uhhh yeah....
well, i found a place today that's going to become my new hangout.
It's a bike shop called the "bloomington bike project".
it's a non profit organization that takes in used, donated bikes.
they tear them apart, re-build them and sell them or if they are in too bad of shape they tear them down and save all the useable parts.
but here's the cool part...
if you volunteer to work there, they let you rummage though their stash of bike parts and take stuff for free!
you can even build your own bike out of their pile of parts (and they have a TON of parts.) you have to volunteer for 3 hours to be able to build a free bike to keep with their parts.
they also repair bikes for people and sell new and used bike parts.
if you volunteer, you can use the bike shop and all of the tools whenever you want to work on or build your own bikes.
all you have to do is commit to volunteering on a regular basis, and if you don't know anything about bikes, they'll teach you.
i'm going there tomorrow to sign up as a volunteer....I saw a couple of old schwinn cruiser frames in their parts stash, along with a couple of what looked to be, 70's muscle bikes.
check it out...
www.bloomingtonbikeproject.com
