Do you want to give an old bicycle a new lease on life? Perhaps, for whatever reason, you don\’t ride any more. Maybe you upgraded and bought a fancier bike, and haven\’t been riding the \”back number\”. Yet you can\’t stomach the idea of throwing the bicycle away. After all, it still has plenty of miles left in it.

In my home town of New Orleans, there is Plan B. Bicycle Plan B, that is. I would think that similar programs exist in many other cities as well. You could call it a recycling program for bikes!

A program such as Plan B can let your now-unused bicycle get to someone who wants and needs it, but can\’t afford to buy a new bicycle from a regular bike shop. When I decided that the time had come to let my tricycle go, I took it to Plan B.

The timing turned out to be most fortuitous. When I took the trike there, it happened to be just when a man came in who had been checking with Plan B for a while, hoping to get an adult tricycle. His had been stolen, and he wanted another one.

I was glad to let \”Valkyrie\” go to him; he needed the trike. I hadn\’t used it for much except getting groceries since getting moving on two wheels. I did warn him that my bike shop had said that the tricycle was \”on its last legs\”. He couldn\’t afford to pay nearly as much as the value that Plan B had put on the trike, but I didn\’t mind. I wasn\’t trying to make a killing. Also, I didn\’t want him to pay a lot for the trike only to have it break down beyond repair in a week or two.

And for all I know, good old Valkyrie is out there still, enjoying new lease on life!