A rewarding activity that is easy to organize!
Is the percentage of groups that completed a bike drive that decided to repeat the experience!
You are a teacher, a cycling club, a social club, a youth center, a solidarity organization or simply a group of citizens that wants to get involved with a good cause! Organizing a bike drive is a concrete way to help families in need in developing countries and to educate young and old alike about the environment, sustainable development and international solidarity.
How does a bike drive with CNS attendance work ?
1. Cyclo Nord-Sud arrives the morning of the bike drive with everything you need to receive donors, including tools, donation forms, etc.
2. Cyclo Nord-Sud evaluates the bike(s), then a volunteer provides the donor with an official receipt for a tax credit.
3. We remove the bicycle’s pedals and loosens and turns the handlebars sideways to make storing the donated bicycle in a truck or container easier.
4. We put all bikes in a truck and Cyclo Nord-Sud transports them back to its headquarters in Montreal.
How does an autonomous bike drive work ?
1. Cyclo Nord-Sud sends you everything you need to receive donors, including tools, donation forms, etc.
2. During the bike drive, you fill the temporary receipts and give a copy to the donor (yellow or pink), keeping the white page for Cyclo Nord-Sud.
3. You have to arrange on a safe to keep the bikes (bike locks and chains could be lent) until Cyclo Nord-Sud comes to pick them up (on following days).
4. Cyclo Nord-Sud collects the receipts and bikes and transports them back to its headquarters in Montreal.
5. From there, Cyclo Nord-Sud handles the shipment of the donated bicyles!
Visit our calendar to see existing bike drives and contact us to reserve a date!
We are constantly looking to expand our collection network to meet the needs of our partners in the South. We are looking for bike drive organizers in a number of cities, including the ones listed below, which appear to have a large number of unused bicycles :
Amos, Anjou, Ahuntsic, Baie Comeau, Beaconsfield, Beauharnois, Blainville, Bois-des-Filion, Boisbriand, Bromont, Candiac, Coaticook, Contrecoeur, Côte-Saint-Luc, Dolbeau-Mistassini, Kingsey Falls, Kirkland, La Tuque, Laval, Lavaltrie, Lachine, Louiseville, Lorraine, Marieville, Maskinongé, Mirabel, Mont-Laurier, Montmagny, Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot, Pincourt, Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Port-Cartier, Rawdon, Rigaud, Rivière-du-Loup, Roberval, Rouyn-Noranda, St-Amable, Shawinigan, St-Basile-le-Grand, St-Constant, Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, St-Félicien, Ste-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, St-Sauveur, Ste-Sophie, Ste-Thérèse, Sutton, Trois-Rivières, Val-des-Monts, Val d’Or, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Windsor.