Everyday, we all have much to be grateful for. At Halcyon, we feel particularly grateful for the job we get to do everyday. It is a great feeling to wake up in the morning and know that your passion awaits you at work. I highly recommend it! Thank you for the continued support and friendship you, our rad customer, give us. We are always working to provide the best service and products for Nashville. And, in a few days, we will be celebrating our 2nd birthday!
Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! We will reopen tomorrow, Friday November 26. And don’t forget to participate in Small Business Saturday this Saturday!
Our friends over at Music City Cycling never fail to put on a good event, so we are excited to be involved in this event, which is benefiting Toys for Tots (you know, Christmas is only 47 days away…).
To top off a pretty amazing week, the shop is featured in the November issue of Nylon Magazine. Pretty rad. We are included in a spread on Nashville, with fellow local gems, like Nashville’s Dead, Local Honey, Infinity Cat and Mas Tacos, to name just a few. You could say it is kind of like a yearbook- and we are so honored to be included!
Read our article after the jump, or pick up a copy to read all about our dear city…
Yeah, we are still pretty excited around here about the big announcement yesterday that the Bike Workshop won a $100,000 grant from Humana. The Nashville Scene did a nice write up for us- check it out!
What a way to begin a week. This morning, I woke up with butterflies in my stomach. This was a highly anticipated day- the Bike Workshop, the non-profit bicycle program we run with our friends at the Oasis Center, was one of three finalists in a $100,000 grant being offered by Humana, and the winner was to be announced. We gathered together in downtown Nashville, completely humbled to be a finalist in such a huge grant, surrounded by individuals who are working to make Nashville a better city. We knew that if, by some amazing chance, we won this grant, that our program would be forever changed!
Guess what? WE WON!
$100,000 is a lot of money, and the good people at Oasis are ready to put it to great use. Our immediate plans include a renovation of the current Workshop space, which is in the basement of the Oasis Center’s building on Charlotte Pike. The space does not have a bathroom, plumbing, or sufficient heat and air, so this renovation is in great need.
Next, the Workshop is going mobile! We have been daydreaming about a mobile workshop since the Workshop’s conception two years ago- and this grant will make our dream a reality. We will be buying a vehicle for the workshop and turning it into a fully functional bike repair shop on wheels. This will allow us to travel throughout town, reaching many more people than we currently are able to.
It is a great day! Here is a video about the Workshop that was made for the grant proposal:
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