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Spring biking tune-up tips
>>> Spring biking tune-up tips
Time Out New York- Bicycle Issue, April 30, 2008
Your poor two-wheeler has been clogging your stairway landing for the past five months. City grease monkeys explain how to shape it up for another riding season.
Cheap bikes!!!
>>> Cheap bikes!!!
Time Out New York- Bicycle Issue, April 30, 2008
The two-wheeler is already a waist-friendly alternative to that monthly MetroCard. Find out where to get great rides that won't slim down your wallet as well. (We looked for places with models under $200.)
Street Beat Weekly Wrap- DUMBO
>>> Street Beat Weekly Wrap- DUMBO
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 24, 2008
Recycle-A-Bicycle has moved a few blocks to 35 Pearl St. (at Plymouth) where they have more space to continue their mission for training and educating NYC’s youth about recycling, craftsmanship, the environment, energy consumption, urban planning, fitness, physics and the overall positive application of creative thinking and hard work. Started in the Lower East Side almost 15 years ago, they are now a registered 501 C3 organization.
School's Out
>>> School's Out
Pedal Pushers Online, November 1, 2007
"After a full summer spent at Long Island City's Recycle-A-Bicycle, city kids are ready to take on new challenges."
Best of New York: Shopping, Recreation and Services
>>> Best of New York: Shopping, Recreation and Services
amNewYork, October 24, 2007
amNewYork chose Recycle-A-Bicycle as NYC's Best Bike Shop.
Pedal Power Youth Art Bike Ride
>>> VIDEO: Pedal Power Youth Art Bike Ride
Recycle-A-Bicycle, October 13, 2007
Recycle-A-Bicycle co-sponsored the Pedal Power Youth Art Bike Ride for the Lower East Side on October 13. Organized by the East Village Community Coalition, over 150 kids, parents and community members showed up to celebrate art, bikes and going green. Workshops had taken place prior to the event so many kids showed up with unique and beautiful bikes. Check out the video of the first group of riders coming in to Tompkins Square park for their final lap.
Kids Cycle and Recycle
>>> Kids Cycle and Recycle
Ins&Outs Magazine, August 21, 2007
"Wondering what to do with your unwanted bicycle? You can always recycle it."
Recycle-a-Bicycle in Metro Sports NY
>>> Recycle-a-Bicycle in Metro Sports NY
Metro Sports NY, August 15, 2007
"Where do old bicycles go? In a perfect wasteless world, they would be put back out on the street with new owners, which is exactly what Recycle-A-Bicycle Inc. aims to do."
Going Green: Recycling Bicycles
>>> VIDEO: Going Green: Recycling Bicycles
WCBS Channel 2 News, May 30, 2007
Did you catch us on Channel 2 News? Check out the video about the Recycle-a-Bicycle program with Washington Heights middle school students.
Wheels of Good Fortune
>>> Wheels of Good Fortune
New York Times, May 6, 2007
"Among the tens of thousands of fellow bicyclists with whom I’ve dodged countless potholes in the Five Boro Bike Tour, the 300-pound guy in neck to ankle pink spandex remains my favorite. Perched atop an old three-speed Schwinn, leaning Elmo-like over the handlebars and pumping those thick pink thighs, he led the fit and the fat, the silly and the serious, the breathing hard and the breathing harder up Sixth Avenue and into Central Park for no other reward than a free ride on the Staten Island ferry."