Community Bicycle Organizations

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The list below uses the criteria found in the Bicycle Organization Organization Project and the Bike Collective Network Directory for what constitutes a community bike shop, namely:

• Non-profit bicycle organizations
• Bike shops that are accessible to people without money
• Shops that have an educational focus, teaching others how to fix bikes
• Shops that are volunteer run
• Organizations that ship bikes to communities suffering from first world colonialism & its effects
• Shops that provide free or low-cost services to the community
• Organizations that recycle bicycles and parts

Contents 1 Canada 1.1 Alberta 1.2 British Columbia 1.3 Manitoba 1.4 Nova Scotia 1.5 Ontario 1.6 Quebec 2 Australia 2.1 Tasmania 3 Austria 4 France 5 Ghana 6 Guatemala 7 United States 7.1 Alaska 7.2 Arkansas 7.3 Arizona 7.4 California 7.5 Connecticut 7.6 Colorado 7.7 Delaware 7.8 Florida 7.9 Georgia 7.10 Idaho 7.11 Illinois 7.12 Indiana 7.13 Iowa 7.14 Louisiana 7.15 Maine 7.16 Maryland 7.17 Massachusetts 7.18 Michigan 7.19 Minnesota 7.20 Missouri 7.21 Montana 7.22 Nebraska 7.23 Nevada 7.24 New Hampshire 7.25 New Jersey 7.26 New Mexico 7.27 New York 7.28 North Carolina 7.29 North Dakota 7.30 Oklahoma 7.31 Ohio 7.32 Oregon 7.33 Pennsylvania 7.34 Rhode Island 7.35 South Carolina 7.36 South Dakota 7.37 Tennessee 7.38 Texas 7.39 Utah 7.40 Vermont 7.41 Virginia 7.42 Washington 7.43 West Virginia 7.44 Wisconsin 7.45 Washington D.C. 8 See Also

[edit] Canada

[edit] Alberta

• Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society (Edmonton)
• The Bike Root (Calgary)
• The Good Life Community Bike Shop (Calgary)

[edit] British Columbia

• The Bike Kitchen (Vancouver)
• Our Community Bikes (Vancouver)
• Recyclistas Community Bike Shop (Victoria)
• FreeHub Co-operative (Victoria)

[edit] Manitoba

• The Bike Dump (Winnipeg)
• The Bike Dungeon (Winnipeg)

[edit] Nova Scotia

• Bike Again! (Halifax)

[edit] Ontario

• Yellow Bike Action (Kingston)
• Re-Cycles Bicycle Coop (Ottawa)
• Community Bicycle Network (Toronto)
• Bike Pirates (Toronto)
• Bikechain (University of Toronto, Toronto)
• Recycle Cycles (Hamilton)
• The Bike Centre (University of Guelph, Guelph)
• Recycle Cycles (Kitchener)
• MACycle (McMaster University, Hamilton)
• B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop (Peterborough)

[edit] Quebec

• Freewheels Bicycle Club (Montreal)
• Velogik (Montreal)
• Right to Move/La voie Libre (Montreal)
• SantroVelo (Montreal)
• CRABE (Montréal)
• The Flat: Bike Collective (Montréal)
• Mile End Bike Garage (Montréal)
• PX "The Space" Bikeworks (Montréal)
• Biciklo (Montréal)

[edit] Australia

[edit] Tasmania

• Hobart Bike Kitchen (Hobart)

[edit] Austria

• Fahrradküche Graz (Graz)
• WUK Fahrrad Selbsthilfewerkstatt (Vienna/Wien)
• Bikekitchen Vienna (Vienna/Wien)

[edit] France

• Un P'tit Vélo dans la tête (Grenoble) [1]
• Le Recycleur (Lyon) [2]
• La Bécane à Jules (Dijon) [3]
• Le Vieux Biclou (Montpellier)
• Atelier Dynamo (Nancy) [4]
• Vélocampus (Nantes) [5]

[edit] Ghana

• Earn-a-Bike Ghana

[edit] Guatemala

• Associatión Maya Pedal

[edit] United States

[edit] Alaska

• University of Alaska at Anchorage Bike Club (Anchorage)
• Off the Chain Bicycle Collective (Anchorage)

[edit] Arkansas

• Bike City Recyclery (Fayetteville)
• Recycles Bike Co-op (Little Rock)

[edit] Arizona

• South Side Mutual Aid Toward Independent Youth Bicycle Education Project (Flagstaff)
• BICAS (Tucson)
• Handlebar Helpers (Scottsdale)
• Helping Understand Bicycles (Prescott)

[edit] California

• Arcata Library Bikes (Arcata)
• The Davis Bike Church (Davis)
• The Bike Kitchen (San Francisco)
• The Bike Hut Foundation (San Francisco)
• The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen (Sacramento)
• Bikes Del Pueblo (San Diego)
• Bicycle Kitchen (Los Angeles)
• Bike Oven (Los Angeles)
• Bikerowave (Santa Monica)
• Bike Church (Santa Cruz)
• Santa Cruz Campus Bike Center (Santa Cruz)
• Bici Centro (Santa Barbara)
• SLO Bike Kitchen (San Luis Obispo)
• The Bicycle Lounge (Riverside)
• Cycles of Change APC Bike Shop (Alameda)
• The Green Bike Program (Pitzer College, Claremont)

[edit] Connecticut

• New Haven Bike Collective (New Haven)

[edit] Colorado

• Community Cycles (Boulder)
• Derailer Bicycle Collective (Denver)
• The Bike Depot (Denver)
• Recycle Bicycles (Denver)
• Fort Collins Bike Coop (Fort Collins)
• Spokes Community Bicycle Project (Longmont)

[edit] Delaware

• Urban Bike Project of Wilmington (Wilmington)

[edit] Florida

• Krank it Up (Tallahassee)
• The Kickstand (Gainesville)
• Lake Worth Bike Coop (West Palm Beach)
• Tampa Bay Bicycle Co-op (Tampa)

[edit] Georgia

• Sopo Bike Coop (Atlanta)
• Communicycle (Atlanta - Chamblee)
• Shift (Atlanta)
• Savannah Bike Coop (Savannah)
• Bike Athens Bicycle Recycling Program (Athens)

[edit] Idaho

• Village Bicycle Project (Moscow)

• Boise Bicycle Project[6] (Boise)

[edit] Illinois

• Blackstone Bicycle Works (Chicago)
• Bikes for Chicago (Chicago)
• The Chicago Community Bike Project (Chicago)
• The Recyclery (Evanston/Chicago)
• Uptown Bikes (Chicago)
• Working Bikes (Chicago)
• West Town Bikes (Chicago)
• The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign (Urbana-Champaign)

[edit] Indiana

• Bloomington Community Bike Project (Bloomington)
• West Lafayette Bike Cooporative (West Lafayette)
• Freewheelin' Community Bikes (Indianapolis)

[edit] Iowa

• The Iowa City Bike Library (Iowa City)
• Des Moines Bike Collective (Des Moines)

[edit] Louisiana

• Plan B (New Orleans)
• Rubarb (New Orleans)

[edit] Maine

• Community Bicycle Center (Biddeford)

[edit] Maryland

• Renaissance Community Youth Bike Shop (Riverdale)
• Mount Rainier Bicycle Cooperative (Mount Rainier)
• Velocipede Bike Project (Baltimore)
• CrescentTrailRiders (Montgomery County)

[edit] Massachusetts

• Bikes not Bombs (Boston)
• Broadway Bicycle School (Cambridge)
• Quad Bikes (Cambridge)
• Worcester Earn-A-Bike (Worcester)

[edit] Michigan

• Back Alley Bikes (Detroit)

• Broke Spoke Bike Coop (Traverse City)

• Bike Riot Network (Traverse City)

• Traverse Alive (Traverse City)

• My Wheels Are Turning (Traverse City)

[edit] Minnesota

• The Grease Pit (Minneapolis)
• The Sibley Bike Depot (St. Paul)
• Mac Bike (St. Paul)
• Bike Cave Collective (Duluth)
• Re-Bike Project (Mankato)

[edit] Missouri

• Bicycle Works (St. louis)

[edit] Montana

• Free Cycles Missoula (Missoula)
• Bozeman Bike Kitchen (Bozeman)

[edit] Nebraska

• Community Bicycle Shop Omaha (Omaha)

[edit] Nevada

• Reno Bike Project (Reno)

[edit] New Hampshire

• Cheshire County Bicycle Collective / Keene Bicycle Co-op (Keene)

[edit] New Jersey

• Pedals for Progress (High Bridge)
• Hobiken (Hoboken)
• New Brunswick Bike Library (New Brunswick)
• The Bike Barn (Princeton)
• South Orange Maplewood Bicycle Coalition (South Orange/Maplewood)

[edit] New Mexico

• Chain Breaker Collective (Santa Fe)

[edit] New York

• Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles (Ithaca)
• Recycle-A-Bicycle Youth Program (New York City)
• Recycle-A-Bicycle DUMBO training center (Brooklyn)
• Troy Bike Rescue (Troy)
• Time's Up! Bike Co-op (New York City)

[edit] North Carolina

• Asheville ReCyclery (Asheville)
• Durham Bike Co-op (Durham)
• The ReCYCLEry (Carrboro)
• 1304 Bikes (Raleigh)
• Bike Me! (Greensboro)

[edit] North Dakota

• Fargo Moorhead Community Bicycle Workshop (Fargo)

[edit] Oklahoma

• OKC Infoshop (Oklahoma City)

[edit] Ohio

• Athens Bicycle Co-operative (Athens)
• Ohio City Bicycle Co-op (Cleveland)
• Oberlin Bike Co-op (Oberlin)
• Mobo Bicycle Co-op (Cincinnati)
• Third Hand Bicycle Cooperative (Columbus)
• Toledo City Bicycle Co-op (Toledo)
• Grindstone Bikes(Berea)

[edit] Oregon

• Ashland Community Bike Program (Ashland)
• Bike Farm (Portland)
• Center For Appropriate Transport (Eugene)
• Community Cycling Center (Portland)
• City Bikes Repair Shop (Portland)
• North Portland Bikeworks (Portland)
• Corvallis Bicycle Co-op (Corvallis)
• Frans Pauwels Memorial Community Bicycle Center (Aloha)

[edit] Pennsylvania

• Bethlehem Bicycle Cooperative (Bethlehem)
• Coatesville Community Bike Works (Coatesville)
• Free Ride (Pittsburgh)
• Neighborhood Bike Works (Philadelphia Earn-a-Bike youth program and Bike Church coop)
• N.W. Pa. Re-Cycle (Meadville) Bringing people and bikes together

[edit] Rhode Island

• Recycle-A-Bike (Providence)

[edit] South Carolina

• Holy City Bike Co-op (Charleston)
• Blackbird Bicycle Co-op (Columbia)
• Hub Cycle (Spartanburg)

[edit] South Dakota

• Yellow Bike Program & Reconditioned Bikes for Kids (Rapid City)

[edit] Tennessee

• Revolutions Community Bicycle Shop (Memphis)

[edit] Texas

• Austin Yellow Bike Project (Austin)
• Workshop Houston, the parent organization of the Third Ward Bike Shop (Houston)
• Bikes Across Borders (Austin)
• Waco Volunteer Bike Center (Waco)
• Querencia Community Bicycle Shop (Denton)
• Bike Cave (San Marcos)

[edit] Utah

• Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective (Salt Lake City)
• UoU Bicycle Collective (Salt Lake City)
• Aggie Blue Bikes (Logan)
• Ogden Bicycle Collective (Ogden)

[edit] Vermont

• Freeride Montpelier (Montpelier)
• Windham County Bike Project (Brattleboro)
• Bike Recycle Vermont (Burlington)

[edit] Virginia

• Charlottesville Community Bikes (Charlottesville)
• Blacksburg Bike Collective (Blacksburg)
• Phoenix Bikes (Arlington)

[edit] Washington

• The Hub Community Bike Cooperative (Bellingham)
• The Evergreen Bike Shop (Olympia)
• Bike and Bike (Olympia)
• The Community Build-a-Bike Project (Olympia)
• Bike Works (Seattle)
• The Bikery (Seattle)
• The Bike Shack (Seattle)
• Pedals2People (Spokane)
• Cool Water Bikes (Spokane)

[edit] West Virginia

• Positive Spin (Morgantown)
• Spokes4Folks (Charleston)

[edit] Wisconsin

• Wheels for Winners (Madison)
• Milwaukee Bicycle Collective (Milwaukee)
• The Freewheel Collective (Madison)

[edit] Washington D.C.

• The Bike House

[edit] See Also

• Bicycle Organization Organization Project
• Bike Collective Network Directory
• essays