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Bicycle Exchange location: 3961 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA MAP.

Interested in volunteering? Explore our event calendar and visit our Eventbrite page to RSVP for upcoming opportunities. New volunteers can find details about our volunteer roles and general information.

Stopping by our shop? Make an appointment to shop for a bicycle or parts, ask us questions about volunteering, drop off a donation, receive service for your bike, or anything else! Shop Hours are Monday / Wednesday / Friday, 11:00 am - 5:30 pm.

Have a bicycle to donate? Donate bicycles and parts by emailing us photos and details of what you have, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We'll let you know if we need your items and get you the drop-off details. Please do not make an appointment to drop off a bicycle without emailing us photos first; we cannot accept all bicycles and parts.

The Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange is a Section 501c(3) non-profit organization.

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SVBE would like to give our sincerest thanks to all the volunteers who helped out at our Big Spring Parking Lot Bike Sale on Saturday, March 21!

With the great weather we've been having, the last two weeks have already been pretty solid, sales-wise. So much so that we were concerned about having enough bikes ready for the Big Sale. At the start of the event, we had 65 bikes for sale and we added on a couple more thanks to the QA crew.

Volunteer wheeling out a bike to be sold at the SVBE Big Spring Parking Lot Sale

The result: we sold a whopping 39 bikes! The total revenue for the day was $13,617.15, including strong add-on sales of locks, helmets and some racks and saddles. This revenue will go a long way towards our goal of helping those in need. Sang, our newest Shop Mechanic, managed the parts and accessories (P&A) table, and we cleared out quite a bit of space and made more than enough money to cover the pizza, donuts and bagels with P&A sales alone.

We would like to thank all of the volunteers who helped out during the day of the event, including Judy, Pete, Johnnie T., Carol, Michael, Cary, Chris, Bob, David, Taghi, Etienne, Shirley, Cap'n Jonny, Tom, David F. and Rao.

Also, a big thanks to Geraghty and Peter for the help before the event.

And of course, thanks to staff members Toni, Sang and our amazing Shop Manager, Gregg!

The event was a big success thanks to all your efforts, and many happy kids and their families went home with a quality, dependable used bike.

We have another big event in two months: the Big Spring Bike Swap on Sunday, May 17, from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm. Save the date and be on the lookout for more details to be announced.

Thank you, ALL!

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