Good evening,
This weekend a lot was accomplished with only a few people. We've re-arranged bikes so that all of the finished bikes are in the kitchen where they can be picked up easily, now that they will be going out for delivery soon. After fixing up some bikes and finding a few that (magically) don't need any work we're up to about 35 bikes that are ready to go (or nearly so). The star volunteer for Saturday was Joe Salomon, a co-worker of mine from Fairmont. Joe came early and stayed late cleaning/fixing bikes, moving stuff around and providing good company. Mid-afternoon I went down to Wamsley Cycles for a few minor parts and brought back Chip for a tour of the shop. We also discussed logistics for delivery of bikes to Christian Help. He's got a few bikes he's fixing and I've encouraged him to use our space for storage as he needs it. That's the least we can do for all the encouragment and material support he's given us.
It looks like the date for pickup of the Christian Help bikes will be Dec. 12. We will take the best looking bikes to their event since all the other toys are new-in-box. We have plenty of other places to take the rest of the bikes - the ones that are functional but less cosmetic - as mentioned in the earlier message.
On Sunday I worked by myself and got a few more bikes to add to the pile. I separated out the easy-to-fix bikes from the ones that will be more difficult. There will definitely be some bikes out of the original 75 that won't be fixed up this Christmas. We'll be making a decision on what to do with them, possibly get together with another shop to make an overseas shipment. Also, I'm starting to save the better adult MTBs for donation to school bike clubs.
I'll be scheduling more Christmas donation workshops for next weekend, and the weekend after, see the website for times.
Check out this website - a recent attempt on the 24 hr human-powered distance record
http://www.adventuresofgreg.com/HPVlog/12-02-05.html
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