Rich: We experience this as well with Recycle Bicycles here in Denver. However, if you have good rear 26" MTB wheels it seems we can always use those. Let me know if these are some of those soon to be recycled wheels and we can make arrangements. Thanks, Bruce P.S. Derailers might be in need of wheels. You might contact those guys if they are not on this group mailing list. Take care.

Rich Points rich@richpoints.com wrote: Collectives, Community Cycles in Boulder has a wheel problem, I'm guessing your bike collective does too. Do you have too many wheels? How do you manage them? We're about to recycle a bunch of good wheels that we don't have room for. How can we put them to use?

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Hi everyone,

This is my first post to the list. I'm the Director at the re-Cycles
Bicycle Co-op in Ottawa, and volunteer Chris Wells has posted to this
list. http://re-cycles.ca

We always have an overflow of wheels, especially 27"s! But with our
surplus of wheels we always seem to have a shortage of decent rear
ones...

We are fortunate to have a separate storage room, so the steel wheels
go up there, and the alloys stay in the shop. Any steel ones that
have rust or need too much work are condemned to the scrap pile, and
we have absolutely no guilt about sending these off to be recycled
(especially if they are the almost-never-asked-for 24" size). We
keep some 20"s and 16"s for trailer projects, and of course good 26 x
1 3/8 (ISO 590) are always needed for the old 3-speeds.

Alloy wheels of course can't have any dents, and if they have rusty
galvanized spokes they will often get scrapped. Again, they'll get
turned into other metal products when recycled, so we don't get too
worked up about this. Otherwise we'd be buried in wheels, and
speaking of that...

We were recently contacted by a retired fellow that had closed his
bike shop and wanted to donate his leftover inventory to us. The
bulk of this inventory consists of 60 wheels, most in new condition!
Fortunately for us, the above-mentioned Chris has an empty covered
trailer on his property and is going to put all the wheels in there
and then gradually bring them to our shop as needed. We will
gleefully recycle any alloy wheels we've kept lying around that need
too much work (missing axles and / or cones) to make room for these.

One way we get rid of surplus mtn. bike wheels (and tires) is to
donate them to an org. that sends them overseas. See: http://www.re- cycles.ca/bfh2007.html

Mark

On 11-Oct-07, at 5:42 PM, Rich Points wrote:

Collectives, Community Cycles in Boulder has a wheel problem, I'm guessing your
bike collective does too. Do you have too many wheels? How do you manage them? We're about to recycle a bunch of good wheels that we don't
have room for. How can we put them to use?

Help

-- Rich Points Community Cycles Director http://CommunityCycles.org Rich@CommunityCycles.org 720-565-6019

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