The bikes were collected and obtained by request for donation that had been continuing amidst the local culture surrounding the Neverending Bookstore and the Circus Barn. The Neverending Bookstore, located on State Street, is notoriously identified as the only nonprofit privately owned book supplier, and dubbed the "Never-Open" bookstore, because of its tendency to be closed almost always.

The only day that the Neverending Bookstore is open is on Saturday afternoons. The reason for this is that the owner makes a majority of his income doing carpentry, and the bookstore exists mainly as a community center.

The bicycle project began when Roger, the owner of Neverending Books, heard about programs similar that had become successful in other towns such as Portland, Oregon and Keane, New Hampshire. These programs, although the exact origin is uncertain, all revolve around the same basic principles: to encourage the use of bicycles, the idea of sharing, and to paint them all yellow.

These bikes are available now, and if you see a yellow bicycle, I suppose that it's free game to simply go and grab one. The iffyness of the program, as best described, is one where the concept depends upon redefining the meaning of "ownership." Also challenging is playing the role of nonprofit organization without any kind of local government backing or cooperation. This, combined with the otherwise entire lack of knowledge by the general public of this program's existence (except for this article), makes the Yellow Bike Program an interesting concept, but something that in effect will be very difficult to execute successfully.