BERGMAN Hans

CARVALHO Luis Miguel (newsletter editor)

CLARK Ian

COOPER Timothy

DAMMANN Sven

D’CUNHA Christian

DIDERICH Tom

DIJKSTRA Lewis

DURST Ellen

LE GRAND Pascal

MURPHY Paul

OP DE BEKE Julius

RINGLER Kerstin

TOTH Andras

VAN BENNEKOM Gerard

ZANDBERGEN Carolien

Our AGM will be held  on

 Thursday 5 May 2011, 12h50-14h00, at the Centre de Conference Albert Borschette, room 3B.

(Adress: Rue Froissart 36, bike parking entrance via  Chaussée d’Etterbeek).

Please come along, not only to listen what we have done/plan to do, but also if you have questions, suggestions, or want to help the committee (a dozen or so volunteers) with their work. Not least we are looking for a new newsletter editor.

 Looking forward to seeing you there!

(s.) T. Diderich, President.

The new  Bike experience website is open!  It addresses two different ‘target groups’ : ” bikers” and “coaches“.

EUCG members, most of whom we assume are daily cyclists, have the ideal job description for coaches. Would you be interested in sharing your experience with someone who wants to give up their car to experience what it is like to commute by bicycle, and accompany them for a few days in the first week of May on their way to work and back? Read more here.

You may have colleagues, neighbours, friends who are (still) notorious car users, but who are intrigued by our two-wheeled means of transport, and who might be interested in this great opportunity to change their habits. Please inform them about Bike Experience 2011 and refer them to the dedicated website, so they can register as bikers.

Registration for both coaches and bikers closes on Thursday 31 March. On yer bikes! 

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Each cyclist applicant (or ‘biker’) will therefore be given training to ride safely in traffic, and will be given personal coaching (with a ‘coach’).

Are you a daily cyclist? Would you like to offer support to a beginner cyclist? This is a great opportunity for you to show beginner cyclists the world of active mobility!

Come and join the pool of coaches that is now being  set up. After the closing of registration (31 March) you will be linked up where possible with a beginner cyclist who takes more or less the same route as you to go to work.

As a coach, you will be asked to:

• accompany your applicant in the morning and evening on their first trips from home to the workplace for three days, starting 2 May 2011;
• make yourself available on 30/04 or 01/05 from 12.00 to 14.00 to meet your biker;
• to participate in a mandatory training course to enable you to offer good ‘coaching’ to your applicant and   you feel more comfortable about doing this;
• to be an experienced daily bicycle user;
• behave impeccably when you act as a coach to your ‘biker’.

You will be given an allowance of 120.- EUR (which you can of course decline an donate to a charity). During the training course, you will be given a ‘Guide to the perfect coach’ brochure. And where possible, the home to workplace journey of the biker that you will be allocated in late April will be close to the one that you take yourself.

The registration form in NOW available.

Please also tell your friends, family, colleagues and cycling buddies about this scheme. That way we can reach as many coach applicants as possible – and help to clean up the air around Brussels!

For registration and more information, go here:

http://www.newbikeexperience.typiserveur.be/en/supervise-a-biker