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Holding Ourselves Accountable

September 1, 2020 in , /by

The summer of 2020 has laid bare wide-ranging, deeply systemic racism and bigotry, and the world of bicycling has its fair share. For a primer: Learn about the human cost of bringing bike parts to your local shops (including ours) at @fixthebikeindustry and Fix the Bike Industry Listen to what it’s like to be a […]

Black Lives Matter.

June 4, 2020 in , /by

BikeAthens commits to become an anti-racist organization. We support the protesters in Athens, across Georgia, and throughout the country who are risking their lives and safety to righteously express outrage over violence and injustice at the hands of police and the centuries-old system of racism that shields them.  We recognize that BikeAthens is a white-led […]

BikeAthens and COVID-19

April 10, 2020 in /by

[UPDATE April 10, 2020] BikeAthens is operating in a limited capacity to serve the needs of our clients who rely on bicycles for essential transportation. We are conducting sales by appointment and service by appointment or emergency walk-up. You can see all of the bikes we have available for sale via this link to Craigslist. […]

Writing about Traffic Violence

September 11, 2019 in , /by

Words matter, and the language that we use to talk about collisions that injure or kill people biking or walking can dangerously normalize them as acceptable and inevitable. BikeAthens has produced a Media Guide for local journalists to use as a resource so that they may humanize the people involved in these stories and avoid […]

Changing of the Guard

August 14, 2019 in /by

A message from BikeAthens board president Jason Perry: This past July BikeAthens said goodbye to two of our beloved people, executive director Tyler Dewey and board member Carmen Kuan, who are moving to Durham for a new adventure. They leave behind a BikeAthens that is bigger, better, and stronger than when they found it. We […]

A year-end message from our board president

December 14, 2018 in , , , /by

Dear Friends, We’ve been helping Reggie maintain his bike since 2008. He’s had a tough time, sometimes homeless, sometimes not. Through it all, his bike has been an essential way for him to get to his construction jobs so that he could earn enough to get stable. In 2017 he had saved enough to invest […]