Recycling at the dump..

Peterx

I did find a Vitus aluminium bike with a very bent frame. Almost everything else was perfect though and the nice man let me take it away.

It has yielded essentially everything apart from a working frame;
R500 wheelset with 9 speed block
9 speed modern Sora shifters
Compact crankset BB30
Front and rear Sora mech
FSA stem, handlebars, seatpost
Vitus Saddle
FSA brake callipers
Bottle cage
Look Keo pedals
And a broken frame for my colleague in the materials lab to play with.

I asked the guy and there is no formal arrangement in place for scavanging bikes or bike parts. It's a pity as Róthar or any of the schemes in the disadvantaged areas could make good use of the parts.
A man from Clondalkin used to come on an ad hoc basis but hasn't for a while.

Seaswimmer

The recycling centre in Ballyogan (DLR) has an area for disposing of bikes. Its behind a couple of barriers and there is a sign on it saying that the bikes go to Rothar.

I notice the Rothar in Patrick St in Dun Laoghaire appears to be gone so not sure which if any Rothar they go to now..

cdaly_

The Fingal CoCo facility at Swords estuary has a bike recycling thing going. I don't think they'll let you scavange but they pass them on to somebody or other...

Peterx

SDCC are interested in facilitating a scheme of this sort with the caveat that it can't really be a one man operation.

Now to find an existing community group to benefit!

godtabh

Seaswimmer wrote: »

The recycling centre in Ballyogan (DLR) has an area for disposing of bikes. Its behind a couple of barriers and there is a sign on it saying that the bikes go to Rothar.

I notice the Rothar in Patrick St in Dun Laoghaire appears to be gone so not sure which if any Rothar they go to now..

Gone about 2 weeks. Its been fitted out for something new.

Lumen

Peterx wrote: »

SDCC are interested in facilitating a scheme of this sort with the caveat that it can't really be a one man operation.

Now to find an existing community group to benefit!

Or a woman.

Peterx

Foroige (Tallaght Youth Service) are provisionally interested in a scheme like this and SDCC will facilitate once a defined pathway is in place from the dump to the community - ie: not a undefined pathway into my shed.

For it to work it will need more than just the one man mentioned in the previous post and should any of ye, man woman or gender fluid person, happen to live near Ballymount and Tallaght it would be great to be able to set up a loose rota to take the bike parts from the dump to the as yet undefined space in the community as the one man mentioned in the previous post could indeed be a woman but at the moment it is one man and indeed only an idea.

tanx.

T-Maxx

cdaly_ wrote:

The Fingal CoCo facility at Swords estuary has a bike recycling thing going. I don't think they'll let you scavange but they pass them on to somebody or other...

Nope. I was there today and your man was very adamant that it ain't free.

So I just drove down the road and fcuked it into the hedgerow so I did. Yeah like a boss.

Alek

So I just drove down the road and fcuked it into the hedgerow so I did. Yeah like a boss.

Did you really?

T-Maxx

Of course not.

I fcuked it into the estuary.

tomasrojo

T-Maxx wrote: »

Nope. I was there today and your man was very adamant that it ain't free.

Ballyogan used to take bikes for free, and I think it still does. Metal in general, I think.

(Don't know if they single out carbon bikes for exclusion. Doubt it.)

roverrules

T-Maxx wrote: »

Nope. I was there today and your man was very adamant that it ain't free.

So I just drove down the road and fcuked it into the hedgerow so I did. Yeah like a boss.

+1 on that, €8 for a car boot seems to be the charge

tomasrojo

roverrules wrote: »

+1 on that, €8 for a car boot seems to be the charge

Ballyogan charges €30 minimum for anything that isn't free. It's a bit unfair in that a pedestrian, a cyclist and the driver of a standard car are all charged the same. (But I probably would be arriving on bike with the equivalent of a car trunk load, between a trailer and panniers.)

Checked the rules at their website just now. Bikes still free. Still classified under "Metals".

8valve

Rebike will take all old bikes/parts/wheels and put them to good use.

http://www.facebook.com/rebikeireland

Peterx

8valve wrote: »

Rebike will take all old bikes/parts/wheels and put them to good use.

http://www.facebook.com/rebikeireland

That's a great set-up and fair play to him.

Hopefully we can get something similar going in Ballymount/Tallaght.
There are perfectly good bikes and parts ending up in the metal bin in Ballymount every day, diverting those back into the community is the goal.

The community and the council are talking about how to progress this opportunity and when they decide then we can get going here.

8valve

I set up Rebike 12 months ago..if there's any way I can help or advise, feel free to ask.
Paul.