Changing Lives

A bike is more than transportation – it can empower individuals and entire communities.

Empowering Women

We provide bicycles and mechanical training and teach women how to ride, empowering them with skills to keep their families moving forward.

Training Mechanics

Vocational traning provides personal empowerment, professional opportunities and a way to provide for families and communities. 

Keeping Students in School

Many students face long walks to school. Donated bikes get them there faster and help them stay in school.

Transforming Communities

Donated bikes allow health workers to see more clients, farmers to get goods to market and small business owners to support their families.

Changing lives one bike at a time.

903,544


Lives Improved

225,886


Bikes Donated

118


Supported Projects
in 32 Countries

Braking Without Barriers

MiBici Costa Rica

Our bikes become affordable transportation to many beneficiaries around the world. They are transformative for farmers going between fields and markets, for students trying to stay in school and graduate, and for healthcare workers trying to care for more patients.

For Luis, this bike turned his dream into a reality. Luis lost his sight four years ago and thought he would never experience riding again. He is now back on a bike experiencing the thrill of producing his own speed (with help0. Luis was all smiles as the stoker on his new ride. 

#WHEEL NEWS

bikes for sale
Bikes for the World Warehouse Sale Saturday December 12 10am – 1pm. 11720 Parklawn Dr. Rockville MD 20852 It’s time for another refurbished bike sale at the warehouse. Come check out our supply of bikes for sale and help support our mission. Great bikes, great deals. Bike […]
Laura Mendez lives in the small rural community known as Tempate. Tempate is located in the Pacific Northwest of Costa Rica where most of the roads are still gravel and dirt and not many residents own vehicles. Walking and paying for transportation are the two main ways to get around. […]
LaSone standing in front of the shop
LaSone Barber has been haunting the aisles at Bikes for the World for thirteen years now! She started with us when we were down on Eads in Pentagon City…and there truly were aisles (and aisles and aisles) of bikes in the warehouse. That’s the warehouse that […]