Just found out about a pretty cool place when I was checking out an apartment to rent in Sydney. The guy showing me around the unit said he was leaving for Japan. I saw he had a bicycle and I’ve been wanting one, so I asked him what he was going to do with it when he left the next week. His explained how he had built the bike out of free parts at a place in Redfern/Newtown and he’d bring the bike back there for someone else to make use of.
So I’ve checked out the place online. It’s called the Bike Club and they call their project something like Cycle Re-Cycle Club. It is a place for people to drop off their old bicycles and where others can come if they perhaps cannot afford to buy a bike and would like to build their own from spare parts.
I think this is a very cool idea because it is in line with what I did for my Eagle Scout project. For those of you not familiar with an Eagle Scout Project, one of the requirements to earn Eagle Scout (the highest rank achievable in United States scouting) is to manage a service project totaling over 100 hours of work done by volunteers. This does not include the work you, as the Eagle Scout applicant, do.
For my project I organized the collection of used bicycles. Volunteers then fixed them up and we gave them to people in the community who could not afford to buy a bike.
Anyway, I hope to check out this place in Sydney and maybe build myself a bicycle… Maybe even a unicycle!
Speaking of unicycles, I’ve still been working on the project to unicycle 1000km in Israel. It’s been coming along and it looks like I will be joining with Save a Child’s Heart to fundraise for their organization.
For more about the Bike Club and Cycle Re-Cycle Click HERE.
