When we arrived at the Community Center on Thursday night, we didn’t know if anyone was going to show up. Jeffrey Watt, the Resident Services Coordinator, had put the word out that Ron Morse was going to give a class on bike maintenance – but we couldn’t be sure.
But as the night progressed, people started trickling in with bikes that had broken seats, flat tires, wobbly wheels and creeky cranks. But Ron got out his toolbox and, in short order, got each one of them pedalling around the complex with big smiles.
The coolest part was when Ron noticed that one of the kids had what appeared to be a dent in his rim. With a few turns of Ron’s spoke wrench, the wheel was true and the kid was back in business!
We all thank Ron for his time and energy!!! We’ll be doing this again in a few weeks, so stay tuned.
**PS A special thanks goes out to the people at Danny’s Cycles, who donated a couple of seat clamps to the kids!!
