I think that BikeFriday went really well on Friday - despite the very cool weather, we had an okay show-out at City Hall - I'm really glad I got Dark City Coffee down there to have coffee for cyclists.
Here's a quick re-cap of the morning:
I get up early and leave home around 7 am, phoning Tammy of the Queen West Ride on the way. I get to City Hall at about 7:20 as the eastern sky is bright red and start helping Raymond of Dark City setting up a coffee table. We were right next to the front doors of City Hall, which was pretty cool.
While Raymond served cyclists with his simply amazing coffee for only $1 (with free re-fills), I set myself up on the corner of Queen & York (across for Osgoode Hall) and talked to eastbound cyclists at the red light, letting them know there was a Coffee for Cyclists event. A few of them went and got some. A few of them were pretty wary of a strange (hey, I'm not THAT strange...) guy talking to them - but the majority of them were all excited about it, even if they were running late for work and couldn't stop.(Next time we do this - and we will - as Dark City has committed to helping us out more in the future - I'll be working on big signs and stuff to let cyclists know coffee is available. )
Overall, the proceeds from the event exceeded costs by about $20, and I'm putting that towards the next coffee event, to make it a FREE one (I'll contribute some $ to make sure of this), and get even more cyclists out. :)
Stay tuned for some more photos from Martino and Patrick Kraemer, a Ward 30 candidate for city council who set up a juice & muffin stand on the Danforth for cyclists on BikeFriday!
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