Bikes Not Bombs

Bikes Not Bombs is a Boston, Massachusetts based nonprofit that uses the bicycle as a vehicle for social change by recycling donated bicycles, training young people to fix their own bikes and become employable mechanics[1] and sending thousands of bicycles to international partner communities in countries such as Uganda, Ghana, St. Kitts & Nevis, El Salvador, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Kenya, and Rwanda.

[2] The organization was founded in 1984 by Carl Kurz, a bicycle mechanic and Michael Replogle, a Maryland-based transportation planner.

Since that time, Bikes Not Bombs has sent over 70,000 bicycles and parts to 15 countries in Central America, Africa and the Caribbean.

[3][4] The organization runs multiple sessions of the Earn-A-Bike and Girls In Action, amongst other youth programs, each year which teach bicycle mechanics, safety and riding to young people in the Boston area.

The bike shop has been recently moved in with the headquarters, the "Hub", in the historic Sam Adams brewery complex.