{"id":948,"date":"2017-06-12T03:47:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T03:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themooraboolnews.com.au\/?p=948"},"modified":"2024-02-02T16:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T05:27:05","slug":"born-again-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/themooraboolnews\/news\/born-again-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Born again bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>By Kate Taylor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s a morning so cold that you can see the fog of your breath before you and still, the chink of a chisel, followed by the soft thump of a hammer, is coming from Neil Harris\u2019 shed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">With a bike laid out in many, many parts before him, the day begins &#8211; and it will end with Neil going to sleep thinking about what colour he might paint his rescue project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s a labour of love, as much as anything, and for Neil, it\u2019s also been an incredibly charitable way to spend his retirement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Every day, from 6am to 6pm, Neil is in his shed restoring bicycles to give to kids who don\u2019t have many good things in their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI remember when I was a young boy, and mum and dad couldn\u2019t afford a bicycle, I used to sit on the kerb and watch the other kids riding them around\u2026\u201d Neil remembers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">It all started just three months ago \u2013 but Neil wishes he\u2019d thought of it a long time before. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019d been working for 45 years, as an engineer and as a construction manager, and for the first three months of retirement I was lost. I saw these bikes at the tip one day, and I thought it\u2019d be a good job to fix them up,\u201d Neil explains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Since then he\u2019s done about 40 bikes \u2013 but, if he has a steady line-up of bikes in need, he can average about five a day if they\u2019re not trying to give him too much trouble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>Read the full story in latest edition (13th June).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kate Taylor It\u2019s a morning so cold that you can see the fog of your breath before you and still, the chink of a chisel, followed by the soft thump of a hammer, is coming from Neil Harris\u2019 shed. 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