Bike Donation Drives on 9/26 & 10/17! Open House & Chili Cookoff on October 17th, 2026

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Donate your unwanted bikes! Attend the open house!

This fall, we’ll be hosting two bike donation drives! The first is on Saturday, September 26th from 10am-2pm. The second will be on Saturday, October 17th from 10am-2pm. Bring your bikes to our bike co-op located at 354 Coyier Lane on Madison’s south side. 

9/26 SCHEDULE

10am-2pm – Bike Donation Drive 

10/17 SCHEDULE

10am-2pm – Bike Donation Drive 

1pm-3pm – Open House & Chili Cookoff – meet Board members and volunteers, learn how to become a part of our community, tour the largest bike center in Wisconsin and enjoy a variety of chili!

Both days will include an action-packed day of community building at Bikes for Kids Wisconsin. You are invited to donate unwanted bikes, volunteer for the Big Breakdown, take a tour during the Open House, meet other volunteers, and enjoy a variety of chili! 

Bike Donation Drive information:

Donate unwanted bikes of any size or style. We serve both children and adults so any size is happily received. This is a drive up donation event where volunteers will help you unload bikes and parts from your car. 

While we prefer gently used bikes, bikes of all condition are accepted. For bikes that are beyond their useful life, we suggest a $20 donation to help us process the bike so it can be recycled. Bikes that are more than 50 years old usually cannot be saved unless they are collector bikes. For example, that 1964 Schwinn Traveler you rode in college may have deep sentimental value but we cannot buy parts for them. We do sell them as garden bikes for $25 each but they don’t hold much material value today despite their physical beauty. Feel free to donate them but know that we may have to recycle them.

What qualifies as a gently used bike? Bikes with flat tires, bikes in need of new tires, bikes in need of tune-ups, bikes with minimal rust. We can sometimes work magic with bikes! Almost all of the bikes that are donated to us are in a state of disrepair. Feel free to call us at 608-405-0385 for questions. View our contact page for our location and hours. Bike donations can be dropped off anytime of year. 

Open House Information:

The annual open house is open to the public. We invite you to come and meet other volunteers, learn more about volunteering and what we do, enjoy our varieties of chili, and tour the largest bike center in Wisconsin! This is a family friendly event (dogs are also welcome). 

To distribute thousands of bikes each year, it requires a significant amount of volunteer help. Our volunteers are a vital workforce that contributed 3,850 hours in 2025. We are a manufacturing facility so kids ages 10+ are welcome. The open house is a great time to tour and see if it’s the right fit for you, your family, or the company you work for. Corporate teams make up a large number of our volunteers each year as well. Learn more about volunteering and our Group Volunteer Experience here. 

THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR!

four people posing next to the back of a car with bikes for donation