Bikes for the World Needs Some Help Next Week

[acc]

I worked with Bikes for the World last Friday loading bikes onto a container truck for transport to Costa Rica. This shipment is scheduled for delivery to a rural area where people will have the opportunity to purchase a bike with a micro loan.

Right now the former prison gym in Lorton is filled with donated bikes awaiting processing and loading. Have you ever seen 4,000+ bikes in one place?
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It took a group of six of us about 4 hours to come close to loading approximately 400 bikes.
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This shows the second row about halfway finished.
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This is the sixth and seventh row.

And sometimes you find the oddest things.
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Bikes of the World is looking for volunteers on Friday and Saturday mornings to work in Lorton loading bikes and doing some processing.
http://www.bikesfortheworld.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=115&Itemid=1

It’s hard, dirty work. And that’s why I like it.

[KLizotte]

Wow, that’s amazing but I’d be concerned about the bikes getting damaged being squished in like that. Hopefully there are folks at the other end that can check them out before they hit the road.

Awesome work though by the organization (and our intrepid Ann of course).

[brendan]

@acc 21792 wrote:

And sometimes you find the oddest things.
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For some reason, the first thing that came to mind was an animated series starring those two bike seats.

Brendan

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