R Community Bikes is a grassroots, 501(c)3 organization that collects and repairs used bicycles for distribution, free of charge, to Rochester, NY’s most needy children and adults. Their mission is meeting the basic transportation needs of those in the community who depend on bikes for recreation as well as for transport to work, school, rehabilitation programs, and training sessions. So far they have recycled 1,370 bikes! Click here to read more and join their efforts. Or, think about creating a similar activity in your community.
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We take trades for lifetime of the bike you purchase from us. No one can offer that.;)
Please check our 1st 1940′s restored and professionally painted bike out at the Historical Society 25 East ave Middletown NY 10940 – Wednesday 1-5pm. Tell them Laura sent you.. C&M Auto Body Painted it.
We reopen on April 2011 Grafe’s Bike Drive so far has saved the landfill 1655 bikes out of which 990 kids got them for free. What we do is we collect and recycle unwanted bikes. We go through 22 different police departments, and 2 colleges.
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Grafe’s Bike Drive would love to one day have our own bike museum. We need a big warehouse or building. We could sell bikes to support the program and the up keep up the building. We could continue to do what we do best recycle the cycles and keep them out of our area landfills.
Join us on facebook to hear our events and chatter and see some of the kids pics.