Bikes N’ Roses is a youth-led project in Albany Park that is working to create a happier, healthier community by promoting the use of bikes.
MISSION STATEMENT
Bikes N' Roses is a youth-led project in Albany Park that does Bike Advocacy and Bike Repair working to create a happier, healthier community by promoting the use of bikes instead of cars, we believe
biking is for your health, the environment and that biking can be a primary means of transportation. Bikes N' Roses is dedicated to teaching people how biking can benefit them and the whole community.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Through a new youth-led bike cooperative APNC youth leaders are creating leadership and job opportunities for youth in our community by teaching professional skills like bicycle maintenance and repair. In its effort to promote biking as a cleaner cheaper mode of transit, Bikes N' Roses will hold regular mobile bike clinics at local parks and community institutions to teach bikers how to repair their own bicycles. Bikes N' Roses will also run a youth Earn-A-Bike program that will teach youth how to construct a bicycle entirely out of used parts.
Bikes N’ Roses will help promote bicycle awareness in Albany Park in many ways:
Job Opportunities
Bikes N’ Roses participates in the state’s Summer Youth Employment Program. This gives us the opportunity to hire 15 youth between ages 16 and 21 years, and train them to spread the knowledge and love of cycling.
Earn-a-Bike Youth Program
Bikes and Roses will hold a series of classes where youth are taught how to repair and maintain a bike. Participants who complete these classes will keep the bikes they have been working on. The goal of this program is to help young people in our community become responsible, productive citizens and to provide a positive, creative outlet for them to channel and focus their energy.
Bike Repair Clinics
Bikes and Roses will provide the tools and the know-how. Anyone from the community who has a bike in need of repair will learn how to fix it with the guidance of our trained mechanics. You will ride away with a bike that works and with the confidence of knowing how to fix it properly.
Enroll today for our 2 week summer youth mechanic course for young adults ages 16-21.
Adult classes expected to begin in the fall.
Trainings & Mobile Clinics
Bikes and Roses will raise awareness throughout the Albany Park community about why biking is good for your health, your wallet, and the environment. We will hold regular trainings to educate the community on bike safety and maintenance, as well as other helpful tips.
Community Rides & Outreach Events
Bikes N’ Roses wants to show people that biking is a fun, healthy activity that you can do with others. Bikes N’ Roses will hold community bike rides, outreach events to get people active and out into the streets on their bikes.
Youth Safe Haven
Providing an open proactive environment for youth to grow and learn by expression through mechanical technique, and the fine arts.
Bikes N' Roses was just an idea with the four original founders members Albert Mejias, Jose Patino, Jose Briceno, Ricardo Correa, and name the project Bikes N' Roses because of their favorite band Guns N' Roses.
MISSION STATEMENT
Bikes N' Roses is a youth-led project in Albany Park that does Bike Advocacy and Bike Repair working to create a happier, healthier community by promoting the use of bikes instead of cars, we believe
biking is for your health, the environment and that biking can be a primary means of transportation. Bikes N' Roses is dedicated to teaching people how biking can benefit them and the whole community.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Through a new youth-led bike cooperative APNC youth leaders are creating leadership and job opportunities for youth in our community by teaching professional skills like bicycle maintenance and repair. In its effort to promote biking as a cleaner cheaper mode of transit, Bikes N' Roses will hold regular mobile bike clinics at local parks and community institutions to teach bikers how to repair their own bicycles. Bikes N' Roses will also run a youth Earn-A-Bike program that will teach youth how to construct a bicycle entirely out of used parts.
Bikes N’ Roses will help promote bicycle awareness in Albany Park in many ways:
Job Opportunities
Bikes N’ Roses participates in the state’s Summer Youth Employment Program. This gives us the opportunity to hire 15 youth between ages 16 and 21 years, and train them to spread the knowledge and love of cycling.
Earn-a-Bike Youth Program
Bikes and Roses will hold a series of classes where youth are taught how to repair and maintain a bike. Participants who complete these classes will keep the bikes they have been working on. The goal of this program is to help young people in our community become responsible, productive citizens and to provide a positive, creative outlet for them to channel and focus their energy.
Bike Repair Clinics
Bikes and Roses will provide the tools and the know-how. Anyone from the community who has a bike in need of repair will learn how to fix it with the guidance of our trained mechanics. You will ride away with a bike that works and with the confidence of knowing how to fix it properly.
Enroll today for our 2 week summer youth mechanic course for young adults ages 16-21.
Adult classes expected to begin in the fall.
Trainings & Mobile Clinics
Bikes and Roses will raise awareness throughout the Albany Park community about why biking is good for your health, your wallet, and the environment. We will hold regular trainings to educate the community on bike safety and maintenance, as well as other helpful tips.
Community Rides & Outreach Events
Bikes N’ Roses wants to show people that biking is a fun, healthy activity that you can do with others. Bikes N’ Roses will hold community bike rides, outreach events to get people active and out into the streets on their bikes.
Youth Safe Haven
Providing an open proactive environment for youth to grow and learn by expression through mechanical technique, and the fine arts.
Bikes N' Roses was just an idea with the four original founders members Albert Mejias, Jose Patino, Jose Briceno, Ricardo Correa, and name the project Bikes N' Roses because of their favorite band Guns N' Roses.
4749 N. Kedzie Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
(773)583-1387 Ext. 200
Chicago, IL 60625
(773)583-1387 Ext. 200
