Do you know what a bike swap is? It's a place that one can feel safe buying, selling, and donating bikes. We tech check every bike and record every serial number, we record that chain of bike ownership. The police have recovered bikes that were sold at our swaps then later stolen that were being sold online and in pawn shops based on our due diligence.

Chris and Laura started the swaps in 2011 after a few scary incidents buying and selling bikes (we were robbed) so we sketched out processes, designed (and patented) bike racks, and designed (and patented) fit-for-purpose software that was digitized after CBC Gem did a show about our impact and how we plan to take our innovative ideas.

If your community is planning a clean-up, please consider taking the bikes to the Calgary Bike Swap event because we have groups within Calgary that depend on these donations, we even pay to repair these donated bikes to help fellow Calgarians.