Silver, My Favorite Scavenger!

[Mr. Bloom]

The scene: We're driving home from visiting Mom, it's windy and starting to lightly rain. As we enter the neighborhood, Silver sees a bike in someone's trash pile, "yells STOP!" and goes to the door and talks to the owner who clearly thought she was crazy. She returns to the car

Silver: You go on, I'll ride it home.
Mr. S: Why don't you just get it in your van when you go to work out?
Silver: OK, but wait, you have the rack on your car!
Mr. S: Well, if it fits
Silver: Oh, let's not make a production, I won't melt!
Mr. S: OK, see you at home.

Mr. S drives the remaining half mile home...AND OF COURSE, the heavens open...AND THE BIKE's TIRES ARE FLAT BWAHaHaHaHaHa
Mr. S. waits at the garage taking pictures as Silver comes rolling up in a hard rain




So, Silver has a friend who wants a bike but can't afford it right now...So, she will have a Schwinn Sidewinder after we get the tires fixed!

[malaholic]

Way to recycle! It is fantastic that Silver's friend will now have a bike...especially with such a fun rainy story behind it.

[Tri Girl]

What a good little scavenger. I think that's pretty great that you're recycling that bike and giving it to someone who needs it. Great story!

[fidlfreek]

I love that Silver is a go-getter. !!!! The world needs more people like Silver.

[bmccasland]

Still have a child's bike in my garage that I keep meaning to give to a charity bike repair program. It desperately needs new tires and tubes, which I intend to buy before I donate it. Kids labor in the shop to "earn" their bikes - I figure buying the obviously needed tires and tubes would at least help them out - the rest would be bench time and elbow grease. I found the forelorn bike in the garbage pile while walking my dog, and walked it home, not as easy with very flat dry rotted tires. At least it wasn't raining.

[sundial]

What a neat thing to do! I bet the neighbor will be thrilled to have this bike.

Was Silver riding while holding the newspaper over her head or is that the mail?

[Mr. Bloom]

What a neat thing to do! I bet the neighbor will be thrilled to have this bike.

Was Silver riding while holding the newspaper over her head or is that the mail?

Nope...that would have been prissy!

[indysteel]

That was mighty nice of you, Silver! What a lucky friend!

[smurfalicious]

Bold move trying to ride it home! I almost scored a bike but I waited too long, just holding out hope its rightful owner grabbed it (hah). I think my old roommate's score was the best though. It had been dumping rain for days as it often does during Boulder springs. He came home from walking the dog with a Schwinn he had found in the creek! I imagine it was stolen and dumped for quite a while from the looks of it, and the creek flooding in the storm washed it down.

So it became another learning bike for me. I picked up a few parts for it, namely was missing a grip shifter, rebuilt the bottom bracket, rode it a few times because my girl wasn't done at the time I don't think. Then we gave it to a friend of his and she decided not to lock it up once outside a grocery store in Denver (and we gave her lock) so that was the end of that. I was really mad because we worked hard and put good money into it. "I couldn't find a place," is a really, really weak excuse. I kind of liked that little bike, it was fun for being a department store bike.

[sgtiger]

Silver, good going on rescuing that bike. It's great to hear that it will being going to a new home where it will be appreciated and ridden.

[silver]

Was Silver riding while holding the newspaper over her head or is that the mail?

I was riding the bike, but remembered that we had not gotten the Saturday mail, so stopped to pick it up at the end of the drive way. But couldn't figure how to ride and hold the mail.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I was riding the bike, but remembered that we had not gotten the Saturday mail, so stopped to pick it up at the end of the drive way. But couldn't figure how to ride and hold the mail.

That's funny- you can ride in races with the bestest and the fastest....but you can't figure out how to pick up the mail while riding a Schwinn!

Just teasing you....always good to see a recycled bike given to someone who can't afford one.
I bet it needs a new chain!

[malkin]

Cool!

We picked up a vacuum cleaner from next-to-the-dumpster, and while it was in the back of the pick up, waiting for a trip to the charitable place we donate stuff, we passed a garage sale, and swapped the vac. for a bike that ended up with our daughter's weasely boyfriend.

[Mr. Bloom]

and swapped the vac. for a bike that ended up with our daughter's weasely boyfriend.

What a waste!