Friday's are fun...
11-06-09, 05:07 AM
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Friday's are fun...
During the summer, bike hunting day is usually Saturday or better thought of by me as Yard Sale Day. However, that changes in the winter.
Fridays become bike hunting day because I schedule my Bicycles for Humanity pick-ups for that day, if at all possible. Last week saw me fill my Ford Ranger three times for a total of 22 bicycles scored in a six hour period of time(it takes at least two hours to pick-up donated bikes, transport a load to the B4H Workshop and then carry them all downstairs where they will be prepared for shipment to Africa).
Well, today is Friday. I have to pick up two "mint" Ten Speeds(doner's words, not mine) at one house and another dozen or so bikes of all genres at another. Who knows what those pick-ups will reveal?
Two months ago, a 1971 Masin Gran Criterium(see the "Am I Italian" thread) and last week a Raleigh Twenty, a French Vanquier, an ancient BMX, a really old kids bike and a bunch of mountain bikes and three speed roadsters.
I should add that any volunteer can request a bicycle for him or her self, through the B4H Earn a Bike program, by volunteering their time to the B4H endeavor. Ten or so hours earns one a bicycle of their choice if there is one they want. I volunteer about twenty hours a week and probably $100 bucks in gasoline a month during busy times. And it is busy right now...
Tonight we are hosting a B4H Charity Shag with hopes of earning enough money to top off our next shipment to Africa. The grand prize at the Shag is a big screen hang on the wall TV. I will be volunteering my time to that event this evening, bringing this weeks total hours to close to thirty.
Anyway, if anything interesting shows up, I will share with you folks. Here is a picture of the really old kids bike which will soon be hanging in our shop window. My grandson wants the old BMX pictured behind him and he has already invested three hours to earn it. Of course, he will have to rebuild it once earned - that's the way it works for most people who earn a bike. Seems that working on their own bike enhances the experience.
Fridays become bike hunting day because I schedule my Bicycles for Humanity pick-ups for that day, if at all possible. Last week saw me fill my Ford Ranger three times for a total of 22 bicycles scored in a six hour period of time(it takes at least two hours to pick-up donated bikes, transport a load to the B4H Workshop and then carry them all downstairs where they will be prepared for shipment to Africa).
Well, today is Friday. I have to pick up two "mint" Ten Speeds(doner's words, not mine) at one house and another dozen or so bikes of all genres at another. Who knows what those pick-ups will reveal?
Two months ago, a 1971 Masin Gran Criterium(see the "Am I Italian" thread) and last week a Raleigh Twenty, a French Vanquier, an ancient BMX, a really old kids bike and a bunch of mountain bikes and three speed roadsters.
I should add that any volunteer can request a bicycle for him or her self, through the B4H Earn a Bike program, by volunteering their time to the B4H endeavor. Ten or so hours earns one a bicycle of their choice if there is one they want. I volunteer about twenty hours a week and probably $100 bucks in gasoline a month during busy times. And it is busy right now...
Tonight we are hosting a B4H Charity Shag with hopes of earning enough money to top off our next shipment to Africa. The grand prize at the Shag is a big screen hang on the wall TV. I will be volunteering my time to that event this evening, bringing this weeks total hours to close to thirty.
Anyway, if anything interesting shows up, I will share with you folks. Here is a picture of the really old kids bike which will soon be hanging in our shop window. My grandson wants the old BMX pictured behind him and he has already invested three hours to earn it. Of course, he will have to rebuild it once earned - that's the way it works for most people who earn a bike. Seems that working on their own bike enhances the experience.
11-06-09, 08:21 AM
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