“Four wheels move the body, two wheels move the soul.”

Since 2005, the Bikes Palya mission has been to engage and empower disadvantaged youth and their communities and deliver improved health, education and employment outcomes. In 2022, Bikes Palya was acknowledged by We Ride Australia with its "Bike Culture Award" at the Cycling Luminaries Awards in Sydney and by the University of South Australia with its Lifelong Learning Award. Over the years Bikes Palya has achieved great outcomes for young people in remote outback communities, such as improved physical and mental health, increased confidence, self-sufficiency and school attendance and a decrease in antisocial behaviour.

Healthier and more active young people in remote outback communities!

We achieve this by establishing community assets (bikes, tracks, workshops) to improve access to bikes and cycling infrastructure. We teach individuals and communities about bike mechanics, track building and maintenance.

We aim to provide skills training to establish employment pathways to jobs in cycling industries. And we use the high popularity of bikes to support and strengthen existing youth and health services.

Bikes Palya does all this while contributing to regional development aims through supporting cycle tourism and promoting recreational cycling and active mobility throughout South Australia.

Unfortunately, the program is currently unfunded, meaning the program only maintains itself by a few program sales, but the cost for each program is expensive due to all the complications associated with remote locations. To increase the scope of the program, Bicycle SA is looking for donations and sponsorship opportunities to support the program and create healthier and safer communities within regional and remote South Australia.

Please help today by donating to the program, and by encouraging friends and family to donate too.

Your donation can make a difference

$500= one day of program delivery or fuel for the travel to one remote community.

$125 = 1 donated bike delivered to a remote community.

$ 50 = healthy food for all participants for one day in one community

“Bikes Palya exudes the feeling that nothing is impossible and so people are happy to engage, and their enthusiasm is contagious.”   

(Rosey Vaher, Indigenous Children and Schooling Program, APY Lands)