Repair Fund

Funding is mostly achieved through e-gift card contributions, the instructions for which can be found on the home page. I’m slowly moving towards selling high end donated bikes to fund this though, so if you have a nice bike and you wanna do something good with it, holler!

Dollars contributed prepay for labor and repair parts for those who can’t afford it. I am liable to perform this labor and provide these repair parts in order to redeem the gift cards in my system.

I began officially keeping space in the business for folks who can’t afford professional services in 2018 via GoFundme when I was running this shop’s predecessor, Cyclus Bike Shop. The Repair Fund has since evolved, becoming more streamlined and transparent and benefitting more people than originally designed. I ALWAYS wait to extend repair support to clients until I have an organic working knowledge of their ability to pay. This is mostly adults (a lot of seniors) who live on poor wages, a fixed income, or who do not have jobs or are in between housing, but also includes repairs for kids whose parents cannot pay. Below you can find the live Google Sheets I’ve maintained thus far in the program’s life and get an idea of the kind of things people need help with and the scale of the need. Yes, all the pricing is at my normal rates, and yes, while I do work off the money contributed, I am still profiting from it. If you don’t like that, take it up with Jesus.

Live Google Sheets

Current fund ongoing, beginning in summer 2022

2021/2022 Winter/spring $1140.55

Spring/Summer 2021 $2,333.16 raised

Fall/Winter 2020 $1825 raised