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2CB

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I want everyone to have a bike so I "rehome" bikes from donors to give to people who can't afford one.
Some I do a major overhaul; some just need air and maybe adjust brakes a bit. All get delivered in good mechanical condition, cleaned up, lubed. See my website linked below for more info. Avatar is cartoon kid on bike. Header is my truck with 4 donated bikes loaded on rear bike rack.
#BikeTooter #BikeRepair #Bikes
#Refugees #Homeless
#SecondChanceBikes

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Just dropped those two bikes at World Relief this morning. Got a call just now from a social worker at an agency I am not familiar with. He has a client who needs a bike. He got my card from someone who kept it after meeting me sometime in the past, working somewhere else. Client is 5'11. That green one would have been perfect. Ah well, another will turn up. I do have some large frame roadies.

2CB,
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Here it is hybridized. VERY nice ride. Shifts smoothly & quietly. Range of the 10 speeds is fine. Low is low enough; high is high enough. Center pull brakes are great, easier to adjust than the cantilevers. I made them hair trigger. Just think about stopping and it does. The aftermarket luggage rack has "Switzerland" embossed. Bike may have come from Europe. 50 years have not hurt it a bit. Now it will help someone who needs it, is trying to get their life on track.

Front view, closeup of replacement handlebar, twist shifters, brake levers, replacement cable sheaths.
Side view. Light blue bike.

2CB,
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I have a donated 1970's era Fuji Dynamic 10 I have had for years, intending to make into a hybrid. I had gone so far as to remove the downtube-mounted shift levers and replace the handlebar with a straight bar with brake levers. So today I put on shifters, replaced brake cables, hooked up all but front brake. Tomorrow i'll make a cable sheath and finish brake, test ride, add to the 8 I have ready to deliver Tuesday.
The one I have is the ladies' model at left, same color.

2CB,
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And here it is with its new owner. He took it for a spin around the parking lot. Looked comfortable, said it was great, gave it a big thumbs up. Thanked me, shook hands a second time. I said good luck and left.
I know it is a rehab agency so I assume he is working on kicking a habit and moving on. Counselor felt a bike would help; so did he. I had the pleasure of being able to (i hope) play a part in that effort.

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🧵1)
I picked up two pretty grungy bikes donated to Repeat Boutique several weeks ago. They are good sturdy machines that can provide transportation to someone who shops there for free clothing, household goods, etc. But not in the shape they were in. Both are mountain hybrids with handlebar extensions and rat trap pedals. Lots of mud, 4 flat tires, 1 chain jammed, 4 nonfunctional combo shifter- brake levers, no kickstands. Ugh. So Friday I ⤵️

#Bikes
#Refugees
#Homeless

2CB,
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Some pedals are sold with adapters so they can wotk with either 1/2 inch or 9/16 inch crank holes. If anyone knows where to get those adapters searately, please tell me.

2CB, to BikeRepair
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I have seen plenty of blown out inner tubes but this is the prize winner!
#bicycles
#BikeRepair

2CB, to random
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I am going to be one of the "maintenance experts" at an annual bike clinic this Saturday. In years past several attendees have donated bikes and/or cash The sponsoring church passes all that to me,. I hope to get an ideal bike for my newest surrogate granddaughter. She is a sweet kid, amazingly upbeat given the circumstances. I have one for her brother. The cash may allow me to buy some parts for a couple of otherwise high quality bikes. I will have to scrap them if not.

2CB,
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Got an email that the clinic sponsor had forgotten to tell me these three were donated for me. I'll pick them up.

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🧵 1) Last Saturday I went in my truck to carry luggage with a Bumese refugee friend to meet his friend's family at the Chicago airport. They were arriving as refugees after a long (16 yrs plus) wait in Malaysia and then a 3-day delay at Dubai airport, shut down for crazy weather. Arrived at last, but luggage AWOL. That would be the family's complete stock of worldly possessions. I did what I could to file luggage claim, took one of the kids who speaks ⤵️

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Something a lot of white folk don't realize happens to Black people a lot:

When there is a competition between a Black person and a white person for a coveted prize, if the white person wins, they're celebrated. If the Black person wins... they're asked to share the prize with the white person that came in second place.😮

This happens to Black women more often than Black men.

Literary awards (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/15/bernardine-evaristo-margaret-atwood-share-booker-prize-award)

Whitehouse invitation for championship teams:
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/04/1167965013/iowa-lsu-jill-biden-ncaa-basketball-championship

2CB,
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@mekkaokereke
Angel is gonna be SOOO welcome here in Chicago! And Clark will be just down the road in Indiana, so they will go head to head a bunch.

2CB,
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@mekkaokereke
Terrible move on Jill's part. The worst part of it, to me, is I don't believe it was a conscious thought about color. Jill should be looking at herself and going holy crap! Did I really do that? As should all white folks who believe they don't have built-in racism. I have second- guessed myself many times thinking "crap! I know how that must have looked and I did not mean it that way at all - or did I?"

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Yesterday I put new shifters and 4 new cables on a Mongoose bike. Today I'll finish it up and get started on one of the big road bike conversions. I have 4 of those to do. Need to buy some handgrips; I think I have everything else. Serious yard work coming soon; i hope to get those 4 done and delivered first.
#bicycles #refugees

2CB,
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I waited for the handgrips. I put grips on first, then position shifter & brskr lever snugly against. So i deferred connecting & tuning the derailleurs. Did people's taxes all day yesterday. Today the shifters arrived & i got back to the Mongoose. Got all cables hooked up, was adjusting rear brake, found s broken spoke. No, 2 broken. No, 3! So i took wheel off, removed cassette, replaced spokes, trued wheel on my newish toy, put it on, added my label.
Some kid is getting a Mongoose!

2CB, to cycling
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Metra is the Chicago area commuter rail system.

https://metra.com/newsroom/metra-allows-bikes-all-trains?fbclid=IwAR1BnYWwErmqwLNxvR5AxQk0gq7FtYpplNrbP72tQP_mPXNiK9KGDj8ZQcs

#bicycle #commute

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🧵 Why I Do This

  1. Today my phone rang just as I was taking @OldeEnglishKaz out to the back yard to pee. Phone said it was a verified number, but it was not one I recognized. I almost did not answer, figuring if it was real they could leave a message.But Kaz was taking her time, so I answered. Guy asked if I still accepted bikes to give people. I said "Yes, with qualifications; what kind of bike do you have?"
    He said "My name's Jeff; you ⤵️
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🧵60 Years of Bikes

  1. in six years of accepting bike donations I have received a wide variety. Some are beyond reasonable repair and become "organ donors," with the frames going to a metal recycler. Some are in near perfect condition, getting a checkup, tuneup, air and lube and going promptly to someone in need. Some are very recent vintage models still available at big box stores but with damage someone (more)⤵️
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🧵BIKES FOR SHOPPING
1/n: I am going to be homebound for the next ten days. No problem, just need to keep our rescue pup company while "mom" is away. I plan to spend a LOT of time in the 2CB workshop (my garage) working on the bikes I have gathered up over the past few days. I have several older model road bikes with shift levers on the head tube or down tube. I have several salvaged straight handlebars with shifters and
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🧵
https://urbanists.social/@2CB/110891621502264174
Update:
Yesterday I assembled a new youth-sized Huffy donated to World Relief still in the box. Box was damaged, probably Huffy sent a replacement and said donate the other. They are not equipped to handle returns. I've gotten quite a few from them and Schwinn that way. Factory partial assembly was a mess. Remaining assembly was easy; then recabling, tuning brakes and shifting, straightening wheel took as long as a battered used bike. How many individuals ⤵️

2CB, to MountainBiking
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Anybody want to help get this in some little kid's hands Tuesday? It is it great shape except tires are shot. I have training wheels and a replacement seat previously donated. I added this set of two tires and tubes to the wish list. I have six other larger kids bikes to fix and probably have most needed parts.

Amazon posting for the needed tires and tubes added to wishlist

2CB, to random
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Attached article in Propublica illustrates once again how backward the US is with respect to ROW in almost every facet of life, due to the stranglehold big business has on our supposed policymakers, implementers, and enforcers. See following anecdote.

https://www.propublica.org/article/dot-rejected-truck-side-guards-trucking-lobbyists-safety

mekkaokereke, to random
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🤔How can people just ignore material science, and call it "experimental?" Like using carbon fiber for a submarine (Ocean gate), or not having a heat and noise suppression system for a rocket launch pad (SpaceX)?

I see this as different than building a spaceship without a heat shield (Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic). Because Scaled Composites had a (correct!) theory that didn't require ignoring the properties of the materials.

https://youtu.be/dU9TTRfM_9Q

2CB,
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@mekkaokereke
"How can people just ignore material science, and call it "experimental?""

It's people ignorant of basic scientific principles in positions of decision-making. Consider all the people saying "I do my own research" rather than accept scientific advice, who then read some conspiracy theory on the net, think they are smart, did "research."
Some with the same blindness get to be CEOs or senior execs who dictate rejecting science they don't like.

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I got a call yesterday from the first person from the homeless shelter I gave a bike to,~5 years ago. He has a job, has leased a small apartment. The bike I gave him is in disrepair; the bus he takes to work does not run on weekends. Wanted to know if I might have another.

2CB, to random
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@yurnidiot is that in the movie? I don't remember it and i've seen that flick at least a half dozen times

2CB, (edited ) to random
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I started Second Chance Bikes in 2017. I had been repairing bikes donated to two charities at which I volunteered, needed funding to keep it up or expand. So I picked a name launched a website, and announced it on the bird site, which brought both in-kind and cash donations, and on Nextdoor, which brought donations of bikes. I've supplied about 400 refurbished bikes to unsheltered people and low income housed folks, mostly refugees, both adult and child. See Secondchancebikes.org. for more.

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