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Glen Peterman rides one of the Bike Blenders<\/p><\/div>\n

I loved biking the instant my dad took off the training wheels, pushed me down our sloped driveway and yelled, \u201cPEDAL, PEDAL!!\u201d I was six years old.\u00a0 Later I graduated to 27\u201d wheeled bikes \u2013 a Schwinn Continental,\u00a0 later a Schwinn Sports Tourer, and then a top of the line Schwinn Paramount racing bike that I got for $500 in 1973.\u00a0 In high school I started working in \u201cbicycle setup\u201d at the local Schwinn dealer, got my Schwinn Factory Trained Certification, moved to the repair shop during and after college, and then ended up managing the place for a year.\u00a0 My boss was such a jerk that I quit and helped start another shop that sold Miyata bikes. We broke even in the first year \u2013 and eventually drove my first boss out of business. (Don\u2019t mess with Glen!!)<\/p>\n

Since then I went on a lot of formal rides \u2013 one a Double-Century (200 miles). Two friends and I rode all night with no moon (but we did have lights) and I came in third(!) among about 500 riders sometime in the early hours.\u00a0 Also made a couple tours around the Great Lakes, to upstate New York, around Israel in an organized bike-tour, and even started on a cross-country ride.\u00a0 I had to bail in Jackson, Wyoming, but that\u2019s no surprise since my foot had been broken under a fork-lift about a month before.\u00a0 It was pretty stupid to actually DO a tour like that in my condition \u2013 but the experience, fun and memories have far outlasted the pain.<\/p>\n

I built the FIRST<\/strong> \u201cGreen Bike\u201d and instituted the program at the Handlebar<\/a>.\u00a0 Since that first one I’ve built about 50 of them with help from Handlebar volunteers.\u00a0 Frankly, the reason they\u2019re called my Green Bikes is because that\u2019s my favorite color! (Just like my Paramount). It was merely fortuitous that my favorite color matched the sustainability jargon.\u00a0 Painting all those green forks was a challenge, though. (I never told anybody but once I ended up with green hair and moustache! It was just a bit windy and the overspray got EVERYWHERE.\u00a0 Happily it was a Friday night, so I had the weekend to wash my hair about 10 times). \u00a0I use my green bike as a commuter bike from home to the Handlebar when I\u2019m fixing bikes \u2013 I mainly ride it in the summer time.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d recommend a Green Bike to ANYBODY.\u00a0 I paid about $150 to sandblast, paint, build and rehab mine (new wheels, crank, pedals, and tires, etc., ) \u2013 but anybody else can pay a $25 refundable deposit, get a Greenie, a helmet and a lock. You can get help fixing it for free at the Handlebar if it needs fixing, then bring it back when you don\u2019t need it anymore \u2013 and you\u00a0get your deposit back!<\/span>\u00a0 You just simply can\u2019t beat that kind of deal.\u00a0 And you\u2019ll love the speed and the wind in your face and hair – just like I did when I was six.<\/p>\n

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Avery McGuire ’13, former Handlebar Manager, works on Glen’s Green Bike<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[39270,44404,65299,66533,66534,22,39271,66929,66518,66530,66531,66930],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test","tag-biking-at-dickinson","tag-center-for-sustainability-education","tag-cse","tag-cycling","tag-cyclist","tag-dickinson","tag-dickinson-bikes","tag-green-bikes","tag-handlebar","tag-ride","tag-riding","tag-volunteer-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dickinsonbikes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}