SOPO WILL BE CLOSED JULY 4 & 5
Join Team Sopo at MACC's One Love Century (September 5)
The Metro Atlanta Cycling Club raises money for our youth program with their annual One Love Century, and we're going to turn out this year. Join Team Sopo, a rowdy crowd of Sopo volunteers, kids, shop users, staff, parents, and friends on September 5 to ride the 27, 43, 63 or 100 mile loop. The $25 registration includes a t-shirt, rest stops every 10-15 miles, and after-ride reggae party ($35 after August 21). You can register online and we'll have hardcopies of the registration form in the shop. Remember to put "Team Sopo" down for your team name, and let us know that you're in so we can coordinate transportation to the start of the ride. If you'd like to sponsor one of our kids, head over to our Donate page and enter your contribution where it says "Youth Program."
Posted by rachael On: Thursday July, 2009 12:16
Bike Saviours Visits
Last weekend Lindsay from Bike Saviours came into town to visit. She travelled from Tempe, AZ to Atlanta, GA by way of the Bonnaroo Music Festival with a rear wheel. She was intent on using that rear wheel and racing in the weekend's Photo Cat Race. She visited the shop, met some folks, and was looking for a bike to put the rear wheel onto. She got hooked up with a loaner and was off racing. The Photo Cat Race was a benefit for Sopo and put on by Elliott St Pub and the Krewe of Grateful Gluttons. Thanks to all the people who put on the race. Check out the Photo Cat Race site for more pictures. Here's just a sample of great photos from their site.
Posted by Faceman On: Monday June, 2009 22:54
Thank you to Keep North Fulton Beautiful
Thank you to Keep North Fulton Beautiful. Twice in June they put on their bulky trash/recycling days. For both days Sopo collected over 50 bikes that were gathering dust or destined for a landfill. Now these bikes will be back on the road with a little TLC from Sopo. Thanks to Keep North Fulton Beautiful for allowing Sopo to collect the bikes. We hope you will continue to put on your event three times a year or more. Thanks to all the volunteers with trucks that helped haul bikes down from Sandy Springs and Johns Creek. Without you, this would not have been possible.
Posted by Faceman On: Monday June, 2009 21:57
Big Bike Pick Up - JUNE 27
Keep North Fulton Beautiful is conducting their 2nd bulky trash/recycling day on Saturday, June 27, and they've again invited us to take all of the bikes they collect. Last year they collected 50; earlier this month we took to SoPo about 40 bikes! This is happening at Medlock Bridge Shopping Center in Johns Creek, link, from 9 am to 2 pm. We could use your help. Can you help pick up the bikes? Please email info@sopobikes.org! The bikes will go to a storage site because we won't have room for all of them at the Sopo shop. Thanks to eveyone who helped out last time and hope you can do it again.
Read more....Posted by Faceman On: Wednesday June, 2009 07:09
Sopo IRC Interns Get Ready for a Big Green Shout Out (Photo Set)
Sopo volunteer and AJC reporter Jamie Gumbrecht dropped by the shop last night to take some action shots of our International Rescue Committee interns. We're sending her beautiful photo set off to Nickelodeon because the station is honoring our kids with a Big Green Shout Out! We'll keep you posted about when their video about our kiddos becomes available. In the meantime, come by the shop any time to see young people making a positive environmental impact!
Posted by rachael On: Thursday June, 2009 11:11
Bike Touring Essentials Needed for Social Justice Bike Journey
Friend of Sopo and community organizing superstar Paris Hatcher is heading off to the West Coast to join the Spoke N' Heart Bike Collective, a women's bike tour that explores empowerment and social justice along the way (7/3 - 7/20). Paris needs a few essentials for her tour, and if we can help her out, she'll put the Sopo logo on her gear, send us a love note from the road, and othewise spread joy about us. And it would be nice to support her anyway since she does such great work with Spark Reproductive Justice Now! If you can help, Paris needs the follow items (drop them off at Sopo and let us know it's for her):
- 2 panniers
- Bike rack (to attach the panniers to her bicycle - must be capable of supporting at least 50 pounds of weight)
- 2 Tire patch kit (patch kit should come with patches, glue and sandpaper. Don’t buy a glue-less patch kit)
- 2 One liter bicycle water bottles
- 3 Bungee cords of assorted size
- 1 Durable bicycle cable lock
- 1 Three liter water hydration pack (Camelbak or Platypus are two name brands)
- Bike Shorts
- Cycling computer (for tracking mileage - Cateye is one brand)
- Rear-view mirror
Posted by rachael On: Tuesday June, 2009 14:27
Wish List: UPDATED!
Thanks to everyone who's checked in to see what's on our wish list these days. The good news is, the shop is pretty well stocked with tools (if you wanna bring us something, though, we'll be more than happy to put it to use). Our biggest challenge is supplying people with: chains, rear wheels, and essential accessories like helmets, u-locks, and lights. So if you'd like to make an in kind contribution to the shop, that's how you can make the biggest impact. As always, we accept bike donations year round.
Read more....Posted by rachael On: Monday June, 2009 17:10
How you can help the Fugees Family
Wow! We've received an overwhelming amount of correspondance this week about the Fugees Family's need for bicycles for their summer literacy program. We assure you, we've been in contact with the Family for quite some time working on how exactly Sopo can be a resource. We've invited the Family to use the shop, and we've offered them what bikes we can, but we're tapped out for the moment, and we need the big donation that's coming in for our entire community (which, of course, includes the Family, AND also includes tons of other people in need). So here's how YOU can make a HUGE IMPACT: start asking around for bikes in your community or neighborhood and donate them directly to the Family. In related news, one of our International Rescue Committee interns from 2006, Yonatan, is working on getting a community bike shop going in Clarkston where all of these refugee resettlement organizations are located. Perhaps we can direct some of this kindness and energy into getting that going.
Read more....Posted by rachael On: Friday June, 2009 12:02
Sopo Welcomes Our International Rescue Committee Teen Interns
Say hello to Laxmi, Birendra, and Purna, our most excellent teen interns. We're very proud to be spending our fourth summer as an intern site for the International Rescue Committee with them. The whole IRC teen crew is dedicating the season to learning about sustainability, so guess who's on the fieldtrip list! Yep, it's us! Help us welcome EVERYONE to the shop next Thursday, June 11, at 7 pm. In related refugee resettlement news, we've got teens from the Fugees Family building bikes to use for transportation to and from literacy classes. WOW! A little bit of sharing bike repair makes a big difference, don'tcha think?
Posted by rachael On: Wednesday June, 2009 17:34
Sopo Bike in Action
Since starting to volunteer at Sopo I have been more aware of cyclists on the road. I have noticed there are bike commuters who I am one of and there are packs of cyclists who look like they are training for a race. Curiosity got to me and I wanted to find about these group rides who seem to be everywhere, everyday of the week. And I wanted to do it all on my Sopo Franken-Bike.
Read more....Posted by Faceman On: Sunday May, 2009 22:39
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