The bike loan scheme has begun as of September 2009.
How it works
You give us a deposit of $100 (and we photocopy your student card), and we give you a bike, helmet, a lock and lights. You can keep it for up to a year. Every month, you bring it along to a bike workshop for a check-up and maintenance. When you bring everything back, we subtract $5/month from your deposit, and give you the rest back.
The bikes
The bikes are all hybrid style. If you don’t like the bike available when we contact you, you don’t have to borrow it – there are lots of other places to get second-hand bikes.
Waiting list
The scheme has started with 10 bikes. They are currently all being loaned out. When a bike is returned, the next person in the waiting list will be offered the bike. No correspondence will be entered into about the ordering of the waiting list.
Members of Arc @ UNSW will be given preference – their names are marked with an asterisk. If you are an Arc member and you apply, you will move in front of the non-Arc members.
Half the bikes are reserved for women.
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Apply
Download the Application Form, fill it in, and hand it in to the Arc Student Development Office (lvl 1, Roundhouse). We’ll contact you when you’re at the top of the waiting list, and a bike becomes available.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Karen from the Bicycle Recycling Network for donating the bicycles, and Arc @ UNSW for providing a grant for the helmets, locks and lights.
