Ron King here in Little Rock, AR. We have an earn a bike program and limit it to one bike only. If it is stolen or lost bring us the police report and you can work for another one. As for what they do with it once they have earned if , we can't control that, it's their bike. Once we made that decision our life became a lot easier. Hope this helps

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On Oct 14, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Mark Friis <iebafriis@gmail.com> wrote:

Have an uncomfortable question to ask. How does a shop deal with some of the more questionable customer? By questionable I mean the type of people that are volunteering to earn a bike for the purpose of selling it or using it to get a "fix".
The reason I ask, is we had one of volunteers bikes stolen from inside the shop with people there. Didn't care if was caught, yet somehow no one saw him. Lately we have been having a lot of addicts and such coming by looking to get a bike but have little money so we offer them up a cheap Walmart type bike. It was a great way to get rid of the garbage. But now we find that we might be catering to them too much at a cost to those that want to use the shop for what it was intended to be, a place to teach bike mechanics.

Any thoughts?
Thanks

Mark Friis

Executive Director, Inland Empire Biking Alliance

PO Box 9266

Redlands, CA 92375

909-800-4322

mfriis@iebikingalliance.org

WWW.IEBIKE.ORG

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