Giving Bikes to Poverty and Disaster Areas

cycling, mountain biking | UltraRob | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

Here’s an update on the World Bicycle Relief donation that I’m doing. If you weren’t aware of it, you can read the post where I announced it and the press release I did. There’s also info on it in the World Bicycle Relief’s December newsletter.

Donations make even more of a difference through the end of the year because an angel donor is matching dollar for dollar up to $750,000. Since these are basic bikes used to improve people’s lives instead of fancy, light race bikes, they only cost $134 each.

The last few weeks have been unbelievable on UltraRob.com with people buying cycling and outdoor gear for Christmas. Right now I’m close to donating 9 bikes with the match. There’s still a week left so it would be very cool to donated at least 10 bikes.

There’s still time to get gear for Christmas gifts from most stores using expedited shipping. Many stores are offering shipping discounts. For example, Backcountry.com is offering 2 day shipping for $9.99. I’m not sure how long they’ll be doing it.

Need gift ideas? Read 7 Cycling and Outdoor Gift Ideas and a Dozen More Gift Ideas for Cyclists. Also gift cards make great gifts and many stores have email gift cards that can be sent at the last minute.

My donation includes Christmas Day. If you don’t get something you were really wanting, you can come to UltraRob.com that evening to find it and still help out less fortunate people around the world.

World Bicycle Relief started a campaign yesterday with a goal of getting enough donations for 100 bikes by noon on Friday. With the match, it’ll make 200 bikes.

Don’t plan on buying any gear? Just head over to World Bicycle Relief and make a donation. $1, $5, $10, every little bit helps.

Martha Van Inwegen from ActionWipes is also going to donate 10% to World Bicycle Relief. I’ve used ActionWipes and they are great for outdoor adventures when you can’t shower. They are wipes from grown ups. They also have other products that are easy on you and on the environment.

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