Getting a bike

Leeuwarden 2 project work1

Summary• What is the problem?

• New proposal

• Inform the students

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Is it really useful to have a bike?

On foot: By bicycle:

32 minutes 9 minutes 3

Survey

9 questions submitted to 45 students

Results on August 27th

(≈ 1 week after the start of the mandatory part of the introduction programme)

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Who already owns a bike?

69%

31%

After 1 week of the Introduction Program:

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Where are bikes usually bought?

90%

5%

5%

Bike shopsFrom another studentOthers (websites, brought from home…)

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How much does it usually cost?

€<70 70<€<100 100<€150 150<€<2000%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

Average price: 110€ 7

Fixing & Shopping Points…..Let’s find the way to the bicycles shops from the Survival Café…

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Survival

Café

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De Fietsenreus.

Giant new and second hand bicycles store which also repairs

bikes prices >200 euros

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Piet Vonk Rijwielsporthu

isshop with new bikes

and accessories, prices

>200 euros

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Station Delft Good repairs, but not cheap. Handy because

it is at the station

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Cloostermanfietsen

sells secondhand bikes and also repairs

bicycles,not expensive

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Bike Totaal Wijtman

Tweewielersshop with new bikes and accessories,

prices >200 €

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Brikfit It is a bicycle workshop

where people with intellectual disabilities

repair and sell bicycles. Price between € 90 - € 110.

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FietsRepa's. Fixes ambulatory but also sells used bikes with warranty in the price range of 50-95

euros16

…and there are a lot more!

www.marktplaats.nlIt's like ebay but unfortunately it's only in Dutch. You can find a lot of second-hand bicycles in the neighborhood of Delft.

www.delftulip.ning.comlog in --> Forum --> Practical Matters --> look for bikes discussions! Groups onwww.facebook.com

*Student* sale in Delft! --> here you can find every kind of stuff you need for your future life in Delft, exspecially cheap secon-hand bikes!

ESN-Rotterdam Marketplace --> here you can find cheap second-hand bikes which are on sale in Rotterdam, it takes a while to go there, but most of them are cheaper then in Delft.

Or you can look on internet

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A new way of searching bikes

Internet

43% of the students are already interested in this system!!

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Real example

715 Intl. Students

300 bikes

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Additional cost per bike

Storage

Salaries

Old bikes replacement (5%)

New bikes-increase on Intl. Students (5%)

Reparations (40%)

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2.1

5.8

5.5

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Cost (€/bike)

Only ≈25€ addition per bike 20

How it works?• You receive info about the online platform• Search a bike that fits you via internet during the dates

allowed• Do the payment (60€)• Get the bike at the end of August• Use it• Make any reparation during the year• Sell it to the organization again in June (35€)

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AdvantagesCertainty of

selling the bike at the end

Buying a bike in good conditions

You may pay only 25€ for

it!! 22

Traffic rules

•Deciding Priority•Traffic signals•Safe parking spots

33% of the people who filled the survey faced problems with traffic rules

Traffic rulesbasic rules

Traffic rulescrossroads

• Right gets priority

• Sometimes 'shark teeth' indicate priority

Traffic ruleshand signals

Traffic rulescrosswalks

Pedestrians always have priority on crosswalks

Parking Space

In a nutshell• Getting a bike is difficult and expensive for international

students.

• What can be done? Inform students (shops, garages, websites) Involve students or the international office in the resale of bikes

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Thank you for your attention

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