The document summarizes the process of preparing bicycles for shipment to Ghana to be distributed by the Village Bicycle Project. Key steps include removing pedals and turning handlebars to pack bikes more tightly in a shipping container. Over 500 bikes and parts were loaded into a 40-foot container in Ithaca, New York and shipped to Accra, Ghana. Once in Ghana, local bike mechanics will repair the bikes and sell them at affordable prices, as well as provide maintenance workshops to empower people to ride and fix their own bikes.

1. Getting the bikes ready for shipment (i.e. removing pedals, turning handlebars so that they’re in line with the frame). This way, we can pack the bikes more tightly into the shipping container.

3. A sea of bicycles

10. More bicycles…stored in the basement

12. The 40-foot shipping container arrives on “loading day”and parks on one of the steepest streets in Ithaca!

13. Let the loading begin!

14. So, how do you remove pedals again?

15. Let’s move the bikes from the backyard out to the front and then into the container

18. And now, for a game of tetrus – packing the bikes in the container

22. So, is that bike sitting in your garage really just scrap metal?....or can transform someone’s life?