Cash for Clunkers, Portland Style
Now this is my kinda’ Cash for Clunkers program:
Bring in any old repairable* clunker, get $50 off any new bike priced under $1000 (excluding the Flying Pigeon), or $100 off one of the following: Mundo, Boxbike, Joe bike, or a complete XtraCycle build (Free Radical kit + new bike). We’ll donate your clunker to the Community Cycling Center, Bike Farm, or some other nonprofit that could find it a new home.
*Our staff will determine whether or not a bike is repairable.
The new bike you choose can be either something we have in stock or anything we can order, so you can choose from a wide range of bikes from Batavus, Surly, Redline, Torker, Abio, Pake, and others. The program will probably end on Sept. 1 2009, or maybe later.
Joe Bike →
7 Responses to “Cash for Clunkers, Portland Style”
Now that is a clunker program that I appreciate. The taxpayer has no debt and is not required to pay for someone else’s vehicle. Yet it benefits at least three parties; the buyer, the seller, and the recipient of the clunker.
Great. Let’s have more of these.
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well blast it i like the trike cars. i saw one on a recent road trip and it just made my day.
there is a fun aspect to it-not utilitarian. i also saw a can am spyder, and met a guy who
had slid 2 city blocks after a nasty motorcycle spill. saw a roadside memorial for a 20 year
old killed in a motorcycle wreck.
i will look at ebay’s can am spyder line-up, but it’s really the 3 wheeled “cars” that give me
goosebumps. cars become clunkers the day they’re assembled in the factory, some of them.
because they’re no fun. where’s the fun?
i also like to look at the folding-wing trimaran sailboats. and my new rans stratus rides just
like my recently sold tour easy. got it for 300 bucks. so sue me, the only car i ever owned was a vw rabbit-i did’nt even know how to drive, but was convinced i needed it cuz it got 50 mpg. loud as a jet engine. i just can’t drive in a straight line. but i’m a genius in a go-kart
on a curvy track. sorry eisenhower and the interstate system, but i think bicycles and trikes win in the curvy department.
yes i’m a portlander and yes i am famous for straying off-subject. here in portland you
will find new life breathed into old clunker..BICYCLES..i’m talking about old steel frames
getting chop-suey’ed into double decker tallbikes. i’d like to see da guv’t take after the
british and turn some old cars into double decker dodges.
Nice take on C4C here:
http://www.stlurbanworkshop.com/2009/08/bicycles-for-clunkers-real-solution-for.html
Good for you, a well thought out program.
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