This is where Bicycles For Humanity keep all their donated bikes. When they get enough money together, they buy a shipping container, fill it to the brim (with the help of wonderful volunteers) and ship it off!!
This is what 410 bikes, 80 odd helmets, and plenty of spare parts and tools looks like. Pictured is Luke talking (read: not lifting a finger) with Andy and Matt from Bicycles for Humanity.
If these bikes weren't getting a second life, they would all be going to landfill. Doesn't that make you sad that we don't recycle all of these precious commodities?? All of the donated helmets were likewise to be sent to landfill after trivial tinkering to local helmet laws made them redundant and unsellable here. Luckily Bicycles for Humanity caught wind of this, and found these perfectly good helmets a good home.
Some of the bikes had such personality and were definately pre-loved! From the 90's fluro mountain bikes to the childrens trike to the quite beautifully detailed steel framed road bikes of old, it was good to know these bikes would be used and loved by new owners on the other side of the world, perhaps creating a new generation of passionate cyclists.
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Shipping Containers are really a safe and secure means of transportation of goods which are likely to get damaged like bicycles and much more.
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