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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, and Friday, 12 pm - 5 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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At BikeX, we are quite experienced tuning up bikes donated to us and ensuring they're in fine, safe operational shape. That's been the key to donating thousands of bikes to our partner charities over the years.

Typically our repairs involve cleaning the bike, replacing or patching tubes, changing tires, replacing cables and housing, and swapping grips or wrapping handlebars. If we've done our jobs well, the bike works well is then ready to be donated, or in some cases sold, to its next owner. Hopefully, each bike we work on delivers many miles of reliable riding.

Building such reliable, practical bikes is a rewarding bike mechanic experience, but it's not the only aspect of working on bikes that some of us find appealing. There's a creative process of building out a bike with a certain kind of riding and rider in mind, and with a certain style.

Over the last few months, we've worked with recently-featured volunteer John Garrish to create a few bikes designed for mixed-terrain riding. You might have heard gravel bikes are popular these days, and this is our take on bikes built for exploring and cruising the dirt and gravel in the Bay Area, yet aren't really gravel race bikes you'd take to tackle a 100-mile gravel race. Gravel Cruisers, or #gravlkruzr is what we're calling them.

The bikes vary by handlebar type and wheel size, but were customized for fun, mixed terrain riding. They're part klunker, part gravel bike, part #burritoslayer, and 100% fun.

Browse a few of John's creations in the galley below. Most will soon be for sale at shop.bikex.org. Drop us a line if you want to be first in line!

Ready to Cruise Gravel: A vintage Specialized Rockhopper with 1x drivetrain and BMX-style handlebars.
Ready to Cruise Gravel: A vintage Specialized Rockhopper with 1x drivetrain and BMX-style handlebars.
#GravlKruzr: A Vintage Univega Rover is ready for gravel, despite predating the gravel movement by nearly 40 years
#GravlKruzr: A Vintage Univega Rover is ready for gravel, despite predating the gravel movement by nearly 40 years. 
#GravlKruzr: The top-of-the-line steel Trek Multitrack Hybrid was made in the USA, and now remade with drop bars, bar-end shifters and WTB 40mm Nano tires.
#GravlKruzr: The top-of-the-line steel Trek Multitrack Hybrid was made in the USA, and is now remade with drop bars, short-reach linear-pull brakes, bar-end shifters and WTB 40mm Nano tires.
Gravel Cruiser: John Garrish's Scott Boulder is ready for gravel, dirt and burrito errands.
Gravel Cruiser: John Garrish's Scott Boulder is ready for gravel, dirt and burrito errands. A disc brake up front, front basket, 1x wide-range gearing offer modern touches. 
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