El Puente Cycling Club is a youth bicycling club that seeks to spread the word about the mental, physical, emotional and environmental benefits of bicycling, particularly for urban youth and their communities. Members of the club attend El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice in Brooklyn NY and come from low income Latino and African American communities in north Brooklyn. For the past 4 years they have participated in bicycling activities that include safe riding workshops, a program that allows them to earn a bicycle while learning bike maintenance and repair skills, regular group rides of up to 60 miles, and work with city agencies and bicycling advocates to improve safe riding infrastructure in the communities where they live.

For each of the past 3 years members of El Puente Cycling Club have presented workshops at the annual Youth Bike Summit. Last year in Seattle WA they lead a workshop that presented data from surveys and research they conducted that highlighted the positive connection between bicycling and mental health, particularly for urban teens.

For the 2016 Youth Bike Summit in Minneapolis MN, club members will lead a community mural design and painting workshop titled Bike the Change You Want to See. They will lead participants in the creation of a mural depicting the personal, community, and environmental changes that happen through bicycling.