shipping parties | Working Bikes

The following Shipping Parties have been scheduled ...

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.

527 bikes, 147 child's & 380 adult's, crammed into the container!

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.

STOP-PRESS: it looks like we still haven't managed to procure a container, so the shipping-party will have to be postponed?

We (Lee) have finally scheduled a shipping party to load bikes into a container bound for Angola on Saturday, May 10th.

Due to the weak dollar and increased fuel costs shipping to Angola is much more expensive than before, so the need to pack 500 adult bikes into the container to increase the value of it's contents is even greater!

Working Bikes paid for the shipment of a container of bikes from Bikes Not Bombs, in Boston, to our partner Maya Pedal, in Guatemala.

Our colleagues at Bikes Not Bombs managed to cram an impressive 542 bikes into the container over the weekend!

A copy of their eMail follows ...

From: carl kurz
Subject: WB/BNB Guatemala Shipment
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:37:53 -0500
To: "Kistler, Yuki"

To All of you Concerned,

We will load our first container from our new International Shipping Warehouse at 1401 W. Waubansia on Saturday Nov. 10th from 9AM untill 3PM. Please come for as long as you can during. 1401 W. Waubansia is two blocks North and one block East of Stanley's fruit stand (located at North and Elston).

The donated bikes and books are going to the Tumani School in Arusha, Tanzania with our partners the Global Alliance for Africa.

Saturday Oct. 6th, we will load from 400 to 500 bikes for Callao, Peru for our partners COPRODELI (coprodeli.org). This follows two bike drives for Peru last weekend at Old St. Pats and an Eagle Scout bike drive in Oak Park.

The "Party" will take place from 8:30 to 1:30 on Saturday at 927 S. Western. So you have to finish the marathon quickly. We will lovingly lower the bikes from the rear window as in the old days.