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Who we are
The Bike Men of Flagler County are a group of volunteers who accept donations of new and gently used bicycles & parts for redistribution to people in need of transportation in & around Flagler County, Florida after they have been reviewed and repaired. We also are always looking for bike parts and tooling specific to bicycle repair.
We started operation in December 2014 answering a need by one of our local charities.
This has blossomed into a team of volunteers building, rebuilding and transporting bikes to the people of Flagler County and our neighbors. For 2023, we repaired and gave away over 2,200 bicycles.
We started operation in December 2014 answering a need by one of our local charities.
This has blossomed into a team of volunteers building, rebuilding and transporting bikes to the people of Flagler County and our neighbors. For 2023, we repaired and gave away over 2,200 bicycles.
The calendar below is actively updated by our staff on a daily basis showing all activities of The Bike Men of Flagler County. The shop is open or closed as indicated on that date. Clicking on the event will cause a pop-up window with additional details of the event.
The above calendar is subject to change, if you are visiting us at The Sheltering Tree for bike repairs, please <Click Here> for a copy of those rules, thank you. If you are visiting us at the Homeless coalition in Sta Augustine for repairs, please <Click Here> for a copy of those rules, thank you - The Bike Men of Flagler County
What we are currently working on......
April 17, 2025 - We would like to welcome Safe Haven Academy in Palm Coast as our latest partner.
April 9, 2025 - Hammock Dunes Cares made a donation presentation to The Bike Men of Flagler County. Frank Ligon, a Board member of Hammock Dunes Cares came out to do this and meet our volunteers that were working on Wednesday.
Thank you Hammock Dunes Cares
Left to right in the photo - John Carbone; Richard Pack; Phil Lear; Frank Ligon; Joseph Gola; Paul Wiederholt; Don Fye - Photo credit to Rhonda Ligon
Thank you Hammock Dunes Cares
Left to right in the photo - John Carbone; Richard Pack; Phil Lear; Frank Ligon; Joseph Gola; Paul Wiederholt; Don Fye - Photo credit to Rhonda Ligon
March 26, 2025
What a whirlwind month this has been.
Construction at the new shop is finally finished, just waiting for the final inspection. We also had 2 videos done and they are posted on our Volunteers-Photo page, right below the volunteer's pictures.
1st is a short documentary type film created by some students from Flagler College, credit to Merrick Hendrix with assistance from Jordon Outland. They did a fantastic job, Thank you
2nd is a video of the Podcast session at Flagler Voice studios we did with the Flagler Drug Court Foundation, the interviewer Michael Feldbauer heads up the Flagler Drug Court Foundation. Thank you Alan Lowe (Producer) & Flagler Voice for the studio time and the making of this podcast.
What a whirlwind month this has been.
Construction at the new shop is finally finished, just waiting for the final inspection. We also had 2 videos done and they are posted on our Volunteers-Photo page, right below the volunteer's pictures.
1st is a short documentary type film created by some students from Flagler College, credit to Merrick Hendrix with assistance from Jordon Outland. They did a fantastic job, Thank you
2nd is a video of the Podcast session at Flagler Voice studios we did with the Flagler Drug Court Foundation, the interviewer Michael Feldbauer heads up the Flagler Drug Court Foundation. Thank you Alan Lowe (Producer) & Flagler Voice for the studio time and the making of this podcast.
January 19, 2025 - New shop is almost ready for our Grand Opening, We are shooting for Wednesday, February 5, 2025. Watch for our announcement on Facebook and other local calendars.
December 24, 2024 - Progress on the new shop is slower then we hoped and working at another location for Christmas Come True stretched our workforce very thin. We are shooting for a soft opening Jan 2 to work out the kinks. Be on the look out for our grand opening date TBA.
November 9, 2024 - WE ARE MOVING - As many of you know, we share our space with a food pantry that is run by the owners of the unit we reside in. Over the years we have grown quite a bit and have been looking for a new and larger space but finding one has proven to be very difficult. At the same time the food bank has grown also and they needed more space.
SO.... We are moving just across the parking lot to unit 100, which also owned by our landlord. It comes with a little more cost but essentially we will end up with 3 times the amount of room. We will have the whole unit to ourselves including an office and 2nd floor.
Work to fit it out has started and not only that but we will have air conditioning in the work stand bays. All our volunteers are excited and can't wait for opening day. Opening Day to be announced.
November 9, 2024 - WE ARE MOVING - As many of you know, we share our space with a food pantry that is run by the owners of the unit we reside in. Over the years we have grown quite a bit and have been looking for a new and larger space but finding one has proven to be very difficult. At the same time the food bank has grown also and they needed more space.
SO.... We are moving just across the parking lot to unit 100, which also owned by our landlord. It comes with a little more cost but essentially we will end up with 3 times the amount of room. We will have the whole unit to ourselves including an office and 2nd floor.
Work to fit it out has started and not only that but we will have air conditioning in the work stand bays. All our volunteers are excited and can't wait for opening day. Opening Day to be announced.
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October 22, 2014 - St Johns County - We had a very successful day at the Homeless Coalition located at 62 Chapin St, St Augustine. Our three mechanics were joined by Scottakist Venuti (on left), a local Tattoo artist and BMX bike fancier, as our 4th mechanic. We hope to see him the future. Next event there will be Nov 26th. We will not be there in December due to a prior commitment.
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September 23, 2024 - Bike Shop Closed - We will be closed on this Monday as our volunteers are working the Annual Golf Outing for Christmas Come True
August 5, 2024 - Storm Closure - Due to the pending tropical Storm (Debby) We will not be opening the main shop on Monday, August 5. We intend to resume operations with our portable shop on Tuesday and then reopen the shop on Wednesday Aug. 7th.
July 23, 2024 - St. John County - We had a very successful portable bike shop operation at the "Homeless Coalition " at 62 Chapin St in St. Augustine. We will continue this on our regular schedule on the 4th Tuesday of every month as our schedule allows. Times are from 8 am to 11:30 am. This is in cooperation with Discover & Recover of St Johns County.
June 25, 2024 - St John County - We are very happy to announce that we have expanded our operations once again. We had our first portable shop operation with Discover & Recover at the Methodist Church on King St in St Augustine. Future portable shop operation are to continue on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 62 Chapin St, in St Augustine which is also the location of our host, Homeless Coalition. Please welcome Discover & Recover of St Johns County as our newest partner.
June 8, 2024 - Orlando, Florida - Another great day helping Kathy Downs, a.k.a. The Bike Fairy with distribution of bikes with 180 bikes going out to very deserving children on Saturday!! We were able to send out a team of 5 mechanics with our portable shop trailer to help get them fitted and readied with training wheels, kickstand, bells, etc..
Our team members include (Left to Right in picture): Steve Bingle, John Carbone, Kyle (Kyles Bike Shop), Paul Wiederholt, Joe Golan, & Sean Gear. Kyle kindly posed with us as his crew did much of the prelim work on the bikes Kyle's Bike Shop. Special thanks to these organizations & businesses for their year after year support of her mission: Legal Aid of OCBA Kyles Bike Shop Carestream Cushman Wakefield Rustys Bicycle Recycle The Bike Men of Flagler County Inc TriCity Electric Mark Levy-Tough Biker OCPS for the location |
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April 2024 - We were surprised with a tribute presentation at SAYS on the 4th Friday of our regular portable shop operations with a pair of "Thank You" wagon wheels signed by many of the staff at SAYS along with a quick breakfast at their rec center marking our 2 year anniversary working with them. Sean Gear and Joe Golan are centered in the picture holding the wagon wheels. These dedicated staff help so many boys that live at the Simone Way campus. We are proud to help them.
January 2, 2024 - We are resuming normal operations today and will have the portable bike shop trailer at The Sheltering Tree in Bunnell from 8-noon, then on to Indian Trails Middle School to help them with some repairs.
The main bike shop reopens on Wednesday, January 3 at 8:00am.
The main bike shop reopens on Wednesday, January 3 at 8:00am.
December 22, 2023 - After working at the Christmas Come True Elf Bike shop for the last 3+ weeks, we dismantled it and moved all the equipment back to our main location. The main bike shop will remain closed until January, allowing our volunteers time with their families for the holidays. We will start the 2024 year running our portable operation at The Sheltering Tree on January 2 & reopening of the shop for normal operation January 3rd.
November 20, 2023 -We are going to curtail our operation at the main bike shop as we are concentrating our efforts at the temporary Elf Bike shop for Christmas Come Ture. We will resume normal operations after Jan 1st. For our portable bike shop clients, we have no plans to suspend the portable bike shop services at this time.
October 21, 2023 - We performed a little website housekeeping, On our "Partners" page we have added Epic Behavioral Healthcare, Berea Seventh Day Adventist Church and Parton Group Homes https://thebikemenofflaglercounty.com/partners.html; and on our "Friends and Supporters" page we have added Bunnell Police Dept. https://thebikemenofflaglercounty.com/friends-supporters.html. Please visit those pages for contact information.
October 5, 2023 - Delivered 7 bikes to our newest partner, Parton Group Homes in Ormond Beach. The Parton Group Homes cater to teen age boys. This included 2 new bikes purchased with a donation made by one of our local supporters.
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August 25, 2023 - Our new enclosed portable bike shop trailer is finally fitted out with graphics, now people will know who we are when we arrive on site. Special thanks to Bobbie Crowder of "EZ Graphic Design & More" for her hard work in getting this done.
The trailer was donated by Flagler Cares back in February 2023 and equipped with the tool grant we were awarded by the Park Tool company earlier in February, see below for details). Flagler Cares also gifted us with a graphic package allowance that paid for the graphics work. |
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June 11, 2023 - Orlando Florida -Another great day helping Kathy Downs, a.k.a. The Bike Fairy with distribution of bikes with 130 bikes going out to very deserving children yesterday!! We were able to send out a team of 5 mechanics with our portable shop trailer to help get them fitted and readied.
Our team members include: Paul Dietrich Sean Gear John Carbone Paul Wiederholt Joe Golan Special thanks to these other organizations & businesses for their year after year support of her mission: Legal Aid Society of OCBA Kyles Bike Shop Carestream America Cushman Wakefield TriCity Electric Jim from Trek Oviedo Allison from Trek Altamonte Springs Rustys Bicycle Recyclery |
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May 22, 2023 - Well that took longer than we originally thought.
Thanks to the many churches and ministries that have requested bicycles for their events this spring, we have finally got our inventory numbers down that we can accept bicycle donations again. Thank you for your patience!
February 16, 2023 - The Bike Men of Flagler County is deeply saddened with passing of one of our volunteers, Charlie Picano. Charlie was one of our transporter volunteers and will be deeply missed by us and his family that he treasured as well as the many friends who knew and loved him for his wit and charm. RIP my friend and many prayers.
February 14, 2023 - Flagler Cares (www.flaglercares.org) informed us this morning that they are buying us our long sought enclosed trailer to enhance our portable bike shop operation. The new 6'x12' cargo trailer will also be fitted with graphics for the The Bike Men and Flagler Cares. We are deeply honored and humbled that they selected us to receive this recognizing the work we do for many organizations in and around Flagler County to help the community at large. We schedule our portable shop operations 8 days a month on a set schedule (1st-4thTuesdays & Fridays) visiting locations that have a large number of bicycle that need repairs. This includes, The Sheltering Tree, Family Life Center and St Augustine Youth Services (SAYS) as well as others.
February 7, 2023 - Park Tool company has just announced the 2023 winners of their Community Tool Grant program and the Bike Men of Flagler County are on the list. Park Tool is a leading manufacturer of quality bike specific tools. The grant award includes 2 new work stands, a Professional Mechanic Tool Kit, 5 work aprons, a copy of their Big Blue Book of bike repair ++++. details of the grant award can be found at https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/news/park-tool-announces-winners-of-2023-community-tool-grants or #communitytoolgrant on other social media.
We are deeply honored by receiving this grant, we know there were over 300 organizations worldwide that applied this year. Park Tool must have a very challenging & difficult time making their choices.
We will be using these new tools to enhance our portable shop operations that are scheduled for 8 days a month. We are currently seeking a donation of an enclosed 8-10' enclosed trailer to take these services to the next level by allowing us to be more efficient with our time at a site. This in addition to the 3 days a week we schedule at the bike shop making repairs to donated bicycles and other services. We are currently servicing and distributing about 2,200 bikes a year via our partner organizations..
January 21, 2023 - We are going to suspend accepting donated bicycles as our shop and aux storage units are full to capacity. We will reopen bicycle donations as soon as we can make some room.
December 20, 2022 - Having finished with Christmas Come True Distribution, we are breaking down the the "Elf" workshop and bringing all our tools and equipment back to the main shop in the Atlantis Business Plaza. We hope to start catching up on the delayed repairs and bike donations pickups thus normalizing our operation by Jan 2, 2023 - Happy New Year
November 21, 2022 - As we enter the Christmas holiday season, we are curtailing operations at our regular shop to concentrate our efforts for Christmas Come True at the elf workshop. We hope to continue our portable shop operations during this period. Also donations of all bicycles including pickups will be suspended until after the new year. Normal shop operation will resume Monday January 2, 2023.
November 4, 2022 - Delivered 4 bicycle to Holly Hills Schools, our newest partner.
October 2022 - The Bike Men of Flagler County are now members of the Florida Bicycle Association, https://floridabicycle.org/
July 1, 2022 - We would like to welcome Our newest partner, Volusia Recovery Alliance. Contact information can be found on our Partners page.
May 9, 2020 - Bicycles presented to Ukrainian Family
Sheriff Rick Staly of the FCSO received an email asking if he can help with getting some bikes for a Ukrainian family that relocated to Palm Coast fleeing the war with Russia. Sheriff Staly immediately passed this request to us and we were happy to help with this request. We not only delivered the bikes but also provided safety helmets to the family members as part of our work with the PedBike program. for more info go to http://flaglersheriff.com/cmsfiles/2022-122-Sheriff-Gives-Bicycles-to-Ukrainian-KidsSends-Bulletproof-Vests-Overseas-rev1.pdf
April 23, 2022 - Trail Day on A1A - St Johns River-to-Sea Loop Alliance
The Bike Men of Flagler County has been invited to participate at this event. We will have a booth/tent set up at Varn Park, one of the rest stops for the event from 10AM to 2 PM. We will be distributing our literature and also FL DOT safety literature on bicycles. Please stop by and say hello to us on that Saturday. Please note we are not going to be set up for bike repairs but will have pumps available for those that need a some air for their tires.
April 12, 2022 - Made our 1st delivery of 12 bikes to St. Augustine Youth Services (SAYS) and reviewed setting up repairing of their existing bikes on a bi-weekly basis with our portable bike shop operation. Looks like we will start the repairs on Friday 4/22/22 from 8:30 to noon and continue every other week until we get them all back in working order.
April 9, 2022 - Orange County Foster Care Giveaway with The Bike Fairy, Kathy Downs
Well, here we go again back to Orange County. After a very successful event last June, we are invited back to help The Bike Fairy once again with her semi-annual bike giveaway. We will be heading there again with a 4-man team to do last minute checks, repairs and adjustments to approx. 200 bikes she is giving away. All the bikes were prepared by her other weeks over the preceding weeks (months). Most of the work is fitment to the child that chooses a bike and install training wheels when needed. Here is a link to the event
https://www.facebook.com/GearBicycleSalesOviedo/photos/a.104427485502131/109838541627692/
March 25, 2022 - We would like to welcome Our newest partner, St. Augustine Youth Services (SAYS). Contact information can be found on our Partners page.
March 5, 2022 - Cornerstone Charter’s Bike Rodeo, Belle Island, FL
We were invited out to assist the Belle Island Police Dept for their first Bike Rodeo. Bike rodeo are normally put on by the local law enforcement group to teach bike safety to children. The Bike Men of Flagler County was responsible for inspecting each bike to insure it was safe including working brakes. We inspected about 30 bikes that morning and following that inspection, the local BSA Explorer Post manned some manual floor pumps to insure all the tires were properly inflated.
March 2022 - Flagler Open Arms Recovery Services (OARS)
Please welcome our newest partner. We are happy to provide bike repair services to them on as needed basis.
See our Partners page for more information on how to contact them
November 29, 2021 - Annual work for Christmas Come True
Starting Monday, November 29, As we are fast approaching the Christmas Holiday season, we will be suspending just about all operations at the regular bike shop and moving tools & work stands to the Christmas Come True distribution location so we can build the approx. 200 bicycles for them.
This is the 8th year of us working with Christmas Come True. We will continue our regular weekly portable bike shop operations at The Sheltering Tree and the Family Life Center during this period. Regular bike shop operations will resume in January 2022. For information and to support Christmas Come True, please visit them on Facebook or at their website, see our Friends-Supporters page for more contact information.
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - Motorcycle Fund Raiser for Christmas Come True
Crossroads Tavern in Bunnell is hosting the 2nd Annual Poker Run fundraiser for Christmas Come True. The Bike Men will be at the starting point with our Santa on a motorcycle blow-up to get the riders safely on their way. While the riders make their rounds, The Bike Men will return to Crossroads Tavern with Santa to help set up for the afternoon festivities and also man the BBQ grill for the hungry riders. For information on the event and times, see the flyer at this link www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224389595834694&set=gm.931138234439373
November 2021 -
We are pleased to present our newest supporter, David's World Cycle in Ormond Beach, Fl. Contact information can be found on our Friends-Supporters page.
October 2021 - Hope House for Boys
Please welcome our newest partner. We were first introduced to this organization by one of the FCSO commanders. We are happy to provide bike repair services to them on as needed basis.
August 27, 2021 - Florida United Methodist Children's Home gets their 3rd delivery of 12 bicycles.
The Bike Men of Flagler County, Pete Senia and Joe Golan made a delivery of 12 bicycles and other donations (Multiple boxes of clothes, etc. provided by others) to the Florida United Methodist Children's Home in Enterprise Florida. All 12 bikes were adult size male as requested by FUMCH. We hope to continue this. This was our 3rd donation of this type and our thanks to Lynn of FUMCH Development Dept. for arranging this delivery.
June 12, 2021 - Packing our trailer with tools and supplies early on this Saturday morning, we headed to Orlando to assist the Bike Fairy, Kathy Downs, with her event to help the foster children of Orange County. Besides all the equipment, we also had 4 mechanics that fitted the 120-130 bikes being given away. This included seats, handlebars and installation of training wheels for the newer riders. Also last minute checks, inspections and repairs were made but the bulk of the repairs were already performed by other mechanics including those from Kyle's Bike Shop in the weeks prior. Pictures from the event can be found on our "Photo" page.
Thanks to the many churches and ministries that have requested bicycles for their events this spring, we have finally got our inventory numbers down that we can accept bicycle donations again. Thank you for your patience!
February 16, 2023 - The Bike Men of Flagler County is deeply saddened with passing of one of our volunteers, Charlie Picano. Charlie was one of our transporter volunteers and will be deeply missed by us and his family that he treasured as well as the many friends who knew and loved him for his wit and charm. RIP my friend and many prayers.
February 14, 2023 - Flagler Cares (www.flaglercares.org) informed us this morning that they are buying us our long sought enclosed trailer to enhance our portable bike shop operation. The new 6'x12' cargo trailer will also be fitted with graphics for the The Bike Men and Flagler Cares. We are deeply honored and humbled that they selected us to receive this recognizing the work we do for many organizations in and around Flagler County to help the community at large. We schedule our portable shop operations 8 days a month on a set schedule (1st-4thTuesdays & Fridays) visiting locations that have a large number of bicycle that need repairs. This includes, The Sheltering Tree, Family Life Center and St Augustine Youth Services (SAYS) as well as others.
February 7, 2023 - Park Tool company has just announced the 2023 winners of their Community Tool Grant program and the Bike Men of Flagler County are on the list. Park Tool is a leading manufacturer of quality bike specific tools. The grant award includes 2 new work stands, a Professional Mechanic Tool Kit, 5 work aprons, a copy of their Big Blue Book of bike repair ++++. details of the grant award can be found at https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/news/park-tool-announces-winners-of-2023-community-tool-grants or #communitytoolgrant on other social media.
We are deeply honored by receiving this grant, we know there were over 300 organizations worldwide that applied this year. Park Tool must have a very challenging & difficult time making their choices.
We will be using these new tools to enhance our portable shop operations that are scheduled for 8 days a month. We are currently seeking a donation of an enclosed 8-10' enclosed trailer to take these services to the next level by allowing us to be more efficient with our time at a site. This in addition to the 3 days a week we schedule at the bike shop making repairs to donated bicycles and other services. We are currently servicing and distributing about 2,200 bikes a year via our partner organizations..
January 21, 2023 - We are going to suspend accepting donated bicycles as our shop and aux storage units are full to capacity. We will reopen bicycle donations as soon as we can make some room.
December 20, 2022 - Having finished with Christmas Come True Distribution, we are breaking down the the "Elf" workshop and bringing all our tools and equipment back to the main shop in the Atlantis Business Plaza. We hope to start catching up on the delayed repairs and bike donations pickups thus normalizing our operation by Jan 2, 2023 - Happy New Year
November 21, 2022 - As we enter the Christmas holiday season, we are curtailing operations at our regular shop to concentrate our efforts for Christmas Come True at the elf workshop. We hope to continue our portable shop operations during this period. Also donations of all bicycles including pickups will be suspended until after the new year. Normal shop operation will resume Monday January 2, 2023.
November 4, 2022 - Delivered 4 bicycle to Holly Hills Schools, our newest partner.
October 2022 - The Bike Men of Flagler County are now members of the Florida Bicycle Association, https://floridabicycle.org/
July 1, 2022 - We would like to welcome Our newest partner, Volusia Recovery Alliance. Contact information can be found on our Partners page.
May 9, 2020 - Bicycles presented to Ukrainian Family
Sheriff Rick Staly of the FCSO received an email asking if he can help with getting some bikes for a Ukrainian family that relocated to Palm Coast fleeing the war with Russia. Sheriff Staly immediately passed this request to us and we were happy to help with this request. We not only delivered the bikes but also provided safety helmets to the family members as part of our work with the PedBike program. for more info go to http://flaglersheriff.com/cmsfiles/2022-122-Sheriff-Gives-Bicycles-to-Ukrainian-KidsSends-Bulletproof-Vests-Overseas-rev1.pdf
April 23, 2022 - Trail Day on A1A - St Johns River-to-Sea Loop Alliance
The Bike Men of Flagler County has been invited to participate at this event. We will have a booth/tent set up at Varn Park, one of the rest stops for the event from 10AM to 2 PM. We will be distributing our literature and also FL DOT safety literature on bicycles. Please stop by and say hello to us on that Saturday. Please note we are not going to be set up for bike repairs but will have pumps available for those that need a some air for their tires.
April 12, 2022 - Made our 1st delivery of 12 bikes to St. Augustine Youth Services (SAYS) and reviewed setting up repairing of their existing bikes on a bi-weekly basis with our portable bike shop operation. Looks like we will start the repairs on Friday 4/22/22 from 8:30 to noon and continue every other week until we get them all back in working order.
April 9, 2022 - Orange County Foster Care Giveaway with The Bike Fairy, Kathy Downs
Well, here we go again back to Orange County. After a very successful event last June, we are invited back to help The Bike Fairy once again with her semi-annual bike giveaway. We will be heading there again with a 4-man team to do last minute checks, repairs and adjustments to approx. 200 bikes she is giving away. All the bikes were prepared by her other weeks over the preceding weeks (months). Most of the work is fitment to the child that chooses a bike and install training wheels when needed. Here is a link to the event
https://www.facebook.com/GearBicycleSalesOviedo/photos/a.104427485502131/109838541627692/
March 25, 2022 - We would like to welcome Our newest partner, St. Augustine Youth Services (SAYS). Contact information can be found on our Partners page.
March 5, 2022 - Cornerstone Charter’s Bike Rodeo, Belle Island, FL
We were invited out to assist the Belle Island Police Dept for their first Bike Rodeo. Bike rodeo are normally put on by the local law enforcement group to teach bike safety to children. The Bike Men of Flagler County was responsible for inspecting each bike to insure it was safe including working brakes. We inspected about 30 bikes that morning and following that inspection, the local BSA Explorer Post manned some manual floor pumps to insure all the tires were properly inflated.
March 2022 - Flagler Open Arms Recovery Services (OARS)
Please welcome our newest partner. We are happy to provide bike repair services to them on as needed basis.
See our Partners page for more information on how to contact them
November 29, 2021 - Annual work for Christmas Come True
Starting Monday, November 29, As we are fast approaching the Christmas Holiday season, we will be suspending just about all operations at the regular bike shop and moving tools & work stands to the Christmas Come True distribution location so we can build the approx. 200 bicycles for them.
This is the 8th year of us working with Christmas Come True. We will continue our regular weekly portable bike shop operations at The Sheltering Tree and the Family Life Center during this period. Regular bike shop operations will resume in January 2022. For information and to support Christmas Come True, please visit them on Facebook or at their website, see our Friends-Supporters page for more contact information.
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - Motorcycle Fund Raiser for Christmas Come True
Crossroads Tavern in Bunnell is hosting the 2nd Annual Poker Run fundraiser for Christmas Come True. The Bike Men will be at the starting point with our Santa on a motorcycle blow-up to get the riders safely on their way. While the riders make their rounds, The Bike Men will return to Crossroads Tavern with Santa to help set up for the afternoon festivities and also man the BBQ grill for the hungry riders. For information on the event and times, see the flyer at this link www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224389595834694&set=gm.931138234439373
November 2021 -
We are pleased to present our newest supporter, David's World Cycle in Ormond Beach, Fl. Contact information can be found on our Friends-Supporters page.
October 2021 - Hope House for Boys
Please welcome our newest partner. We were first introduced to this organization by one of the FCSO commanders. We are happy to provide bike repair services to them on as needed basis.
August 27, 2021 - Florida United Methodist Children's Home gets their 3rd delivery of 12 bicycles.
The Bike Men of Flagler County, Pete Senia and Joe Golan made a delivery of 12 bicycles and other donations (Multiple boxes of clothes, etc. provided by others) to the Florida United Methodist Children's Home in Enterprise Florida. All 12 bikes were adult size male as requested by FUMCH. We hope to continue this. This was our 3rd donation of this type and our thanks to Lynn of FUMCH Development Dept. for arranging this delivery.
June 12, 2021 - Packing our trailer with tools and supplies early on this Saturday morning, we headed to Orlando to assist the Bike Fairy, Kathy Downs, with her event to help the foster children of Orange County. Besides all the equipment, we also had 4 mechanics that fitted the 120-130 bikes being given away. This included seats, handlebars and installation of training wheels for the newer riders. Also last minute checks, inspections and repairs were made but the bulk of the repairs were already performed by other mechanics including those from Kyle's Bike Shop in the weeks prior. Pictures from the event can be found on our "Photo" page.
May, 2021 - We are delighted in adding another partner for our services, St Francis House and their alternate site, Port in the Storm, both in St. Augustine, Florida. We delivered 4 adult bikes to each location and are working with them for additional bikes in the future.
St. Francis House and Port in the Storm in St. Augustine, FL offers housing crisis, essential services, and life skills to unaccompanied youth, individuals, and families in St. Johns County. For more information on their operations and contact information, you can visit them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/StFrancisPortInTheStorm
April 13, 2021 - The Bike Men of Flagler County is pleased to announce that as of April 7, 2021 the IRS has approved us as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We want to thank all our partner organization for their support over the years in this matter. Now on to the State to get our sales-tax exempt certification for purchases of supplies and materials.
April 12, 2021 - For the 2nd time, The Bike Men of Flagler County was invited by Cpl. Peter Stevens of the UCF Police Dept. in Orlando to pick up bikes that they collected on their campus. Our understanding is that they collected 110 bicycles that were abandoned on campus from the previous semester. We were able to receive 14 bicycles including a 26" adult trike. These bikes will be reviewed and repaired in the next 1-2 weeks for distribution through our partner organizations.
March 2021 - After many tries, we have finally made contact with the Volusia and Flagler Foster/Adoptive Support group via Facebook and delivered our first bike under this program to a foster child along with a bike safety helmet. We pledge to keep all these requests in confidence and to never reveal any personal information about the parents or child nor shall we publish any pictures of these events to respect their privacy. Any adoptive parent can make a request via the administrators of the Facebook page or their assigned GAL. We hope that we can answer all future requests so that every foster or adoptive child has a bicycle.
Feb 4, 2021 - We delivered another load of 10 - 26" men's bicycles to FUMCH as arranged with Britney Lasimone of the development dept. at the Florida United Methodist Children's Home. Also delivered at the same time was 8 large boxes of clothing donated by one of our supporters Alexander DEL ROSSA.
February 2021 - We would like to introduce the Palm Coast Bicycle Trail Shop as a new supporter of The Bike Men of Flagler County. They are located next to the Shell station at Clubhouse Drive and Palm Coast Pkwy. Thank you Mark & Rita for your commitment to our community. More contact information can be found on our Friends-Supporters page.
January 2021 - Well, we are finally back in our regular shop and all the backlog of picking up bikes donated after Christmas is finally caught up. The shop and our auxiliary storage unit are both full and busting at their seams. We contacted the Florida United Methodist Children's Home to see if they could use another round of bicycles and they said most definitely. We are scheduled to deliver another 10 bicycles out to them on February 4. Photo of the Feb 4 delivery will be added to our Photo page. Also one of the volunteers with Emmanuel's Closet has been making regular weekly trips, bringing 5-6 bikes each trip to Solutions By The Sea in Daytona Beach, Thank you Kip for all you do. At least now we can walk in the shop.
April 12, 2021 - For the 2nd time, The Bike Men of Flagler County was invited by Cpl. Peter Stevens of the UCF Police Dept. in Orlando to pick up bikes that they collected on their campus. Our understanding is that they collected 110 bicycles that were abandoned on campus from the previous semester. We were able to receive 14 bicycles including a 26" adult trike. These bikes will be reviewed and repaired in the next 1-2 weeks for distribution through our partner organizations.
March 2021 - After many tries, we have finally made contact with the Volusia and Flagler Foster/Adoptive Support group via Facebook and delivered our first bike under this program to a foster child along with a bike safety helmet. We pledge to keep all these requests in confidence and to never reveal any personal information about the parents or child nor shall we publish any pictures of these events to respect their privacy. Any adoptive parent can make a request via the administrators of the Facebook page or their assigned GAL. We hope that we can answer all future requests so that every foster or adoptive child has a bicycle.
Feb 4, 2021 - We delivered another load of 10 - 26" men's bicycles to FUMCH as arranged with Britney Lasimone of the development dept. at the Florida United Methodist Children's Home. Also delivered at the same time was 8 large boxes of clothing donated by one of our supporters Alexander DEL ROSSA.
February 2021 - We would like to introduce the Palm Coast Bicycle Trail Shop as a new supporter of The Bike Men of Flagler County. They are located next to the Shell station at Clubhouse Drive and Palm Coast Pkwy. Thank you Mark & Rita for your commitment to our community. More contact information can be found on our Friends-Supporters page.
January 2021 - Well, we are finally back in our regular shop and all the backlog of picking up bikes donated after Christmas is finally caught up. The shop and our auxiliary storage unit are both full and busting at their seams. We contacted the Florida United Methodist Children's Home to see if they could use another round of bicycles and they said most definitely. We are scheduled to deliver another 10 bicycles out to them on February 4. Photo of the Feb 4 delivery will be added to our Photo page. Also one of the volunteers with Emmanuel's Closet has been making regular weekly trips, bringing 5-6 bikes each trip to Solutions By The Sea in Daytona Beach, Thank you Kip for all you do. At least now we can walk in the shop.
The December 2020 press release from the FCSO on the donation of 13 bicycles from their unclaimed property office had fanned the flames for donations of bicycles for us from the community. Folks, we are working on scheduling these pickups as quick as we can and to find room to store all these bikes until they can be reviewed and repaired prior to distribution. This and the our relocation back to our regular shop after the Christmas Come True operation has taxed our volunteers, please be patient and we will get back to everyone that contacted us. A copy of the press release can be be seen at this link at the Palm Coast Observer. Thank you Sheriff Staly and the FCSO for your help.
The 2020 Christmas Come True operations went smoothly at our temporary location at City Marketplace in Palm Coast and 200 bicycle were readied for the children. It was a harder challenge this year as there was a general shortage of new bicycles in the markets and we were forced to seek gently used bicycle donations to repair and give out. Even with all that we fell short in fulfilling all requests for bicycles but were able to fulfill wishes for 200 bicycles. Thanks to all great folks in Flagler County (and beyond) that made this possible and our team in picking up all the donated bicycles. Pictures from the 2020 Christmas Come True were added to the slideshow on our Photos page.
Starting Monday November 23, 2020 we will be stopping our regular bike shop operation in the Atlantis Business Plaza as all our mechanics will be busy getting bicycles ready for Christmas Come True at another location. We will continue our weekly appearance at the Sheltering Tree Offices on Tuesday mornings. Regular bike shop operations will return after the New Year.
On Thursday Sept 24, 2020 we picked up16 bikes from the Police Dept of UCF in Orlando FL as a donation to our group. A big thank you to Peter Stephens of the UCF PD in arranging this and our thanks to Lyndy Moore @lyndybyke (The Helmet Lady) for getting us some of these abandoned bikes. These bicycles will be repaired by our staff and ready in the next week or two to help those in Flagler County.
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July 26 & 27, 2020 - A big thank you to the owners (Jake, James, Kelly and Diane) of PC Bike. They decided to close their doors after many years serving Palm Coast. They made substantial contributions this Saturday and Sunday of many, many bicycle parts and components to The Bike Men of Flagler County.
These parts will help us with our work in Flagler County for our multiple partners.
These parts will help us with our work in Flagler County for our multiple partners.
July 2020 - We are pleased to announce our newest partner Samaritan Ministries. Their Mission statement - "Samaritan Ministries walks alongside women who have experienced trauma in their lives to provide spiritual, social, economic, and vocational support... Helping women to change their lives for a better today and tomorrow.
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June 27, 2020 - We are pleased to announce our newest friend and supporter, All Upholstery & Fabric - Sam, thank you for your support of our operations. Please see their contact information on our Friend-Supporters page.
May 11, 2020 - We are happy to announce that we delivered 12 bikes to our newest partner, the Florida United Methodist Children's Home in Enterprise Fl. - www.fumch.org
This contact was passed to us by one of our biggest supporters. In 1908 The Florida United Methodist Children’s Home was established in Enterprise, Florida as the Florida Methodist Orphanage. We are proud to assist this well established and essential organization. If you would like to see more of their history look at this link https://www.fumch.org/about-fumch/history/
May 4, 2020 - The bike shop has resumed operation for the receiving and rebuilding of bicycles. We will announce at a later date when we will resume our "Portable Bike Shop" operations for The Sheltering Tree and the Family Life Center.
March 16, 2020 - We are pleased to announce that we have added the Flagler County Drug Court Foundation as one of our newest partners.
Feb 28, 2020 - We are proud to announce that we have added the Florida School for the Blind & the Deaf (FSBD) as our newest partners.
Update 12/20/2019 - We finished up the bike building for Christmas Come True, topping out at 171 bikes for this year. Distribution yesterday went as smooth as it could be serving just approximately 150 families. This was not only bikes but other gifts including clothing, school supplies, toiletries, games, toys, etc. and a full Christmas dinner provided for each family.
Thanks to all the volunteers of The Bike Men and Christmas Come True for your dedicated work. - Joe The Bike Man
Thanks to all the volunteers of The Bike Men and Christmas Come True for your dedicated work. - Joe The Bike Man
HELP!!!! - We still want to open a public Bicycle Co-op to allow folks to work on their own bikes and teach bicycle mechanics. WE are looking for an additional 2,000 sq feet to facilitate this addition service.
If any private entity or government agency can assist us with space (including electricity and water service) it would be extremely appreciated. We will provide labor and materials for build out. We do not need anything fancy, just dry and secure. THANK YOU
Operations
We have individuals who work on the mechanics of used donated bicycles and an additional team of builders for new bikes as well as those who volunteer their time and vehicles in picking up and delivering bikes from across the county and beyond.
We have a shop and storage unit in a donated space on US 1 in Bunnell, Fl. serving these needs and this shop acts as the base of our operations.
We do not only build bikes
In addition to building and rebuilding bicycles, we provide a mobile shop operation to several charitable groups to perform on-the-spot repairs and preventive maintenance on a regularly scheduled basis.
This serves their client base who cannot otherwise afford these repairs.
Bicycle mobile repair shop operations serve The Sheltering Tree, Family Life Center & Samaritan Ministries in Flagler County, we also service St Augustine Youth Services in St. Johns County, Florida.
We have a shop and storage unit in a donated space on US 1 in Bunnell, Fl. serving these needs and this shop acts as the base of our operations.
We do not only build bikes
In addition to building and rebuilding bicycles, we provide a mobile shop operation to several charitable groups to perform on-the-spot repairs and preventive maintenance on a regularly scheduled basis.
This serves their client base who cannot otherwise afford these repairs.
Bicycle mobile repair shop operations serve The Sheltering Tree, Family Life Center & Samaritan Ministries in Flagler County, we also service St Augustine Youth Services in St. Johns County, Florida.
Our Friends and Supporters
We are constantly growing this operation and we could not have done this without our friends and supporters.
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