We have been collecting bicycles for the first set of building parts.
At the trash handling facility Rautenweg in Vienna, run by the city’s MA48 department for resource and waste management, we could obtain 14 bicycles. These were selected from a batch that was not considered worth restoring and that would otherwise be transferred to a metal recycling stream.
In a tedious process, the bicycles were stripped of all parts, to extract the mainframes as structural elements for further processing. The leftover parts were donated to the non-profit workshop collective “Absteige“.
From Absteige we later received a retour-donation of half-naked bike frames, that they had no further use for. These specimens are still waiting for further editing…
