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E<\/span><\/strong>stablish a coast-to-coast network of NBG Hubs in our NBG Anchor Cities<\/a><\/strong>. For the most\u00a0 <\/span>part, our Hubs will serve the local transportational cyclists in the cities which they serve. Set up to also serve as two wheel travel destination centers, as beacons calling out to one another, the people they attract, as well as their energy, ideas, connections and other\u00a0 <\/span>enthusiasm will give irrepressible authority to the NBG message of interconnecting America with a network of bikeable roads and paths. As the much talked about bike central for each of the regions they serve, the excitement these bike centers create will also bring a plethora of new resources from the great numbers of non-cyclists who will have returned to bicycling because of them.<\/span><\/p>\n Our NBG Hubs, an average of 10,000 square feet in size, will be built around high ceilinged meeting halls. They will be designed to serve the public at large. Toward that end, its hardwood floor covered main room will feature dances, talks, mixers, seminars, lectures,\u00a0 conferences, yoga symposiums, movie nights, conditioning classes and bicycle swap meets, etc. It will be big enough to rent out to a plethora of different bike and community organizations for events of their own. <\/span><\/p>\n Our hubs will also house a community bike shop for the rehabilitation and sale of old bikes. There will be workshops that teach locals how to work on bikes along with certification classes.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition, the hubs will have a bike taxi operation as well as rental bikes, a bike library and museum. There will be a showroom featuring bikes for sale as well as a skylit <\/span>recharge area with a jacuzzi, sauna\u00a0 and showers that will be attract long distance cyclists. All of the above is explained in greater detail below.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0As our bike centers bring the cycling and non-cycling communities together under one roof, as we are soon embraced as an important part of the communities they serve, our NBG vision will set the lead in other areas as well. By building our Hub business model around the recycling of two wheel resources, making older bikes worthy and rideable, more of America will realize it’s not what or how we ride but that that we pedal places to replace car trips (genuinely lighten the footprint all of us leave on the planet).\u00a0 <\/span>The bike industry that makes new products will benefit because as our offerings help people stop worrying about whether they have the right bike or bike clothes, as they feel less intimidated to get back on a bike, more people will turn to cycling. As this happens, increasing numbers of them will also seek out the closest bike shop for the higher quality bikes and higher profit margin accessories and upgrades they will soon desire.<\/span><\/p>\n The NBG Indianapolis Hub<\/strong> will\u00a0 house the main headquarters of the NBG to include separate rooms for TransAm Register Licensure,\u00a0 <\/span>NBG Publishing, NBG Sales\/Marketing, and the NBG Hall of Fame., as well as be big enough to also provide office space for a handful of local environmentally aligned nonprofits.<\/span><\/p>\n Inside each hub, one will find:<\/span><\/p>\n NBG Coffee Shop\/Juice Bar<\/a> <\/span>\u00a0Meeting\/Activity Halls<\/a> | Bike Repair Shop<\/a> (w\/bike repair classes) | Recycled Bike Sales<\/a> | Bike Rentals<\/a> | Bike Taxi Service<\/a> | Bike Visitors Bureau (NBG-BVB)<\/a> | Library\/Computer\/Yoga Room<\/a> | NBG Ped Ex<\/a> | Museum\/Show Bikes<\/a> | Services for bike travelers<\/a> | Home for other Bike Organizations<\/a> | Human powered power plant<\/a> | NBG Recharge Rooms<\/a> | Lockers<\/a> | <\/span>NBG Terminals<\/a> | NBG coffee shop\/juice bar<\/b><\/p>\n At the street level, the doors to the NBG coffee shop\/juice bar will serve as the main entrance to our building. Its customers will be able to look out upon the antique bikes and other pedal machines our volunteers, staff and youth in training will have restored as well as built for the show bike area. Cyclists like to be around other cyclists to exchange ideas, learn about the cycling conditions in various areas, as well as find out about new hardware and tips and tricks, etc. This is why group rides are so popular and why our refreshment center can be such a powerful magnet.<\/span><\/p>\n This is so because a comfortable place does not exist where bike riders can put their feet up and relax around other cyclists. Especially when the weather is too hot or too cold. This is why our warm in the winter and air-conditioned in the summer, coffee shop\/juice bar will stir up a buzz that gives added purpose to coming to our Hub. This as they mix in with the general public who will also feel called to know more about our facility as they themselves get caught up in the bicycle energy at hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As a way to increase the visibility of cycling, our bike hubs will also serve as mini conference centers with one main room (a minimum of 60 x 40 = 2400 square feet) capable of holding as many as 425 people, where bike clubs, bike organizations and other planet benefiting organizations can hold meetings and lectures. A twice yearly bicycle swap meet will be held here with offerings from the general public as well as from its Recycled Bike Sales division and the NBG Bike Repair Shop.<\/span><\/p>\n An Activity Director will also be brought on full time to book and oversee activities such as yoga, tai chi, aerobic and other exercise groups as well as wedding receptions, business mixers, booksignings and lectures by adventurers and youth activities such as dances and the like for the local community. It will also be in the Meeting Halls that NBG Day mayoral ceremonies will take place.<\/span><\/p>\n Each hub will be the same size as most of the American Legion centers, Vets Halls and\/or Moose Lodges and other service clubs found in cities and towns across America. Here, for example, the Santa Cruz, CA Vets Hall is pictured above and its meeting hall and specs are here.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 425 standing plus balcony (behind the camera)<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Warehouses are another option. However, retrofitting them to our needs is a more expensive option. Here is the general layout we foresee:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A full shop capable of servicing four bikes at once will be staffed 40 hours a week by a professional bike mechanic*. Joined by a volunteer staff (made up of a team of 5-10 such qualified mechanics who donate 4 hours each per week), they will be responsible for:<\/span><\/p>\n Bicycle rebuilds<\/span><\/em> Community bike repair<\/span><\/em> Bike parts warehouse<\/span> New Parts<\/span><\/em> Bike Shipping<\/span><\/em> Maintenance of rental, taxi and museum bikes<\/span><\/em> Hardware Needed<\/span><\/em> * Such mechanics will, of course, be granted member privileges as well as the same discounts on parts as the bike couriers. They will have bike shop experience and can be joined by inexperienced mechanics who have demonstrated a willingness and capacity to learn quickly. These prospects can also apprentice with more experienced volunteers<\/span><\/p>\n Rebuilt used bikes will be made available for the bike shops so they have something in the price range that will compete with the cheap Walmart, Target and Costco bikes that are built of such low quality that they have a very limited life cycle. <\/span>It is here that bikes donated from the community (of which there is a plethora in most big cities, so much so that most police departments are always looking for places to deposit abandoned bikes) will serve as much of the engine for youth education. Sales of rebuilt machines will be geared to bike shops and to the local community, so that most everyone can be in possession of an affordable bike (the truly needy can do a pre-specified number of hours of\u00a0 miscellaneous work around the Hub or help build a predetermined number of bikes for sale as payment for one of their own). Excess or unsalable goods will be regularly shipped to third world country recipients.<\/span><\/p>\n Those bikes that are missing components not available from existing parts stock, and deemed not worthy of a rebuild, will be broken down for their parts. The inventory that results will be catalogued for use on future bike rebuilds as well as for sale to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n The stock of bikes and bike parts available for sale will be regularly posted and kept current on the Hub\u2019s web page. In such a way, area cyclists shopping for such items can see whether or not a trip to the Hub is worth their while.<\/span><\/p>\n Bikes will be available to rent for local NBG Members at discount\u00a0 as well for our business and\u00a0 recreation traveler members.<\/span><\/p>\n During the summer, Hub rental bikes will also be shuttled back and forth to popular hotels and other downtown locations (so that they do not have to be warehoused by these businesses and so we can keep them maintained) by PedEx cyclists. This will be a part of the PedEx job description as special bike transport carts will be used for this purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n Brochures with rental rates that also explain our philosophy and how our customers are helping us lighten the planet\u2019s load by riding one of our bikes will be left at hotels, convention\/visitors bureaus and select public gathering places.<\/span><\/p>\n Staffed by summer PedEx cyclists, available on an on call basis (where there will be a waiting list of \u201ccab\u201d drivers anxious to do sub contract work for the NBG for tips, a small wage and exercise), a small fleet of bike taxis (number will vary on a hub by hub basis) will move tourists around in popular areas such as along waterfronts, in old town areas, in historic business districts and in large city parks, etc. They will also be used as shuttles to get event goers to and from their cars and those staging areas that service sporting events, beaches, concerts and the like. The charge to ride in these taxis will be nominal as there will be two revenue streams utilized to help these people carriers do their work as they also help to spread the NBG word:<\/span><\/p>\n 1 – City governments, music and sporting venues, and business districts looking for ways to lessen the impact of traffic and noise and to increase tourist or other visitor pleasure and safety, will pay a monthly fee to have our drivers and their two, four and six passenger taxis present.<\/span><\/p>\n 2 – Another source of income will be the advertising that will occupy the small billboards mounted on the back of the covered canopy in which the driver and his or her passengers sit.<\/span><\/p>\n The sides of the canopy will be handsomely decorated with our logo and website, phone and address. They will also be outfitted with literature dispensers for NBG information that people can take when the vehicles are waiting for new patrons or switching existing ones. Rate Card and Hardware requirements available upon request.<\/span><\/p>\n A small display area with brochure racks (stocked with the offerings of local merchants and kept orderly by NBG Sales & Marketing) will show the touring cyclist where to ride, eat, sleep, shop and play once he or she arrives in town. Here, two wheel tourists can sort through handsome brochures which explain the goods, services or places of interest each Anchor City area has to offer. There will also be NBG-One Sheets. These will list those vendors out who support our mission with an overview map of where they are on the reverse. Also known as NBG Flagposts<\/strong>, how to get to them can then be found on our on line maps.<\/span><\/p>\n All NBG hubs will have a 300-500 square foot room where local as well as traveling NBG member cyclists can just hang out. A large couch will overlook enough floor space for as\u00a0 <\/span>many as five people to do any stretching they may want to do comfortably. Along one wall will be books about bikes and biking. While along another will be a bank of five computers.<\/span><\/p>\n The PCs themselves will\u00a0 <\/span>give those bike riders passing through a way to stay connected to their on line worlds with a large screen and big keyboard. They will give these long haul cyclists a way to more quickly\u00a0 <\/span>offload photos, keep their blogs current or just stay in touch with family and friends, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n Local cyclists will be able to use our computers\u00a0 <\/span>as a way for them to join the NBG mapping community who are working out of their homes, offices or on the road in building our maps as well as in keeping them current. Here three wi-fi connected computers will sit on standing work stations ready for such use.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n At each of its hubs, the NBG will operate a local delivery service for parcels, small packages, other next or same day errands and for loads of up to 300 lbs per bike and trailer <\/span>(larger loads can be arranged)<\/span>. <\/span>Our clients will include restaurants, bakeries, wholesalers, publishers, printers and law firms, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Besides ferrying rental bikes back to the Hub for maintenance, other service applications will include:<\/span><\/p>\n Bank deposits<\/span> In Indianapolis, rates for pick up and delivery will be charged according to a zone map for parcels under 21 inches and under 20 pounds. Surcharges will apply for oversized items, items\u00a0 <\/span>up to 750 pounds and wrong addresses, attempted pick-ups, and last-minute cancellations.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Hardware:<\/span> The trailers (4-6 heavy duty trailers with the words National Bicycle Greenway, its logo and web address silkscreened on to the side panels) themselves will be supplied by each of the Hubs. Besides trailers, NBG PedEx will also have cargo bikes that will keep loads waterproof and\/or secure in extreme conditions as well as the for loads up to 700 lbs.<\/span><\/p>\n A small 500 square foot museum will be established to display bikes and other memorabilia representative of each of the decades from 1880 to the present. Here everything from velocipedes, Penny Farthings and the early two wheel push bikes to 3-speeds and ten-speeds, load carriers, bike trailers, fully loaded tour bikes, army bikes, folding bikes and mtn bikes and recumbents, etc, will all be on display. Voice recorded tours will explain each of the exhibits and stress the importance of cycling to the needs of the people in the day in age in which they served as well as for a healthy planet and full, complete and more stress free life today.<\/span><\/p>\n The bikes themselves will be donated for this purpose from the local community. Such bikes will be on loan to the hubs on a contract basis in exchange for free membership privileges and\/or a tax deduction. Those worthy pieces gifted on a permanent basis for the collection will be annually cycled throughout the national NBG Hub system.<\/span><\/p>\n The bikes themselves will be regularly cleaned by the Hub mechanics and their display will include photos and other memorabilia from the time they roamed the streets. Handsome placards, set on wooden easels, describing the bike, will define each machine.<\/span><\/p>\n Each month, two to three new custom bikes built by local designers, will also cycle in and out of the museum.<\/span><\/p>\n These museum will be regularly visited by school children in each of the cities they serve and there will be an admission charge for people over 18 (free to NBG Members). These museums will add to the value of each our Hubs as important destination centers for touring cyclists as well as for local two wheelers.<\/span><\/p>\n Long distance cyclists will also be able to use hub facilities, if they have a membership, to get a $2 shower and use the Recharge Room facilities.. There will also be beater bikes they can rent to explore the city if they don\u2019t want to lug their gear around with them or use bicycles oftentimes made practical only for the open road.<\/span><\/p>\n NBG members will also be able to use hub addresses to receive mail while on the road. Packaging materials and postage will also be on hand so they can also send unneeded items or film or the like back home. Directions and rates to local camping, NBG member lodging providers such as select hotels, YMCAs and hostels and NBG Warm Showers Guest homes will also be provided.<\/span><\/p>\n The NBG Hub will make office space available to local bike organizations at below market rental rates. This will serve to concentrate the amount of bike energy in one place adding the perception of number strength to each of the separate groups. It will establish the NBG Hub address as bicycle central, bring traffic to our operation, firmly establish us as a leader in bicycle advocacy and encourage those groups involved to help us advance our vision of an interconnected two wheel America..<\/span><\/p>\n 20-40 exercises bikes will occupy one entire room. They will be open for anyone to use as a way to buy energy credits (the Hubs themselves will sell such energy to the the local utilities) they can use to buy bike parts from from the recycled bikes store and promotional items from the NBG store (located off site). The stationary bikes will also find themselves in use during the morning and evening community spin classes that will take place at the Hubs. The pedal machines will be hooked up to a battery grid that will store the energy to run the lights and power the steam, jacuzzi and sauna rooms featured at the Hubs.<\/span><\/p>\n All Hub facilities will have male and female locker rooms, complete with the all important shower stall for weary road travelers. They will be attached to a skylit community hot area in which a large jacuzzi sits in the center. Other doors that look out on the soaking pool will include steam and sauna rooms. There will also be a small room where massage can be scheduled.<\/span><\/p>\n At our hubs, bike lockers will be available for traveling cyclists to use to secure their bikes and gear should they desire to go and explore the city on foot or public transportation. If they want to use public transportation to explore NBG Hub cities. such as their museums and points of interest, go for a cable car ride, if in San Francisco, for example, etc, they can secure their bikes and gear in a bike locker at the Hub free for a day.<\/span><\/p>\n Indianapolis Hub\/Main Office<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n One of the ways we will drive business (cycle tourist visits) to merchants along our route is by offering NBG TransAm Register licenses to them. This will show up as an increased font size and bolded out line item on our on line maps for their area. This designation will also appear as a small window decal they can display to show their local community their commitment to the bigger quality of life picture.<\/span><\/p>\n Cyclists who sign their visit in with these businesses, will get a picture of themselves with their bike there. They will also receive a sticker with the words NBG\/(City or town, year and merchant in question) on them.<\/span><\/p>\n Every month during the riding season, their photograph will join the many hundreds of other TransAm seekers who will be out there with them in our magazine. The photo and rider sign in will in turn be forwarded to our Indianapolis main office for log in there.<\/span><\/p>\n A TransAm cyclist can decorate a wall or poster board with many dozens of these\u00a0 <\/span>and have a way to prove he or she rode across America. This will also give bike riders a way to say they have ridden across the USA by doing so in sections. Kind of like how in the 1960\u2019s cars used to have bumper stickers for all the various national parks a person visited. Maybe these could even become sew on patches for panniers??<\/span><\/p>\n It gives participating businesses a way to be a part of the NBG rock. Recognized accordingly on our maps, they will be proud to be known as NBG TransAm Registers as this designation also helps us to promote our route across America. It also gives businesses on our route\u00a0 <\/span>that do not serve cyclists (realtors, florists and appliance repair, etc) a way to be a part of the National Bicycle Greenway.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nNBG TransAm Register Licenses<\/a> | NBG TransAm Hall of Fame<\/a> | Anchor City Coordinator<\/a> | <\/span>NBG Sales\/Marketing<\/a> | NBG Publishing<\/a> | NBG Cartography<\/a> (w\/map monitoring) | NBG Mile Markers<\/a> |\u00a0 NBG Membership<\/a>
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Meeting\/Activity Halls<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\nStage: 17 x 24 feet<\/span>
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\nBesides building bikes for sale to bike shops as well as individually to visitors to the Hub, bikes will also be built for the rental marketplace. Instead of relying on the newest and latest machines for this application, in keeping with our theme of recycle and reuse, as the NBG also teaches that recycled bikes are deserving as well as important for saving the planet, the Hub rental fleet will only be made up of used two wheelers.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nA weeknight and Saturday bike shop schedule will also be maintained by the Hub Activity Director (described in the Meeting Hall section above) so that the community can also participate. Besides bike repair classes. this schedule will also show volunteers when they can help with bike rebuilds, stocking of parts and preparing excess bikes for shipping overseas to third world countries.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nA used parts station will be maintained where designated bikes are broken down and the components are filed for later use on other bikes. Inventory will be tracked by a computer program.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nItems that regularly wear out on bikes will also be purchased at wholesale and kept on hand for sale at a discount to NBG Hub member cyclists. This stock will include basic level tubes, tires, spokes, brake pads, brake and derailleur cables and housing, chains, derailleur pulleys, etc, as well as those new accessories that are often purchased to improve the functionality of the bike. Examples of the latter include basic quality bike bells, racks, baskets, locks, lights, flashers, grease, chain lube, and frame pumps, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nCommunity members will be able to come to the Hubs to get their bikes packaged up for air shipment whether for traveling or to fulfill a sale. The Hubs will also regularly ship excess stock overseas to third world countries.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe rental, taxi and museum bikes that the Hub circulates in the community will all be maintained by the Hub Bike Shop<\/span><\/p>\n
\nTruing stand, vise, workstands (4), headset wrenches, etc. See<\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.parktool.com<\/span><\/p>\nRecycled Bike Sales<\/span><\/h2>\n
Bike Rentals<\/span><\/h2>\n
Bike Taxi Service<\/span><\/h2>\n
Bike Visitors Bureau (NBG-BVB)<\/span><\/h2>\n
Library\/Computer\/Yoga Room<\/span><\/h2>\n
NBG Terminals<\/h2>\n
NBG PedEx<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nBakery Deliveries<\/span>
\nBlueprint Deliveries<\/span>
\nFood & Beverage to Business Mixers, Meetings and other events<\/span>
\nPublisher and Printer Deliveries<\/span>
\nP.O. Mail Pickup and Delivery<\/span>
\nInterdepartmental Mail Distribution<\/span>
\nRealtor to title company bank transactions<\/span>
\nLegal Filings<\/span>
\nCertified Process Service<\/span>
\nLocal On Call Service<\/span>
\nA.S.A.P. and Next Day Service<\/span>
\nProduce to Restaurant Delivery
\n<\/span>Bank deposits | Architectural drawings | Hard drives | Sandwiches | Flowers | Jewelry | Contracts | Clothing | Keys | Tool boxes | Publications | Cakes | Kegs for a party | Pet food, etc<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe bikes themselves will be supplied by the individual messengers. Delivery cyclists will be given free access to the NBG hub shop and tools for maintenance of their machines. Replacement parts that come from most all of the hub\u2019s recycled stock (some exceptions may apply as determined by the shop manager) will also be free to bike couriers while they will get large discounts on any upgraded or new parts they may want to order (as the Hubs will be able to buy new bike parts at wholesale).<\/span><\/p>\nMuseum\/Show Bikes<\/span><\/h2>\n
Services for bike travelers<\/span><\/h2>\n
Home for other Bike Organizations<\/span><\/h2>\n
Human Powered Power Plants<\/span><\/h2>\n
NBG Recharge Rooms<\/span><\/h2>\n
Lockers<\/span><\/h2>\n
NBG TransAm Register Licensing<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Similar to the treks (many are religious in nature) that occur every year across Spain on the 485 mile\u00a0<\/b>Camino de Santiago<\/b><\/span><\/a>, where little towns are quietly visited on foot and by bike, our route will become the well worn way to really see America by doing so without a car.\u00a0 In the same way, motor courts sprung up to service the lodging and R&R needs of\u00a0<\/b>Lincoln Hwy<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0travelers, in the smaller towns along the way, Pedal Courts to accommodate cycle tourists will spring up along the National Bicycle Greenway. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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