Village Bicycle Project Shipping Party - complete!
With the help of a lot of volunteers we were able to fill the container in about 4 hours ...
We crammed 331 adult (mainly 26" & some 24") and 144 20" childrens bikes into the container, along with 3 boxes of cranks, 1 box of brakes, 1 bucket of chains, 1 box of new MTB suspension forks, 23 extra 26" wheels and 4 bags of MTB inner-tubes.
Ability Bikes Ghana Shipping Party - complete!
The container contents were:
150 BMX 20" bikes
370 Adult and adolescent mountain bikes
17 extra wheels
7 extra one-piece cranks
Pictures HERE
The quality was probably the best we have ever shipped. There were many Diamondback, Specialized, Mongoose and Haro bikes in perfect condition that we could have easily sold.
We estimate the value of the contents of this container at around $25k in Chicago.
Costa Rican Shipping Party - complete!
At the Costa Rican Shipping Party we managed to fit over 500 adult & small bikes into the container bound for the Fundacion Integral Compesina of Costa Rica.
Details: 324 used mountain bikes (24" & 26" wheels), 199 used BMX bikes (20" wheels), 2 boxes of reflectors, 19 loose used forks, 77 loose used pedals, 37 extra used wheels & a box of used brakes.
Tanzania Shipping Party - completed
We managed to load 514 bikes, one unicycle and many, many parts into the container that blocked one lane of Western Avenue between 10:00am and 2:30pm on a blustery Saturday, when the rain & snow (thankfully) held off. Kudos and many thanks to all who showed up and helped. See pictures HERE & HERE!
We will load a container of bikes at our New International Shipping Terminal,
at 907 S. Western Avenue, on Saturday - from 9AM to 3PM.
Tanzania Shipping party - completed
We managed to get a container this (past) weekend and 25 brave volunteers filled it in the pouring rain! Visit Raul's Picasa Web Album to see how wet everybody got!
We packed 320 26" mountain bikes, 93 24" mountain bikes and 139 20" kid's bikes. This adds up to 552 bikes. We also loaded about 80 boxes of books.
Shipment to Maya Pedal with BNB
Working Bikes will pay for the transportation of another container of bikes from Bikes Not Bombs, in Boston, to our partner Maya Pedal, in Guatemala.
Ghana Shipping Party - completed, at last!
We finally got a container for the Ghana shipment and managed to cram over 500 bikes and many spare parts into it on Saturday October 4th. People worked so hard there was nothing left to do on Sunday! Pictures HERE
This was the last shipping party to be held at Wabansia as we are now moving out of that location.
Tanzania Shipping Party - completed
Saturday we start at the Western warehouse at 11 AM. We will loosely load a rental truck with mountain bikes.
They will then be taken to 1401 W. Waubansia at 2 PM where we will start loading the actual container. We will load until people decide they have done enough for one day.
We will return to Waubansia on Sunday at 10 AM and continue loading the container until we've had enough for one day.
Shipping Party for Angola - completed
527 bikes, 147 child's & 380 adult's, crammed into the container! Pictures HERE
Marathon Angola Shipping Party Thursday and Friday.
We have been waiting for a container to be available for two months and here it is.
We want to load 500 bikes today and tomorrow to be free for this weekend's festivities.
1401 West Waubansia. 8 AM to 9 PM Thursday and Friday.
