Lee Ravenscroft
An Entrepeneur with a Different View on Success
A Little Overview
Lee Ravenscroft's company/charity, Working Bikes, is a organization in the Chicagoland area that collects scrapped bikes and also donated ones and ships them all across the world to developing countries to be used as transportation, storage, and even sometimes power. A bike that could be useless to someone here could change the world of someone across the world.
Ravenscroft at one of his bike sheds
Rows of Bikes at a Working Bikes station
A bike from Working Bikes generating power
Some Background on Lee Ravenscroft & Working Bikes
Ravenscroft founded Working Bikes in 1999 with a vision of providing bikes to less fortunate people around the world. The vision was that since in the North Shore, most people have everything they need for themselves whereas others might not. The stuff that we might not need could be extremely useful for someone else halfway across the