The road less traveled (by bike)

The price of oil plunges with this US Iran ceasefire and is now only 40% higher than it was before the US air strikes began. I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. Crude oil traded in New York is at $94 a barrel at the moment, down 17% in these early hours of a US and Iran ceasefire. Dan Coatsworth is head of markets at AJ Bell in the UK. It's pulled back, but it's pulled back nowhere near as low as it was at the end of February. So it's still got quite a long way to fall again. And that's sort of suggesting that markets are happy. But just because we've got a two week ceasefire doesn't mean to say this situation has been resolved. I'll tell you what though, over out of the oil markets and into the equity markets, there is some kind of relief rally forming here. And wonders if that early reaction is a bit overdone given the fact that so much uncertainty still swirls. I think that markets still are slightly nervous. But as we've seen time and time again, the market will need something new to latch onto to give them the confidence to say, let's plow ahead. So there's a really big question mark over what happens next in the coming days on the financial markets. And that's what I think is really important. President Trump said today he wants 50% taxes on goods from countries that might be sending weapons to Iran. Marketplaces Nancy Marshall-Genzer is following this development. In a social media post this morning, President Trump said any country supplying weapons to Iran will face a 50% tariff on quote any and all goods sold to the US. And there would be no exclusions or exemptions. Henrietta Trays, co-founder of Vada Partners, says Russia, North Korea and China have all sent weapons to Iran, but the tariffs are aimed at Beijing. Trade with Russia is already quite limited in trade with North Korea's in the same boat. So if you're going to tariff anything with an impact, it's going to be China. 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But today, the bike shop in Los Angeles where they use the teach a person to fish principle where Melody Scallion is a volunteer. Bike oven is a cooperatively run bike shop. What we do is instead of people dropping their bikes off to get fixed, we teach them how to do it. We charge a sliding scale donation-based fee. We sell people bikes for cheap. We recently got our tax exemption non-profit status. Congratulations. Thank you. It's not your hope that someone comes in and says, please fix this. I'll be back in a day. That's not the concept. We turn them away if they do that. We are all volunteers. It wouldn't make sense. We don't want to store their stuff either. What we want is for people to be empowered to be their own mechanics. How do you know about bikes? I got into bikes through some vegan bike punks where I grew up in Westchester, Pennsylvania, learned how to work on bikes there. Then I moved out here in 2015. I've been working on bikes at the bike oven for about three years. I knew enough to build a bike. That's what allowed me to start volunteering. Now I've learned a lot more over the past three years. Feels like a business. Feels like a community to me, having been here only for a couple minutes. Fair enough? Absolutely, fair enough. Luckily we do the business side well enough to keep the doors open. But absolutely what we want more than anything is to bring people together. People come in. They just got a bike off eBay and they want us to check it out with them. And also people come here as a hub for group rides and for community organizing, for events. Armando, what are you working on here? So I'm working on adopt the bikes. We have this program through Metro where essentially bikes get abandoned on the station. They give them to us and we refurbish them and we give them away to kids for free. Alright so listen, I know a bit about bikes, restored bikes. If I were to come over and volunteer a little bit, what would you want to know about me? You know how to change a tire, David? I can change a tire. I can change a tire. Do you know what ABC stands for? Always be what? I have no idea what ABC is. That means air brakes, chain. Those are the first three things that we check. Okay so I blew one already. I give myself a B minus or a B plus in truing a bent rim. Would that be a skill that would be useful to teach someone who came in? That would be a great skill and a nice one because it's time consuming and really easy to really mess up if you go in a little too confident. So if you could stand and hang out with that person while they do that with your B minus ability, that would be very helpful. If I wanted to volunteer, would I do? Is there like a list? We recommend that people shop around a bit, see who they like working with, what night works for them the best and that's how you get into volunteering. Just as well, we have general meetings the first Monday of every month where we discuss the happenings of the month, announcements, plan events, hang out, we serve food and that's another great way to get to know everybody and get involved and get to know how we run because how we make decisions is almost as important as fixing people's bikes. And your name? You're Reverend. Reverend Joe. The thing about the bicycling community is so diverse. You've got the roadies, you've got the Fixie kids, you've got so many different types of groups but I think what's important to me is bringing the whole community together to remove those divisions to realize that we all are trying to ride our bikes safely in Los Angeles and to do that we just need to stick together. You got to stick together in LA on bikes. Those cars are trying to take us down. That was Melody Scallion and Armando Ruiz at Bike Oven in Los Angeles. Ever heard of a job so good you'd live for Monday mornings? 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