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Sat 11/18: borp.org hand powered cycles, Tinkers Workshop

Riding around Aquatic Lake on our hand crank trikes. Even though it was pretty flat it was tiring compared to a leg powered bike.



Receiving instruction at the Borp facility on Bolivar Drive in Aquatic Park on operation of the hand crank trike. The first trike I tried had lean steering (where the entire seat is on a semi-independent carriage and rocks from side to side) but it had a flat so I took a trike with a regular headset.

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We ran into a couple riding a Greenspeed recumbent tandem trike, and they told us they rented it for a very modest price from Borp, which maintains a warehouse of hand crank bikes and trikes for people with disabilities. Many are made by wheelchair companies such as Invacare and donated to Borp. Check out their website at http://www.borp.org.

After that we went next door to Tinker's Workshop (84 Bolivar Drive, Berkeley CA 94701, 510-644-2577, http://www.tinkersworkshop.org, people@tinkersworkshop.org), a non-profit company refurbishing and selling used bikes and parts, and providing a workshop for outsiders to work on their own bikes, not unlike the Bike Church in Santa Cruz.

Labels: Cycling

posted by David @ 1:26 PM