1,200 bicycles have been anonymously donated to Burning Man 2007 to be used for the Black Rock City yellow bike program, a public transportation system where anyone can use the bikes to travel around the playa. The Black Label Bike Club is currently assembling and painting the bikes yellow and when the project is completed, Black Rock City will have one of the highest number of bikes per capita in the world.
UPDATE: Danger Ranger wrote us with an update saying that “In typical Burning Man fashion, the bikes are being painted green and stenciled with the message “YELLOW BIKE” in red paint”.
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Thanks so much to this amazing anonymous person or organization for their generous donation. You rock!
Wow. Kudos to the folks having to put together 1200 bikes, too. They’re obviously sent unassembled!
Anonymously donated by Huffy from the looks of the photo.
So much for self reliance and anti-sponsorship.
Sorry. Maybe I’m just grumpy tonight. I’ll feel better when Winnebego gives me a free RV to sleep in. What’s going to happen with all those bikes afterwards?
Hey,
Any word as to how these will be distributed? i.e. via sign up timeslots or day-long rentals?
Color me stoked.
Maybe Huffy just donated the boxes. Unwittingly. Frankly I don’t care if they did and made a nice photo-op, as long as the brand name isn’t visible anywhere at the event. This is an amazing donation!
Re: distribution: hahaha! If the bikes aren’t just left around for people to find, ride, forget, crash, hoard and destroy, then I don’t know Burning Man.
Ha! All those bikes are massed produced in China and will be recalled in a week due to high levels of lead in the paint. I said it first.
this is awesome since I don’t have a bike and it’s a long way across the playa on foot.
It would have made more sense to paint them purple, since what you are seeing is the color of light reflected off the bikes, meaning it’s true color (and in photo-negative) would in fact be yellow.