Around 8:30 PM on a recent Thursday, Jacob Perry, shop manager for the Falmouth Bike Lab, finally succeeded in detaching a set of drop-down handlebars from an old Peugeot bicycle. In their place, he affixed a set of straight handlebars salvaged from another bike deemed unredeemable.

“That’s how the name ‘lab’ for the Bike Lab developed,” Perry said. “We Frankenstein parts of bikes onto different bikes to make one working one.”

An hour earlier a bevy of young men from Thailand—all J-1 visa holders working at the Sea Crest Beach Resort—had come into delighted possession of seven refurbished bicycles, all donated to the nonprofit whose mission is twofold: give free bikes to anyone in need and teach bike repair skills.

That evening, volunteer Joseph J. Famely was teaching Christine K. Lange

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