Now’s your chance to get rid of those extra bikes cluttering up your garage.

This Saturday, June 14, the organization Bikes Not Bombs will be holding a bike drive from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at the transfer station. Bromfield 8th grader Tyler Borton of Prospect Hill Road is helping to coordinate the event as part of a Boy Scout project.

Bikes Not Bombs is a nonprofit organization that focuses on recycling used bicycles as a way to improve life in communities in the United States and around the world. According to Borton, volunteers from Bikes Not Bombs collect the bikes and repair them; then “they deliver the bikes to inner city kids and to economic development programs in countries such as South Africa, Ghana, and Guatemala.”

According to their website, Bikes Not Bombs has sent over 33,000 bikes to New Orleans, Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa in the last 24 years.

While the vast majority of bikes are redistributed for individuals to use in their daily lives, some bikes are pressed into use in slightly more unconventional ways. In Guatemala, for example, a local organization called Maya Pedal uses bike parts to create “pedal-powered technologies.” Some of their works of engineering genius include machines that shell and grind grain, rope-pumps to access well water, and machines for depulping coffee and blending fruit.

Bikes Not Bombs also provides local outreach in the form of training, so young people in urban communities can learn how to repair and maintain bikes as a marketable skill.

For this Saturday’s bike drive at the transfer station, a $10 donation to help defray costs is also suggested. All donations are tax deductible.[

For more information, visit www.bikesnotbombs.org or contact Tyler Borton at 456-9108.