Green bikes reappear on campus
By Charlotte Brackett | April 7, 2011The arrival of spring and freshly blooming flowers spurs the reappearance of the green bikes, which have been in storage for the winter. In 2009, after suggestions from students, the Green Bike Program was introduced to campus with the arrival of 35 dark green, single-gear beach cruisers. Doug Goad, manager of equipment and facilities at the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness, said that those bikes did not last as long as had been hoped, and the school had switched companies and bought slightly different bikes. Fifty-one yellow bikes were purchased from Pibby's, a local bike shop, and were "holding up a lot better" than the original bikes, Goad said. When the Green Bike Program was still in the planning stages, one point of contention with purchasing single-gear bikes was how expensive they were compared with other bikes, but it was decided that these bikes would be best. "We researched campuses from all over and most have gone with the single-gear bike," Goad said.
