This evening we had our first bike sale since Christmas, a woman buying a good bike for her husband on his 50th birthday tomorrow. He bought her a bike for her last birthday and she's looking forward to going out riding together. Hope he likes it, it was a beautiful bright red GT mountain bike - sweet ride! Several other customers were in today and may be buying bike(s) tomorrow. We'd stockpiled about a half dozen bikes to prepare for a busy Summer, but at the rate things are going we'll need a lot more donations to keep up. If you have good bikes at home that aren't being put to good use please consider donating them to us - it's fun, empowering and tax-deductible.
Tonite we received notice that Bikes for the World will be doing their annual collection and pick up in Cumberland, MD in association with the Cumberland Rotary Club. They've asked us to bring out our excess bikes to help provide basic transportation in developing countries, as we've done for the past few years.
During ship time tonite Pete (from Waynesburg) got our next pedal generator going, this is the one with the professionally-machined roller. It works like a champ! Thanks Pete. The generator will be going to a paying customer as soon as I can get him on the phone.
As I was closing shop tonite a young gentleman named John came in to volunteer. He's enrolled at WVU for Summer but has lots of time to help out until then and a passion for working on bikes. He's new in town having moved here from LA, if you see him he may ask for help finding work or moving furniture - help him out if you can. We want to keep this guy around, he shares our passion for pedalled transportation. In LA he volunteered at Bike Wave, another community bike shop.
Have a great nite!
Nick
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