Friends Bike Clinic is a project of the Earthcare Committee of the Ithaca Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). However, you don’t have to be a Quaker to come help out or to get help fixing your bike!
Here’s a little bit about us.
Larry Clarkberg
I’ve been a bicyclist since I was a kid. As a middle-schooler I delivered newspapers from my bike. As a teenager I worked as a bike courier in Washington D.C. And as a college student I biked from Portland to San Francisco on a three-week journey with my future wife. For me, bicycling is simply the most enjoyable way to travel. Bicycling is also a way for me to care for the earth and to improve my community. In the last couple of years I’ve experimented with what the mainstream media calls a “car lite” lifestyle. I drive a large electrically-motorized “bicycle” that can easily carry a passenger and four bags of groceries up the steepest hills in Ithaca. In a typical month I put more miles on this bicycle than I do in the family car. I bike in all weather and in all seasons, and I sometimes make trips that are hundreds of miles long. I’ve proven to myself that it is possible to almost completely (and comfortably) replace our car with a bicycle. I have a sense that others would like to bike more but don’t know how to get started. I’d like to share my experiences and learn about theirs.