Sopo is all about helping each other fix bikes; not so much about giving away bikes

It's time to get back to basics at the Sopo shop (queue dream sequence): it was a cold night in 2004 when a bunch of folks got together to figure out how to share some bike repair tools and help each other use them.  We dreamed up a mission that was all about making bike repair affordable.  And then we made a program to help us achieve that mission, which we still enjoy today.  It's the Sopo shop, of course.  Bike distribution was never in the plan, but we've been happy to take bike donations from you and make them available to the bikeless for a suggested donation.  Now we're at capacity in the shop and we've got to cut back on the things that aren't in the mission.  So if you need a bike, you'll have to look elsewhere for the moment.  If you'd like to donate a bike, we'll only accept complete ones, and we'll make them available at a later date.  Other bikes can be taken to Taskforce for the Homeless where we helped develop a bike shop called Shift.  If anyone out there wants to dream up a bike distribution program like Decatur Yellow Bike's "Adopt-A-Bike" program, do it!  Atlanta needs it!

Posted by rachael On: Wednesday July, 2009 12:41

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