We Need To Get Rid of Every Bike!
We need to get rid of EVERY bicycle in BBP’s warehouse. Here’s the “what” and the “why.”
WHAT: On Saturday, September 12, BBP will host a Bikes and Beer Warehouse Sale right behind the shop at Lost Grove Brewing. The sale will be outdoors, COVID safe, and if you buy a bike, you’ll get a beer (or kombucha if you’re not 21 or don’t drink). We’ll probably have about 100-200 project/as is bikes for sale, and they’ll probably be priced for half of what they’re worth. Everyone will walk away with a screaming deal.
WHY: We desperately need this event to be successful for two main reasons. The first: the doors of BBP and our ability to keep them open. While we’re hanging on tight and doing ok right now, we have no idea what this Fall and Winter’s flu season will bring. These days our conversations typically end with, “if we can make it to next summer, we think things will be ok.” So we need to sell some freaking bikes to confidently keep the shop and our community programs rolling for the next 6 months. Success during the sale would look like $7,500 raised and 100 community members excited to dive into some new bike projects.
The second reason is our 2020 Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway and the space we need to make it happen.
In early August, Boise Goathead Fest became one of the first major events in Boise not to cancel because of the COVID. We understood the importance of this community-building event and reinvented everything in a way that allowed people to come together, ride together, and smile together (behind their masks) safely. In December 2020 we will be doing the same thing with our Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway. We understand the impact and significance of this event on the lives of our community members, and our goal is to still make the dreams of 500 kids come true this December. While we don’t know how we’ll pull it off yet, we know it won’t involve 500 families and 500 volunteers coming down to BBP in one day. Time to reinvent.
One of the biggest things we’ll need to pull off the Giveaway is an abundance of space. Space for folks to work on 500 bikes at a safe social distance and space for the bicycles themselves. Right now, we simply don’t have it (room), and the best way to get it (more room) is to get rid of the hundreds of adult bikes occupying space at the shop an our temporary workspace down the street.
So please help us spread the word—we need to sell some freaking bikes! There will be new and vintage road bikes, mountain bikes, cruisers and commuters, all priced between $30-$400 and way below what they’re actually worth. There will even be an original Ritchey Mountain Bike valued at $3000-$5000.
We have to make room for 500 Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway “Dream Bikes,” and we have to make every penny count for the next 6 months. Help us do both by picking up your next project bike on Sept 12th or by spreading the word!
We need to get rid of every bike!
