Category Archives: Stories

a.k.a Christmas Party, South Atlanta Bike Shop style We have been battling illegal dumping of old tires in our neighborhood for a while by reporting offenders (when we catch them) and by regular neighborhood cleanup events. Recently we discovered a pile of tires dumped behind the bike shop so we decided to turn lemons into [...]

I wanted to thank you for your prayers and support. Without you we would not be able to sustain our development work in South Atlanta. There would be no bike shop and the 65+ kids (since we opened the bike shop) would not get to earn bikes or experience an environment where they are seen [...]

Last Saturday we took a group of bike shop kids to the Silver Comet Trail. Yes, we could have taken a ride around the neighborhood (which we do every now and then) or to the Turner field and back but we can do that any day. We wanted give them an experience outside of the [...]

Over the last several weeks we two television stations covered the work of our bike shop.

Written by Andrej As we were wrapping up today’s shift (with six police officers volunteering) this image was taken, capturing the unlikely trust being built between these caring officers and urban youth of South Atlanta. THIS is why the South Atlanta Bike Shop partners with the Atlanta Police Department – so that this is the [...]

Written by Andrej A couple of weeks ago I got pulled over riding my tricycle down Jonesboro Rd. with my 3-year-old son in the back seat (a.k.a tool basket), on my way home from the bike shop. The police officer approached me asking if I was the guy running the bike shop. Not the first thing [...]

Written by Andrej Last week I decided to take the bike shop mobile. I loaded up my tricycle with some bike tools, parts and a kids bike in need of repair and headed for the streets of the Historic South Atlanta. Just a few blocks into my journey I ran across a group of kids [...]

Anthony has been working at the bike shop long after he earned his goal in points. In the story below written by Jeff Delp you will see how his mom found a job.