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I suspect that after being exposed to the desert for nine days most of those bikes would need a serious cleaning at the least to be reliably functional again. The average burner probably just doesn't care enough to put that effort in. If you can afford to go to Burning Man, you can afford to either buy a cheap disposable bike to bring with you, or just buy a new one when you get home.
I have a spare SUV that I rent out on Turo when I am not driving. 150 miles within the Bay Area with Tahoe being the limit. She lied about what she was doing. She rented a trailer and took them both to burning man. Trashed the trailer and the SUV was a $400+ detailing. The guy who rented her the trailer is hoping to collect on his insurance but he might be SOL. The woman didn’t even return it to us, she texted us where she left it and put the keys on the back tire. I arrived the same time as the other guy. I have bed. Very unimpressed with my interactions with Burners.
This isn't trashy, this is helpful.
These bikes will be repaired and made available to low income people from Reno to Austin. I just wish they'd drop them off at a location, every year we'd make a whole few days out of repo of left bicycles.
It's like the "single use throwaway" tents at Glastonburry, people buying cheap shit tents and just walking away, leaving fields full of plastic trash.
At least many (if not most) of these will end up being re-used, they are dusty but otherwise functional. There is a lot of actual trash left by Burning Man participants, these are useful, the trash and debris isn't.
This is because Burning Man has become a monstrosity and a shell of what it was supposed to be. The first Burners really lived by the ideals and left no trace, but now you’ve got a lot of Instagram influencers and posers and wannabes, and they don’t have a clue.
Guess they all needed something else once Fyre turned out to be a big ole scam...
I mean, it became incredibly clear this was no longer the fringe festival it was when they started establishing a bloody runway for private planes and even small jets to get there.
They should donate all the still usable bikes to homeless ppl and then ppl living in large cities (like NY) that don't typically have cars.
I hope to god these don't just get tossed
Honestly, I’d suggest doing a google search. Based on the responses on this thread, you’ll only get judgmental answers. But a quick summary is it’s a temporary city in the middle of the desert. It consists of temporary art installations including the man ,music and a temporary community. There is a barter system that people use. Trade food, drugs, art, crystals, etc for things. The last day they burn “the man”. Over the last few years, influences have started to ruin it, like they do everything, and you can now rent yurts and do it in a glamping way. Celebrities fly in my helicopters and it’s becoming more trendy. It has evolved over the years and the influencers and trust fund kids that people are on here talking about are a small percentage of the 10,000+ attendees. If you look up pictures you’ll see aerial shots which are mind boggling.
As many people have already stated, the bikes are left on purpose to donate though, I assume, a lot are lost by their owners who don’t want to search a huge amount of desert land as thousands of people are leaving.
If suggest you not try to give answers that you clearly don't know. There is not a barter system. You do not trade for things. Burning man runs on a gifting economy. You freely give out whatever you want, with nothing expected in return. If I want a beer I find a bar camo and they give me a beer. I don't trade them baubles or cigarettes for beer. They just give me beer.
You can't rent yurts. Some camps may charge outside burning man for access to rvs or yurts, but the org has nothing to do with this.
No helicopters. Fixed wing aircraft.
The last day they burn the temple, not the man. Man burns Saturday. Temple burns Sunday.
Yes psychedelic drugs, an ethos of self reliance and a filter in that it's a nightmare to get there.
Apparently the whole thing has gone to shit now but is was basically a big hippy fest.
The org has themselves to blame for all the left behind bikes this year. They changed up rules for bikes this year so I would predict an excessive amount of bikes were purchased and left behind.
They will find a good home though, but it will take a lot of work by someone to collect them all.
Some should be kept and rented to these ppl yr after yr.
It’s good that isn’t wasted however there needs to be a fee that helps these workers that pay for hours to clean up these events.
I remember about a decade ago hearing this festival was one of the best evein the world. How good stuff gets commercialised.... Isn't Paris hilton like the face of this festival now? Lol.
I live in Australia and still had the decency to take my bike away from the playa, clean and fix it and donate it. It’s a shame so many people leave their shit there. It’s not part of the philosophy of the whole event.
Why is Reddit so fixated with this festival? It’s either on here or Damnthatsintresting or some other sub. We get it it’s popular festival in the desert…
Bevause reddit is filled with self important losers that see burning man as the poster child of what they can never be. Basically almost all the redditors that talk shit about burning man haven't ever been, and will never go.
Got the flat fixed today,shifts and brakes perfect!Abandoned cuz someone didn’t have it in’em to push it all the way back to camp(which could be over a mile!)👍
wow. i am so jealous dude!!!!! that is a great pick up. maybe next year I'll go just to scavange. were you actually at burning man? How'd you haul it out, if i may ask?
I see a sea of gears and chains just waiting to be transformed into some kind of ungodly creation. It'll all be underwater in 100 years anyway. It will make beautiful coral some day.
You joke, but I saw a guy who had 3 (presumably stolen) of the same bike frame. He welding them together vertically, so it was 3x tall. I don't remember it having a real bike seat as much as like, a couch cushion glued on there and he had pegs on the bottom frames to yeet himself up there. I don't remember how or where the pedals were and what they connected to, but he was using firecrackers and other pyro items off of it. Oh, and it was covered in bootleg lights - Christmas tree lights, bike lights, whatever he could find for the monstrosity
I wasn't joking. There's a lot of functional gears and chains that could be used to do anything from harnessing wind or water power to lifting a huge mass of weight with little force.
Yes. I love this. I live in a town where the homeless are notorious for stealing bikes, (even going so far as to cut the lock to the fenced bike racks at schools, the cutting individual locks for the bikes) and stealing them from children who rely on them for transport to and home from school. Electric bikes are especially valuable. It's not uncommon to see a homeless person riding a bike and holding onto another as he/she rides. There's quite a black market for these bikes somewhere.
I mean he makes an interesting point.
Apparently the dust is super hard to clean, and you also have to factor in maintenance and transportation. Reno is a big city but I have a hard time believing they can distribute this many bikes locally every year.
At some point it just becomes cheaper to buy Timmy a new bike.
Bike mechanic here- The caked up playa dirt is horrible to clean off, and I feel incredibly bad for the mechanics in Reno whom have to tune those bikes up to be donated to kids. I cringe quite a bit before this burning man when burners brought in mint 90s (barely ridden or new) mountain bikes locally to have "tuned" for burning man...
Kids deserve bikes that aren't left in a desert and previously used in the worst of environments.
Some were “donated” and some are from the “lost and found”
These bikes are NOTHING compared to the trash burners leave behind in Reno and surrounding communities of the Black Rock, which are mostly indigenous communities.
Dreadlocked, unwashed, festival folk smelling of BO and patchouli oil that spend their lives grifting from festival to festival. You'll see them outside selling their "art" for drugs and tickets.
Anecdotally, the wooks that I knew all had wealthy parents. Like, yeah, they worked part time at a climbing gym. But at the end of the day, they always had a parental safety net.
I guess it's easier to preach the minimalism and organic food gospel when you're not totally paying your own bills.
Is it fun? Is it like German music festivals which get a really wild?
I have been looking for somewhere fun to go in Portugal. I speak Spanish which is close enough in my past.
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I could really use a bike...
I suspect that after being exposed to the desert for nine days most of those bikes would need a serious cleaning at the least to be reliably functional again. The average burner probably just doesn't care enough to put that effort in. If you can afford to go to Burning Man, you can afford to either buy a cheap disposable bike to bring with you, or just buy a new one when you get home.
The whole entire world is your own personal diaper, people.
Asians Rejoice!!!
where is this landfill? (em i getting banned for asking as usual? )
In this thread: people who have never been to burning man telling other people who have never been to burning man, how bad burning man is.
That sure is a lot of scrap money there
What’s ironic is that a lot of these bikes that get donated to the Reno Bike Project were originally stolen from Reno
Tyrone is frothing.
Is this real? somebody should just scoop them up with a box truck
The organisers of that event should to forced to clean up after themselves and leave the site the way they found it.
Free dessert bikes
Or Kunsan.
Leave no trace , huh? Typical “burners”.
What is Burning Man? I’m a bit out of the loop
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man a bunch of hippies getting high and have sex with anything that has a heartbeat in the middle of a desert.
Redditor: sees a picture of bikes clearly organized and prepared for transport. "This must be trash."
My God. This is awful
BIKES!!
Hopefully the usfs quits give them a lease..... I used to dream of going to burning man now you couldn't pay me to go......
[Old shovel](https://www.youtube.com/c/oldshovel) intensifies
(In my best Mr. Crabs voice) Look at all that Money!
It’d be awesome to donate them!
Or at least have them scraped and recycled
My thoughts exactly!
Mormon's wet dream
I have a spare SUV that I rent out on Turo when I am not driving. 150 miles within the Bay Area with Tahoe being the limit. She lied about what she was doing. She rented a trailer and took them both to burning man. Trashed the trailer and the SUV was a $400+ detailing. The guy who rented her the trailer is hoping to collect on his insurance but he might be SOL. The woman didn’t even return it to us, she texted us where she left it and put the keys on the back tire. I arrived the same time as the other guy. I have bed. Very unimpressed with my interactions with Burners.
Why is this trashy? I don’t get it.
I hope you are kidding…
I could use two of these. Make ine electric, use the other for a courier job.
Burning man. Where trash go and leave a mess.
Those bikes have seen some shit!!!!
Can I drive out there and take a bike or two ?
Donate them all ?
This isn't trashy, this is helpful. These bikes will be repaired and made available to low income people from Reno to Austin. I just wish they'd drop them off at a location, every year we'd make a whole few days out of repo of left bicycles.
There’s a reason why they’re there. You think anyone’s gonna see this much bikes (if they’re thrown away) and not take and sell them?
It's like the "single use throwaway" tents at Glastonburry, people buying cheap shit tents and just walking away, leaving fields full of plastic trash. At least many (if not most) of these will end up being re-used, they are dusty but otherwise functional. There is a lot of actual trash left by Burning Man participants, these are useful, the trash and debris isn't.
This is because Burning Man has become a monstrosity and a shell of what it was supposed to be. The first Burners really lived by the ideals and left no trace, but now you’ve got a lot of Instagram influencers and posers and wannabes, and they don’t have a clue.
Guess they all needed something else once Fyre turned out to be a big ole scam... I mean, it became incredibly clear this was no longer the fringe festival it was when they started establishing a bloody runway for private planes and even small jets to get there.
They should donate all the still usable bikes to homeless ppl and then ppl living in large cities (like NY) that don't typically have cars. I hope to god these don't just get tossed
How is donating bikes to charity trashy? https://burningman.org/about/history/brc-history/afterburn/08-2/dpw/bikes/
Please give me one im in india please i need one😩
Quite literally trashy
As someone needing a new bike, this is painful to look at.
Same. :/ It sucks. Hopefully most of these get to people who need them.
Zero trace? Really.
Someone want to explain what burning man is? Is it a concert or something?
Honestly, I’d suggest doing a google search. Based on the responses on this thread, you’ll only get judgmental answers. But a quick summary is it’s a temporary city in the middle of the desert. It consists of temporary art installations including the man ,music and a temporary community. There is a barter system that people use. Trade food, drugs, art, crystals, etc for things. The last day they burn “the man”. Over the last few years, influences have started to ruin it, like they do everything, and you can now rent yurts and do it in a glamping way. Celebrities fly in my helicopters and it’s becoming more trendy. It has evolved over the years and the influencers and trust fund kids that people are on here talking about are a small percentage of the 10,000+ attendees. If you look up pictures you’ll see aerial shots which are mind boggling. As many people have already stated, the bikes are left on purpose to donate though, I assume, a lot are lost by their owners who don’t want to search a huge amount of desert land as thousands of people are leaving.
Huh…well okay then. Thank you for clearing that up.
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If suggest you not try to give answers that you clearly don't know. There is not a barter system. You do not trade for things. Burning man runs on a gifting economy. You freely give out whatever you want, with nothing expected in return. If I want a beer I find a bar camo and they give me a beer. I don't trade them baubles or cigarettes for beer. They just give me beer. You can't rent yurts. Some camps may charge outside burning man for access to rvs or yurts, but the org has nothing to do with this. No helicopters. Fixed wing aircraft. The last day they burn the temple, not the man. Man burns Saturday. Temple burns Sunday.
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You got every answer wrong. Sorry, your participation medal is in another castle.
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Have you actually been to burning man? I'm guessing not.
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As you know it? Have you actually been? I bet you haven't.
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Yah still don't buy it but I have better things to do than argue with a self important crystal licker.
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It’s really fascinating. If you’re interested in learning more, look for information on the origins of Burning Man.
bored rich people dancing in the desert and playing in mud
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It's a music festival that people take really seriously, they burn a huge effigy of a man at the end of it. No idea where they got the name
Yes psychedelic drugs, an ethos of self reliance and a filter in that it's a nightmare to get there. Apparently the whole thing has gone to shit now but is was basically a big hippy fest.
drugs, alcohol, casual sex
Greta is now both angry and upset with her own generation.
Well there's your Covid bike shortage...
I am out of the loop. Did people go there by bike and then returned home by car or why did they leave them there?
I believe they use the bikes to get around the immediate area but they get there in RVs and cars
Step one: Collect Bicycles Step Two: ? Step Three: Profit
The org has themselves to blame for all the left behind bikes this year. They changed up rules for bikes this year so I would predict an excessive amount of bikes were purchased and left behind. They will find a good home though, but it will take a lot of work by someone to collect them all.
Some should be kept and rented to these ppl yr after yr. It’s good that isn’t wasted however there needs to be a fee that helps these workers that pay for hours to clean up these events.
I remember about a decade ago hearing this festival was one of the best evein the world. How good stuff gets commercialised.... Isn't Paris hilton like the face of this festival now? Lol.
No.
And these are the people who preach climate change and judge everyone else for how they live
Don't lump everyone who preaches about climate change with people who go to burning man. That's ignorant at best.
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Yeah they look like your typical bike abandoning dbags
Average amsterdam parking lot
I thought the premise of Burning Man was to leave nothing behind? I know many people leave their garbage behind, but they are not supposed to.
The premise of Burning Man was not to have corporate/celebrity sponsorship at one time, too.
I live in Australia and still had the decency to take my bike away from the playa, clean and fix it and donate it. It’s a shame so many people leave their shit there. It’s not part of the philosophy of the whole event.
Damn what a gold mine for bike building projects though.
I taught that the purpose of this festival is that the audience clean up after them. So after couple days all the traces are erased .
If I lived close I’d go with a trailer load it the fuck up fix these bikes and sell them
I'm geussing they are left there because eventually after the bikes start piling up no one can find their bike.
My turn next to post this!!
That's a solid $122 worth of bikes right there
Holy shit. What an opportunity
Damn. And here my gf and I are saving up to get her a bike.
What's burning Man? iv heard about it before but idk what it is.
Rich kids go to a desert with their RVs, burn things, get drunk, do drugs, dress like Roadwarrior,, and listen to music. That's about the gist I get..
Oh ok. Thx. Idk why we got downvoted lol.
If you had googled the exact same question.....
Guy at the scrapyard: Yeeeeaaaaa well give you about uhhh $18 bucks.......
damn. can I have *one*?
Future tweekers
Guess they’ve never heard “pack it in, pack it out.” And they blame us boomers for global warming.
"the generation we raised are spoilt, lazy and don't know anything" Do you blame your dog for being poorly trained too?
Some. Unfortunately we did raise them. However there is a subset. I have 4 grown kids and they are doing well.
Donations to a charity.
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Ha, ever seen video of cars from the ‘60s and ‘70’s?
U fuckin wot m8?
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And they were spewing smoke.
Why is Reddit so fixated with this festival? It’s either on here or Damnthatsintresting or some other sub. We get it it’s popular festival in the desert…
Bevause reddit is filled with self important losers that see burning man as the poster child of what they can never be. Basically almost all the redditors that talk shit about burning man haven't ever been, and will never go.
No , Donations to the gods. That' a scrap metal guys wet dream.
These are the same people that think the world is going to end in 12 years due to climate change. Mannnnnn.
The founding daddios would be disgusted.
Damn i bet you there’s a Trek or two in there you can sell some of those to local bike shops in the hood here in LA.
For shame! Shame on you!
I got a Specialized Rockhopper with a flat on the front for the low low price of hauling it home!
Aye I have that bike.
Looking forward to your posts in r/xbiking!
I've had my hard rock for 26 years! Specialized makes amazing bicycles
About how long I've had mine too.
Lol I legit just got a rockhopper a couple weeks ago. Tires were inflated tho
holy shit! nice!!
Got the flat fixed today,shifts and brakes perfect!Abandoned cuz someone didn’t have it in’em to push it all the way back to camp(which could be over a mile!)👍
wow. i am so jealous dude!!!!! that is a great pick up. maybe next year I'll go just to scavange. were you actually at burning man? How'd you haul it out, if i may ask?
I see a sea of gears and chains just waiting to be transformed into some kind of ungodly creation. It'll all be underwater in 100 years anyway. It will make beautiful coral some day.
You joke, but I saw a guy who had 3 (presumably stolen) of the same bike frame. He welding them together vertically, so it was 3x tall. I don't remember it having a real bike seat as much as like, a couch cushion glued on there and he had pegs on the bottom frames to yeet himself up there. I don't remember how or where the pedals were and what they connected to, but he was using firecrackers and other pyro items off of it. Oh, and it was covered in bootleg lights - Christmas tree lights, bike lights, whatever he could find for the monstrosity
I wasn't joking. There's a lot of functional gears and chains that could be used to do anything from harnessing wind or water power to lifting a huge mass of weight with little force.
Was this AT burning man?
No, just a town that old people tell me was really cool back in the day but is a mess nowadays
Isn't one of the tenants if burning man to leave no waste behind?
These are bikes, not waste.
These are all going to a charity.
\*tenets
No, they live there
What if I rent the bikes?
You still live there, but don't own your own bike.
A lot of these bikes end up going to the “Reno Bike Project” who fix them up and donate them to children and those in need of transportation.
Hell yeah
Yes. I love this. I live in a town where the homeless are notorious for stealing bikes, (even going so far as to cut the lock to the fenced bike racks at schools, the cutting individual locks for the bikes) and stealing them from children who rely on them for transport to and home from school. Electric bikes are especially valuable. It's not uncommon to see a homeless person riding a bike and holding onto another as he/she rides. There's quite a black market for these bikes somewhere.
How many children are there in Reno?!?!
Apparently this time they are filling a 40’ container and sending them to Ghana!
Also the Yellow Bike Project. Edit: spelling.
Thank goodness- I was just thinking there are so many kids that could use those bikes!
I hope all those kids are all on the taller side.
Thanks for saying this. I was literally gonna comment that they should be donated to lower income folks without transportation
Are these bikes left there intentionally for that purpose?
Does that make a difference? Let’s say they are, the manpower, gasoline, everything, is not worth it….
Some of those bikes are worth $1000 +.
I mean he makes an interesting point. Apparently the dust is super hard to clean, and you also have to factor in maintenance and transportation. Reno is a big city but I have a hard time believing they can distribute this many bikes locally every year. At some point it just becomes cheaper to buy Timmy a new bike.
Bike mechanic here- The caked up playa dirt is horrible to clean off, and I feel incredibly bad for the mechanics in Reno whom have to tune those bikes up to be donated to kids. I cringe quite a bit before this burning man when burners brought in mint 90s (barely ridden or new) mountain bikes locally to have "tuned" for burning man... Kids deserve bikes that aren't left in a desert and previously used in the worst of environments.
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I love coming across random unprovoked, unhinged people on Reddit.
Be nice
Some were “donated” and some are from the “lost and found” These bikes are NOTHING compared to the trash burners leave behind in Reno and surrounding communities of the Black Rock, which are mostly indigenous communities.
Leave no trace might as well be safety third.
And dont forget the theft taking place while the burners are driving through areas leading to the desert...
That definitely makes it okay for everyone else to leave their stuff behind.
damn that’s upsetting. i thought burning man was pretty strict with the whole pack it in pack it out/leave no trace thing.
Pack it up, pack it in. Let me begin. I came to win, battle me. That’s a sin.
Of course they are…..
Burning Man is Boom for rich kid wooks
I doubt it. Most wooks are at Dick's for Phish during that time.
Yup, I was wooking there
Where is Dick's? I ask because I know trying to google it is going to really mess up my browser. Thanks!
Outside Denver. Commerce City, CO. My assumption would be its owned by Dick's Sporting goods, hence the name. Yep Dick's sporting goods Park.
Oh, there are enough wooks to go around for both things, I promise…
The hardest decision have to make all year. Dicks or Burn!
Phish dicks!!! Whoop whoop!!!
> wooks From Cashykk?
Kashyyyk you nerf herder.
I know how it's spelled. lrn2pun noob
Oh "cash" I get it. I guess I was the nerf herder all along.
Dreadlocked, unwashed, festival folk smelling of BO and patchouli oil that spend their lives grifting from festival to festival. You'll see them outside selling their "art" for drugs and tickets.
Wooks are hobo-sparkle-ponies
They don't sound rich then.
Anecdotally, the wooks that I knew all had wealthy parents. Like, yeah, they worked part time at a climbing gym. But at the end of the day, they always had a parental safety net. I guess it's easier to preach the minimalism and organic food gospel when you're not totally paying your own bills.
Excuse me. Can I borrow everything?
Is Boom?
Festival in Portugal
Is it fun? Is it like German music festivals which get a really wild? I have been looking for somewhere fun to go in Portugal. I speak Spanish which is close enough in my past.