Getting a bike
Leeuwarden 2 project work
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Summary
• What is the problem?
• New proposal
• Inform the students
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Is it really useful to have a
bike?
On foot:
32 minutes
By bicycle:
9 minutes
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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?
After 1 week of the Introduction Program:
0
31%
69%
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Where are bikes usually
bought?
5%
5%
Bike shops
From another student
Others (websites,
brought from home…)
90%
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How much does it usually cost?
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
€<70
70<€<100
100<€150
Average price: 110€
150<€<200
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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
Rijwielsporthuis
shop 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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Cloosterman
fietsen
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 euros
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www.marktplaats.nl
It's like ebay but unfortunately it's only in Dutch.
You can find a lot of second-hand bicycles in the
neighborhood of Delft.
…and there are
a lot more!
www.delftulip.ning.com
log in --> Forum --> Practical Matters --> look for
bikes discussions!
Or you can look on internet
Groups on
www.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 find17
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.
A new way of searching bikes
Storage
Buy to
students
Internet
Sell to
students
Use
43% of the students are already
interested in this system!!
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Real example
715 Intl.
Students
70% buy
bikes in
shops
60% would
use it
300
bikes
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Additional cost per bike
Reparations (40%)
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New bikes-increase on
Intl. Students (5%)
Old bikes replacement
(5%)
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5.5
Salaries
5.8
Storage
2.1
0
2
4
6
8
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Cost (€/bike)
Only ≈25€ addition per bike
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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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Advantages
Certainty of
selling the bike
at the end
Buying a bike
in good
conditions
You may pay only
25€ for it!!
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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
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Right gets priority
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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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