We were recently asked to spread the word about this interesting organization:
I am contacting you in the hope that you might help us spread the word to the Ottawa cycling community about Cycle Salvation.
Cycle Salvation is a social enterprise operating under the umbrella of Causeway Work Centre. The business strives to achieve a triple bottom line (profit, people, planet). We do this by providing training in bike mechanics to people who are economically disadvantaged, providing refurbished bikes at a reasonable price to the cycling community, and at the same time diverting bikes destined for scrap and landfill sites.
Of course, we depend on a steady stream of donated bikes to work on. As you can imagine, the stockpile of bikes is running pretty low now in February. We are hoping that we can notify the community of our need for bike donations so that the idea is fresh in their minds when they first pull their old bikes out of winter storage.
Please check out our website at www.cyclesalvation.org
2 Comments for Cycle Salvation
Mark Rehder | February 28, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Eric Montgomery | February 19, 2010 at 4:35 pm
I have recycled many hi-end bikes purchased at garage sales, ten + year old MTB for $20 +. Most of these require tires and cables from age not use and maybe a chain that is too rusted.
I have recycled about 100 bikes in the past 42 years.
I was trying to work a deal with the land recycling centres ( another region )to sort them, the good from the bad so that only the bad/cheap were scaped.
More to come
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Cycle Salvation is partnered with the re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op. They use the shop when we’re not open, and that’s the reason we’ve run low – bikes are being processed a lot more quickly now!
What Cycle Salvation really needs are some half-decent bikes. We have lots of crappy old ten-speeds in the basement, but none of those are worth the effort of a full overhaul, which command higher prices and help CS pay their rent. (re-Cycles has gotten most of the low-end ones ready in As Is but perfectly ride-able condition for sale).