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Past Featured Volunteers and Staff

  • Roger Conley Smith
    Featured Volunteers
    02-August-2023
    Helen Hsiu, our August 2023 featured volunteer
    Helen Hsiu, our August 2023 featured volunteer

    Our featured volunteer this month is Helen Hsiu. Helen has been a dedicated Wednesday volunteer all through the pandemic, and has recently taken over as the lead (along with Rose) for our Women's...

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  • Roger Conley Smith
    Featured Volunteers
    28-October-2021
    Leo Minami, SVBE Featured Volunteer
    Leo Minami, SVBE Featured Volunteer

    Originally from Palo Alto, Leo has been a regular volunteer for many years.

    Leo first started volunteering at BikeX while he was a road racer in high school. He recently returned to volunteer again after...

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  • Roger Conley Smith
    Featured Volunteers
    03-December-2020
    Lucy Hsu, long-time volunteer, donation receiver and coordinator with partner charities.

    One of the constants at the Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange is that there are always more bikes to repair. Our talented volunteers are always repairing bikes at a good clip, but only by moving the...

    Read more: Featured SVBE Volunteer: Lucy Hsu

  • Jonny
    Featured Volunteers
    27-June-2019
    Harry hails from Nottingham England, and assures me he is no relation to the evil Sheriff of Robin Hood fame.
      
    Back in Blighty his father always biked to work as did so many of his generation. For...

  • Jonny
    Featured Volunteers
    14-April-2019

    The Bike Exchange has expanded a lot recently. Today I am talking to one of the folks who work here during our new Wednesday hours.

    Jack is one of that rarest of breeds, a native San Fransiscan. Jack...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    11-April-2019

    Ahmed has been volunteering at the Bicycle Exchange for about three months. He likes to fix road bikes (like what he rides) and kids bikes. His goal is to become proficient in fixing his kids'...

  • Jonny
    Featured Volunteers
    01-March-2019

    Lately I have had a number of conversations with our volunteers from the Veteran’s Administration. They are all great folks and worth getting to know.  Today I sat down with Kevin. 

    He grew up in San...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    17-February-2019

    Dennis commuted by bike for decades here in Silicon Valley and maintained his classic road bike. Now that he is retired, he puts his bike-fixing skills to work at the Bicycle Exchange. He is part of...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    01-February-2019

    Jeff has volunteered with the Bicycle Exchange for about four years after finding us via our website. He is our newsletter editor and used to work on bikes when he lived closer. Now he lives near Mt...

  • Jonny
    Featured Volunteers
    03-January-2019
    On Saturday, Dec. 1st a group got together to sort through our inventory and cull out some of the things that we were never going to use. Then, we packed everything into new crates and hauled it...

  • Johnny
    Featured Volunteers
    03-December-2018

    One of the ongoing partnerships we have at the Bike Exchange is with the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto. We regularly donate bikes to the vets and often have some of them visit us on...

  • Johnny
    Featured Volunteers
    30-September-2018

    Jerry, 29, hails from St. Louis originally and like so manyof this country’s best and brightest, he found his waya year ago to our beautiful state, and more specifically, here in Silicon Valley....

  • Johnny
    Featured Volunteers
    31-May-2018

    May 5th was our semiannual bike sale and it was a smashing success. People lined up at the gate when we opened and a steady stream of buyers scored fantastic deals. One of them, Maggie M, was a...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    05-May-2018

    Tobi has been volunteering at the Bicycle Exchange for about a year. He found out about the organization through the Google website, as an employee. When he chooses a bike to repair, he often picks one...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    05-May-2018

    Chris is originally from Wales but moved to the US, first Colorado then California, 14 years ago. He commutes daily to work via bicycle, taking the direct route to work, then the nice Bay Trail and...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    04-May-2018

    Rebecca has been volunteering at the bicycle exchange for about 3 years - you will usually see her at the registration table helping volunteers, donors, and people who want to purchase bikes.

    She...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    29-January-2018

    Lucy has been volunteering with the Bike Exchange for 3-4 years and is the person to go to if you need help with adjusting brakes or truing wheels. Her favorite ride is a Trek road bike which she...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    29-January-2018

    Greg has been volunteering with the Bicycle Exchange for about a year and provides a lot of guidance to new volunteers (especially since recovering from an ice hockey injury). He loves to work on...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    29-November-2017

    Doug has been volunteering for the Bicycle Exchange for over 15 years. He often works behind the scenes checking our inventory of bike parts and purchasing parts from different suppliers to keep...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    14-August-2017

    Rachel started volunteering at the Bicycle Exchange in May and is excited to earn her work apron on her fifth volunteer day soon. She enjoys working on the adult bikes because she learns repair...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    01-August-2017

    Calvin started working at the bicycle exchange in 2014 and was promoted to QA about 6 months ago, so you'll see him wearing the yellow/green vest making sure that bikes are fixed to the...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    28-March-2017

    Dave Z has been working at the Bicycle Exchange for 2 years fixing bikes. You may see him riding around on his Rivendell road bike - he's logged 100,000 miles on it. He used to go on bike tours...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    02-March-2017

    Jonny grew up in the North beach neighborhood in San Francisco, and remembers the "Summer of Love" and his Black Panther neighbors among many "only in San Francisco" people and places in the City by the...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    23-February-2017

    Judy has been fixing bikes at the Bicycle Exchange for 3 years, has more recently joined the Steering Committee, and writes all of our thank you letters to donors. She enjoys fixing the adult bikes...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    04-December-2016

    Falguni is one of the people behind the scenes at the Bicycle Exchange that helps keep things running smoothly. She volunteered at a workday after her colleague, Doreen, told her about it. She moved...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    30-October-2016

    A native to the bay area, Grant has been volunteering at the Bicycle Exchange for seven years. Many new folks get their orientation from him. He likes to make the orientation engaging and informal -...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    02-October-2016

    This month we visit with Bahar R and her son Romtin. They live in Los Altos and their whole family loves riding.
     
    They belong to the Young Men's Service League, Rancho chapter - Mountain view / Los...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    03-July-2016



    Colleen joined the bicycle exchange to learn how to fix bikes and has been volunteering for 2 1/2 years. You'll often see her managing the front table, receiving donations and greeting volunteers. She...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    04-May-2016

    If you've enjoyed some fresh-brewed coffee at the Bike Exchange, most likely Mary brought it. She's been volunteering for about 1 1/2 years and has regularly been bringing coffee to wake up the...

  • Lauren Z.
    Featured Volunteers
    02-March-2016

    A student at Palo Alto High School, Leo M has been volunteering at the Bike Exchange for two years since a friend recommended he try it. When he looks at the pile of bikes needing repairs, he...