September Mobile Shop success!

Communicycle offers it's services outside of the shop on a regular basis in what we call Mobile Shop. We collect all of our tools and many spare parts and set up an outdoor bike shop in a neighboring apartment complex for a Sunday afternoon. We announce the shop with fliers and community announcements about one week before the shop day. We were serving Mobile Shops every few months earlier this year, but from August until the end of the year, Mobile Shops will be held on a monthly basis until the end of the year, with plans to resume in the spring.

We held this month's Mobile Shop at Wynscape Apartments, about 1.5 mile from the shop. Over the course of four hours, we serviced twenty bicycles with the help of five mechanics and a half-dozen other volunteers. Many of the repairs were not mere flat tires, but major mechanical surgery: bottom bracket overhauls, derailleur resurrections, brake replacements, etc. Overall it was a great day. We met a lot of neighbors and potential "customers," served a lot of people, and had a fun time. The weather was hot but we had a perfect shade tree to cover us.

We are working on a time and place for next month's Mobile Shop on Sunday, October 10. Stay tuned!