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"All good things to those who wait..."

But there are some things that one should never wait upon - like making sure you have bike lights and a properly fitting helmet when riding a bike, or that the bike itself is safe to ride on (no, you should NOT wait until the back wheel is wobbly and the bike looks ready to spontaneously combust before having the bike checked). We hold bike events pretty regularly now (once per month), open to the public, so that you can bring in your bikes and have them regularly maintained (aka small tweaks!), of course, with the help of Bike Boom and our bike guru volunteers. So this past Friday, after postponing our event on Monday due to the rain, we ran our bike event.

[below] We welcome a new member of Bike Boom to our event, Ari! They are here to conduct bike safety checks - Bike Boom will fix what they can (in 5-7 minutes) to make your bikes safe and let you know if more extensive repairs need to be taken to a bike store. Visit Bike Boom in Davis Square! For those who are asking about where to get nice bikes, Bike Boom sells pretty nice refurbished bikes.

We were pretty thankful to have a bike-savvy volunteer show up, Rudy. Near the beginning and towards the end of our event, we started seeing cyclists coming in all at once, until we realized around 5:20 PM that we had to close the bike repair line. (*note: even when the repair line is closed, the bike pressure washer station remains open, as well as the bike-pump and oiling/lubing of the chain self-services). Thanks to Rudy for showing up and helping out, as well as contributing the idea of us getting a bike pressure washer to begin with. According to our survey results, next to free bike repairs, cyclists come in for the free bike pressure washing.