At 81, the ‘Bike Man’ keeps rolling along

LYNDONVILLE, Vt. (InvestigateTV) - In Lyndonville, Vermont, Gordon Thresher is known as “The Bike Man.”“I strip bicycles to fix bicycles,” Thresher said.Down in the basement is where Thresher spends much of the winter, fixing up donated bikes. “Even have some of them delivered to me. They want them out of their yards, usually a total mess, that’s okay,” he said.It usually takes two to three hours to make them street worthy. “I’ve never bought a chain for a bicycle, because I take these apart,” Thresher said. “I put tags on them, because tomorrow I’ll forget what I’m doing today.” On this day, he’s working on a mountain bike. Bikes have been his passion since he was a kid. “I only had one bike, a Western Auto bike. I got it for $10, and I thought it was monstrous, the best thing I had.”And it helped him make money in younger years in central Vermont. He’d tow a lawnmower behind his bike. “And at first, I had one lawn, then I was up to 14 lawns, and then they had me work in the cemetery,