This will feel great! Go to your garage or basement, and take a bike inventory. Check the dust on your bikes. Do likewise with the bikes of your friends and neighbors;Look around for old, unused bike parts and tools that could be better used by us. We are a 501(c)3 organization. We will happily provide you with a donation slip. Cash is always welcome Give us money to buy the things that aren't donated. We need bike tools, bike stands, hubs, wheel-sets, saddles, seat posts, stems, pedals. If you don't need them, let US be the judge of whether they can be of use. As an convenient option to make it easy to be nice to us, you can donate through PayPal either with your PayPal account or use a credit card on the PayPal site. Simply click on the button below to help us right now.

We need money for programming. Like getting FREE bikes tune-up for Des Moines-area refugees. And a folks that their bicycle provides their only transportation. (You've no doubt seen a few of those "shadow riders" in Des Moines. Tell your friends about this place. If you're passionate about bicycling, you need to be part of The Collective. A note about not-so-great bikes: We're doing our best to keep bikes out of the land fill. Some donated bikes have been so poorly mistreated and neglected that they are instantly identified as scrap. Yes, there are days we feel like a dumping ground. Currently, we get about 80 cents for each bike frame that we cut up and deliver to the recycler. Wish the market was better for steel! (It takes about 30 minutes to prepare a bike for recycling. ) You may be interested to know that Grand Piano Bistro allows us to recycle cardboard. Thank you, Sarah Middleton. Simon Tire is recycling trashed bike tires. Thank you, guys! We received a $750 grant from the Metro Waste Authority to buy a heavy-duty bike trailer so we can haul scrap metal to the recycler on East Fifth Street. Our trailer arrive in November 2008.