The weather was not good at all. Based on the forecast, it would be a whole-day-drizzle weather. But that did not dampen our spirits one bit. There was no time for worry as we we had errands to run. After returning our cableTV box (yes, we ended our subscription), and buying 1 more flower pot (again!), we arrived at the bike store slightly before noon.
As usual Kent was in the store, this time, his colleague was not around, but there was another elderly man with him. CH's bike was ready, and again, we went for a test drive. Happy, we headed back to the store. We asked for racks to be fitted as well (My bike already had a rack, but I changed from black to aluminium), that will take an hour for both bikes to be ready. So we told them to take their time while we went for lunch.
Went to nearby eatery Geraldine's for lunch. What a great meal we had ! A short wait, and we got these:
The bike store with our CRV parked in front:
We headed back to the store, and had a chance to chat with the elderly man who turns out to be the president of this organization! We initially thought he was some volunteer coming to work at the store. He said the concept behind setting up this store is to take in all the bikes that people no longer want.
"When kids got a car, they think its no longer cool to have a bike." says the President.
So where do those bikes go ? They collect them, tune them up, and give it to other kids who needs a bike, on the condition the kids spend 10hours at their workshop to learn how to maintain their bikes. We think this is a cool concept, save wastage on Mother Earth, and money saving for the kids. I guess the store is serving good community service hur ?
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