So CAT is moving to their new headquarters early next month, and part of the preparation is to get all the donated bikes, about 400 of them in (mostly) walkable condition, from their basement home in the current headquarters to storage at the future one.
That move happened yesterday. The “bike train” was about 100 or so volunteers walking the bikes about two miles, from the place on West Broad Street to the newly-built Walnut Street parking garage, where the new headquarters will be. We went over a little early so Anne could take up her position as a crossing guard along the route, then Joe & Laura and I joined the train in basically the first wave.
It was pretty easy and quite fun, and though Joe & Laura made for home after that trip, I went back for more. The walk back was, if anything, even more fun, as I got to greet so many of my friends doing their part.
For the first trip I took just one bike; I thought that walking two might be easy enough for the first few hundred yards but two miles might be a bit much. The walk was easy enough though, so for the second trip I did take two. That was fine, except for the very last block when one rear wheel locked up — I carried that bike to the finish line.
So two trips, three bikes and eight miles walked, and I hear that all 400 bikes got moved. Hurray!
