Boise Bicycle Project

For the 18th year, Boise Bicycle Project's Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway will provide hundreds of Idaho kids with a bike.

In anticipation of the holiday season, the Boise Bicycle Project is gearing up for one of their biggest events of the year.

"The concept is really, really simple: you open streets to people and you close them to cars, and the magic happens," says one of the key figures behind the Open Streets movement.

This weekend, in one part of Boise, the only traffic you’ll need to plan for is foot traffic.

Each holiday season, kids from all over the Treasure Valley draw pictures of what their dream bike would look like, sending their creations to the Boise Bicycle Project. Over the course of several months, volunteers from BBP work hard to make these dream bikes a reality.

Each holiday season, the Boise Bicycle Project provides hundreds of bikes to kids in need as part of their Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway. Volunteers work for months refurbishing bikes in anticipation of the event and this year is no different.

After 16 years of helping connect kids with bikes Jimmy Hallyburton is retiring from the role of director with the Boise Bicycle Project.

This week the Boise Bicycle Project is launching a program that will offer families a new way to purchase bikes for their kids. The goal of the nonprofit is to provide access to bikes in an affordable, reliable and sustainable way. In order to help achieve this goal, BBP is introducing a sliding-scale payment method where parents pay what they can afford in exchange for a new summer ride for their kids.

For 16 years, the Boise Bicycle Project has been making kids dreams come true through the Holiday Kids Bike Giveaway. This year they still need your help to make sure each child who is dreaming of a bicycle this holiday season gets one.

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