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Racers-only BIKE SWAP at Cherry Pie
Mon, 12/15/2008 - 11:31am
Impatient with Craig's List e-mails and the marginal interest generated by e-mail transactions?
Got a garage full of valuable race and training gear you'd rather sell or trade for more useful gear?
Have last year's team bike hanging in your rack like an icon to a bygone era of glory (or not)?
Need some great gear at a great price to get your act together for the 2009 season?
CYCLE CIRCUS PRESENTS THE FIRST ANNUAL
RACERS-ONLY WINTER BIKE SWAP at the Cherry Pie Criterium
Napa, CA - Sunday, February 8, 2009
Proceeds benefit the Stone Bridge School, a local Napa non-profit charter school. All donations are tax deductible.
Admission to shop is free. A 10'x10' area in the swap meet alongside the race parking is yours for a $10 donation. Sell, trade, exchange for services, whatever you want. 5% of all transactions (or value of trade) shall be donated to the charity.
So set up your canopy or a blanket with your great extra gear, get on your trainer, turn your schwag into green, and help out a great cause!!
Jesster Zebraman
Cycle Circus
No, it's not your granddad's bike swap:
Here are some clarifications, adjustments and further information based on some of the e-mails I'm receiving:
The 5% donation will be on the honor system. I am hoping that some of the "found money" - albeit a small portion - will be donated to charity.
There will be a porta-potty at the Swap Meet.
The Swap Meet will not take away any space for parking, because it will be held in a private parking lot that is otherwise off-limits for race parking. (There will be drop-off but no parking at the swap meet).
There will be volunteers at the Swap Meet area to help out and answer questions.
Since we have never done this before, I need some feedback on the proposed Swap Meet.
Knowing that I and many of my friends have so much valuable gear languishing in our garages made me think that a race-gear swap meet would be a very popular event, and one that could raise some money for charity.
I'd like some idea of whether this is going to be a big undertaking or a small one. So please e-mail me directly (not through the Forum) at jraphael@co.napa.ca.us and let me know if you plan to bring some gear to trade or sell. The proposed details are below.
Also, if you have any suggestions or criticisms of the format, please let me know while we can still change it. I am considering also having a "consignment area" where people can bring their price-tagged gear while they race.
Proceeds benefit the Stone Bridge School, a local Napa non-profit charter school. All donations are tax deductible.
Admission to shop is free. A 10'x10' area in the swap meet alongside the race parking is yours for a $10 donation. Sell, trade, exchange for services, whatever you want. Set up your trainer and warm up/down while you offer your excess goodies. 5% of all transactions (or value of trade) shall be donated to the charity.