Fifteen years ago, when cycling enthusiast Rosi Kerr ’97 started as director of the College Sustainability Office, she founded Dartmouth Bikes to promote bike culture on campus. Its student-run repair shop on the ground level of Fahey-McLane is packed with bicycle parts. Students who go through its seven- to eight-week bicycle mechanics course in winter term are then employed as interns to handle maintenance and repairs. “We have weekly pop-up bike shops, which we call ‘PUBS,’ doing small fixes, like if a chain needs to be lubed, brakes adjusted,” says Marcus Welker, Adv’15, the Sustainability Office’s assistant director for operations. Abandoned bikes in reasonable condition that are collected around campus can be refurbished and often are offered for free or at a significant discount to students. Other bikes are used for parts or recycled.
Published in the May-June 2026 Issue
