Mark Rehder wrote:
Chris or I have mentioned in the past that re-Cycles has always kept track of certain stats. And these past couple of years it has really paid off in showing how much growth we've had to cope with.
As an example, in the old, windowless basement that we occupied until early 2008 we had about 1,500 people use our shop. This includes volunteers, folks doing DIY repair, and people buying stuff.
In 2008, in our most recent location, that number jumped to 2,500.
In 2009 that soared to 4,400! No wonder we felt a bit constrained and needed to move AGAIN.
So we are now ensconced in our new digs (right beside the previous place) and we'll see how things add up this year. We also know that last year we took in at least 1,200 bikes! Many were scrapped, some donated away, and the rest built up for sale. And the last of those are selling fast. We'll exhaust our inventory of ready bikes in the next week or so, then back to our usual game of bikes going out the door as fast as we get them ready.
A slight clarification:
The 1200 bikes collected in the 2009 calendar year the result of two organizations. Re-Cycles is responsible for roughly 50% of these.
Paul Wylie a re-Cycles volunteer
Mark Rehder - General Manager re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op http://re-cycles.ca
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