If anyone is looking to get rid of their bikes, parts or even motorycycles, please see the below link. Grafe's Bike Drive takes in used bikes, repairs the ones that are in need of and then gives the bikes to children for free and sells the adults bikes. This is a great way to keep bikes out of the landfill. http://bikedrive.topcities.com/ lgrafe@gmail.com 914-443-2474  

Wow, this is great! Thanks! I'll tell my bike-crazy husband!!! 

Grafe's bike drive is a scam, run by a fraud named Laura Grafe. She is currently being investigated by Middletown police department in collaboration with the NYS police. She has made over $6,000 in personal profits which should have went towards her supposed "bike drive", going instead towards a motorcycle, gun permits, guns, her truck, and other toys and food. She has been scamming police departments in at least 4 different counties. The bikes she gets donated she sells on Craigslist and to private buyers for her own personal gain. She is a fraud and mentally unstable, so please avoid her and her fraudulent "bike drive" as it is nothing more than a scam by a greedy woman who is delusional and thinks herself a God for giving her friends' children $5 dollar bikes that have been pulled out of people's garbages and are in horrible conditions. The good bikes she sells. 

That is sad to hear. She gave us a beautiful bike for our boys. It was used but in good condition. 

Grafe's bike drive is run by a Laura Grafe. I'm currently working with 22 different police departments and 2 colleges. So far we have given away 635 bikes and saved the landfill 1108 bikes by recycling the metal. We are open from April to November. The past 3 years we have had over 21 different volunteers kids ranging from age from 13- 20. Trouble youth we are trying to help save. There is good and bad about going non profit. We got a small group of people who are harassing us. It would make my life alot harder to be non profit. More paper. I do not get paid for doing the bike drive. I have a small collection of bikes for my kids. We have been slandered enough. I mean accusing me of burning down a job i was not working at the time of the fire. come on guys. The people harassing us has made it very difficult to sell our adult bikes. Were not sure we can continue at the scale we did this year. We gave out 300 free bikes. Our expenses range from gas, lube, spray paint, chains, brake cable gear cable, numerous other parts, printer paper, cartridges, each volunteers makes $5.00 each bike sold, $20.00 each pickup. This year we bought a printer, fax, copier, and scanner. 1/2 the money was from the bike drive sales. This year we supplies 28 bikes to 7 different organizations so they could make money. I think it's sad out of all the people we have helped and 1 person kinda defending me. Shame on you people, to quick to judge. You are welcome to check us out and see the wonderful work we do in your community. The people harassing me. Are scrappers. I offered to buy there bikes at double what they get at the scrap yards. which was fair. I do not need to buy bikes. But sometimes when kids need them I do. To take care of kids on my list. The scrappers herd how much the bike drive made on them and got mad. Which I have never been dishonest about selling bikes. They knew. I herd him talk about wanting to do this himself. Go ahead. Now instead of me helping now you burned your bridge with me. The scrappers are mad because they are jealous. I think they need to spend less time trying to ruin are good name and more time helping our community. They hear how much I have made in the past scrapping not on bikes thats always been seperate and now I have made 6,000. lol. My husband does have a job you know. Get up off your butt and do something for our youth and landfill. Laura Grafe has a dream. One day I want to build a big indoor stadium that kids would run and learn how to fix there own bikes and skateboards. Bike Museum showing all our chopper bikes and antiques. Still do the bike drive out of the basement. Still sell adult bikes and parts for our expenses. Have it run by the skateboards and bicyclists. Wind bike solar & back up electric power. I need alot of money to build it would be a great right off for someone with money. All good. Recycling, getting kids off the street, teaching them to give and to reuse, recycle. 

Laura does an awesome job keeping the unwanted bikes out of our landfills and I think it is very sad that there are people out there talking negative about what she does. As I said, we received a beautiful bike in good condition. My boys have been extremely happy with the bike and I am very supportive of Laura's hard work. Keep up the great work Laura!