Group Meeting April 19th 2008

Cairo Cyclers Club - Group Meeting

April 19^th, 2008

Participants:

The meeting included 9 members: Ahmed, Ingy, Ismail, Chitra, John, Magda, Sherine, Yehia, (the Algerian Guy?)

Main Discussion Topics:

Equipment Needed for Rides:

- Pump (Yehia)

- Tools (Ismail)

- First Aid Kit

- Energy Bars - for anyone who feels faint

Creating a files for

- Recommended bike tours, including:

• Wadi Degla Route
• Islamic Cairo Route
• Coptic Cairo Route
• Zamalik Route
• Heliopolise Route
• Maadi Rout

- Brochure on basic material for cyclers

• Safety rules,
• Basic needed material for riding: Bike, helmet, arm and knees safety gear, sunscreen, tissues/wet ones, water bottle, energy bar, etc.
• Bike fixing essentials: wheel tube, tools, pump, etc.

Yahoo/Google group to be created/moderated by Magda

- Group to be used a mailing list

- Data base to be created on the Yahoo page and to be fed in by members including:

• List of bike rental shops by area,
• List of bike fixing shops by location
• List of bile buying shops by location
• List of recommended bikes by experiences cyclers – specs, expected price, pros and cons
• Members with extra bikes for rental/ loaning – prices for rental if applicable
• Contact list of members including: Name, e-mail, tel (optional), location, blood type

General Discussion Issues:

- Should the group slogan be in Arabic?

Most members attending the meeting seemed to agree that the slogan for the group need to be in Arabic being an Arabic speaking country and also having a message to convey to the general public.

Guys we should be proud of our language!!!

- Call on slogans (on discussion board) followed by voting for slogan

- I support Cairo Cycler’s Club sticker/buttons for distribution

- Public service project: Are m embers willing to have a collection box for buying bikes to give to small shops for rental? create material to be sold for a profit to buy bikes for small businesses to rent?

- T-Shirt ideas - Possible catchy phrases for back of shirts (just to add a bit of fun to the group)

• Put the wording on back of microbuses or trucks. Ex. ما تبصليش بعين رضيه ... بص للي أدفع فيه (don’t give me the evil eye – think of how much I cost)
• Use of the bea”h slogan: خليك بيئه – to discuss with Ahmed El- Dorghamy
• My other bike is a Jaguar
• If your reading this … your too damn close
• Aliaa sent a number of quotes which can also be used

- Having a number for each member

- Tag or ID on bike or worn by members on dog tags or arm bands to include: name, contact phone number, blood type, address.

- Peggy backing on campaigns by having biking tours for certain causes – list to be provided by Sherine

- National Cycling Day: Campaign to close up an area (or if very optimistic down town) for use of bikes on a national biking day.

- Talk to different stakeholders for support

• Ministry of Environment,
• جمعية مصر الجديدة,
• multinationals (BP, Shell, Mobile companies, pepsi, coca cola) – Mary and Ahmed Rostom
• Rotery (Magda), roteract, lions
• NGOs and international organization
• Biking companies giving bikes to Africa (John)
• Asking The Sawy Cultural Wheel to have a Cycling wheel weekend
• Contacting different universities

- Possible up coming events:

• Korba Event
• Contacting AUC for having an AUC moving cycling event
• Degla cycling event

Korba Event

- T-shirts: Contact Sawy and choose a design (Chitra)

- Starting to create a contact list of people who will join

- Simple pamphlet for advertising the event to be placed at work, universities, sakya, clubs, scouts, Youth volunteers group..etc. (text to be worked on by Sherine)

- General rules: Stress that anyone wanting to join the event has to buy a helmet and be able to bring in a bike

- Prize If you finish the Korba event ride you receive an award (maybe something to be used while biking, like reflectors, phosphoric vest ..etc. )

- Electronic Announcement to be places on the Facebook group on the event as well as sent o different cultural groups.

- Map of event with different meeting points along the route.

- Ask for schedule of events for Korba ,

- Are we allowed inside the event with bikes??