Happy New Year! Since my last email, we hosted our annual Kid’s Bike Giveaway. It was terrible weather with a steady cold rain, but we still gave away 70+ bikes in about 20 minutes. There was supposed news coverage with WCIA but I wasn’t able to track down the actual footage. Not an hour after we’d given away all the bikes, someone showed up with a couple kids bike donations. Already started on next year!

The semester started last week, and we were surprisingly busy—even on Friday when it was a snowy mess out there, which meant it was a melting snowy mess in our workshop, too. A good problem to have.

We’ll see how we fare this week with the freezing rain.

The numbers:

Visitors: 21
Sales: $283
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $170
Memberships: 1 for $30
Tube/tire: 1 for $4

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center