Nepean 'bike guy' fixes them up good as new, then gives them away

Grant Gilliland is known around his Nepean neighbourhood as the bike guy, but also the guy who’ll fix anything. “Anybody who posts something on Facebook and asks, ‘Can anybody look at this?’ I say I’ll look at it. Anything that rolls in my driveway, a lawnmower, or anything like that, I’ll attempt to fix, and I usually do,” Gilliland said.

Nepean 'bike guy' fixes them up good as new, then gives them away. Grant Gilliland is known around his Nepean neighbourhood as the bike guy, but also the guy who’ll fix anything. “Anybody who posts something on Facebook and asks, ‘Can anybody look at this?’ I say I’ll look at it. Anything that rolls in my driveway, a lawnmower, or anything like that, I’ll attempt to fix, and I usually do,” Gilliland said. It’s common knowledge in Bel Air Heights that Gilliland receives used bikes from neighbours and Facebook contacts, fixes them up using scrap pieces and gives them away for free — often to newcomers in his community. Before he was the neighbourhood bike guy, Gilliland worked in warehouses across Ontario in various roles. An auto mechanic by trade, he’s also been a forklift business owner and a tool rental repairman at Home Depot — but he...