bike fixing yeah

Hooray, we now have 12,5 working bikes. After three weekly bike-repairing days we finally got all bikes working minus two. As it was the third Thursday today that we were fixing bikes (this time it was Shaun and me) outside of the house, we had more people stopping over to ask if we could help them with their bikes. So we helped two neighboors with their bikes, and we even had a lady stopping to ask if we could repair some of her bikes for some small cash.

the working bikes we currently have are:

  • Miss Brown II (aka Sadam)
  • Superbe
  • Mirtilla
  • Rene/Laura bike (needs a new name:aka Black Bitch)
  • Victor (finally the chain is working
  • Mama (gears are working)
  • Anarcho (Anu, you want it back?)
  • Isolator
  • Junkie (finally!)
  • Gypsy
  • Wobalina
  • My Bike
  • Miss Brown I (1/2) (you can ride her but only with one pedal)
  • There are only two more bikes that need to be fixed, Racing and Golden bike (which is parked in Weesp, in front of the library). And the Germ is also Missing in Action at the moment.

    Comments

    pgalaxy's picture

    Zen and the art of bike repair mobile workshop

    It sounds like you have found a job, Robino

    (i know, i dont like the word JOB either, nor WORK, but for you bike is an art, a passion, right?)

    so, have you considered setting up a mobile repair shop for bikes? ten, twenty euros a fix, and you ll be riding your bike to the customer etc
    you could be in business in no time, just print some cards and stick them around in cafes etc, pack your bag of tools et voila

    all these good people who travel and need to pick up a bit of cash could help too, when you are busy, so tie in a small mobile earning opportunity too

    this guy is coming to help me stabilise my new self assembled bike
    http://glasgow.gumtree.com/glasgow/84/38470484.html

    as discussing with ANU,when people travel to casarobinos everywhere in the world, it would be nice if they could get their hands busy on local activities and occasional money earning... this could be an example

    in fact, when i come next time, I would be greateful if you could teach me how to maintain a bike, so that you could also be running your workshops to teach others soon.... eh..... come to casa robino and pick up a new skill.... the art of bike repair.....

    narnua's picture

    Really???

    Anarcho aka Risto (ask flatmate-Tanja!) is okay? Woohoo! How??? Dank je wel

    Casa can host him but when/if I have guests here or there they should be able to borrow him (and keep the lock with the bike so I can steal it with my key if I need it ;)

    rene's picture

    Rene/laura bike official name

    Rene/laura bike official name is black lady aka black bitch. And what about the orange name, what is his name. Aldo Robin you should have in your cameras pictures of the bikes taken by me and Davide which need to be uploaded.

    shaun-treehuggingfool's picture

    lets use em

    now that we have so many working bikes we need to arrange a cycle trip to the beach with everyone!

    sitarane's picture

    Yai!

    I'm a bit jealous of all this mechanical action happening without me...

    (Saddam writes with 2 "d")