Mondays, we're monday people.

The shop has closed for the winter, at least on fridays it has... remember a couple posts back how i said we were going to start a spontaneous bike program at Whittier park? well it has happened, and happened well.

 Youngsters ready?!

This is the group that was waiting for us to get started on the build destroy build of bikes. we teamed them up with some younger and older mentors, and we made bike happiness all over the park. There were banana seats, bells, whistles, a couple of pedals here and there and ofcourse tires and air.

Like real mechanics.

Like taking a bike to an auto place without spending money, these youngsters diagnosed the problem and went to work. but spending less on getting your bike fixxed means that youll have to accept the jungle gym breaks every 15 mins. gotta love these guys. they work hard at a young age and take quality playground breaks. I had so much fun hanging with my crew that day too. (respects to loudon and Tiago and christian to name a few).

This is a man's world?

This is not only a man's world when a few ladies showed up to not only participate; but mentor as well. Brenda is showing out little lady friend how to take apart breaks and steering. way to go team.

Sorry the photo is sideways. One can see bikes are no match for this club. I took a couple Fridays off due to weather and sickness but I, like all of the Ppleasant Avenue Bike Club, returned and this time it was to return my bike. :( i don't mean return it like for ever though. the club has a trade a bike policy. My bike was too small for me and when I came to visit they had a larger one. so I traded and it was so easy, now that i have some skills fixing them up under my belt my and the crew stripped my old bike and put the parts on the new one recycling things that could be used for someone else looking to salvage parts.

The club is doing amazing things since Ive been going. Today the bike club will be doing a mobile  fix up shop in Minneapolis at Whitter park. That's on 26th and Harriett for those in Minneapolis looking for something to get into. the fun starts at 4pm today so join us and get your bike fixed.

Here is some footage of us at work. the space the ambiance and the love all in one alley way ha ha. as you can see we have Young, and older, we have little ones and big ones we have bikes for all. so check us out in the alley of 27th and pleasant. Next Friday being the last day of the club will not stop the heart of the club. they will switch to Mondays at Whittier. Ill keep you posted as I become even more submerged into the biking community.

New Blogger alert

The Pleasant Avenue Alley Bike shop has a new blogger. Now with this new blogger, who goes by the name Timbo, we will have posts more often and a ton more to talk about. This past week at the bike shop, the crew showed me the ropes and gave me some one on one with some bikes. I must say, when I was younger I thought myself to be a bike-a-neer. I soon realized that I was well over due for a refresher course.
The crew took me under their pedals and we worked on everything from stripping a bike to dressing a bike up. We had tons of fun, fransisco brought flan and we heard about an adult spat down the street. None of which broke our focus. This is the first of the many new posts for the bike crew. soon to be added will be some pictures and video of things that we have been doing.