Costa Rica Shipping Party
Sue's Youtube video of the container being unloaded.
We got exactly 500 bikes in the container, leaving all wheels on them but removing the handlebars. 198 BMX & other 20" bikes and 302 MTBs and road bikes.
We will be filling a container bound for the Fundación Integral Campesina (FINCA) in Costa Rica this week ...
Ecuador Shipping Party
Raul is organizing a shipping party for Ecuador on February 5th in coordination with Bikes Not Bombs, based in Boston, MA.
Panama Shipping Party - completed
We managed to stuff 505 bikes (a mix of road & mountain and smaller 20" wheeled bikes) into the container, along with extra wheels & tyres and lots of other spare parts.
335 used adult bicycles with their front wheels removed, 170 used children's bicycles, 7 boxes of used parts, 4 bags of patched inner tubes, 57 used tires & 63 extra used wheels (of the 335 adult bikes, 115 are road bikes and 220 are mountain bikes).
El Salvador Shipping Party - completed
Gallery of pictures of this shipments bikes arriving & being being distributed in El Salvador ...
We managed to cram in 367 adult (a mix of ATB, cruisers & road bikes), 98 child bikes (with 20" wheels), 67 spare wheels, 57 tires, 4 bags of tubes & 4 boxes of parts. That is 465 bikes total.
Late October Shipping Party: WPSO, Uganda - completed
eMail from Irene, after receipt & unpacking of the container in April ...
Haiti Shipment
A colleague, Jack, is driving a truck from Chicago to Miami loaded with medical supplies bound for Haiti - Working Bikes will contribute 10-20 bikes to this shipment and will be hand-picking & loading suitable bikes mid-morning this Friday ...
We prepared 20 fat-tyred bikes (mainly MTBs but there were a few cruisers), then took them and all of our medical equipment (crutches, walkers & 8 wheelchairs) along to the truck-loading in Mount Prospect on Saturday - as problems procuring a vehicle meant they didn't manage to get to us on Friday.
BEN, Namibia, Shipping Party - completed
At last count we had stuffed 334 adult MTBs and 178 juvenille BMXs onto the container, along with 1-piece cranks, tyres and extra wheels. Lee was still stuffing a few small kids bikes in and was up to 7 when I left, so the total was 519 & counting!
STOP_PRESS: I'm told that we got up to 525 bikes by the times the doors were closed?
Angola Shipping Party - completed!
We stuffed 487 bikes (387 adult MTBs & 100 20" BMX, etc.) into the container, along with extra wheels & tyres, etc.
We WILL be filling a container bound for Angola this coming Saturday, September 4th.
This shipment is being arranged with our partners at the SHAREcircle.
Ability Bikes, Ghana, Shipping Party - completed
On Tuesday, October 12th 2010, David Branigan, the International Programs Director of Bikes Not Bombs, wrote:
"Just to let you know, Ability Bikes received the container from Working Bikes last week and cleared it without a problem. This container was critical in supporting Ability Bikes to generate the needed funds to pay off their 10-year rent deposit for the new storage space, and bank some funds as operating capital.
Thanks for this amazing support. The Ability Bikes workers send their greetings and gratitude. I will keep you informed of project developments in the future."
El Salvador Shipping Party - completed
Thanks to all who came to help, despite the heat & humidity! We got 439 bikes, 307 adult & 132 childrens, into the container - alomng with more frames, wheels, tyres and other assorted parts.
We will be filling a container bound for the Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation with our partners at Bikes for the World on Saturday, July 10th, at 2434 S. Western Avenue.
