Last call for old bikes

["David peckham" <bikosphere@hotmail.com>]

Greetings Visionaries

This is your last chance this year to send that old mountain bike to Africa. 
  Next week, the Village Bicycle Project will be sending truckloads of bikes 
from Moscow to Seattle.  Once in Seattle they will be loaded into a shipping 
container along with bikes collected by our Seattle partners, Bike Works.  
400 bikes in all are to be packed a-la-sardine, and delivered across the 
Atlantic to Ghana.

We are only looking for wide-tired adult bikes here in the Palouse because 
of the transport problems to Seattle.  Ten-speed racers should be in great 
abundance in Seattle.  Kids' bikes are not encouuraged, because of Africa's 
shortages of adult bikes.  Most kid's bikes I saw in Ghana were being 
uncomfortably ridden by adults. Kids bikes may be accepted for U of I's 
international-student community.  Email gkauffman@sub.uidaho.edu

The project could also use repair manuals and bicycling magazines.  Parts 
are in need, especially derailleurs and mtn bike wheels.  No racing 
handlebars, kickstands or racing brake levers please.

We might possibly need more help with trucks to haul bikes to Seattle.

Bring your bikes and stuff to 913 S. Jefferson, Moscow, anytime; you can 
leave it on the porch if no one is home.  It would be best to have the bikes 
by Saturday afternoon Feb. 6.  Please, none after Wensday, Feb 9.

For more info call 892-2681 or email peckham@mailcity.com
The people of Ghana thank you, me too.
regards,
DAve Peckham

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