Orange Bike Project -- Campus Environmental Center

Campus Community Bicycle Program

Current OBP Cage Hours

Spring 2012 Semester Weekly Shop Hours:

Monday 12:00 - 3:00 pm

Tuesday 3:00 - 6:00 pm

Wednesday 12:00 - 3:00 pm

Thursday 3:00 - 6:00 pm

Saturday 10:00 – 1:00 pm

Who we are

We are a subcommittee of the University of Texas Campus Environmental Center that provides students with sustainable choices for transportation. We are run by enthusiastic volunteers and provide the campus community with access to used bikes, tools, and shop space in which to work. Through our program, students are able to use our facilities to work on their own bikes or to learn how. They can also check out a bike, just as if they were checking out a library book, and may keep the bike for the entire semester. This allows many more students to make bicycling their primary mode of transportation.

Why this matters

Bicycling is an affordable and healthy mode of transportation that can help to promote a high quality of life. Society benefits from increased ridership by having fewer cars on the road, quieter streets, fewer emissions, and less need for expensive parking and road infrastructure.

College is an important time for students to become interested in cycling. During college, students acquire behaviors and attitudes that they will retain for the rest of their lives. Showing them how transportation can be fun, healthy, inexpensive, and sustainable is a great way to introduce students to the benefits of bicycling specifically and alternative transportation options in general.

What We Do

Volunteer

We would not have been able to get as far as we have come without the hard work of Orange Bike members and volunteers. New members are always welcome, from those who haven't ridden a bike since childhood to experienced mechanics and seasoned riders.

General meetings are held every week on Wednesdays in GAR 0.132 from 6 to 8pm. We have Committee Chair leadership positions currently available! Come get involved. You can add yourself to the email listserve for program updates and newsletters.

Community Bicycle Shop

The OBP bicycle shop, AKA "The Cage," is located in the Guadalupe Parking Garage (GUG) at the corner of San Antonio Street & 16th Street; see map. The cage is inside the garage on the ground floor in the southeast corner.