Posts By: Robert Barnes

The Detroit community came together on Saturday night, January 11, to celebrate another 2,229 kids receiving bikes in our city! It was a wonderful evening of camaraderie and delicious barbecue served up by Quentin of Sterling Old Style Barbecue. Well over 100 FB4K supporters gathered on a cold winter night in Corktown at the Piston… Read more »

There’s nothing quite like new-bike day, particularly for a kid who may never have had a set of wheels before! The joy radiated from the faces of hundreds of local children on December 7 and 8 as 400 kids came to the Piston Group warehouse in Corktown to pick out a bike and get fitted… Read more »

FB4K’s annual bike collection creates quite a stir in the motor city and this year was no different! Two major network media outlets promoted FB4K’s bike collection at 25 metro Detroit Meijer stores on Sept. 28 this year – WWJ-TV’s Lauren Winfrey conducted a studio interview with FB4K founding board member Larry Fieroh on Friday… Read more »

Free Bikes 4 Kidz is proud to announce a new partnership for our massive bike collection event as we will be joining forces with Meijer in the fall of 2024 to collect thousands of used bikes across the metro Detroit region! We’ve collected over 14,000 bikes in the last six years for underserved kids in… Read more »

Despite a snowy, cold January night, 120 hardy souls braved the Michigan winter weather to help us celebrate our 2023 season in the Piston Group’s Detroit facility (what we like to call our “FB4K warehouse”)! The crowd was there to thank our volunteers and sponsors for supporting our mission for another year and to celebrate… Read more »