shipping parties | Working Bikes

The following Shipping Parties have been scheduled ...

We will do a joint shipment to Nigeria today with Share Your Soles.

The location is 5623 W. 115th in Alsip. Our hand-off of the bikes will take place at 1pm. There may be press there.

We will contribute 30 bicycles to teachers in a village in Nigeria.

Please phone Lee if you need directions at 312/371-4286.

81 used children's bicycles
376 used adult bicycles
57 used tires
45 used wheels
5 boxes of used parts

457 used bicycles total

This shipping party has now been rescheduled: Wednesday December 7th ...

We will be filling another container with bikes, etc., this one bound for The Bicycle Empowerment Network (BEN) in Cape Town, South Africa ...

The location will be at the Working Bikes Warehouse at 2434 S. Western Avenue in Pilsen, from 10am until we're done - perhaps around 4pm?

We got 355 adult bikes, including over 200 MTBs, and 101 children's bike into the container that is now winging it's way towards Uganda!

IT IS HERE!!!
Wednesday November 30th, 2011, UPDATE:

The trucking company was able to locate a 40' high cube shipping container.

We are loading today and tomorrow Thursday from 10 until 4.

We will start loading today but save half for Thursday.

In any case we have to complete the loading by Friday when it has to be returned to the rail yard.

Tuesday November 29th, 2011, UPDATE:

At the moment-5pm today, our trucker is unable to find a 40' high cube, so we may need to postpone this loading, the temperature tomorrow seems to want to cooperate-40deg with 10mph wind, however we may be without a container to load.

If a container appears tomorrow morning as promised, we will load as scheduled.

Any volunteers interested in helping are more than welcome to show up, if we don't have a box we will the heated shop upstairs open for volunteering ...

We are filling a container to ship bikes to the Prisoner Support Organization in Uganda the Wednesday after Thanksgiving.

Check here & here for information on previous successful shipments to this partner in May & October 2010, here for the container we sent in May this year and here for pictures of the arrival and unpacking of a container bikes in Uganda.

344 Used Adult bicycles.
69 Used Children's bicycles
413 total used bicycles

Some adult bicycles have one or both wheels removed for packing.

We will be loading about 500 bikes for our Angola partner Associacao Nacional de Apoio no Ensino e Instrucao de Menores (National Association of Support in Teaching and Instruction of Children).

384 used adult bikes
44 used children's bikes
four boxes of parts
57 used tires
57 used wheels

We will be filling another with bikes, this one bound for The Bicycle Empowerment Network (BEN) in Namibia ...

The location will be at the Working Bikes Warehouse at 2434 S. Western Avenue in Pilsen, from 10am to 4pm.

Join us for Work, Pastries, Pizza and camaraderie.

Total used bikes 450 (adult=376 & child=74)
used cranks 25
used handlebars 41
used tires 125
used inner tubes 147
used helmets 17
used pedals 107
used shifters 47
used brakes 39
used seats 33
used wheels 103

On Wednesday, September 14th we will load a container of bikes for our partner Ability Bikes in Ghana.

Pastries, Pizza, Camaraderie, Work, etc., ...

Here is a video of the unloading of a previous shipment in Ghana and a description of the project.

327 used adult bicycles
114 used child bicycles

6 boxes of parts
81 used tires
62 used wheels
2 bags of used inner tubes
33 used helmets

The container to be filled with bikes bound for El Salvador is meant to be arriving at 11am Tuesday (9/06), details of when we will be filling it to follow ...

The container was filled with 544 used bicycles:
231 used adult bicycles with one or both wheels removed for packing,
313 used children's bicycles, 31 used wheels & 47 used tires.

We will be filling a container bound for the Panamanian Association of Goodwill Industries in Panama this Friday and Saturday from 12 noon until 4pm at 2434 S. Western Avenue in Chicago, cooperating with our partners at Bikes for the World. Pastries, Pizza and comraderie will be in abundance!

These pictures are from the Panamanian Association of Goodwill Industries (Goodwill Panama), which is a well-organized non-profit organization providing skills training and employment to more than 100 people with disabilities.

Goodwill Panama works closely with local Rotary Clubs to oversee and support the bicycle program. These photos illustrate the high degree of organization characteristic of their bicycle repair and marketing program.

Container number GLDU 762363-6 & seal=37376.

Some of the bicycles have one or two wheels removed for packing purposes.