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ASI Mobile Bike Unit provides free student bike repairs

ASI Mobile Bike Unit provides free student bike repairs

Felix Tran in action at the mobile bike unit on Dexter Lawn. Eleanor Vickery | Mustang News As students hustle past the University Union, Felix…

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Felix Tran in action at the mobile bike unit on Dexter Lawn. Eleanor Vickery | Mustang News As students hustle past the University Union, Felix Tran wipes his grease-covered hands before crouching to replace the front tube of a student’s bike wheel. For Tran, a computer science senior, this is just another day as a bike instructor managing Associated Students Inc. Craft Center’s mobile bike unit .

The mobile bike unit offers free repair services to students, including tube changes, tire repairs, and derailleur adjustments. Additionally, it provides shock pumps for suspension adjustments and tubeless repair kits for punctured tires, Tran said.

The bike unit operates three days a week. On Mondays, it is stationed on Mustang Way near the University Union from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and on Fridays, from noon to 3 p.m. On Wednesdays, it sets up shop on Dexter Lawn from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tran fixing a bike on Dexter Lawn. Eleanor Vickery | Mustang News Tran said he discovered his passion for bike repairs during the pandemic, teaching himself through YouTube videos when local bike shops were closed. After becoming a bike instructor at the Craft Center two years ago, he helped develop the mobile repair service following the removal of the on-site shop during last year’s Craft Center renovations .

With help from Jill Baxter, the former manager of the Craft Center, Tran envisioned the mobile unit as a way to preserve free student bike repairs by using a cart to house tools […]

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