The big missing piece to our full-on participation in the Village Bike Project was finding a space to hold the bikes until they’re ready to be loaded in a container. We scored a spot today. Paul Fish, the owner of Mountain Gear has hooked us up. As a thank you, go spend your next paycheck at Mountain Gear.

Mountain Gear HQ (in the Spokane Valley) has a “bike room.” It’s a room with bike racks and a small bikeshop for employees to fix their bikes. There is also a guy on staff (Jerry?) who is also a bike mechanic and helps with wrenching on bikes. I saw signs with “bike stuff for sale” and they said something about how there are “parts available” or something. Cool place. I took a spy photo.

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Without getting too gushy here, it’s obvious that Paul is a guy that lives his values. I saw many examples of this while visiting and heard them in talking to him. He’s very into the idea behind the VBP and it’s an honor for us to consider him and his employees a partner in this project.