{"id":1684,"date":"2009-08-08T21:59:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2009-08-08T21:59:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T10:59:13","slug":"mutitjulu-bike-kitchen-a-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"Mutitjulu Bike Kitchen – A beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Kelly’s line,\u00a0‘from little things, big things grow’ is well applied to our Community Bicycle Workshops, our\u00a0small-scale\u00a0wrenching sessions have begun to sprout into something much bigger..<\/p>\n

Three bike repair\u00a0workshops\u00a0have been run, the result being kids from\u00a0Mutitjulu\u00a0with the sufficient skill\u00a0to repair their own bicycles given the opportunity and tools. Long term Rangers are saying they can’t ever remember seeing soooo many kids on bikes.<\/p>\n

Help has come in (un-sought) from various quarters.. Mission Australia has provided the venue and spare parts, NT Police kicked in some bikes and labour, Phil and Yvonne from Penny Farthing Avanti Plus<\/a> gave us a few bikes and offered to save us a box of\u00a0tires and tubes, MacDonell Shire\u00a0have cleaned up the BMX track, and the Bicycle Institute\u00a0of South Australia\u00a0have offered assistance.. \u00a0All awesome.<\/p>\n

This weekend I was in Alice Springs hoping to pick up a few BMX’s from the Recycling Centre when I ran into Mark Swindells.. Mark had heard what we’d been doing out at Mutitjulu, so when Deadly Treadlies keeled over this week he rushed in a grabbed us what ever he could. Mark handed me a big box of pedals, a box of seatposts and another of saddels before inviting me around to his house to help myself to his collecting of bicycles… and what a collection of bicycles (my vote for best backyard ever).<\/p>\n

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Mish and I grabbed five BMX’s from Mark’s yard and with the five we’d earlier picked up at the Recycling Centre, we left Alice with a Ute tray\u00a0full of bikes ready for the next Community Workshop. My front yard in Yulara has begun to morph into a work-and-storage space.. Looking for a venue in the Community to set up a more permanant home for our workshops, maybe I’ll take that house in Rangerville eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Kelly’s line,\u00a0‘from little things, big things grow’ is well applied to our Community Bicycle Workshops, our\u00a0small-scale\u00a0wrenching sessions have begun to sprout into something much bigger.. Three bike repair\u00a0workshops\u00a0have been run, the result being kids from\u00a0Mutitjulu\u00a0with the sufficient skill\u00a0to repair their own bicycles given the opportunity and tools. Long term Rangers are saying they can’t … Continue reading “Mutitjulu Bike Kitchen – A beginning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}