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It started out in the spring of 2003 as a volunteer-run project and then received funding from the university to open its doors at the present location in the fall of 2006.MSU Bikes makes its home in the MSU Bikes Service Center, a full service bike shop on the campus of Michigan State University. It is a department under MSU Surplus & Recycling which is a division of MSU’s Infrastructure Planning and Facilities department.Michigan State University was upgraded in November 2015 as a silver level Bike Friendly University by the League of American Bicyclists. Read the MSU press release about the award here. HoursOpen Mon: 10 am- 6 pm; Tues - Fri: 10 am-5 pm year-round (Except for University Holidays) HistoryIn the spring of 2003 Gus Gosselin, then director of Building Services for Infrastructure Planning and Facilities, and Terry Link, former director of the Office of Campus Sustainability, founded the MSU Bike Project. This all-volunteer effort was dedicated to transforming abandoned bicycles into fun, economical, healthy, and environmentally friendly transportation alternatives for the MSU campus community.The Bike Project volunteers met in the basement of Demonstration Hall to restore and repair abandon bicycles. The bikes were painted in MSU colors – hence the nickname “green bikes.” Green bike leases were originally offered only to faculty and staff but became available to the entire campus community in 2004. The Bike Project began public bike repair workshops in the late winter of 2004, which serviced hundreds of bikes on a donation basis.The value of the Bike Project was recognized in 2006, when the MSU Bikes Service Center was created as an official service of MSU under the Department of Transportation. The Service Center, a full-service bike repair and rental facility, opened the day after Labor Day 2006 in the old canoe rental facility located under the Bessey Hall auditorium.In July of 2012, MSU Bikes joined Surplus Store & Recycling under Campus Sustainability. The Bikes Service Center still operates out of Bessey Hall. Additional services are expected to become available at the MSU Surplus Store in the future.The League's Silver level award seal.
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