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...minutes later, Kate upped the ante, creating “some ambience” by turning up the music, dimming the lights, and activating a string of Christmas lights that encircled a mirror in the front of the room. Thirty minutes later, after a thorough introduction to the stationary bikes?? four zones of resistance—“Zone 3 you’re not really liking me, Zone 4 you’re absolutely hating me, but you’re breathing hard and you can’t tell me,” Kate explained?...
...judges jointly awarded another $250 to Cabot House’s “Quad Bikes?? project, which fixes and sells student bikes, and Kirkland House’s “Bike Sharing Program,” which rents bikes out for free...
Since Quad Bikes is to be a non-profit enterprise—all revenues will be put back into the bikes??students will not be gouged in their search for the perfect two-wheeled transport. Quad Bikes will also be a valuable source of term-time employment for students, providing an interesting alternative to hours slaving away at jobs in Lamont or a lab. It will fill their pockets in other ways, too. Biking is always a frugal choice for tight-budgeted students, but most bike shops in the area are too expensive or too distant for Harvard?...
...passion for bringing the joys of cycling to the Harvard community is laudable. Quad Bikes will feature a number of unconventional services, including the rehabilitation of old or broken bikes and their parts, an important money-saving step that will increase the number of functioning bicycles on campus. Quad Bikes?? stated intention to fix bikes for free and run tutorials on bike maintenance also shows that it is more committed to education and outreach than pinching pennies to meet the bottom line...
Even without these appreciated features, the very existence of an affordable bike shop on campus will be an immense service to Harvard’s students. But the struggle to get Harvard biking will not be over in September. As grateful as all students should be for Quad Bikes?? planned efforts, there is still more to be done. In addition to fixing and selling bikes, the shop should accumulate a fleet of bicycles which it can rent—at affordable cost—to those who merely want to zip across campus to hand in a paper...