6 months immediately after its first effective event, Assisting Bicycle Commuters will host a different bicycle sale, at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 27, at Mariner’s Bethel United Methodist Church, track down at 81 Central Avenue in Ocean Check out.

Organizer Louis Melton said the sale of donated bicycles — several in outstanding issue — will keep on until eventually all over 11 a.m., or right up until the inventory is gone. About 40 of them — most with gears, fairly than currently being seaside cruisers, and like some manufactured for youngsters — will be out there. The price vary for children’s bicycles will be $45 to $65, with selling prices ranging from $75 to $150 for grownup versions.

Most, Melton claimed, are purchased by nearby people who require transportation to operate.

“We held a really effective sale back again in Could. With the variety of bicycles that are generously donated to our application, we stop up with more bicycles than we can shop or deal with. When bicycles are donated, we triage them. The very best bikes are serviced and marketed to maintain our program,” Melton mentioned, referring to ABC’s main do the job of lending bicycles.

“We really do not choose any deposit. We’re blessed if we get 80 p.c of them back, but we get donations throughout the 12 months, so that would make up for the other 20 p.c,” he claimed. “Over the several years, the method has developed to lending most of the bikes to young children who work right here during the summertime. If they want to borrow a bike from us, they go as a result of safety education to be certain they know how to journey a bike. We equip just about every bike with lights, and we issue helmets,” Melton said.

Anyone fascinated can connect with the church office at (302) 539-9510.

“Most of the bicycles that are donated to us are serviced and put in our lending inventory,” he added. “Bikes that are below our lending specifications are serviced and donated to the Shepherd’s Business, a homeless-outreach organization in Georgetown. Bikes that are beyond sensible maintenance are sold as scrap metal, with proceeds going to the youth group at Mariner’s Bethel,” he defined.

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