I agree, It really depends on the size of the space and number of volunteers. Coatesville is a steel mill town with a scrap iron yard very close to the center of town. We are a very small (8 volunteers) organization with no permanent space and we accept all bikes. Here are few reasons that we do this: to recycle the bikes for less landfill waste, reuse any use-full parts, and lastly to make contact with our community for potential volunteers and donors. We know of an organization in Maryland that will take the bikes we can not use and ship them overseas to other countries. Folks in these countries don't care who made it, they only care that it works. We haven't had to ship any bikes out of the area, as many in our community, how shall I say this, are on the lower end of the economic scale. So the majority of the bikes go right back into the community. Coatesville Community Bike Works Coatesville, PA Lesa Franz http://coatesvillebikeworks.org/?page_id=21
--- On Mon, 7/18/11, ryan jenkins ryan.t.jenkins@gmail.com wrote:
From: ryan jenkins ryan.t.jenkins@gmail.com Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Turning down rust bucket B.S.O's as donations To: "The Think Tank" thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Date: Monday, July 18, 2011, 4:11 PM
depending on the size of your space, I think the options all vary.
I find that friction shifters and plastic brake levers are still salvageable from bikes like that, but I know exactly where you are going with all of that. I think we serve a purpose as the middle man between the community and the steel scrappers. Every day we are open we probably get stuff that goes into the "strip and scrap pile". We have a number of a nice guy who is a local steel scrapper so we call him up when we get a good pile.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Boson Au instructions@gmail.com wrote:
as in:
how do I nicely tell the kind folks that we really can't use their pickup truck full of rusty magnas without sounding like a snob?
Boson Au 2818 st paul st. apt 1F Baltimore, MD 21218 443-286-8494 http://velocipedebikeproject.org
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