Word: bikesã
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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...
When students begin trickling back to Cambridge in August, they will find the aptly named “Quad Bikes?? shop expanded to its full line of services, which will include repairs, tool rental and sales of refurbished bikes and accessories, Ledlie said...
...minded undergraduates is sorely lacking. Walking through the MAC’s doors, one enters a crowded, antiquated space that often has the ambiance of a dungeon. Students who want to use the “cardio room”—lined with treadmills, elliptical machines and bikes??find themselves cramming into a sweaty sardine-box where they often face lines of an hour or more. The present design hinders spontaneous, between-classes exercise that busy Harvard students could most easily fit into their schedules. Data indicates that each week about...