Give me your bikes.
Please give me your bikes.
I propose that if you give me your unused, unneeded, unwanted bikes I will be able to add more value to the community (and the whole universe, man!) than you could by selling it and spending the few-dollar yield on crap from amazon and BK.I will get a person riding an otherwise unridden bicycle.
I will refresh or rebuild your bicycle and sell or donate it to (based on the need of) a local person seeking a bicycle.
This allows more people in our community to ride a bike instead of drive or even take the bus. (the transport authority has a placard on some buses that says "cool the earth / ride the bus," which is such complete bunk I shall not bore you with an analysis.*
Please give me your bikes.
I propose that if you give me your unused, unneeded, unwanted bikes I will be able to add more value to the community (and the whole universe, man!) than you could by selling it and spending the few-dollar yield on crap from amazon and BK.I will get a person riding an otherwise unridden bicycle.
I will refresh or rebuild your bicycle and sell or donate it to (based on the need of) a local person seeking a bicycle.
This allows more people in our community to ride a bike instead of drive or even take the bus. (the transport authority has a placard on some buses that says "cool the earth / ride the bus," which is such complete bunk I shall not bore you with an analysis.*
I like finding old bikes in trash piles, but others bringing them to me is best. I remember particularly the couple of friends who have brought me bikes they saw on the side of the road and had the presence of mind to snatch up and bring to me.
My goal is to one day have a slow and steady output of restored bicycles. I would like to maintain this stream with volunteer (enslaved friends inclined to bikes and DIY) helpers.
The LOCAL BICYCLE DEALER started off as a local bicycle porch with a very small client roster. Sometimes it changed to a local bike basement, or bike garage or living room.
It is always a convivial** shop, smelling of lube and stale beer, or laundry drying rhythmically in the background. I have always been willing to work for beer and pizza, but naturally prefer cash and bicycle parts. Bring me a couple junkers and I can whip something up. You may always need replacement parts for any bicycle, and those can cost money. I can sell you those, and I can find the cheap recycled option. Or the top-o'-the-line-fuck-off-brilliant piece just released from DARPA, if you're looking for that.
stop on in if you need a flat changed, a wheel trued, a brake job, shifter job, lube job, or a meticulous detailing or complete rebuild.
stop on in just to chat.***
I like to find old bikes and bring them back to life. Or forge a new animal from several carcasses, as it were.
*which would be as follows: this is utter crap because, if the laws of thermodynamics still hold, and what we observe to be "global warming" is in fact caused in full or in part by, or under conditions created or enhanced by heat-trapping gasses such as carbon and methane, then riding the bus would only cause a smaller AMOUNT of warming than would employing another conveyance, such as a 1986 Monte Carlo. This is all well and good, but does not yield a net cooling effect. Less hotter is still hotter.
**con·viv·i·al
[kuh
n-viv-ee-uhl] –adjective
1.friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
2. fond of feasting, drinking, and merry company; jovial
3.of or befitting a feast; festive.
***Bring beer!
