Bikes Not Bombs delivering 500 bicycles to Kenya By Steve Annear Globe Staff,July 17, 2015, 11:00 a.m.

The project has collected better than 20 bikes. The bikes are refurbished and shipped to various areas of the world as needed. Bikes Not Bombs has recycled over 33,000 bikes in the last 24 years.

The Massachusetts chapter of Bikes Not Bombs ships out about 7,000 to 8,000 bikes every year, according to Eric Mearns, former operations director of the organization who now lives in North Adams and ...

Bikes Not Bombs has young people spurring social change while learning bike mechanics. And YouthBuild gets young people updating and upgrading homes in their own communities through construction work.

In the Jamaica Plain workshop of Bikes Not Bombs (BNB), Roslindale’s Tarese Thompson, 18, is busy showing Terrin Wallace, a 13-year-old from Dorchester, how to overhaul a bottom bracket, the ...

Yuan volunteers for Bikes Not Bombs, a Boston-based organization that send bicycles to Africa, the Caribbean, and Central America to improve the economic situations of struggling communities.

Bikes Not Bombs is a name that draws you into the shop. It makes you wonder what they are all about. "We work with a team of volunteers and our staff to reclaim bikes," Evans said.

From this simple action sprung a movement that became the organization Bikes Not Bombs, now built on the simple actions of tens of thousands of individuals, touching lives of many more. Over 40,000 ...

Well, as we gear up and grease up for bike-riding season, there’s a place those old weather-beaten bodies can go. Bikes Not Bombs, a charity organization/bike shop in Jamaica Plain, will take the old ...

Bikes Not Bombs Some bike shops take themselves too seriously— What, you don’t know how to change a chain? At this unassuming yet hip workshop, however, even complete novices are welcome.