Riding a bike is a skill in decline. Oaks and Spokes believes every child should know how to ride a bike, no matter their background. To make this happen, we’ve partnered with Safe Routes to School – Wake County to bring the All Kids Bike – Learn to Ride curriculum to Wake County schools. As of 2025, we’ve coordinated the purchase and distribution of five 24-bike fleets to five elementary schools in Wake County. Our goal is to expand this initiative by identifying more schools each year, providing the necessary bikes and support, and working toward having all Wake County schools offer Learn to Ride programs district-wide. If we teach kids all the other sports, why not bicycling?

To help reduce car dependency in Raleigh, we aim to equip and empower everyone, whether they already ride or are interested in starting, to use a bike for transportation by providing the knowledge and resources needed for bike maintenance. The more we can remove the barriers to cycling, the more we hope to encourage people to ride. Throughout the year, Oaks and Spokes hosts several free pop up bike repair clinics, offering bike repair services to communities that cannot afford the services of a bike shop. At these events, we tune, repair, teach basic bike maintenance skills, and donate bikes, lights, locks, and helmets to those in need. Visit our Events page for more information about our next repair clinic.

Each year, Oaks and Spokes partners with an organization that supports a vulnerable population to assemble a fleet of adult bikes. These bikes are donated to the organization for use in transportation, as well as for promoting physical, mental, and social health.

In 2025, Oaks and Spokes donated 20 adult bikes, complete with helmets, locks, lights, and storage, to Arise Collective, a nonprofit reentry program that helps women recently released from incarceration.