And now from our Good News Department

~ Patrick O'Grady

One of the Old Town Bike Shop wrenches scored some nice ink in today’s Colorado Springs Independent, the local alt-weekly.

When he’s not puzzling over one of my beaters, Brian Gravestock spends a couple days each week refurbishing donated bikes for the homeless, with the help of three volunteers and two trainees, in a donated garage in West Bibleburg.

He and Peter Sprunger-Froese first started doing this sort of thing back in 1993, and today they have more “customers” than they can serve, thanks to brochures and word of mouth at the local shelters, halfway houses and soup kitchens.

Small acts of kindness and generosity often get swamped by the daily tsunami of evil tidings. It’s reassuring to see that not every good deed escapes notice.

• Editor’s note: Meanwhile, from the News As Usual Department comes Charles Pelkey’s take on the Eagle County hit-and-run. Bob Mionske weighs in, too. The Vail Daily, which broke the original story, urges the judge to reject the dimwitted DA’s insane plea bargain with Mr. Moneybags. And last but not least, a good-news/bad-news report: An LA fashion designer bumper-tags a cyclist, drives off, turns herself in, pleads no contest to two misdemeanors and gets 90 days in jail — that she will be allowed to serve on weekends. Jesus wept, what’s next? Letting rich folks hire homeless dudes and illegal aliens to do their time for them?

5 thoughts on “And now from our Good News Department”

  1. The felony charges previously filed by this bonehead DA against the bike racers for swapping bibs raises this “justice for rich folks” caper to true WTF status!!! Vail should be looking for a new DA!
    On the good news front, a check from CycleItalia will soon be on the way to:
    Pikes Peak Community Foundation
    730 North Nevada Ave
    Colorado Springs, CO 80903-1008
    Attn: Indy Give/Bike Clinic Too

  2. Thanks for the heads-up on the Indy article. Happy to see some positive news and happy to make a donation.

  3. The article says Brian Gravestock’s in need of a derailleur hanger alignment tool.

    You put me in contact with him and I’ll send him one.

  5. Like the masthead. Picture reminds me of Che, and bottom reminds me of Zappa. Must fatten the squirrels foe Zappadan!

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