Great bike give-away
Oct. 8th, 2008 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adaezeOur local branch of Sustrans, on whose name be many, many blessings, run a scheme to lend reconditioned old bikes to people who couldn't otherwise afford even that much mobility. And they offered us a few to lend to impecunious students.
Several months' worth of hassles followed, mostly due to lack of anywhere at all to store said bikes until the students all arrived and we were ready to start searching for Worthy Recipients.
But we ended up with
6 mens' bikes
4 womens' bikes
6 men applying for a bike and
4 women applying.
Neat or what?
Then today we've been issuing them, and I've been feeling rather as though it's Christmas. The looks on their little faces as they come to pick them up!
Several months' worth of hassles followed, mostly due to lack of anywhere at all to store said bikes until the students all arrived and we were ready to start searching for Worthy Recipients.
But we ended up with
6 mens' bikes
4 womens' bikes
6 men applying for a bike and
4 women applying.
Neat or what?
Then today we've been issuing them, and I've been feeling rather as though it's Christmas. The looks on their little faces as they come to pick them up!
