Recycle-A-Bicycle
Bikes-R-Business
By Karen Overton

There's a new kind of bike shop on the scene. It's a not-for-profit operation called New York Cyclist, at 301 Cathedral Parkway at 110th and Central Park West in Harlem. With support from T.A's Recycle-A-Bicycle, as well as the Harlem Hospital Injury Prevention Program and Columbia University, this special shop serves as a business laboratory for young people.

Recycle-A-Bicycle will provide New York Cyclist with both skilled mechanics and valuable merchandise. Boys and girls from T.A.'s Recycle-A-Bicycle will work alongside members of the shop's own Urban Youth Bike Corps, learning to run a bike shop after school and on the weekends. New York Cyclist will subsidize its youth cycling activities in part with sales of used bikes supplied by Recycle-A-Bicycle. With these funds, the program will teach Harlem youth bike safety and basic mechanics, lead them on road and mountain bike trips, and hold BMX skills workshops.

Recycle-A-Bicycle would like to thank the following 1995 contributors:

• Barker Welfare Foundation
• Bicycles Unlimited
• Bike-Aid Overseas Development Network
• Chase Manhattan Corporation Children's Aid Society
• Consolidated Edison
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Ittleson Foundation Liz Claiborne Foundation
• Liz Claiborne Foundation
• Manhattan Borough President's Office
• NYC Board of Education
• NYC Department of Sanitation
• Pedals for Progress
• Student Unity Club, Eastern District High School