Here are a few pictures from the November 4th Tanzania Shipping party.


Captain Lee using a disembodied wheelset to navigate the sea of mountain bikes.


Student volunteers preparing bikes for the container.


Volunteers inside the loading dock area.


The logistics of loading a shipping container most efficiently.


Almost ready to hit the road.


Lee looking vaguely dangerous with a radial saw.


The empty warehouse floor.


Finishing touches by the irrepressible Mr. Brown.

Tanzania Shipping Party this Saturday, November 7 at 10AM.

This Saturday, Working Bikes will be loading a shipping container of bicycles heading out to the Vijana Vocational Center in Arusah Tanzania, a project of our partners at the Global Alliance for Africa. Check out their organization here: http://www.globalallianceafrica.org/home, and come join us Saturday morning for a party with a real purpose. Who knows, you may end up in a picture posted on the WB blog.

After the Party

Many thanks to everyone who came out for the Working Bikes 10th anniversary gala. If you stayed late, you enjoyed riding in the midget bicycle peloton. If you had to leave early, you may have had to walk your bicycle home because your lovely ride may have had one too many shots of T.R.'s outstanding dumpster Crown Royal, anno 1965.

Raul was kind enough to forward a link to the Picasa album of Manoj Paul's terrific pictures from the party. Some of his photos appear below, along with my lesser efforts, but a larger sampling of his pictures can be seen here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/workingbikeschicago/10thAnniversaryParty#
Manoj claims to have taken no fewer than 183 pictures at the party (he was running around with the nice DSLR), and more of his photos should surface in future postings.

Congratulations to Lee and Amy and everyone at Working Bikes.

Working Bikes 10th Anniversary Party

Please be sure to join us this Saturday, September 26, from 6:00 until 10:00 pm for Working Bike's 10th Anniversary Party. We will be hosting our own little critical mass at 2434 S. Western with food, beer from our partners at New Belgium, musical entertainment, and of course all things velodromatic and otherwise cyclic. Pixie races and trick riding. Psyched out Sting-Rays with padded sissy bars. Fixed-gear tricycles. If you would like to help out as a party volunteer, please contact us at volunteer4wbc@gmail.com. We hope to see you there.

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