Each year Bike Recycle Vermont refurbishes hundreds of bicycles and sells them to eligible community members. By providing people with transportation, we're opening doors, enriching lives and expanding opportunities. A bike is a healthy, non-polluting means of transportation that provides access to work, chores, recreation, and more.

When we provide someone with a bike, we start a lasting relationship. The relationship grows as bicycle recipients bring their bikes in for maintenance or repair. Bike recipients help us spread the word, by bringing in friends in need of a or wanting to donate a bike.

At Bike Recycle Vermont, we start with a bike that needs repair and turn it into an opportunity to connect with local youth. We work with local schools and social service agencies to create hands-on learning experiences from skilled bike mechanics.

Through our Youth Training Program, Bike Recycle Vermont bike mechanics teach youth ages 8 to 18 important technical and communication skills that will help them in their everyday lives. We teach the fundamentals of bicycle mechanics, ranging from the basic mechanical skills needed to feel confident biking, to more advanced skills required to work in a bike shop. Our Youth Training Program is a chance for kids to get their hands dirty; building and repairing bikes.

BRV offers a place to drop old and batter bikes that folks might otherwise take to the landfill. Through Bike Recycle Designs, volunteers upcycle broken and defunct parts and bikes into art and jewelry. Other parts and shop waste are recycled through Chittenden Solid Waste.

But as the saying goes, "One man's trash is another man's treasure." At BRV, bikes that some would consider trash are transformed into viable transportation. If a donated bike is no longer road-worthy, we strip the bike of all salvageable parts and save these for use in restoring or repairing other bikes.

L to R: Charlene, Ron, Dan, Mark, & Christine

Ron Manganiello
BRV Founder and Volunteer
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Ron is the man who created BRV from an inspiration. He volunteers in the shop, fundraises, and keeps the dream moving forward.

Dan Hock
BRV Manager
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Dan is a year-round commuter, mountain bike racer, and expert mechanic. He loves teaching bicycle mechanics to youths and watching them fix up their own rides.

Charlene Wallace
Local Motion Director of Operations & BRV Liaison
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Charlene is a life-long bike commuter and aspires to crank a wrench as well as the rest of the team!  She was formerly the Director of the Good News Garage, where low income people who need transportation can receive a car; working in a program that does same wtih bikes suits her very well.

Christine Hill
AmeriCorps*State
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Christine is a lover of all things bicycle. She loves getting people on bicycles and moving through Burlington and beyond. She enjoys upcycling bike parts to reduce waste and encourage resourcefulness.

Could this be YOU?

Founder and volunteer Ron Manganiello and his Xtracycle (an extra-long cargo bike) loaded with tools and a ladder.  He stands in front of the mural on the exterior wall of Bike Recycle Vermont, which was painted by volunteers over the past few summers.