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Free clinic teaches bike care
■The workshop offers
cyclists a chance to learn
about proper bicycle
maintenance and safety
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
With spring’s arrival, many Eu
gene residents are rolling their bi
cycles out of garages for commut
ing or recreational use, and a local
sports equipment store wants to
ensure that those bicycles are kept
in safe working condition.
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
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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.
DuFresne still feels uneasy
about Yuki being out and about ail
by himself without food and care.
“He’s out there with no ID,” she
said. “My greatest wish is that
somebody took him in. ”
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