Bicycle collective brings health and happiness to everyone
The Bicycle Collective located at 2312 S. West Temple in Salt Lake City offers many programs to benefit youths and adults including workshops that teach how to repair and maintain bicycles, the Earn-A-Bike program and Trips for Kids.
Bicycling has several benefits for health, stress relief, personal finances and the environment.
“Most people, if they can take one ride a week,” says Jonathan Morrison, executive director for the Bicycle Collective, “they’ll be healthier and happier.”
Bicycles are inexpensive. The fuel that they require is the personal intake of calories that a rider would eat anyway.
Morrison says that riders are “improving a valley that has some serious air quality issues.”
Bicycles donated to the Bicycle Collective are either repaired and reused or recycled. Volunteers do about 90 percent of the repair work according to Morrison. Bike Mechanics do the final safety checks.
If a bicycle comes in that is not reparable, it may be reused for yard art, or it gets recycled.
If someone has a bicycle to donate, that person can bring it down to the collective. Having enough bicycles is “one demand that we can never keep up with,” says Morrison.
This article was originally published at examiner.com.
Bicycling has several benefits for health, stress relief, personal finances and the environment.
“Most people, if they can take one ride a week,” says Jonathan Morrison, executive director for the Bicycle Collective, “they’ll be healthier and happier.”
Bicycles are inexpensive. The fuel that they require is the personal intake of calories that a rider would eat anyway.
Morrison says that riders are “improving a valley that has some serious air quality issues.”
Bicycles donated to the Bicycle Collective are either repaired and reused or recycled. Volunteers do about 90 percent of the repair work according to Morrison. Bike Mechanics do the final safety checks.
If a bicycle comes in that is not reparable, it may be reused for yard art, or it gets recycled.
If someone has a bicycle to donate, that person can bring it down to the collective. Having enough bicycles is “one demand that we can never keep up with,” says Morrison.
This article was originally published at examiner.com.