Originally Posted by
3alarmer
...this is why we worked so hard to get the bike co-op here on a solid, sustainable foundation. But you never know about the material plane. These are all things of the dust, really, and it's unrealistic to expect they will continue to be valuable to the people we leave behind. Anyway, that's where I'm at on it right now...working on losing "attachment".
There is an alleged bicycle coop in my town but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It is run by a Christian church so it seems biased in that way to me. And I don't see them giving any bikes away that people donate to them, they ask money for the bikes, and they ask people to go there and donate their time to work on the bikes. Some of the people working there end up with any high-end bikes that are donated. My personal program is if I run across any old bikes for free, I fix them up myself and give them to the first person I run into that wants a bike no strings attached.