Bikes Together Is a nonprofit bike shop and community hub for equitable bike access and education. We are a space to ask questions, a resource to get or maintain a bike - no matter what your budget - and a place to build skills, knowledge, and community centered around bicycles.
BIKE SHOP +
LEARNING COMMUNITY +
SOCIAL CHANGE
WHO WE ARE
OUR VISION
We envision a world where bike access and education is equitable
and where Denverites are connected, curious, joyful, safe on bicycles,
and have agency over their own transportation.
OUR GOAL
Every person in Denver who needs or wants a bike, gets a safe, reliable one, knows how to repair it, and has a community where they belong.
WHAT WE DO
We do this through up-cycling, repurposing and recycling bikes, within a social enterprise model by providing:
CRITICAL TRANSPORTATION. Affordable transportation, safe bikes and maintenance skills for all who need them to meet basic needs
ACCESS + COMMUNITY. Welcoming community, with a daily practice to upend the exclusionary mindsets steeped in all aspects of the dominant bike culture
ENVIRONMENT + HEALTH. We build a healthier city and healthier community members, while diverting tons from landfill every month
SUSTAINABLE FUNDING MODEL. We are a lean social enterprise with a remarkable social return on your charitable dollar investment.
OUR DNA
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SAFETY. Both on the roads and in our shops, we want people to be comfortable riding their bikes and accessing our programs.
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PERSONAL WELLNESS. Bicycling improves the body and the mind.
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. Bicycles emit infinitely less CO2 than cars both in production and use.
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CREATING COMMUNITY. Our shop is designed to be a culture of welcoming spirit, relationship and belonging.
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SUSTAINABILITY. We repurpose donated bicycles to get more people on bikes.
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ACCESS. Bikes Together creates access to bikes and bicycle maintenance for those traditionally marginalized by identity and socio-economic status by acknowledging and addressing barriers communities face within bicycling.
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EDUCATION. We understand the power of knowledge. Our goals and our success are built on education. Educated cyclists are empowered cyclists!
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AGENCY. People with knowledge and choice are self-motivated, better community members, and future teachers.
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FUN! Bicycles are inherently fun, but we use that to make learning fun and our community a good place to be.
OUR STORY
Bikes Together, formerly The Park Hill Bike Depot, is a 501(c)(3) based in the La Alma Lincoln Park neighborhood of Denver.
ORIGINS: PARK HILL
Bikes Together's origins date back to the mid-1990s when a group of residents created the Park Hill Bike Club. These residents wanted to use bicycles to create alternatives to youth gang involvement and substance misuse while promoting a culture of friendship, mutual respect, and diversity and offering recreational, educational, and employment opportunities for youth.
In 2005, LiveWell Colorado's Park Hill Thriving Communities began endeavors to lessen the health disparities that existed in Park Hill and began the process of taking the bike club idea one step further. They helped by organizing community leaders, forging partnerships, investing funds and securing in-kind donations, and established The Bike Depot's shop in 2008.
DERAILER FUSION
Meanwhile, the Derailer Bicycle Collective, a crew of anti-establishment volunteer mechanics, after operating out of a series of garages for 15 years closed their doors. Several key Derailer mechanics joined The Bike Depot leadership team and brought their revolutionary spirit with them.
LA ALMA / LINCOLN PARK
In 2016 we opened a second location in the La Alma/Lincoln Park neighborhood near 11th and Osage, in the first floor retail of the Denver Housing Authority Mariposa District, and rebranded as Bikes Together. In 2021, we consolidated our public-facing operations to this location.
Since opening day, Bikes Together has gone from an intermittently open shop to the fully staffed (by paid employees and volunteers), full service bike shop that offers space, classes, bicycles, parts, recycling, and community. We have grown partnerships with public, private and nonprofit agencies, expanded programming specifically by and for populations historically excluded from bike culture (especially women, transgender & femme people of all races and Black, Indigenous and People of Color of all genders), and grown the number of bicycles we recover, recycle, repair, refurbish and return to the streets, all while empowering a new generation of Denverites to fix and renew things instead of throwing them away.
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NEXT UP: SUN VALLEY
In 2026, while searching for a closer refurb and warehouse location, Bikes Together found it's next home: in the Denver Housing Authority People Center in Sun Valley. We plan to move all operations and build a Community Bike Hub in the (4x bigger) Sun Valley shop in 2027. But we need your help!
Today, Bikes Together is more critical than ever. And, we have an opportunity to grow into the next-best, next-level version of ourselves. We can't (and don't want to) do it without you!
To learn more and join us in our campaign to expand our space and impact with a move to the Sun Valley neighborhood, check out our New Hub Campaign Booklet. Consider how you can help us grow into the city we want and need.
IMPACT + MEDIA
2025 IMPACT
HIGHLIGHTS
DENVERITE
December 26, 2022
"La Alma Lincoln Park nonprofit Bikes Together’s mission goes beyond teaching you how to repair your ride"
DENVER 7
November 29, 2023
"Bikes Together: Nonprofit community bike shop breaks down barriers while emphasizing diversity"
Colorado Public Radio
July 22, 2023
"How to start biking in Colorado, even if you’ve felt excluded in the past"
DENVER 7 GIVES
December 23, 2023
Bikes Together supports the Brown Bike Bus: "a concept that's one of the first of its kind in the metro. They call it 'Brown Bike Bus' and here's how it helps students succeed for the rest of the school day.
