[Bikecoop-announce] (reminder) we need your help -- bike pickup, sorting, transport

[Fred Davidson]

(a reminder)

The Bike Project co-op is receiving a large donation of bicycles from the City of Champaign this coming Friday, the 30th of May.  We need your help.  The event begins at 10 AM out at the Champaign Public Works lot -- see the original announcement below.

The latest news is that there are well over 100 bikes for us to sort through and decide upon, then separate and transport.

If you have a pick-up truck or trailer of your own, and if you can bring it along, please do so -- that will make this go more quickly; even with the rented truck, there is a lot to do.

Thanks.  We hope you can help.

Fred

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Date: Thu 22 May 10:59:48 CDT 2008
From: Fred Davidson <fgd at uiuc.edu> Add To Address Book
Subject: help needed with bike pickup and sorting
To: The Bike Project List <bikecoop at lists.chambana.net>, bikecoop-announce at lists.chambana.net


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Hello friends and members of the Bike Project, Urbana IL

We need your help --

When: Next Friday, 30 May 2008
What: Bike Pickup and Sorting (more details below)
Where: at the Champaign Public Works lot
702 Edgebrook Dr
Champaign, IL 61820
When: 10 AM and onward (more details below)

Here is a link to a google map image that shows the location of the Champaign Public Works lot.  

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/fgd/www/cpworks.JPG

It is on Edgebrook Drive, just north of Bloomington Road and east of Hagen (and east of Home Depot), in Champaign.  Enter via Hagen and drive/ride/walk (carefully - there is typically some big machinery there) back to the warehouse at the rear of the lot, where the bikes are located, typically outdoors in front of the warehouse.

We are going to get a large load of bikes from the City of Champaign.  We are going to sort the bikes there at the Public Works lot, into stuff we know we can sell (or fix and sell) versus stuff we don't want.  The following day, Joel and I are making a run up to Chicago -- we owe twenty bicycles to Working Bikes Coop, and we are going give them a lot of the Champaign cast-aways, and as well, clear off some stuff from the ramp.  This is better than scrapping the castaways, because Working Bikes takes everything and stuff they don't fix up eventually goes into containers bound for Africa or South America.

I've rented a truck we can use to run bikes back and forth to the co-op, but other truck(s) are welcome and make that part of the work go all the quicker!  

I'll be there starting at 10 AM -- so we could use help starting then.  If you come by later and we are not there, just wait, we'll be back (we'd be running back and forth).

The contact person organizing this on the PW side is Tom Schuh.

I sure hope you can come and help.

Fred