BICAS

A favorite pastime of some of the guys at work is to stop bicyclists that have no lights on them. According to state law, a rider must have a light when they are riding after sunset. Many of them that do not have lights are also the guys that don't have driver's licenses and might also have a wad of crystal methamphetamines in a plastic bag in their sock.

Some of these guys might have gotten their bikes from BICAS.

BICAS (Bicycle Inter-Community Action & Salvage) is a non-profit that helps people with their need for bikes. As you walk into the dungeony sort of underground warehouse they are housed in, your vision is assailed with the sight of numerous people working on broken bikes, homeless guys wandering around with a myriad of bike parts and rows of forlorn looking bikes in bicycle "purgatory" awaiting a new home.

Ethan and I took some of our old bikes and parts that were cluttering up our yard and braved the landscape at BICAS. It is always a great feeling to get rid of some stuff you no longer use that is cluttering up your yard, hang out with the kid and help some poor homeless guy at the same time. They were especially impressed with the scooter, complete with pegs for freestyle tricks. And here I wondered if they would even take it.

So, if you need a refurbished bike, or have some old ones crowding your life...think about BICAS. Oh, but don't go on Sunday afternoon unless you are a woman or transgender. It is Women and Transgender Only Day. And from the sound of that, I wouldn't take the kids on Sundays either.