The Chain Reaction Bike Hub opened in May 2024 with ambitious goals about breaking barriers to reliable transportation by providing cheap bikes for in-need community members. Ten months later, community support for the program hasn’t slowed, according to Chain Reaction Executive Director Evan Schmidtke.
“It is super exciting to see, in less than a year, where things have skyrocketed to,” Schmidtke said. “I don’t think that we thought, sitting here this time last year, that these programs would be running, and that we would have this incredibly dedicated volunteer base, and would have a space filled with bikes for sale.”