What We Do
- recycle and refurbish good used bikes; provide good used and limited new parts
- conduct classes in bicycle maintenance and repair; bicycle safety and training (outreach to K-12 schools, youth organizations, businesses, other public and private organizations)
- provide good used bicycles available for long-term loan or purchase
- produce regional trails maps
- promote cycling as viable, healthy transportation; increasing numbers of bicycle commuters; get bicycles into the hands of people who need and will use them
- advocate to make Des Moines and the metro area more pedestrian and bicycle friendly
- provide training and mentoring of youth in bicycle safety, etiquette, and maintenance; partnership with
- organize bicycle tune-up clinics for YMCA adult residents and Homes of Oakridge youth and families and provide information and education about bicycle maintenance and safe riding
- through a partnership with Iowa Bureau of Refugee Services, provide bicycles for Des Moines refugees
- provide bicycles for youth residents at the Youth Homes of Mid-America
- provide part-time employment for appropriate youth and adults
- organize Bike to Work Week (May 2010)
