Boise Bike Project

Wednesday January 18th Don and Mary joined fellow Rotarian Jack Cafferty to volunteer at the Boise Bike Project located at 6th and Front St. in Boise. The Boise Bike Project is a not for profit organization that accepts donated bikes in every condition. The bikes are evaluated, sorted, and then processed. Bikes in better condition are repaired and made ready to be donated to refugees, underprivileged children, and the homeless. Damaged bikes are stripped down and the parts salvaged to be used for building bikes from frames and repairing the bikes with minor problems. In two hours we managed to repair three bikes and dismantle five others for salvage parts. If you have any interest in bicycles the Boise Bike Project is a great experience. I learned more about bikes in two hours than I had in the previous twenty years. Looking through the lines of restored bicycles was taking a step back in time. Their collection of bikes spans the history of the bike from the forties to the present. It was great fun working next to other volunteers learning, laughing, and lending a hand for a great cause.

 
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