GO Bike’s Recycle-A-Bicycle program is an initiative for at-risk youth within the city of Buffalo, winning the “Bronze Commitment to Education” award from the Buffalo Alliance for Education in 2007. Through GO Bikes’s Recycle-A-Bicycle programs with Baker Victory Services, Hamlin Park School, Bennett Park Montessori, BPS 81, Pinnacle Charter School, Big Brother Big Sister, the Buffalo Youth Hostel, Enterprise Charter School, Harvey Austin Middle School, the Massachusetts Avenue Project, North Park Middle Academy, public schools 18, 27 and 77 and others, students have learned about bicycle repair and maintenance, as well as safety, health and the environment, while building their own bicycles from refurbished parts.
For more information, or to set up a Recycle-A-Bicycle program at your school or community center, contact GObike Buffalo at (716) 218-7162 or info@gobikebuffalo.org.