Each year we get excellent police protection for the Gainesville Cycling Festival.  Now it's our turn to help out the police.

 

At Christmas, the Gainesville Police Department (GPD) gives bikes to underprivledged children.  We can help by donating any bikes, espcially children's bikes.

 

The donated bikes are taken to the Gainesville Work Camp (a state prison), tuned up, sometimes repainted and then given to GPD and to Hope for the Holidays.

 

If you have any bikes or bike parts you would like to donate, please let me know.

 

You can:

1) Take it to Bikes and More,  please put a tag on it that says "Christmas Bikes"

2) send me an e-mail and I will come get it

3) If you want to deliver it to the prison, I can send you directions to the prison

 

Any bikes or bike parts are good, even a bike you find in a trash pile.   One good source for childrens bikes are thrift stores such as Salvation Army or other thrift stores.  Every bike is useful, we often make two or three broken bikes into one working bike.