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Working
Bikes (Thanks
to Mike Kruger and Cliff Hoffman)
Posted 06/10/07 and 7/1/07 |
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| For the 2007 ride to Working Bikes Cooperative the
EBC visited the warehouse at 321 N Kedzie where they were preparing a
shipment to Ghana. Here, Lee is explaining how WBC works. |
There are bicycles everywhere in the background.
From here, the warehouse looks pretty much like any other warehouse
space. |
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| A mix here: a cute little girl's bike, mountain bikes (likely
sent abroad) and old 27 inch road bikes (likely sold at the store on
Western, south of Taylor). Looks like a baby carriate behind the pink
bike. |
This is just looking on ONE direction. Pretty much
the same view in all directions. Note sunlight coming from above. The
roof of this warehouse WBC has been allowed to use is very leaky to
nonexistent. |
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| Tower of bikes. This might be a group to be
scavanged for spare parts? |
The view in another direction. Looks like lots of kids bikes in
the center. When they prepare a shipping container, the kids bike form
the top layer, so these may be staged for that purpose. Lee and the
other WBC people were very cooperative, but they were trying to get work
done, so I didn't want to do an interrogation. You can see the sunlight
coming in through the roof. |
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| A related group collects medical equipment, such as wheelchairs. |
They collect walkers, too. |
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| Dave Skogley poses with his hand on an old Schwinn
Varsity. A couple of new wheel, and the bike would be usable. (Oh, and
you'd probably want a saddle. And overhauling the bearings. And new
cables.) |
Group shot. We had 17 riders despite the threat of
thunderstorms (which we never saw). This is a big group to lead through
city traffic, but the group cooperated very well (My thanks to Steve
Matuk for sweeping.) Despite quite a bit of glass in some sections,
we were lucky to have no flats or mechanical problems. |
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| Lee and volunteers doing final prep in order to load the bikes
into the shipping container at left. About 500 bikes, packed in 3
layers, will go into the container. This one's going to Ghana. |
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