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J.C. Agudelo '03 combats bicycle neglect. "It's a problem that perpetuates itself," he admonishes. (Staff photos Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office)
HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Quad Bikes opens to repair, rehabilitate:
Independent campus bike shop puts the 'cycle' into 'recycle'
By Beth Potier
Harvard News Office
For this cyclist, the daily commute had become a grind. And a pop, a squeak, a scrape, and a sort of ching-ching-ching between gears.
After a summertime of abuse from the mean streets of Cambridge and Boston, my geriatric but reliable bike deserved some TLC in the hands of a real bicycle mechanic, one whose tool kit went beyond duct tape and twine.
Such service is now more convenient than ever: Quad Bikes, Harvard's student-run, not-for-profit bicycle shop, opened earlier this month in the basement of Cabot House. Judging from the tangle of bicycles that greeted my ailing mount and I when we pedaled in, business is booming.
The Phillips Brooks House Association will hold its bike auction on Saturday (Oct. 4). The auction takes place at PBH, Harvard Yard. Viewing begins at 10 a.m., auction at noon. For information, call (617) 495-5526.
For more information on Quad Bikes, including hours of operation and a schedule for repair clinics, visit the shop's Web site:
www.quadbikes.org or e-mail
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