While most people are simply wishing for warmer weather, some engineering students at West Virginia University are already preparing for it by making sure that all children and adults have bikes to ride around town this spring.

Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honorary at WVU , will host its annual Spring Bike Drive April 6-12. Bicycles for children or adults that are in repairable condition will be accepted, then fixed and donated to area residents in need.

Donors may drop off bikes at any time during the drive at the Area 41 parking lot behind the Engineering Sciences Building on the Evansdale Campus. Signs will direct donors to the dropoff location.

Tau Beta Pi is co-sponsoring the drive with Positive Spin, a local nonprofit organization that encourages alternative transportation and serves as a bicycle recycling center. The student organization hosts the event twice each year. Last fall, the organization collected 100 bikes.

Weve been able to help many area residents get bikes through this event,said Neil Buzzard, vice president of Tau Beta Pi.We hope to help even more people this spring.

In addition, Positive Spin will accept bicycle donations at its headquarters in Grand Central Station from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. during the bike drive.

For more information, e-mail nbuzzard@mix.wvu.edu or call Positive Spin at 304-276-0213.