70,000 people attended Nevada’s Burning Man festival this September, leaving behind 5,000 bicycles that were all going to be scrapped.
The photo below, posted on Instagram by Logan Mirto, quickly went viral and caught the attention of two Good Samaritans who plan to save as many bikes as possible and donate them to families in need of transportation after Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma.
Photo: Logan Mirto / Instagram
Matthew Rockwell, founder of the charity start-up Disaster Hack, immediately made the connection between the abandoned bikes and the thousands of destroyed cars in Houston. He started picking through the pile and pulled out about 500 bikes.
The photo also caught the attention of Meg Kiihne, who once lived and ran a bike shop on Turks and Caicos. She says…
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