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donating your old bikes
we are needing to make some room in our garage so it's time to get rid of some of the old bikes (don't worry the good ones live inside the house). So i've been looking for some groups/charities to donate the bikes to, so far i have found the following website that lists a few organisations and i'll contact a few of them tomorrow ( i already emailed one of them a little while back but have had no response)
http://www.bicyclerecycling.com/15.html
has anyone else donated their old bikes to a charity etc? if so which ones?
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you could allways donate Santa Cruz to me and you can have my Jamis what do you think M regards TonyC
maybe in 10 years we can trade
there's a user called itsaghostcar who helps out at a community based bike workshop in the inner city in (I think) an old nunnery. I've donated old tyres, tubes and pedals to him before. Usually they work with hard rubbish throwaways, using hte opportunity to teach bike mechanical skills. He'd be rapt to get some complete bikes.
CBD Cycles in Kent St may have current contact details for the group.
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the nunnery you are referring to is one of the places i looked up. they are in Waterloo (prev Newtown). I think i'll be making a trip there on Monday afternoon when they are open. it sounds like a really good community group and i would prefer the bikes to go to them instead of the council clean up where they just crush them with the rest of the 'stuff'.
When my first trance was stolen along with the trek to commute, i was desperate to buy a cheap used one to keep commuting until i got the money from the insurance, i got the contact of a guy who basically collects any bike he can put his hands on, replace broken with good parts among bikes and when he had a bunch in riding condition he sent them by container to some developed country. When i got there he got hundreds of bikes of every size (from children to road ones) piled in his garden. Most of then were rusty and useless but among all the crap we managed to get a ridable one. I left him some money for that ( I think it was like 20$) and when i got my new one i returned it to him.
I will see if i can find his details somewhere when i get home tonight...