Neighborhood Bike Works

Neighborhood Bike Works

Website	http://www.neighborhoodbikeworks.org
Founded	1999
Location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Language	English
Services Offered	DIY Repair Services Pay Repair Services Earn-A-Bike Services Bicycle Valet Services Workshops Bicycle Courses Group Rides Bicycle Advocacy In-School Programs Youth Summer Camp Youth Racing Team
Mission Statement	To increase opportunities for urban youth in underserved neighborhoods in greater Philadelphia by offering educational, recreational, and career-building opportunities through bicycling; to also promote cycling as a healthy, affordable, environment-friendly form of transportation.

Neighborhood Bike Works is a nonprofit educational organization in Philadelphia that seeks to increase opportunities for urban youth in underserved neighborhoods in greater Philadelphia by offering educational, recreational, and career-building opportunities through bicycling; it also promotes cycling as a healthy, affordable, environment-friendly form of transportation. Started in 1996 as Youth Cycle & Recycle, a program of The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, Neighborhood Bike Works incorporated as a non-profit in July 1999. We expanded to the Haddington neighborhood in 2002, and opened the North Philadelphia Neighborhood Shop in 2009. The North Philly shop is also our sales and service location, and operates a fully functioning repair shop. In 2010, our South Philadelphia satellite program opened a location on 5th Street between Lombard and South. Today, we hold programming at four permanent sites, our satellite location in Norristown, PA, and in several public schools and community centers.

Teaching Resources

• Picking Bikes and Bike Anatomy
• Shop Setup and Tool Usage
• Bearing Systems Teacher Training
• Tires and Tubes Teacher Training

Bike Valet

In addition to community participation and fundraising for our youth programs, we also provide valet bike parking as a means to employ select graduates of our programs. We are often contracted by other groups to do Valet Bike Parking for events that are expected to attract large numbers of cyclists. Frequently, we are able to employ a few youth for credit hours or a small hourly rate and a share of any tips collected.

Contact Info

• Headquarters - The Bike Church

3916 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-386-0316

• Haddington Shop

230 N. Salford Street
Philadelphia, PA 19139
215-476-1817

• North Philadelphia Shop - The Bike Salon

1426 W. Susquehanna Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19121
215-717-3305

• South Philly Shop - The Bikery

508 S. 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

Website

• http://www.neighborhoodbikeworks.org/
• http://www.youtube.com/user/NeighborhdBikeWorks