Earn-A- Bike Program

We teach kids how to fix and maintain bikes. Complete the program and Earn-A-Bike!

The Earn-A-Bike Program offers kids a chance to earn their own bike by completing a series of hands-on lessons in basic bike mechanics and bike safety, which also focus on personal responsibility, achievement and self-empowerment. This program is available to individuals or groups from TFKC’s target populations. The organizations that bring children to the Ride Program have traditionally been the same organizations that send children to the Earn-A-Bike Program. The Re-Cyclery hopes to open this program to adults referred from area social service agencies who need transportation options to access employment.

How Earn-A-Bike Works

• Week 1: Kids learn the names of the parts of the bicycle and how to do a safety check.
• Week 2: Kids learn how to change a flat tire and adjust brakes.
• Week 3: Kids take a bike comprehension test and choose their bikes. Best score gets first choice out of our Earn-A-Bike inventory, second best score chooses next and so on down.
• Week 4: Kids start working on the bike
• Week 5: Kids continue working on the bike.
• Week 6: Kids finish fixing the bike. Attach front & back lights. Kids receive a lock and helmet and take the bike for a test ride. If all is good after the test, the bike goes home with the kid that built it!

• RESPECT each other, your instructors, the tools, and the bikes.
• Start on time, end on time. Put away all tools, parts and bikes before leaving.
• Address adults respectfully as Mr. or Mrs. or Ms.
• No horseplay, keep your hands to yourself, no running or riding bikes in the shop. No wandering around the shop.
• Always get approval from the adult in charge before starting or changing a task. Begin a task, complete a task.
• Do not leave the shop without permission. Children must have an adult take them to the restroom.
• You must have your parent’s or guardian’s permission to attend the EAB classes.