Thanks everybody! It sounds like a collaboration between Cycles of Change, Working Bikes and Bronzeville Bikes is in the works! Please note: anyone with a bunch of fixable, but not storable/ideal bikes can give us a call! At Working Bikes, we recycle about 8,000-10,000 bikes a year and love all types of collaboration! We're definitely willing to send someone within 400-500 of chicago as long as there is enough bikes and they can be fixed.

peace n bike grease, paul

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:25 PM, nick Kojetin nkojetin@gmail.com wrote:

I volunteer with the community bike project in Bloomington, IN. If the bikes need a ride to a new home and if the moving truck costs are covered, I'd be willing to figure out how to schedule time to travel up to St. Paul and drive them to a place like the one mentioned in Chicago. Email me if there is interest in organizing this... we can also chat on the phone and will give my number if asked :).

Cheers, Nick nkojetin@gmail.com

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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:04:10 -0500 From: Jason Tanzman jason@cyclesforchange.org To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Bikes Available - St. Paul, MN Message-ID: CAKxBYDENOM7uXQ2weC2BOiU2FNrvGyYvZUrPVM40yKbcQJRXYA@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hey all,

This is kind of a long shot, since this listserv is national. Cycles for Change in St. Paul, MN is kind of overloaded with bikes. If any community bike shops were looking for bikes, we could easily give you 10, 25, 50, 100, or potentially more (we will likely have as many as 200 that we're trying to get rid of). We're 2 talking 10-speeds, 26" mountain bikes, 3-speeds, some4" mountain bikes. Nothing super fancy - lots of Murrey, Magna, Schwinn, Huffy, etc. All in decent to good condition - we've

junked

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the magnas with broken shifters and wrecked wheels, so all the bikes available are reasonably fixable. But we have mostly pulled out the Specialized Hard Rock or Raleigh Olympian quality mountain or road bikes for use in other of our programs, so there's nothing super high quality.

Anyways. If there's anyone working on a bike project in or around the

Twin

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Cities, or another bike project within a reasonable truck rental

distance -

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we'd be happy to provide bikes. We would even potentially contribute

25-50%

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of the cost of a truck rental for an organization who wants these bikes - we're at the point where they'll end up being scrapped, and they're definitely usable bikes. We'd love to help them find a good home.

Best, Jason

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