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Biketour 2015

2015-01-21T11:04:28Z

Bel: /* Inspiration for 2015 and thoughts from the peanut gallery */

= communication =

* list of flyers and logos kept on [[BT_2015_advertising_material]]

= Organising Biketour 2015 =

== '''Autumn/Winter meeting''' ==

To help make a decision on where the Autumn meeting will be held, please add your suggestions...

Here is a map with the possible locations: https://pad.facilmap.org/P72YiREasMo2

#'''City'''
#'''Why hold it here?'''
#'''Drawbacks'''

*Lituana
#Vilnius
#Venue used before by BT
#May have to pay for venue
 
*Poland:
#Warsaw
#BT contact based there
#Not thinking to go through Poland in BT
 
#Poznan
#Feminist Social Centre
#:Central location, cheap buses
#As above
 
*Sweden
#Malmo
#Radical Theatre could be used as venue
#Expensive to get to
 
#Gothenburg
#BT participant based there. Female only-anarcho-feminist Sambaband
#Not accessible especially to those in South
 
*Slovakia
#Bratislava
#Contact from BT 2014 based there
#:More accessible to South/East participants
#Not a location for BT 2015
 
*Denmark
#Copenhagen
#Large Social Centre just outside and small residential collective inside. Lots going on.
#Not such an easy location to get to from except Germany/UK - the dominant BT countries!
 
*Finland
#Helsinki
#Sambaband. Strong anti-mining movement. Anarchist bookshop/infoshop
#It's a really awkward/expensive to get there.
 

== '''New way of organising''' ==

In brief, we would suggest that the organising to be DECENTRALISED, made
more HORIZONTAL and be more true to the VALUES and COLLECTIVE
organisation aspired to on the Biketour itself.

*Open and horizontal group
**anyone can join (past organisers or
**:participants, local and regional contacts etc.). In the best case at
**:least 7 people would work together remotely from different locations.

*The organisation process would start as soon as this year's Biketour
*:ends so as not to lose momentum and so that there is a longer period of
*:time to sort out the tour.

*A start up group of a few people who know now that they wish to be
*:part of an organising group would advertise for more people to join the
*:group via the BT email lists and in the countries of the BT 2015 (with
*:flyers etc). The Autumn meeting will be an opportunity for the group to
*:meet and discuss how to go from there. We would propose that to make
*:this organisational structure possible, the region will have to be
*:decided soon, as well as a date for the Autumn meeting, in order to
*:invite people from the region to the meeting and start with the
*:collectivisation and decentralising of the organisation. We propose the
*:long weekend from the 28th of November to the 1st of December. After the
*:Autumn meeting, the preparation of the Biketour would start.

*The work should be split into as small as possible tasks and managed
*:in a tasklist, to make it as easy as possible to take on responsibility.
*:The online organising could be simplified to one platform (potentially
*:Krankenstein).

*Possibly, there could be a rotating system of people responsible for
*:overseeing that there are no gaps in organising and for making roles
*:clear. This is something that the organisation group would decide.

*The group would communicate regularly online. Due to difficulties with
*:the email server this year, the server will have be reviewed.

* Visits could be made to projects/regions
**funding for this and other
**:expenses would be deciding as and when the money is needed, but no EVS
**:money would be taken this year.

== '''Region''' ==

The suggestion has been made to go to Scandinavia and/or the Baltic states on next year's biketour.

Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus were also suggested as possibilities. If you have any ideas of projects to visit on in these regions, please add them below.

<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>=== Suggestions for projects to visit next year ===

Copenhagen - a small residential collective with bike workshop inside the city (Bethlehem collective) and a large cultural and environmental collective outside of the city (Makvarket)
finland eco villages and
artist place are
enthousiastic about
our project and willing to help us.

if ferry prices affects route choice
we might be able to find
local help in the form
of a van and trailor
to bord the ferry and
decrease the cost of
individual bike transport
or/and participants could
collect
old broken umbrellas material
and make
a light compact bicycle bag
taking the wheels off,
and then carry it
over the shoulder
as a free luggage
rather than a paying bicycle
(this is the technique I use)

== '''Theme''' ==

To be discussed!

== '''Feedback from 2014''' ==

Here are the notes taken from the feedback session. Comic coming soon!

=== Notes taken during the feedback session in Athens on 29 September 2014 ===

please contribute your points according to topic or open a new one if you think it is missing

[[File:Feedback Sheet 1.jpeg|200px|thumb|left|Agenda]]

We discussed the following topics in small groups

*Cycling

[[File:Feedback Sheet 2.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Cycling]]
[[File:Feedback Sheet 3.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Cycling continued]]
[[File:Feedback Summary 1.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Cycling Summary]]

*Tasks

[[File:Feedback Sheet 4.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Tasks]]
[[File:Feedback Sheet 5.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Tasks continued]]
[[File:Feedback Summary 2.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Tasks Summary]]

*Group Dynamics

[[File:Feedback Sheet 6.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Group dynamics]]
[[File:Feedback Sheet 7.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Group dynamics continued]]

*Projects

[[File:Feedback Sheet 8.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Projects]]
[[File:Feedback Sheet 9.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Projects continued]]
[[File:Feedback Summary 3.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Group dynamics/projects Summary]]

*Miscellaneous

[[File:Feedback Sheet 10.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Everything else]]
[[File:Feedback Summary 4.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Misc Summary]]

== '''Inspiration for 2015 and thoughts from the peanut gallery''' ==

I thought you'd enjoy the story of [http://www.davidsheen.com/sharing/interviews/ethan.htm Ethan Hughes and the super hero ride across the US--]. Or just search for 'Ethan Hughes' and 'possibility alliance' or 'haul of justice'. A bunch of people set off across the US on bicycles, dressed as superheros, with a goal of helping whoever needed help--regardless of social/economic status or whether the help-needed was "conventional" (changing a flat tire of a car, building a traditional building) or more eco-friendly. Ethan and others have since founded an electricity-free, fossil-fuel-free farm in missouri called "the possibility alliance".

Also-- it occurred to me that you probably don't need total decentralization, just better distribution and variety of centralized and decentralized experiences. Perhaps have a meeting location like La ZAD where everyone could gather and stay for a week and then plan the rest of the ride. So the first half (month) of ecotopia could be smaller groups getting themselves to the meeting location. The second half could be organized based on input of anyone who manages to get themselves to the meeting location. In a way that might be like going back to how ecotopia started-- a bike ride to a gathering. The cargo bike collective in Vienna seemed particularly well informed about various bike-related gatherings happening in 2014 (everyone seems to invite them to any bike-related happening). They knew of a week or two long bike-related gathering or bike circus happening somewhere in bulgaria or romania. I met them at [http://pedalafest.eu/en/ Pedala Fest] in Zagreb in June. Consider also what ecotopia might be like without any funding. Maybe that funding actually causes some problems that wouldn't exist otherwise.

Speaking for myself-- I made it to the 2014 organizing meeting but not the ride, and managed to participate in part of Velokarawane-- I probably cannot tolerate a very centralized trip structure. I like that BT appears to sign a route so that everyone need not stay together the whole day. I would often leave and rejoin Velokarawane to get enough "decentralized" or personal time. I found it hard to go from long-term solo travel to spending a lot of time in a group. Hence my proposal of making ecotopia more of a gathering in one place (for at least part of it) once more. I have no idea whether I'll be able to participate much in 2015. But I wonder how these rides can be managed to avoid burnout and to encourage repeat participation. If the main goal were to encourage european bike and car-free culture might the result be something different than a two-month long bike ride?

Also--wouldn't it be cool if there could be a summer gathering of bike tours--Velokarawane, ecotopia, and even the more formal paid ones--cycling alternatives? -- plus a travelling bike circus or band or two?

2014-10-20T11:25:48Z

2014-10-18T18:26:55Z

Bel: Created page with "= Organising Biketour 2015 = == '''Autumn meeting''' == To help make a decision on where the Autumn meeting will be held, please add your suggestions... #'''City''' #'''Why..."

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2014-10-18T17:00:56Z

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2014-10-18T16:58:11Z

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2014-10-18T16:57:26Z

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==Ecotopia Biketour 2014 and The ELGG platform==

Visit the main page of the EBT '''''www.ecotopiabiketour.net''' [http://www.ecotopiabiketour.net] 

 
In this coming BT2014, on the spring meeting, has been proposed to used the ELGG platform as internal communication. 
So, if the proposal is approved, the wiki will rest quite appart...

What's E.L.G.G? 
Is a good way to safely work as a group comprising of disparate people. 
It has been suggested that E.L.G.G could be used by the bt-org list so that we know who is part of the list (and are sure it is them), communicate more safely and also it has a tool for task managing and another one for coming to a decision by consensus.

How to use it? if you want to participate and join us, contact us in team-2014[at]ecotopiabiketour[dot]net

anyway, for the 2014 wiki '''>>>>>>>>>>>[[Biketour 2014]]<<<<<<<<<<<''' 
'''!!!DATA REMINDER!!!
''This Wiki is a public space on the net. Be sensitive and responsible with the data you provide here. Think twice whether you, someone else or even groups/projects might have a problem (later) with information being posted here. Keep in mind that openness about information is a different thing from person to person and place to place and that unconscious handling of information can lead to problems later.''

You can lean [[How to edit Wiki]] for contributing here

(''nb: to edit the wiki, you need to [[Special:Userlogin|login]] with your account. if you dont have one, you make it [[Special:Userlogin|here]])''

==Basic Information==
So what is the Ecotopia Biketour? Here are some useful pages from our website...:
*[[What is bt]]?
*How to [[join]]
*[[What to bring]]
*[[Frequently asked questions]]
*[[Biketour history]]
*[[On the road]]

== Organizing Ecotopia Biketour ==
This is a self-organized tour!

No club, no NGO, no political party. Just some people following an idea - since 1990!

''You are the biketour!

There are also two transnational coordinators working from Thessaloniki, Greece during the months before the biketour. They don't take major decisions, but bear responsibility to keep the information together and its flows alive! - you can contact them and find out how you can help at info@ecotopiabiketour.net

==Some ideas of how you can help==
There is lots to be done :) Here are smaller areas of the project, where u could be the right person to take responsibility:

* coordinating a bit of the route (regional co-ordinators are wanted who speak the local language, can help find sleeping/cooking places, plan the route & find suitable maps for that region, have the overview of actions along the route. See more here: [[Checklist for national/local organisers]])
* take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theatre piece, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
* coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
* maintain the [[website]]
* style/design leaflets, posters...
* [[International Coordinator#fundraising|raise funds]]
* take care about visas issues
* help overall coordination
* be the backup office when we are on tour
* presswork - in your own country and international contacts
* spread the word on the internet through using free software and uncommercial services as much as possible
* Translate documents
* Translate key texts to key-languages (e.g. German, and Eastern Europe in 2013) and other languages
* The wiki pages need to be updated, cleaned out and ordered continuously!!!!!

==Biketour Archive==
* [[Biketour 2013]]
* [[Biketour 2012]]
* [[Biketour 2011]]
* [[Biketour 2010]]
* [[Biketour 2009]]
* [[Biketour 2008]]
* [[Biketour 2007]]
* [[Biketour 2006]]
* [[Biketour 2005]]
* [[Biketour 2004]]

==Organising this years' tour==
* [[Biketour 2015]]

Equipment

2014-07-03T15:02:13Z

Bel: /* Collective Group Equipment as of 2014 */

Here we keep a record of the '''collective equipment''' needed/thought/available for each Biketour.

If you want to know what you should bring generally see here -> [[What_to_bring|participant equipment recomendation]] or in the FAQs on www.ecotopiabiketour.net

==Collective Group Equipment as of 2014==
* [[Trailers]]
** We have two Bob trailers - one is with the coordinators in Thessaloniki, another travelling with a 2013 participant hopefully arriving in time. If not, we will have to purchase a two wheel y-frame from a bicycle shop in Thessaloniki (at an agreed reduced price.)
** We will borrow a third one from Lastenradkollektiv in Vienna - Carry Freedom Y-Frame: http://www.lastenradkollektiv.at/fuhrpark-anhaenger/ (Lollipop)

*[[BT_2014_advertising_material]] - Booklets, leaflets, stickers, posters, screen printing stuff etc. - make your own!

* It would be good if you sort out your '''bike''' yourself. However, if you don't have a bike/cannot bring one, write to us and to the list, maybe we can point you to somewhere and/or people on the route can help you out (probably someone who is leaving can lend you their bike etc.

* If you need somewhere to sleep or have a space in your tent, then make this know on the 'tent forum': https://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/Needed_or_extra_camping_equipment

{| class="wikitable"
| '''What?'''
| '''Who can bring it? / Who will take care of it?'''
| '''Where to get it (cheaply or for free)?'''
|-
| 2 Rocket Stoves (bucket-sized tins, stove L-pipes, Perlite, screws; materials needed to build it during Kick-Off Days in Sofia)
| ...
| Restaurants, Markets?
|-
| One more '''Trailer'''?
| One is in Thessaloniki and will be taken to Sofia
| Potentials: From Lastenradkollektiv in Vienna? From a cycling organisation in Sofia?
|-
| [[Medical Kit]]
| Barry bringing one first aid kit
| Red Cross? Pharmacy?
|-
| liquid Propolis
| ...
| ...
|-
| colloidal silver
| ...
| ...
|-
| [[Biketools]]
We have some basic tools plus a few special ones (crank remover, cassette tool) that will be communal, you can add here what you will bring. Take a look if your bicycle needs a very special tool.
|Crank Remover, Cassette/Freewheel tool
|Some may be borrowed from the Thessaloniki Bike Collective and other Bike workshops (either older stuff as donations or do wholesale order together)
|-
| Big box for carrying spices, tea etc.
| ...
|
|-
| A netbook/laptop - so we can blog along the way!
| Christabel will bring one called Bilbo, Candid will also bring one
|
|-
| Walkie-Talkies
| ...
| Ask through lists
|-
| Mobile phones, charger and cheap prepaid SIM cards (preferably for all countries crossed)
| Christabel + Tatjana will bring solar charger with various leads for charging
| Ask through lists, freeshop
|-
| Battery charger for batteries of bike lights or mobile devices
| ...
| ...
|-
| Plastic covers for map to keep them dry
|
| Anyone who likes paper maps got one of these?
|-
| If possible ONE general BIODEGRADABLE shampoo, toothpaste and dishwash and a big handsoap?.
|
| Toothpaste and laundry liquid: order beforehand from self organised projects in Thessaloniki. Washing-up liquid, shampoo and sun-cream: we could find these in similar places, but please feel free to bring these along.
|-
| Fairer traded coffee / tea
| ...
| wholesale order through food-coop?
|-
| Lighters & matches
| Anka bringing some
|
|-
|Sewing Kit
|Barry bringing one plus other bits & bobs for fixing stuff
|

|-
| '''KITCHEN NECESSITIES''''''' (BOLD = we have it)
|
|
|-
|*2 big cooking pots with lids - 1 taller light steel pot (that fits inside) 1 short, wider aluminium cooking pot
|
|
|-
|* 1 smaller cooking pot
|may have in a suitable one in Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* 2 x box graters
|1 is being brought from Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* 4 bowls (preferably stainless steel and the same size!)
|two in Thessaloniki - one aluminium, one plastic
|
|-
|* 2 long wooden spoons
|
|
|-
|* 4 chopping boards
|2 in Thessaloniki, 2 more white chopping boards needed
|
|-
|* some good knives
|Some in Thessaloniki, Anka to bring 2-3
|(''everyone will probably bring at least one'')
|-
|* '''peelers'''
|two in Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* something to mash or blend stuff
|
|
|-
|* 2 plastic cups
|
|
|-
|* '''cutlery (just a few things)''' including some communal spoons!
|Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* '''glass jars for dressings'''
|some in Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* 4 large plastic containers for soaking beans, chickpeas etc. and storing herbs (preferably stackable!)
|
|
|-
|* '''2 kitchen towels'''
|
|
|-
|* sponges
|
|
|-
|* cleaning soap
|
|
|-
|* handsoap for cooks
|
|
|-
|* soap dispenser:
|
|
|-
|* plastic bags
|
|
|-
|* matches, lighters
|
|
|-
|* washing bowl
| ...
| ...
|}

* [[Cooking utensils]] - '''the majority of last year's cooking equipment is in Cluj, Romania with a collective where we spent the last days of 2013 biketour - HELP NEEDED TO GET IT TO THE START OF 2014 IN SOFIA!!'''
**1x big silver/ black pot + 1x big lid; metal
**2x medium black/ sliver pots
**1x medium black teflon pot
**2x medium pan lids; one blue, one metal
**1x white enamel washing up bowl
**3x white water containers (only 1 has a lid)
**5x white plastic chopping boards
**1x grater
**1x long wooden stirring spoon
**2x flat wooden spoons
**1x white/ yellow ladle
**1x small blue ladle
**1x wooden masher
**1x orange handled shovel
**1x red bag of spokes and skewers

== See also ==
[[FAQ]]

----
do you know of any other bt-stuff floating around ?

Equipment

2014-07-03T14:59:23Z

Bel: /* Collective Group Equipment as of 2014 */

Here we keep a record of the '''collective equipment''' needed/thought/available for each Biketour.

If you want to know what you should bring generally see here -> [[What_to_bring|participant equipment recomendation]] or in the FAQs on www.ecotopiabiketour.net

==Collective Group Equipment as of 2014==
* [[Trailers]]
** We have two Bob trailers - one is with the coordinators in Thessaloniki, another travelling with a 2013 participant hopefully arriving in time. If not, we will have to purchase a two wheel y-frame from a bicycle shop in Thessaloniki (at an agreed reduced price.)
** We will borrow a third one from Lastenradkollektiv in Vienna - Carry Freedom Y-Frame: http://www.lastenradkollektiv.at/fuhrpark-anhaenger/ (Lollipop)
* [[Cooking utensils]] - '''the majority of last year's cooking equipment is in Cluj, Romania with a collective where we spent the last days of 2013 biketour - HELP NEEDED TO GET IT TO THE START OF 2014 IN SOFIA!!'''
**1x big silver/ black pot + 1x big lid; metal
**2x medium black/ sliver pots
**1x medium black teflon pot
**2x medium pan lids; one blue, one metal
**1x white enamel washing up bowl
**3x white water containers (only 1 has a lid)
**5x white plastic chopping boards
**1x grater
**1x long wooden stirring spoon
**2x flat wooden spoons
**1x white/ yellow ladle
**1x small blue ladle
**1x wooden masher
**1x orange handled shovel
**1x red bag of spokes and skewers

*[[BT_2014_advertising_material]] - Booklets, leaflets, stickers, posters, screen printing stuff etc. - make your own!

* It would be good if you sort out your '''bike''' yourself. However, if you don't have a bike/cannot bring one, write to us and to the list, maybe we can point you to somewhere and/or people on the route can help you out (probably someone who is leaving can lend you their bike etc.

* If you need somewhere to sleep or have a space in your tent, then make this know on the 'tent forum': https://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/Needed_or_extra_camping_equipment

{| class="wikitable"
| '''What?'''
| '''Who can bring it? / Who will take care of it?'''
| '''Where to get it (cheaply or for free)?'''
|-
| 2 Rocket Stoves (bucket-sized tins, stove L-pipes, Perlite, screws; materials needed to build it during Kick-Off Days in Sofia)
| ...
| Restaurants, Markets?
|-
| One more '''Trailer'''?
| One is in Thessaloniki and will be taken to Sofia
| Potentials: From Lastenradkollektiv in Vienna? From a cycling organisation in Sofia?
|-
| [[Medical Kit]]
| Barry bringing one first aid kit
| Red Cross? Pharmacy?
|-
| liquid Propolis
| ...
| ...
|-
| colloidal silver
| ...
| ...
|-
| [[Biketools]]
We have some basic tools plus a few special ones (crank remover, cassette tool) that will be communal, you can add here what you will bring. Take a look if your bicycle needs a very special tool.
|Crank Remover, Cassette/Freewheel tool
|Some may be borrowed from the Thessaloniki Bike Collective and other Bike workshops (either older stuff as donations or do wholesale order together)
|-
| Big box for carrying spices, tea etc.
| ...
|
|-
| A netbook/laptop - so we can blog along the way!
| Christabel will bring one called Bilbo, Candid will also bring one
|
|-
| Walkie-Talkies
| ...
| Ask through lists
|-
| Mobile phones, charger and cheap prepaid SIM cards (preferably for all countries crossed)
| Christabel + Tatjana will bring solar charger with various leads for charging
| Ask through lists, freeshop
|-
| Battery charger for batteries of bike lights or mobile devices
| ...
| ...
|-
| Plastic covers for map to keep them dry
|
| Anyone who likes paper maps got one of these?
|-
| If possible ONE general BIODEGRADABLE shampoo, toothpaste and dishwash and a big handsoap?.
|
| Toothpaste and laundry liquid: order beforehand from self organised projects in Thessaloniki. Washing-up liquid, shampoo and sun-cream: we could find these in similar places, but please feel free to bring these along.
|-
| Fairer traded coffee / tea
| ...
| wholesale order through food-coop?
|-
| Lighters & matches
| Anka bringing some
|
|-
|Sewing Kit
|Barry bringing one plus other bits & bobs for fixing stuff
|

|-
| '''KITCHEN NECESSITIES''''''' (BOLD = we have it)
|
|
|-
|*2 big cooking pots with lids - 1 taller light steel pot (that fits inside) 1 short, wider aluminium cooking pot
|
|
|-
|* 1 smaller cooking pot
|may have in a suitable one in Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* 2 x box graters
|1 is being brought from Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* 4 bowls (preferably stainless steel and the same size!)
|two in Thessaloniki - one aluminium, one plastic
|
|-
|* 2 long wooden spoons
|
|
|-
|* 4 chopping boards
|2 in Thessaloniki, 2 more white chopping boards needed
|
|-
|* some good knives
|Some in Thessaloniki, Anka to bring 2-3
|(''everyone will probably bring at least one'')
|-
|* '''peelers'''
|two in Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* something to mash or blend stuff
|
|
|-
|* 2 plastic cups
|
|
|-
|* '''cutlery (just a few things)''' including some communal spoons!
|Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* '''glass jars for dressings'''
|some in Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* 4 large plastic containers for soaking beans, chickpeas etc. and storing herbs (preferably stackable!)
|
|
|-
|* '''2 kitchen towels'''
|
|
|-
|* sponges
|
|
|-
|* cleaning soap
|
|
|-
|* handsoap for cooks
|
|
|-
|* soap dispenser:
|
|
|-
|* plastic bags
|
|
|-
|* matches, lighters
|
|
|-
|* washing bowl
| ...
| ...
|}

== See also ==
[[FAQ]]

----
do you know of any other bt-stuff floating around ?

BT 2014 advertising material

2014-06-25T17:22:12Z

Bel: /* Reverse side text in various languages */

== Flyers ==

=== Biketour 2014 Route and Dates Graphic===

Here is the Flyer for the 2014 Biketour with dates and route - on the backside print the text in the language below that you like. There is a png and a pdf version, the graphic fits on A6, so four of them can be printed on one A4 page, just see which one works best for you and your printer. If you need some other versions/want to change something contact us for editable files.

- [[File:Flyer_front_route_no_topics.png|400px|]]

- [[File:Flyer_front_route_on_A4.pdf]] - with white margins

- [[File:Flyer_front_route_on_A4_allyellow.pdf]] - all in yellow if you can print until the edge

=== General Biketour Graphic ===

Below is the first flyer, giving some general info on the biketour - spread it, especially to projects that could maybe host us. Again you have the choice between a png file and a pdf of 4 flyers on one A4 page.

[[File: Ecotopia Biketour drawing.png|400px]]

- Front - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Ecotopia_Biketour_Flyers_on_A4.pdf]]

=== Reverse side text in various languages ===

- Български - [[File:Flyer_BG_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Deutsch - [[File:Flyer_DE_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Eλληνικά - [[File:Flyer_EL_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- English - [[File:Flyer_EN_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Español - [[File:Flyer_ES_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Français - [[File:Flyer_FR_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Italiano - [[File:Flyer_IT_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Português - [[File:Flyer_PT_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Србин - [[File:Flyer_SRB_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Reverse side in English - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:English Flyer - Back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Български (Bulgarian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Bulgarian Flyer - Back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Français (French) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer French-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Deutsch (German) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer German-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Eλληνικά (Greek) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:ecotopia2014_flyer1_back_ellinika.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Italiano (Italian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer1 Italian-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in македонски (Macedonian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Macedonian Flyer - Back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Português (Portuguese) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer Portuguese-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Србин (Serbian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer Serbian-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Español (Spanish) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer Spanish-back.jpeg|200px]]

== Website Banners ==

=== the currently used banner ===

[[File:Yellow_banner_with_organigram_resized.png|900px|]]

=== Several drafts for banners, flyers, logos etc. ===

[[File:Yellow downhill with organigram.png|600px|]]

[[File:Yellow banner with organigram.png|900px|]]

[[File:Seed machine black on white stencilfont.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine black on white.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine white on black.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine yellow white.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine yellow black.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 1.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 2 plain.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 3.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 4.png|600px|]]

=== Temporary banner ===
based on [[BT_2013_advertising_material| last year's]] drawing (without the "berlin wall")

[[File:2014bannerdrawing-KB-web.png|600px|beta version]]

BT 2014 advertising material

2014-06-25T17:21:18Z

Bel: /* Backside informational text in various languages */

== Flyers ==

=== Biketour 2014 Route and Dates Graphic===

Here is the Flyer for the 2014 Biketour with dates and route - on the backside print the text in the language below that you like. There is a png and a pdf version, the graphic fits on A6, so four of them can be printed on one A4 page, just see which one works best for you and your printer. If you need some other versions/want to change something contact us for editable files.

- [[File:Flyer_front_route_no_topics.png|400px|]]

- [[File:Flyer_front_route_on_A4.pdf]] - with white margins

- [[File:Flyer_front_route_on_A4_allyellow.pdf]] - all in yellow if you can print until the edge

=== General Biketour Graphic ===

Below is the first flyer, giving some general info on the biketour - spread it, especially to projects that could maybe host us. Again you have the choice between a png file and a pdf of 4 flyers on one A4 page.

[[File: Ecotopia Biketour drawing.png|400px]]

- Front - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Ecotopia_Biketour_Flyers_on_A4.pdf]]

=== Reverse side text in various languages ===

- Български - [[File:Flyer_BG_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Deutsch - [[File:Flyer_DE_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Eλληνικά - [[File:Flyer_EL_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- English - [[File:Flyer_EN_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Español - [[File:Flyer_ES_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Français - [[File:Flyer_FR_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Србин - [[File:Flyer_SRB_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Italiano - [[File:Flyer_IT_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Português - [[File:Flyer_PT_back.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

- Reverse side in English - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:English Flyer - Back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Български (Bulgarian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Bulgarian Flyer - Back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Français (French) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer French-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Deutsch (German) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer German-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Eλληνικά (Greek) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:ecotopia2014_flyer1_back_ellinika.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Italiano (Italian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer1 Italian-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in македонски (Macedonian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Macedonian Flyer - Back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Português (Portuguese) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer Portuguese-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Србин (Serbian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer Serbian-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Reverse side in Español (Spanish) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer Spanish-back.jpeg|200px]]

== Website Banners ==

=== the currently used banner ===

[[File:Yellow_banner_with_organigram_resized.png|900px|]]

=== Several drafts for banners, flyers, logos etc. ===

[[File:Yellow downhill with organigram.png|600px|]]

[[File:Yellow banner with organigram.png|900px|]]

[[File:Seed machine black on white stencilfont.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine black on white.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine white on black.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine yellow white.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine yellow black.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 1.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 2 plain.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 3.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 4.png|600px|]]

=== Temporary banner ===
based on [[BT_2013_advertising_material| last year's]] drawing (without the "berlin wall")

[[File:2014bannerdrawing-KB-web.png|600px|beta version]]

File:Flyer BG back.pdf

2014-06-25T17:16:17Z

Bel:

File:Flyer EL back.pdf

2014-06-25T17:15:21Z

Bel:

BT 2014 advertising material

2014-06-25T12:21:54Z

Equipment

2014-06-20T11:49:31Z

Bel: /* Collective Group Equipment as of 2014 */

Here we keep a record of the '''collective equipment''' needed/thought/available for each Biketour.

If you want to know what you should bring generally see here -> [[What_to_bring|participant equipment recomendation]] or in the FAQs on www.ecotopiabiketour.net

==Collective Group Equipment as of 2014==
* [[Trailers]]
** We have two Bob trailers - one is with the coordinators in Thessaloniki, another travelling with a 2013 participant hopefully arriving in time.
** We will maybe borrow a third one from Lastenradkollektiv in Vienna - Lollipop: http://www.lastenradkollektiv.at/fuhrpark-anhaenger/ - if you happen to come to the start of the tour and pass through Vienna please contact us in order to assist with transport
* [[Cooking utensils]] - '''the majority of last year's cooking equipment is in Cluj, Romania with a collective where we spent the last days of 2013 biketour - HELP NEEDED TO GET IT TO THE START OF 2014 IN SOFIA!!'''
**1x big silver/ black pot + 1x big lid; metal
**2x medium black/ sliver pots
**1x medium black teflon pot
**2x medium pan lids; one blue, one metal
**1x white enamel washing up bowl
**3x white water containers (only 1 has a lid)
**5x white plastic chopping boards
**1x grater
**1x long wooden stirring spoon
**2x flat wooden spoons
**1x white/ yellow ladle
**1x small blue ladle
**1x wooden masher
**1x orange handled shovel
**1x red bag of spokes and skewers

*[[BT_2014_advertising_material]] - Booklets, leaflets, stickers, posters, screen printing stuff etc. - make your own!

* It would be good if you sort out your '''bike''' yourself. However, if you don't have a bike/cannot bring one, write to us and to the list, maybe we can point you to somewhere and/or people on the route can help you out (probably someone who is leaving can lend you their bike etc.

* If you need somewhere to sleep or have a space in your tent, then make this know on the 'tent forum': https://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/Needed_or_extra_camping_equipment

{| class="wikitable"
| '''What?'''
| '''Who can bring it? / Who will take care of it?'''
| '''Where to get it (cheaply or for free)?'''
|-
| 2 Rocket Stoves (bucket-sized tins, stove L-pipes, Perlite, screws; materials needed to build it during Kick-Off Days in Sofia)
| ...
| Restaurants, Markets?
|-
| One more '''Trailer'''?
| One is in Thessaloniki and will be taken to Sofia
| Potentials: From Lastenradkollektiv in Vienna? From a cycling organisation in Sofia?
|-
| [[Medical Kit]]
| ...
| Red Cross? Pharmacy?
|-
| liquid Propolis
| ...
| ...
|-
| colloidal silver
| ...
| ...
|-
| [[Biketools]]
We have some basic tools plus a few special ones (crank remover, cassette tool) that will be communal, you can add here what you will bring. Take a look if your bicycle needs a very special tool.
|Crank Remover, Cassette/Freewheel tool
|Some may be borrowed from the Thessaloniki Bike Collective and other Bike workshops (either older stuff as donations or do wholesale order together)
|-
| Big box for carrying spices, tea etc.
| ...
|
|-
| A netbook/laptop - so we can blog along the way!
| Christabel will bring one called Bilbo, Candid will also bring one
|
|-
| Walkie-Talkies
| ...
| Ask through lists
|-
| Mobile phones, charger and cheap prepaid SIM cards (preferably for all countries crossed)
| Christabel will bring solar charger with various leads for charging
| Ask through lists, freeshop
|-
| Battery charger for batteries of bike lights or mobile devices
| ...
| ...
|-
| Plastic covers for map to keep them dry
|
| Anyone who likes paper maps got one of these?
|-
| If possible ONE general BIODEGRADABLE shampoo, toothpaste and dishwash and a big handsoap?.
|
| Toothpaste and laundry liquid: order beforehand from self organised projects in Thessaloniki. Washing-up liquid, shampoo and sun-cream: we could find these in similar places, but please feel free to bring these along.
|-
| Fairer traded coffee / tea
| ...
| wholesale order through food-coop?
|-
| Lighters & matches
| Anka bringing some
|

|-
| '''KITCHEN NECESSITIES''''''' (BOLD = we have it)
|
|
|-
|* 1 big cooking pot
|In Cluj
|
|-
|* 2 plastic cups
|
|
|-
|* '''cutlery (just a few things)'''
|Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* soap dispenser:
|
|
|-
|* '''grater'''
|Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* plastic bags
|
|
|-
|* '''1 smaller cooking pot'''
|may have in a suitable one in Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* 3 big wooden spoons
|
|
|-
|* 4 chopping boards
|2 in Thessaloniki, others currently in Cluj
|
|-
|* some good knives
|Some in Thessaloniki, Anka to bring 2-3
|(''everyone will probably bring at least one'')
|-
|* colander(sieve)
|One small one in Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* peelers
|one in Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* something to mash or blend stuff
|
|
|-
|* big bowl
|One in Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* '''glass jars for dressings'''
|some in Thessaloniki
|
|-
|* plastic bottles/containers for soaking beans, chickpeas etc.
|
|
|-
|* some communal spoons (for dressings, honey etc.)
|
|
|-
|* '''kitchen towels (2)'''
|
|
|-
|* sponges
|
|
|-
|* cleaning soap
|
|
|-
|* handsoap for cooks
|
|
|-
|* matches, lighters
|
|
|-
|* washing bowl
| ...
| ...
|}

== See also ==
[[FAQ]]

----
do you know of any other bt-stuff floating around ?

BT 2014 advertising material

2014-06-20T10:55:55Z

Bel: /* Flyers */

== Flyers ==

The first flyer, giving some general info on the biketour - spread it, especially to projects that could maybe host us. We will make one with the exact date and starting and end points in about a month.
The wiki can now upload pdf documents so you can simply save and print the full flyers in the language of your choice!

- Deutsch - [[File:Flyer1 de.pdf|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]

You can also just print the frontside and the backside of the image files in the language of your choice (if you see any languages missing, please help us to make a flyer in this language!):

- Front - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:ecotopia2014_flyer1_front.jpeg|200px]]

- Backside in English - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:English Flyer - Back.jpeg|200px]]

- Backside in Български (Bulgarian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Bulgarian Flyer - Back.jpeg|200px]]

- Backside in Français (French) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer French-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Backside in Deutsch (German) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer German-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Backside in Eλληνικά (Greek) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:ecotopia2014_flyer1_back_ellinika.jpeg|200px]]

- Backside in Italiano (Italian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer1 Italian-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Backside in македонски (Macedonian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Macedonian Flyer - Back.jpeg|200px]]

- Backside in português (Portuguese) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer Portuguese-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Backside in Србин (Serbian) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer Serbian-back.jpeg|200px]]

- Backside in español (Spanish) - 4 flyers on one A4 sheet

[[File:Flyer Spanish-back.jpeg|200px]]

== Website Banners ==

=== ===
Several drafts for banners, flyers, logos etc.

[[File:Yellow_banner_with_organigram_resized.png|600px|]]

[[File:Yellow downhill with organigram.png|600px|]]

[[File:Yellow banner with organigram.png|900px|]]

[[File:Seed machine black on white stencilfont.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine black on white.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine white on black.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine yellow white.png|600px|]]

[[File:Seed machine yellow black.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 1.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 2 plain.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 3.png|600px|]]

[[File:Logo with pyramid 4.png|600px|]]

=== Temporary banner ===
based on [[BT_2013_advertising_material| last year's]] drawing (without the "berlin wall")

[[File:2014bannerdrawing-KB-web.png|600px|beta version]]