valet volunteers...look for an official post next week.

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