Phoenix Bikes relies on donations, both financial and bikes. The shop gets about 1,000 bikes donated a year, says Gage, all going towards helping students learn to fix, build, and maintain a bike.

Phoenix bike-transit system, Grid Bike Share, launches. 3 Phoenix-area cities have bike-share programs; Scottsdale could become the 4th. Phoenix plans to add 176 miles of new bike lanes by 2022.

Phoenix Bikes outreach coordinator Stephen Green, center, and Jefferson middle-schooler Kirubel Alemayehu, 13, watch Yoel Debesay, 12, also at Jefferson, apply tape to the handlebars of the bike ...

Phoenix bike-transit system, Grid Bike Share, launches. Glendale wants to catch up to other cities. With money once-earmarked for a light-rail spur to downtown Glendale now freed up ...

Phoenix Bikes doesn’t just teach kids how to ride bikes. They teach how a bike works, how to take them apart and how to rebuild them. “It’s kind of fun to see how it works, ...