- Rose Brennan
About that free pizza at Via Tribunali in Georgetown tonight: All $3 Peroni proceeds go to a fantastic nonprofit called Bike Works. You may have seen its little house in Columbia City that’s actually a full-service repair shop and also sells refurbished adult and kids bikes. Bike Works also runs killer youth programs, like Earn-a-Bike, where kids learn how to fix bikes while clocking hours to earn their very own ride, and Street Burners, a youth-driven bike club where the kids do whatever they hell they want (namely: bike polo, taco-bus time trials, BMXing, building bike choppers and bicycle-powered blenders). Plus! The staff at Bike Works are the original pros at youth bike touring—every summer they take 10- to 17-year-olds on bike-touring camps all over Washington while discussing social justice and environmental issues.
So what are you waiting for? Get down to Georgetown and start drinking (5:00 to 7:00 p.m.)! It’s for the kids.
And if you have younglings in your life, check out Bike Works’ summer camps!
But … if people bike, who will pay for all the unnecessary highways?
I was riding my Trek 7000 today which I’ve had for years, and its so good, so practical and sturdy. Not a fast bike, but a good one for getting around my ‘burb. It only cost $220 when I bought it, I think its $330 now. Yet, as I ride around, kids stare at it and ask me where I got that “cool bike”.
Man, I think. This should be the minimum that every kid gets…a standard issue Trek 7000. Not a $5000 “road bike” with titanium spokes ridden by some whippet like software engineer, or a rust bucket screws falling apart K-mart bike, but a well built, serviceable Trek.