Pulled this old poster from the archives the other day in a discussion about the revamped Bike Works logo design with another former Bike Works employee. But that’s another ball of wax worthy of discussion involving bike parts, physics and so-called graphic designers.
Yesterday I actually popped into the Bike Works warehouse at the tail end of a sale in search of Profile Design bottle cages. I didn’t find any of those but I pawed through a couple hundred other choices and bought 3 Bontrager RL cages for $9. They're similar to my beloved Profile Design in that they’ll secure your coffee, your beer and even your water bottle in a tasteful understated black composite cage.
Just a brief jaunt into the warehouse is enough to remind me of Seattle’s position atop an underground aquifer of seemingly endless bike donations. An embarrassment of riches. A bike town. A cycling culture that is constantly shedding its skin in search of the next next next new bicycle and all the accessories that’ll go with it. So they donate kickass bike stuff because it's “old”.
The Bike Works Warehouse is incredible. If you’re looking for something, they have it. They probably have 10 of them and they’re practically giving them away. I was eyeing a CoMotion tandem priced at $40. Visualizing shipping it to Iowa, riding RAGBRAI on it, then selling it for $300 in the end town.
Yesterday they did in fact give away 128 kids bikes in less than two hours on Beacon Hill. 128 kids in Seattle are now rolling around on bikes they didn’t used to have.
thank you Bike Works
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