Coco's Variety Store: Machine Project x Coco's Variety

This is a project we are excited about.

From Machine Project:

All class fees will be donated to Machine Project.
Become a Machine Project Member today and immediately receive discounts on all classes for a year!

The registration fee includes instruction and celebratory bubbly drinks only. BYO bikes, or purchase a fixer-upper from Coco’s. Materials for fixing your bike are available for purchase on site at half the retail of Coco’s Variety‘s already bargain prices. (As a guide, a tube will be $2.50, a chain $4.50, brake pads 50 cents and free nuts and free bolts.)

DESCRIPTION OF CLASS:
A bicycle is a durable machine that should be handed down through generations – from older kids to younger kids and from rich neighbors to poor neighbors. With a soapy bucket, a chain breaker, a tire patch kit and a can of grease, even the most forlorn bicycles can be refurbished.

Join Coco’s Variety for an afternoon of bicycle repairs. Bicycles will be cleaned, broken parts replaced, tubes patched, tires filled, derailleurs tuned, brakes adjusted and chains lubed. In advance of this event, we will solicit donations of bicycles to create a junkyard of parts.

Please bring one parent, one child, one adult bicycle, one kid’s bicycle and snacks to share. Dress grubby. Closed toe shoes. Derelict bicycles encouraged. We will have a (growing) pile of junk bikes, so it is possible that you could leave with a new, used bike.

At the conclusion of class, champagne and cider will be served in Dixie cups to celebrate our awesomeness.

DONATIONS:
If you have a derelict bicycle that you are looking to recycle, please drop off at Coco’s Variety (2427 Riverside Drive, LA 90039) before the class (even if you’re not planning on taking the class, donations are appreciated!). These bikes will be used for practice, parted out, good stuff captured, tires/tubes pulled for recycling and the carcasses will be donated to our scrap metal recycler.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Class size limit: 6 parents with 6 children
Appropriate age range, if any: 5 years+

From the junk pile of bikes, students will strip and sort parts. The class will make piles of re-usable parts, rubber to be recycled and metal to donate to our favorite scrap metal recycler. Then, students will repair their bicycles with the usable components. Any salvageable bikes will be rebuilt and sent home with lucky students. Perhaps they will ride them until the wheels fall off. Or, maybe, the bicycles will be given to friends as gifts. One thing is certain, our students, junior and senior, will be able to maintain the bikes they leave with.

We have already been saving bikes for the class but if you have any bikes that you have been meaning to recycle, please drop them at the store during business hours. You have our guarantee: we will make the highest and best use of your faded champions.

All class fees will go to Machine Project.

I am very proud to be a board member of Machine Project.