Bike maintenance parties wrap-up

So that's it for our Winter season of Bike Maintenance Parties. After three months, an intrepid band of over 30 volunteers put in 170+ hours to get our Basics of Bicycling bikes back up to scratch for schools to use throughout Seattle.

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Last week we had enough pizza, enough bikes and enough people. Special thanks to the stand-out all stars of my Maintenance Parties: Becca, Chris, Bent and Ralph! In an earlier post I gave a little primer of what it is we do at these BMPs so in this wrap-up I'll just throw some stats at you:

Bike Maintenance Parties: 8

Unique individuals involved: 34

Total hours volunteered: 177

Most appearances: Becca (6), Chris (5), Bent (5), Ralph (3)

Pizzas consumed: 25

Average bikes fixed/week: 32

Most bikes fixed in one night: 45

Total bikes fixed: 240+

Tires pumped up: 480+

Longest night: 3 hrs

Shortest night: 1hr, 15 min.

Average ghosts heard by Elliott after everybody has left: 2/night

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See you in the summer!