OASIS BIKE WORKSHOP IN THE MEDIA:
Super Skate Posse Collaboration in Thrasher Magazine!
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We're about ANYTHING on wheels that provides joy! Check out this video about our collaboration with Super Skate Posse where we hosted a skateboard giveaway and lessons at Watkins Pump Track with pro skaters from all over the country. Featured in THRASHER magazine!
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Oasis Using Bicycles To Work With English Language Learners
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Oasis and LEAD Cameron public school created this unique partnership to help this English class learn how to rebuild bikes and learn new vocabulary through hands-on application! Read about it HERE!
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WPLN: This is Nashville, The Future of Cycling in Nashville
Featured on WPLN's daily show, This is Nashville, September 2022.
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The Nike Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG 'Rebellionaire' X Oasis Bike Workshop
Featured on the ROOTED blog, March 2022, in promotion of the new Air Jordan 'Rebellionaire'
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NPR: A Novel Bike Track In A Historic North Nashville Park Is Meant to Inspire A New Generation Of Riders
Featured on WPLN (Nashville NPR), March 2021
There’s a new — and unique — bike track in town. The Watkins Park Pump Track is located in a historic North Nashville greenspace, and it’s part of an ongoing effort to inspire kids through biking.
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There’s a new — and unique — bike track in town. The Watkins Park Pump Track is located in a historic North Nashville greenspace, and it’s part of an ongoing effort to inspire kids through biking.
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Walk Bike Nashville 2021 & 2023 Streets for People Award Winner
The Oasis Bike Workshop was named the 2021 Organization of the Year for our work to make the Nashville community more bike friendly and increase ridership among Nashville youth.
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NPR: The ‘Bad News Bears’ Of Tennessee Mountain Bike Racing Get Serious In Second Season
Featured on NPR's "All Things Considered", January 2017
WINNER of the 2018 Edward R. Murrow National Broadcasting Award for Feature Reporting
It’s late in the afternoon and a group of teenage boys pedals hard down the abandoned runway of Nashville's old Cornelia Fort airport. They’re taking a break from the trails to work on sprints and stamina — and mock each other with shouts of "Dude, you're so slow!"
They’re still a little green and undisciplined. Their coach, Dan Furbish, lovingly calls them the "Bad News Bears." But a year of practice has turned rookies into racers. (Click here to read the rest of the story)
WINNER of the 2018 Edward R. Murrow National Broadcasting Award for Feature Reporting
It’s late in the afternoon and a group of teenage boys pedals hard down the abandoned runway of Nashville's old Cornelia Fort airport. They’re taking a break from the trails to work on sprints and stamina — and mock each other with shouts of "Dude, you're so slow!"
They’re still a little green and undisciplined. Their coach, Dan Furbish, lovingly calls them the "Bad News Bears." But a year of practice has turned rookies into racers. (Click here to read the rest of the story)
REI CO-OP Journal: For These Nashville Teens Singletrack Is The Common Language
The story of how a community bike workshop spawned an unlikely mountain bike team. Featured in the REI Co-op Journal in 2017 (Click here to read the story!)
CNN: Used Bikes Change Lives
When Daniel Furbish started a bike workshop at a community center in Nashville, he didn't know that much about building or fixing bikes.
He did, however, know what an important tool a bike can be for a kid with little or no other means of transportation.
We met him to see how this little experiment turned into a full-time program that has helped hundreds.
He did, however, know what an important tool a bike can be for a kid with little or no other means of transportation.
We met him to see how this little experiment turned into a full-time program that has helped hundreds.
NPR: A Lesson In Sprockets
"It makes me feel good. Makes me feel different than a lot of other kids that have bikes because they just went out and bought one," he says. "Or some people even steal bikes or whatever. And I ... made my own bike from scratch." Lamarkus, a 9th grade Bike Workshop participant.
Published March, 2012 on NPR
Published March, 2012 on NPR
News Channel 5: Middle School Students Get To Build Their Own Bike
It's one thing to hear about how something works, it's another to do it yourself with your own hands. A dozen seventh graders are taking used, donated bicycles and giving them new life. (Click here to see the story)
Nashville Teens Mapped Their Daily Routes—And Got a New Bike Lane as a Result
“When you get dropped off of the school bus, you’re pretty much confined to your neighborhood,” says Dan Furbish, who runs Oasis Bike Workshop, which provides students with bicycles and mentoring. He finds that many kids have not visited parks just 2 miles from their homes.
To make the case for better neighborhood mobility, Furbish’s class of middle and high school students mapped their movements around North Nashville, (Click here to read the rest of the story)
To make the case for better neighborhood mobility, Furbish’s class of middle and high school students mapped their movements around North Nashville, (Click here to read the rest of the story)
Oasis Bike Camp on PBS
Featured on PBS's "Live Green Tennessee", September 2017
When school's out for summer, teens can keep rolling at the Oasis Bike Camp. Summer 2017 found us working with non-U.S. born teens from South Nashville. Check out the story at the 2:35 minute mark on PBS (WCTE-TV)!
When school's out for summer, teens can keep rolling at the Oasis Bike Camp. Summer 2017 found us working with non-U.S. born teens from South Nashville. Check out the story at the 2:35 minute mark on PBS (WCTE-TV)!
Bike Shop Love (People For Bikes)
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When it comes to bike shops, there’s nothing quite like the feeling of finding "the one."
In shops across the country, from one-person wrenching operations to echoing chambers of wheeled wish lists, people are passing along their love of bicycling. Here are four stories of bike shops going above and beyond to spread that love. Read more here: Bike Shop Love
In shops across the country, from one-person wrenching operations to echoing chambers of wheeled wish lists, people are passing along their love of bicycling. Here are four stories of bike shops going above and beyond to spread that love. Read more here: Bike Shop Love
Beautiful Solutions Magazine: Youth counter-mapping their their neighborhoods on bicycles
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The Workshop partnered with researchers at Vanderbilt University to support young people in mapping the mobility desert with mobile and location aware technologies. Read more here: Beautiful Solutions
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Interview on WXNA FM
Founder and Manager, Dan Furbish, discusses the program with interviewer, Laurel Creech, on All About Nashville (12/14/18)
Short Film: The Cycle of Life
In 2012, the Oasis Bike Workshop partnered with the R.E.A.L. Program in an unique collaborative. Together, Ron Johnson and Dan Furbish set out to help youth entangled in the juvenile justice system find powerful connections between rebuilding their lives, and rebuilding bicycles. The end result was a pivotal, life altering experience for all the workshop participants.
Videography and editing by Watkins College of Art & Design student Kevin Scott Page, with spoken word by Sean Smith
Videography and editing by Watkins College of Art & Design student Kevin Scott Page, with spoken word by Sean Smith
News Channel 5: Oasis Center Bike Workshop Helps At-Risk Teens
The spin of a wheel and the clank of a chain are typical sounds at a bike shop. But to a group of teens, they are the sounds of freedom.
Published February, 2012 on News Channel 5, Nashville TN
Published February, 2012 on News Channel 5, Nashville TN
How the Oasis Bike Workshop is Transforming the Transportation Culture
Building a new generation of biking enthusiasts that reinforce Nashville's commitment to being a "Walk Bike Friendly" city!
Published January, 2012 by NashVitality
Published January, 2012 by NashVitality
Short Documentary: How the Oasis Bike Workshop Started
Dan Furbish talks about the challenges of the youth who don't have access to transportation, how he's teaching a skill, fostering healthy activity, and creating a revolution of change.