we ask apartment buildings, the super lets us at th ebikes because they are an inconvenience to them. We see donations as rubbish removal, and we bring the rubbish into rebellious cheapo bikes for a impoverished community.

You gotta turn over this rubbish with volunteer power or you get swamped. The city and university facilities in Toronto simply sell cathces of garbage bikes on creigslist instead of donating them to wirthy non-profits. What a shame.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Alicia Dvorak <aliciadvorak@gmail.com> wrote:
At sibley bike depot, we get a lot (currently almost too many!) of our
bikes from st. paul neighborhood cleanups. the city has these cleanups
where residents can bring all their unwanted crap and it gets recycled
by various people/organizations (electronics, furniture, etc). we get
the bikes. I don't know that a lot of cities do things like this,
minneapolis, for example, doesn't b/c you can leave large items with
your regular trash pickup. we've also started getting bikes from other
cleanups from some of the suburbs.

alicia

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Wendy Monroe <wendy.monroe@usermail.com> wrote:
>
>
> We have posted this flyer around on local bulletin boards in community
> organizations and grocery stores to collect donated bikes here for the 'Fix
> your bike' project in Amsterdam ... it has worked pretty well.
>
> Text reads, roughly translated:  ' Do you have somewhere an old bike ?  That
> you don't do anything with anymore? Would you like to do something good with
> it?
> Then it would be very nice of you to donate it to the workshop, 'Fix your
> bike' for youth, sponsored by ( local community development organization..)
>
> Hope this helps... I scanned the wonderful line drawing from a German
> anarchist bike repair book, 'Das Grosse Fahrradbuch.'
>
> Wendy Monroe
>
>
>
> On 01 Nov 2009, at 23:29, Erik Stockmeier wrote:
>
>> Are there any groups out there with strong partnerships with local
>> municipalities or campuses to collect abandoned bicycles?  I know the
>> Recyclery (Chicago) and many other groups certainly pick up donations from
>> police departments and the like, but we have a number of volunteers and a
>> campus environmental group working on setting up a structured collection
>> program and are looking for ways to proceed.  Do you, for example, have a
>> specific notice or flyer you attach to bikes?  We are thinking of something
>> that says "hello, this bike looks abandoned.  if it is yours, you can fix it
>> up at the recyclery.  Otherwise it will be removed..."
>>
>> Anyhow, just wondering if anyone has already done this.  Thanks for your
>> help!
>>
>> Erik
>> @ The Recyclery (Chicago)
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