from thebatt.com, the Texas A & M Independent Voice

The Yellow Bike Project in Austin has been up and running since 1997, allowing community members to participate in bicycle repairs, to learn about bicycle maintenance and to be able build bicycles if they can’t afford or don’t want to buy one.

A group at Texas A&M wants to build a shop on campus similar to the Yellow Bike shops so that students, staff and faculty can get involved in local bicycle projects. A campus bike shop would be maintained by volunteers and stocked with a pool of donated bicycles and parts, said the project’s organizers. The Maroon Bike Project is only in preliminary stages – grant proposals are being written and plans for a campus space are being made, but physics graduate student Lucas Naveira is excited about the possibilities.