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RollingGeek
01-28-03, 12:57 PM
Anyone have any feedback on this place ?
http://www.p4p.org/
Sounds like a neat way to donate an old bike and have someone get a really good use out of it.......
I don't know anything specifically abou this organization but I had a friend who went to mount Everest and took a duffle bag full of old reading glasses to nepal for donation so that people could have them that otherwise couldn't afford them.
If you have a bike you could spare go for it.
Joe Gardner
01-28-03, 01:38 PM
A local radio station partnered up with a local burger joint & bike shop, and had a "burgers for bikes" week, donate an old bike, get a free burger! I worked on some of the bikes, making them ridable and safe. Some of the bikes where brand new, some 50 yrs old. Overall, we collected around 450 bikes, only 20 - 30 went to the scrap yard, all otheres where donated to a company who ended up taking the bikes to Honduras.
I have never changed so many flats in my life. Of all the bikes that came in, only a small handfull where rideable. Most had flats, rusty chains, no seats etc. It was alot of hard work, but well worth it.