{"id":2482,"date":"2009-02-06T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2009-02-06T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T21:59:46","slug":"diy-bike-repair-shops-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/02\/06\/diy-bike-repair-shops-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Bike Repair Shops in DC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freewheeling Spirit <a href=\"http:\/\/freewheelingspirit.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/dc-needs-diy-bike-repair-shop.html\">wishes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>that D.C. had a DIY bike repair shop.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to see something like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikekitchen.org\/\">Bike Kitchen<\/a> in San Francisco (watch the Bike Kitchen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DRBJMcTOMHc\">video on youtube<\/a>). Then, instead of working alone in a cramped space, I could be working and joking alongside fellow cyclists with lots of space and access to every tool I need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I second that.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Bikes aren&#8217;t terribly complicated to work on, but very few people have the tools they need to do so easily and safely.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And who wants to buy and store tools that you&#8217;ll only need occasionally?\u00c2\u00a0 A DIY bike shop &#8211; say, attached to a community center &#8211; would solve that problem.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The military bases I grew up around always had something similar for cars and woodworking, and they were heavily used.\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect the right location would yield the same result in DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freewheeling Spirit wishes: that D.C. had a DIY bike repair shop. I&#8217;d like to see something like the Bike Kitchen in San Francisco (watch the Bike Kitchen video on youtube). Then, instead of working alone in a cramped space, I could be working and joking alongside fellow cyclists with lots of space and access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-dc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}