| Topic: | Re:Re:Repair Cafe, St Mary's, 9th July 10am - 12pm - sewing and fixing bikes in particular that day | |
| Posted by: | David Ainsworth | |
| Date/Time: | 11/07/22 13:25:00 |
| Here's a good story of a bike fixer:- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/04/people-making-a-difference-pushbike-paul-the-man-whos-restored-thousands-of-bikes-to-fund-a-hospice "His first bicycle was a secondhand Raleigh that his parents bought from a neighbour. “It weighed a ton and had rod brakes,” says Wilcox. “It was so heavy. You almost had to push it up hills.” He’d cycle it to and from school, a mile each way. If anything went wrong, Wilcox repaired it himself. “I always enjoyed fiddling with it,” he says. “Us kids were always fixing bikes for other people.” To this day, he enjoys a challenge. “If something is broken, I want to repair it, not buy a new one. Today everything is just throwaway – no one ever wants to repair anything. If a car breaks down you fit a new part. Whereas we’d always take things to pieces, and repair them.”" Top bloke. And he does like cars too. And lycra is not mentioned either. Nor traffic lights. |