[sustran] Re: What to do with 900 bikes?

Joachim Bergerhoff agimjo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 15:43:24 JST 2010


Are helmets still compulsory?  Are they still confiscating bikes?  In this
case, you might want to give the newer bikes to the social ngos and melt
down the old ones to transform them into iron cast cycling helmets ...

j



On 11 March 2010 02:43, Carlosfelipe Pardo <carlosfpardo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a practical problem: Bogotá's traffic police have taken away
> bicycles from people not wearing helmets, and getting them back costs
> more than the actual cost of the bike. In consequence, there are a
> couple of yards with some 900 bikes sitting there for the last 10
> years. This week a judge has told a local organization that they are
> willing to "donate them" for a noble cause, but that they must be
> taken from the yards before this Friday. They are getting a warehouse
> to store them at least from Friday and during some weeks, but now the
> questions are:
> - Will they be at all useful (imagine, bikes that have been in the
> open and under rain, sun, etc for up to 10 years...)?
> - If they're not useful as fully-functional bikes, what can they be
> used for? Some people have said they should do a sculpture, do various
> sculptures and do an auction with those sculptures, turn them into
> blocks of scrap metal...
>
> Now my question to all of you is: what would you do with 900
> used-disfunctional bicycles? (of course, imagine you have very limited
> amounts of money to do something).
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Carlosfelipe Pardo
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