Bikes For Humanity

Tuesday, May 16th   Today I went back and worked at Working Bikes. So i was going to to just work on bikes, but instead we worked on a shipment out to Africa. I worked on collecting stuff from this list. Shown Below. So I worked on collecting lots of these parts. I had to work fast, but I wasn’t super familiar with the whole layout. I collected pedals, chains, cranks, derailleurs, front derailleurs, forks, seats and seat posts. There were more things on that list, but I could get through everything.  Kareem was from Sierra Leon which is a town or village in Africa. He came there to check on how the shipment was coming along.  Hours; 7 Total hours: 47

 Monday May 15th, 2023 Today I came to the office with Mr. Haney and worked on my senior project. I gathered the emails I sent out and printed them and got a binder to put them in. I also started preparing and getting organized for the express night. I used Onenote to organize everything into different folders and pages. For the last week of senior project, I have a couple things I want o accomplish other than finishing the project. My first thing is that I will be going to work at the organization on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I think. This will be experience for me and I will know how to fix bikes and be able to mostly do it by myself. My next thing is  cleaning up all the blogs i have worked on in the first and last week of the project. Then donating the bikes to the organization and maybe doing the ride that have set up.  Hours: 7 Total hours: 40

 The first week of senior project was fun and also hard work. To recap the week, I collected bikes from properties, put the bikes into one big bike room, and went to the organization and worked on some bikes. Now for the next week I will obviously be going back to work at the organization for more days, then the donation happens and I am pretty sure there is a ride I might be doing. Working at the organization was interesting, every Tuesday through Friday from 11-5 there are spots to volunteer and work on bikes for donation. Working Bikes mission is to give out bikes to peopel in need of them. So mountain bikes will mostly go to Africa and some to South America and the road bikes will stay in Chicago. My mission was to repair bikes and donate them to the organization and then give them out to peopel in need of them. I love to ride bikes if it’s mountain biking and road biking and I would like to share that experience with others as well.  I thought that one of the hardest part...

 So today we are going to the Belmont Flats. When I went to Working Bikes Collective two days ago, I deduced it would be good to probably volunteer there. Trevor also said it would be good to bring a couple of kids bikes to work on. The organization was going to giveaway around 200 bikes to kids. Here are some pictures of me handling the bikes  These are some of the kids bikes, I brought in to work on. There were not many other people in the shop at this time in the morning. I first worked on the mongoose (not shown in the picture). To start fixing bikes, the shop uses this checklist found below. This checklist is used to go through everything on the bike before it is donated. After running through this checklist on both bikes, we had to replace some tires and stuff. I took a test run of both of these bikes. Now my age says i am officially an adult and I am certainly as tall as one, but do I act like one certainly not. So as any teenager would think is fun I rode the tiny kid ...

 Wednesday, May 10th  2023                                                                                                        Today I went to the new employee breakfast at Newcastle Limited. The breakfast started at nine. There was an introduction and a meeting. I thought it was pretty interesting. Mr. Haney talked about how to connect people with each other and how the company is trying to feel like a well rounded community. A lot of businesses will try to do this, but Newcastle Limited has team events every year and tries to get all the employees together to have some fun.  It was interesting hearing what he had to say and what the new employees said. Some of their questions were really interesting. We talked a...

 Tuesday May 9th 2023 Today and for the next two weeks I will be shadowing Mr. Haney at Newcastle Limited as well as working on my senior project. Today I went to the office with him and worked on my senior project. I called the representative from Newcastle Limited again to talk about being able to go to the property and checking out the bikes. I called Trevor from Working Bikes Collective, to figure out some logistics with the bike pick up. I started to think about how I would collect the bikes and where I would store them. Then also how they were either going to pick them up or we were going to have to drop them off.  Hours: 7 Weekly hours: 14

 Bikes For Humanity Monday, May 8th I started my day by emailing someone who works at Newcastle Limited to figure out how I can collect all the bikes for my project.  I also had to look for some organizations that I could donate the bikes I collected. I narrowed the organizations down to two.  The one I called was Working Bikes Collective.  Trevor the lead guy from Working Bikes answered the phone, while on the phone we discussed about donating bikes and what I can do to help. He  said something about a bike maintenance class going on at night.  After calling Trevor, I realized I needed to call him again.  I decided I was going to call him tomorrow.  I needed to call him about the dat elf the bike drop off or pickup and also what times the bike maintenance classes were.  I had to call the person from Newcastle Limited again.  I had to talk about when I could collect the bikes and from which properties.  I decided that I was going to...