Biketour 2013
2013 Overview
key a ideas of the tour this year.
+ Why are we touring by bicycle? +
- Because it will be a crazy awesome adventure.
- We want to influence by example: if we can travel hundreds of km from one place to the next hauling loads of gear, surely you can manage to ride your bike to go grocery shopping a few km down the road!
- The revolution will be pedal powered.
2013 route
This years tour begins in Berlin and will go "east". During the winter meeting (see below) we will clarify, what "east" will mean exactly. The theme is "borders, boundaries and beyond" and we are now searching for projects and actions to visit and participate in this summer.
to come: map where we are starting to collect route ideas. Please add any places, projects, action camps, ecovillages, contacts which we could visit along the way here:
DE
- Berlin: No Border Camp, Date unknown
- Berlin: (bike) path along the former berlin wall: totally combines the border topic with biking!
- Berlin: regenbogenwerkstatt, kreuzberg (bike repair workshop)
- Berlin: friedel / f54: small social centre with communal kitchen, space for meetings and silk screen printing facility / equipment
- Brandenburg (close to Berlin): Tagungshaus Wernsdorf [www.tagungshaus-wernsdorf.de]
- July 19 - 27: Anti-nuclear camp Munsterland, http://antiatomcamp.nirgendwo.info/
PL
- anti fracking activists / areas
- bike riksha manufacture
- ...
CZ
- iron curtain trail (eurovelo 13) along the czech/austrian border
- ...
SK
- ...
AT
- Oberösterreich: O.tel.o (open technology space)
- Niederösterreich (close to Wien): CSA Ochsenherz
- Burgenland: Nikitsch collective farm
- Steiermark: Wieserhoisl
- Kärnten/Koroška: Peršmanhof
HU
- ...
SI
- Prekmurje: Art Centre
- Ljubljana: ROG (Squat and former bike factory)
- Koper: social youth centre
HR
- Reciklaonica
- Zagreb bikekitchen
- Varazdin community gardens
- ...
SRB
- Refugee Camps
- Novi Sad Bikekitchen
- Beograd 'ulice za bicikliste'
RO
- ...
BG
- ...
XYZ
- ...
Events without confirmed places / Other people on the road to cross with
- noborder camp(s)
- cyclocamp
- climate camp(s)
- energy / land struggle
2013 Visa Issues
will be researched and provided once the route decision has been taken (after winter meeting; see below).
2013 Major Mass Communications
2013 Kick-off days
The first days of the biketour (probably a week end) will probably be in the beginning of july, just like it has been last year. However, this is not decided until the winter meeting.
Things needed for biketour
Biketour as a collective "has" some collective material, which is collectively transported and used during the tour. During the rest of the year, these things are stored in different places and should all come together again by the start of the next tour. Things used in 2012 and planned to use in 2013 can be found on the 2013 Equipment page. Please update this page with the things you have and write how they can get to the starting point of the tour!
Every individual joining the tour will have to use some private stuff. See page what to bring for ideas about what participants need.
The tour lives from its different people and all the nice (material and immaterial) things that these people bring and share. On the 2013 Equipment page you can announce what kinds of additional things you will bring to the tour. This can help us to make sure in advance that we won't find ourselves in the strange situations of having 25 guitars but no single bike pump ;). You can find some inspirations on what to bring.
Travel plans and advice
Page where people can share this if they would like to.
- to come: list with (cheap) travel opportunities for germany and the greater region
Needs Translation
These texts need to be translated into key languages (of countries we are passing on - in every case german and polish; maybe czeck, slovakian, hungarian, slovene, naš jezik; and any other language you like!). Please translate them into a new paragraph onto the page of the specific text linked below:
- ...
Propaganda
- ...
- Where to publicize it
- some ideas on last year's page [Biketour 2012]
- put new ideas here!
- ...
2013 Winter meeting
(better call it spring meeting...)
Date and time:
MAR 22-24; Berlin
please email to info((A+))ecotopiabiketour((D0T))net for details
Logistics and info
- BT coordinators will arrange both places for the work part and the sleeping part of the meeting
- Berlin-based people: Please tell us if you could also host people, especially for the days before and after
- persons having confirmed their attendance so far (as of MAR 7): 5 Yes, 6 Maybe, many non-replies
- like in past years, we can try to share travel costs in solidarity; how to do this is a discussion point of the agenda
- please bring:
- mats / sleeping bags
- BT equipment if you took home some of it in summer (or the years before ;))
- maybe a laptop, if you can; usb or external hard drives to share data (e.g. photos)
- ...
Agenda topics (please help collecting before the meeting starts!):
- the route (general direction) - considering:
- countries/regions/cities/villages/projects
- theme related places
- climate, topography
- visa and legal difficulties
- people/collectives available to help in specific places
- Coordination Scheme
- Local coordinators? Teams? From the office and centrally email-based?
- Pre-visits? All from the office?
- Finances
- overview: costs of a bike tour
- status quo
- scenarios and hopes
- plan Bs and Cs
- reflection of the last bike tour (personal impressions and points) > formulation of improvement strategies
- Communication
- Internet Communication, (a)'social' media, data privacy and free software @ biketour
- comprehensive database of addresses to send out releases ("press list")
- Basic agreements
- minimum advised length of participation (one, two weeks)?
- vegan/vegetarian
- expectations
- Future
- Biketour 2013
- Route proposals
- Theme proposals
- EVS (yes or no?)
- Biketour 2013
- Travel costs for Wintermeeting (solidarian sharing)