Community Bicycle Organizations

Criteria

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

Community Bike Shops

Here is a list of Community Bicycle Organizations by location.

Canada

Alberta

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

British Columbia

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

Manitoba

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

Nova Scotia

• Bike Again! (Halifax)

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)

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)

Australia

Tasmania

• Hobart Bike Kitchen (Hobart)

Austria

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

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]

Ghana

• Earn-a-Bike Ghana

Guatemala

• Associatión Maya Pedal

United States

Alaska

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

Arkansas

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

Arizona

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

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)

Connecticut

• New Haven Bike Collective (New Haven)

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)

Delaware

• Urban Bike Project of Wilmington (Wilmington)

Florida

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

Georgia

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

Idaho

• Village Bicycle Project (Moscow)

• Boise Bicycle Project[6] (Boise)

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)

Indiana

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

Iowa

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

Louisiana

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

Maine

• Community Bicycle Center (Biddeford)

Maryland

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

Massachusetts

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

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)

Minnesota

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

Missouri

• Bicycle Works (St. louis)

Montana

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

Nebraska

• Community Bicycle Shop Omaha (Omaha)

Nevada

• Reno Bike Project (Reno)

New Hampshire

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

New Jersey

• Pedals for Progress (High Bridge)
• Hobiken (Hoboken)
• New Brunswick Bike Library (New Brunswick)
• The Bike Barn (Princeton)

New Mexico

• Chain Breaker Collective (Santa Fe)

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)

North Carolina

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

North Dakota

• Fargo Moorhead Community Bicycle Workshop (Fargo)

Oklahoma

• OKC Infoshop (Oklahoma City)

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)

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)

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

Rhode Island

• Recycle-A-Bike (Providence)

South Carolina

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

South Dakota

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

Tennessee

• Revolutions Community Bicycle Shop (Memphis)

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)

Utah

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

Vermont

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

Virginia

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

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)

West Virginia

• Positive Spin (Morgantown)
• Spokes4Folks (Charleston)

Wisconsin

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

Washington D.C.

• The Bike House

See Also

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