The project of CICLOFFICINA revolves around volunteering and sharing
In one of the posters in the office you can read: “Questo é uno spaziocomune che accoglie idee e nuoveproposte. Divertti e divertiamoci insieme”.
According to Giuglio – the driving force of Ciclofficina, This program of mutual help was born from the good will of some friends and of the idea to form solidarity. “Here we don’t buy or swap bicycles. We help to repair and maintain this popular means of transport and we do the work that is needed.
Another task of Ciclofficina is to promote the bicycle as a means of transport, and as a way to achieve it, they organise various activities, especially bike rides.
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| Giulio – one of the driving forces of the project |
António and Manuel chose to collaborate with Ciclofficina and the activities started with coffee prepared by Manuel.
The first task was to clean, tidy up and organise the office…
| and it looked pristine…ready for work to begin!! |
After that we started to arrange the tires, to tune brakes and wheels, to install various components, etc. If some people dropped in who didn’t know how to fix their bicycles, they could count on help of the volunteers and leave with a working bike.
The other possibility is to renew the old bikes.
António even built a bike with the elements taken from the “bikes’ cemetery” but finally he discovered that the frame was bent! :(
The team was nice, there was amazing comradeship and they even lent the bicycles to António, Manuel and Isabel so they could use them in Lecce!!
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