Local shop hosting Bicycle Recycle Day

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LoKe Bicycles owner Jim Moffitt, right, and employee Kyle Robinson at their Fishers bike shop. (Photo by Sam Elliott)
LoKe Bicycles owner Jim Moffitt, right, and employee Kyle Robinson at their Fishers bike shop. (Photo by Sam Elliott)

By Sam Elliott

Back for its second year after a successful first event in 2015, local bike shop LoKe Bicycles is hosting its Bicycle Recycle Day April 16 at Brooks School Park.

Jim Moffitt has owned and operated LoKe Bicycles, at 11640 Brooks School Rd., Suite 100, for approximately two and a half years. Last year’s first Bicycle Recycle event came about from community members asking him what they could do with their old, unused or unwanted bikes.

“I’d tell people, ‘Well, we’ll take it and I’ll give it to Circle City Relief through Conquest Cycling,’” Moffitt said.

Moffitt knew people involved with Conquest Cycling, a charity organization formed out of Grace Church that works with Indianapolis-based Circle City Relief.

“Circle City Relief is a program to help homeless and people less fortunate. Every third Sunday they go downtown and give clothing and food and just try to help people,” Moffitt said. “Conquest Cycling is part of that and they give bicycles to homeless people and people less fortunate.”

Moffitt and volunteers will collect donated bicycles from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 16 on the north side of the playground at Brooks School Park, 11780 Brooks School Rd.

“It doesn’t matter the condition of the bike,” Moffitt said. “Some of them are like brand new and just hadn’t been ridden, and some of them have been ridden into the ground… If it’s a bike that’s in really bad condition, we’ll take the parts off it and use the parts.”

Last year’s event brought in approximately 175 bikes.

“Over the course of the last year, we’ve probably done over 300 bikes,” Moffitt said. “I collect them all throughout the year.”

The event’s bicycle-related activities also include a child bicycle safety clinic at 1 p.m. put on by a Fishers Police Dept. officer, free helmet fittings and bicycle safety checks where residents can have their bike inspected by LoKe mechanics.

“We’ll put air in the tires or if the bike needs more work done I’ll make some 10 percent off coupons for here at the shop,” Moffitt said. “We’ll probably do like a bike rodeo for the kids to ride around and have some fun after that clinic.”

For more, visit facebook.com/lokebicycles.


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