Yellow Bikes go to Charity for Recycling
Following the recent Tour de France Grand Depart, there remained a large number of yellow bikes scattered about Wensleydale. The Rotary Club has been collecting some of them to be recycled and sent to third world countries.
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Over 80 bikes of various sizes and conditions have so far been donated. On 31st October, they were collected by Tony Smith and a colleague from the Mary Carey Foundation who will have them stripped, cleaned and reassembled by inmates of several prisons and young offenders establishments, then sent to various third world countries.
This project has now ended.
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