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Every channel you switch you hear about environmental concerns, every newspaper you browse you read about health issues and every other magazine has tips to save (and make more!) money but hey, hey, HEY are you really doing anything about it.


Here is an easy way to grab them all. It’s more entertaining than watching TV, it’s more rewarding than a visit to your gym yet it is much cheaper than going for movies!

 

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newspaper articles and youtube videos

club brochure

sms formats

rack and bicycles layout

sms abc to 964 55 111 55 to know more about the club

MISSION To promote bicycling as a sustainable mode of transportation by establishing a cross-city bicycling club and introducing a linear, integrated and flexible mode of bicycling.”  

 

[Linearity implies that a person traveling from location A to B need not worry about returning the bicycle back from B to A. Integration with other modes of transportation, implies that portions of journey (for eg. the first leg from home to railway station and last leg from station to office) can be made on a bicycle. Based on time, mood and convenience a person can park his/her vehicle near any bicycle- rack and flexibly switch to bicycling.]

 
OBJECTIVES

   to encourage individuals and corporate to replace motorized travel as much as possible with bicycling by promoting the benefits to health, ecology and nation

 

   to help reduce urban traffic congestion and carbon footprint

 

   to introduce the concept of cross-city membership where a member can walk to any bicycle-rack in any town/city and check-out a bicycle for usage

 

   to eliminate the hassles of maintenance (members can enjoy pure bicycling, we shall see to it the bicycles are shipshape)

 

   to minimize parking problems by designing custom high-density bicycle-racks.

     (in fact, unlike vehicles remaining unused at parking lots, our club cycles will be better utilized by the next needy member!)

 

   to use cell phone/sms features for check-in/check-out, making payments and of course joining new members to the club!

 

   to design and manufacture India’s first bicycle-rack for secure parking and making payments

 

   to promote R & D for advanced technologies like electronic locking systems, ATM-like features and GPRS based locating of bicycles

 

   to monitor each individual’s progress in terms of hours cycled and kilometers covered. Keeping tabs would boost member’s enthusiasm towards bicycling

 

   to interact with railway stations, bus terminals etc. to help promoting bicycling culture and to permit setting-up of bicycle-racks

 

   to interact with shopping complexes, banks etc to provide space for bicycle-racks

 

   and last-but-not-the-least, to attract investors, sponsors and contributors to improve the infrastructure of the club.

     Ad-space on bicycle would not only have a wider reach, but also improve the Corporate Social Responsibility of the sponsor.

 
   
PATENT  
"Cell-phone based bicycle sharing and parking using bicycle racks" patent pending vide application number 196/CHE/2011.  
   
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES  
   "a  social network of bicycles" - indian express thiruvanathapuram edition article - 24 march, 2011  
   kaumudhi big news article - 29 march, 2011  
   matrhrubhumi thiruvanathapuram edition article - 2 april, 2011  
   malayala manorama thiruvanathapuram edition article - 21 april, 2011  
   "cycle your way to a green cause"- the hindu thiruvanathapuram edition article - 24 april, 2011  
   deshabhimani article - 25 april, 2011  
   "capital’s first cycle club going places"-indian express thiruvanathapuram edition article - 10  may, 2011  
   malayala manorama ernakulam edition article - 21 may, 2011  
  "beating the traffic jams with a cycle"- the hindu ernakulam edition article - 22 may, 2011  
   matrhrubhumi ernakulam  edition article - 23 may, 2011  
  "learn the abc of cycling"- indian express ernakulam edition article - 26 may, 2011
  varthamanam article kozhikode edition article - 26 may, 2011
 "pedaling his way to success"- deccan chronicle ernakulam edition article - 11 july, 2011
 "TMC wants to introduce cycles in kerala capital"- times of india thiruvananthapuram edition article - 02 november, 2011
 "cycle club members' tribe growing"- indian express thiruvanathapuram edition article - 05 november, 2011
 "cycle club to promote cycling in kochi"- times of india ernakulam edition article - 09 november, 2011
YOUTUBE VIDEOS
 "bicycle transport in kerala" - asianet news
  "country's first bicycle network" - cvb news (uni)
  "asianet moneytime feature" - asianet news
SMS FORMATS

task

sms format (to 964 55 111 55)

to know about the club

abc

registration form to join the club

form

terms and conditions of usage

tc

steps of usage

steps

rack locations and codes in trivandrum

tvm

rack locations and codes in ernakulam

ekm

taking/returning a bicycle

Rack code<space>bicycle-ID

making payments(Rs.10/- after 5hrs of usage)      to dropbox

Last four digits of note<space>denomination

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