About Transit Alliance of the Piedmont/TAP and the Greensboro Community Bike Shop

Transit Alliance of the Piedmont/TAP, DBA Greensboro Community Bike Shop and Community Bike Shop at Barber Park, is an educational nonprofit charity with a mission to promote enhancements to Piedmont Triad’s multi-modal transportation network that spur economic development, encourage regional equity, improve health and safety, protect natural resources, build community, and connect people to opportunities.

Greensboro Community Bike Shop is an all-volunteer organization whereby Transit Alliance of the Piedmont/TAP is the legal nonprofit that provides the management, insurance, and fundraising, with funding from various grants, donors, and sales. Greensboro Community Bike Shop operates out of two business locations: 720 W Market Street, Greensboro NC 27401 (also the mailing address for Transit Alliance of the Piedmont/TAP) and 1500-112 Barber Park Drive, Greensboro NC 27401. The organization has programs for advocacy, bicycles for social service providers, bicycle repair education, walk-up bicycle repairs, "open shop", bike and parts sales, and metal recycling. All donations are welcome. Major sponsors include the REI Cooperative Action Fund, the Cone Health Foundation, and the City of Greensboro.

Three people working in a bike shop; one person is assembling a bicycle, another is standing to the right wearing a yellow MC Folk Fest shirt and a red hat, and a third person is in the background near the wall. Bike tires are hung on the wall, and shelves with storage bins are visible.
Group of five women on bicycles smiling outdoors near tents and a brick building with trees in the background.
Two elderly men smiling and posing outdoors, one wearing a baseball cap and a blue T-shirt with 'Championship' written on it, and the other in a wide-brimmed hat and apron, standing in front of a white canopy tent, with green trees and a brick building in the background.

History: Transit Alliance of the Piedmont/TAP was formed in 2012 and incorporated in 2016 as an educational 501(c)(3) to advocate for transit and other alternative transportation improvements in and around Greensboro NC. A major early success in 2019 was convincing Greensboro to fund a downtown bus circulator, later called the GTA Hopper Bus. In 2018 a local bike advocacy group called Bikesboro received fiscal sponsorship from Transit Alliance of the Piedmont/TAP for tax-deductible donations to help pay for bike parts, a program that rapidly expanded during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In April 2022 Transit Alliance of the Piedmont/TAP signed an agreement with the City of Greensboro to operate out of an abandoned maintenance facility in Barber Park and soon afterwards the Greensboro Community Bike Shop was born. Gradually several pre-existing bicycle "chop-shop" operations merged with the Greensboro Community Bike Shop, using the centralized operation for parts distribution, bicycle sorting, and recycling - the Greensboro Community Bike Shop won a community recycling award in 2023 - and many individuals also joined. The Greensboro Community Bike Shop soon developed a large network ecosystem that includes numerous individuals, public agencies, police, universities, social service providers, other nonprofits, faith-based groups, and grantors, for the purpose of finding donated used bicycles, repairing them, and giving away the bikes for free to the needy in our community, particularly refugees, immigrants, low-income youth and workers, and people experiencing homelessness.

In July 2026 the Greensboro Community Bike Shop opened a second bike shop in downtown Greensboro for repairs while the original Barber Park location is focused on the Bike Library program, a free bicycle-borrowing service started in 2023.