Well, 6 cycling groups (2 advocacy groups and 4 co-ops) just
collaborated on a grant proposal to the LA County Department of Public
Health as they sought funding from the CDC. Part of the proposal was
to create a "Bike Acquisition Czar," a job for someone to collect
bicycles from the Metro, LAPD and other sources and then redistribute
them any of the 6 groups that would need them.
The LADPH just awarded their grant from the Feds, but not the entire
amount, so we're not sure how much we'll be getting, if it's enough to
move forward with the Czar position, etc., but I just thought I'd let
you know it's something on our minds down here in the city of angels!
Kelly On Mar 25, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Jason Moore wrote:
Does anyone know of a bike collective in California that has an
arrangement with the city on abandoned bikes? We are working on
setting this up in Davis, but it would be nice to have a model to
follow, especially if the model fits into California law with
regards to what a city can do with abandoned property.Jason
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:02 PM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote: Something we're just coming around to when it comes to accepting
these donations is that we are doing the "donating" group a huge
favor by showing up and cleaning out their space of these unwanted
bikes. As we all know, schlepping and storing unused or broken bikes
gets old really quick. Keep this in mind when approaching the group
you'd like to donate the bikes. Use it as a selling point. "Got
bikes you need removed? We'll remove them for you!" sounds better to
a lot of larger organizations like schools or property management
companies than "If you have bikes you'd like to donate..."Remember, you're doing them a favor. It just so happens that the
"rubbish" you're removing is getting reused and benefited from.
Similar to the "1-800-GOT JUNK" place. They charge you to come out
and take your stuff. They don't just landfill everything they pick
up but it goes somewhere...On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Geoffrey B vous.je@gmail.com wrote: 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!
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