Best buddies hero black

OUR COMMUNITY

Signature Cycles Is giving back to the Community

"As a business we feel very fortunate that we can make people's dreams come true by helping them build their ultimate bike. We create the pathway to our clients cycling dreams.

At the same time, we feel strongly about reaching out to fulfil the dreams of so many less fortunate individuals through organizations that care for the youth, population at risk, people struggling with lifetime health challenges or affected by a disability.

Our staff team all have their personal reasons to connect with nonprofit organizations in life. I have a son that was born with down syndrome. This naturally created for me and my family a need and desire to get engaged with vulnerable people and populations at risk. I feel fortunate that I now also have an opportunity to give back through Signature Cycles."

— Ruedi Laager, Co-Owner

80853 Photo Mar 28 2025 11 01 00 AM 1

What does it mean to
give back and why is
it important?

When you give back, you're able to better the lives of the people around you – your loved ones, the people in your community or the lives of people somewhere else in the world. And finding meaning by giving 
back to the community doesn't just benefit others – 
it benefits you.

Corporate giving provides employees with an opportunity to champion a cause for positive change and give back to their communities. This opportunity is what makes employees proud to represent an organization that gives.

Signature Cycles is improving lives from local neighborhoods to the dusty roads in Africa

Artboard 1
CFS590274 20260308 NYBP PM B8 A7401

Who we support

Signature Cycles Women's Team

Read more

One thing we take pride on here at Signature Cycles is our Women's Team. Led by team captain Megan Kelly, the team consists of a competitive group of riders racing across road, criterium, and gravel events throughout the season. With weekly Friday group rides departing at 10am, the girls have built a strong community of women who push and inspire each other on and off the bike.

Supporting women in cycling is something we feel strongly about. The sport has historically been male-dominated, and seeing that shift — both on the race circuit and closer to home — is genuinely rewarding. That growth is showing up in the shop too, with a real increase in women's bike builds and fit appointments, and long may that continue.

Best Buddies

Read more

Best Buddies is a global nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It's a cause close to our hearts, and one we've been proud to support for three years running.

Each year we take part in the Best Buddies Challenge, fielding a team of riders from our community to raise funds and ride for something bigger than the miles. We've also had the privilege of riding alongside Sir Mark Cavendish, who has joined each year. Most recently, a team of twenty Signature riders took on the inaugural Best Buddies Challenge: New York — tackling over 9,000 feet of climbing through Central Park and beyond, and raising nearly $40,000 for the organisation in the process.

The CT Cycling Advancement Program

Read more

The CT Cycling Advancement Program aims to put every child in Connecticut on a bike. Whether they choose to excel as a racer, have fun in the dirt, or learn to ride safely in traffic, we’re here to show 
them the way.

Since 2013, we have introduced thousands of children aged 9–18 to the sport of cycling. Learn more about our programs and events and how you can be a part of our success.

Vista Life Innovations

Read more

Vista Life offers programs and pathways to independence for young adults with neurological disabilities.

Each member of the Vista community is supported as a person on their own journey toward greater self-reliance and personal achievement

World Bicycle Relief

Visit website

World Bicycle Relief (WBR) partners in rural regions of the world so that individuals, families, and communities can thrive through the Power of Bicycles to enable life-changing mobility.

Over the past decade, Signature Cycles has been a foundational partner to WBR, helping to grow and foster an incredible community of support on the East Coast. Together, the Signature Cycles community has raised more than $500,000 to help mobilize individuals and communities with bicycles.

Cycle For Survival

Read more

Not all great rides are on the road, that is why we at Signature Cycles have chosen ‘Cycle for Survival’ as one of our community charities. 

Since 2007, Cycle for Survival has been bringing stationary-cycling rides to venues across the United States. Pedaling hard or hardly pedaling, people come together as a community to raise funds for rare cancer research. 

Within six months after the close of fundraising each year, 100% of the money raised by Cycle for Survival riders and donors goes directly to doctors and scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK).

Cycle for Survival has raised over $309M, funding FDA approved therapies, countless lifesaving advances, and the innovative technology that makes it all possible. This extraordinary community of patients, doctors, survivors, caregivers, scientists, nurses, and supporters is making real progress possible for people with cancer around the world.

47 IMG 2546
Our Signature Cycles Women's Team