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Recreational Equipment Incor porated will give a free bike main tenance clinic Monday at 7 p.m. at the Eugene store, located at 306 Lawrence St. The clinic, hosted by Jeff Alt house, an REI service manager and graduate of Barnett Bicycle Insti tute’s Master Technician Program, will address de-winterizing bikes and day-to-day maintenance. “I’m going to leave it open,” Al thouse said, regarding the clinic’s material. “Most people who come to clinics have a good idea what they want to learn. ” In addition to answering ques Safety check Jeff Althouse, who will lead Monday’s bicycle maintenance clinic at REI, sug gests bicyclists perform the following tests before each time they ride*. Check brakes: Squeeze the brakes with force and make sure the pads grip the wheel quickly and firmly. Check brake pad alignment and brake mecha nisms. Adjust when necessary. Check tire pressure: Test tire pressure with a tire gauge and pump air into tire whenever it is needed. Check drive train: Elevate the rear window, turn the pedal and shift through the gears. The chain should shift smoothly between gears. Adjust when nec eSSary' SOURCE: REI tions, Althouse plans to describe methods for checking and maintain ing tires, wheels, brakes and gears. Althouse said that before he rides his bike, he always checks his brakes, tire pressure and drive train. Most bicyclists aren’t as metic ulous about maintenance as is Al thouse, Outdoor Program coordi nator Dan Geiger said. “It’s probably one of those things all of us let slide,” he said. “It’s human nature to be lazy and let things go until they reach that critical breakdown state.” Althouse warns that letting bicy cle maintenance slide can be dan gerous, and he hopes to drive that point home at Monday’s clinic. “I’ve been cycling jFor quite some time and have seen a lot of people get into accidents, many caused by technical problems,” he said. “If people have well-ad justed and well-maintained bikes, they’ll have abetter time.” Eugene REI store manager Lisa Snell said the purpose of the workshop is twofold: to encour age people to ride safely and to bring more customers into the store. Snell said previous bicycle clinics have drawn anywhere be tween 12 and 50 people. Lost and found proves successful ■ The ads provide a chance to find missing personal belongings By Simone Ripke Oregon Daily Emerald They are usually only two or three lines long but contain much more than just a few words. Lost and found ads not only in clude the description of an item, but they also encompass the hopes of the people who place them and a story that is much longer than the classified ad itself. Animal lover Deanne DuFresne, an accounting tech at the University Housing Office, re cently adopted Yuki, a six-year old tuxedo cat, from a friend who was moving last December. DuFresne was excited about hav ing another cat in her house, and although Yuki growled at her the first evening, the two made friends by the end of the next day. “The second night, he was lick ing my face and jumping on my shoulder,” she said. But the next day, Yuki broke the screen on the bathroom win dow and got out, and DuFresne became one of many people who hope to find a lost possession by placing an ad in newspapers. DuFresne said she placed sev eral classified ads in local papers and received some calls from peo ple who thought they had seen Yuki, but none of the responses led to a reunion. “I haven’t seen him since,” she said. “He just disappeared.” Connie Berglund a University Health Center office specialist, also recently placed an ad in the lost and found category. Berglund found a bicycle in the middle of the street in front of her house. “It looked like it was thrown,” Berglund said. “It was twisted and banged.” She said she fixed the bike, which had a flat tire, and placed the ad. While she received an esti mated nine calls during the first two days the ad ran in local papers, none of the callers turned out to be the owner of the abandoned bicy cle, which is now fully functioned. “If someone steals [a bike], they’ll ride it as long as it works for them,” Berglund said. She said she suspects her most CONSCIOUS PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS Third World & Apple Gabriel THURSDAY • APRIL 6 Tickets At Face The Music, Emu Ticket Office and all Fastiu • $20 Advance • All Ages recent find became useless when it had the flat tire. Berglund said she plans to run the found ad for a few more weeks. If the owner fails to claim his lost possession, she said she will donate the bicycle to the police. She also suggested that people whose bikes got lost or stolen check with Eugene and Springfield police as well as with the Office of Public Safety, which is exactly where Sybil Ford reclaimed a treasured piece of jew elry she had lost after a Duck bas ketball game at McArthur Court. Ford said when she realized that the silver butterfly pin, a spe cial gift from her husband, was missing, she carefully retraced every step she had taken the night of the game. When she came back empty-handed, she decided to place a lost and found ad. “I was hopeful,” she said. “I just wanted to cover all of the bases.” But the phone call saying someone had found the pin never came, and Ford said she gave up any hopes of getting the pin back. “I thought, ‘Well, that’s it,’” she said. The pin “was a unique-look ing piece that I couldn’t replace.” A couple of weeks later, how ever, Ford decided to make one last effort and check with OPS. She said she was delighted when she learned that someone had in deed found and turned in her treasured memento. 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