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Brookings Community Bicycle Collective
The mission of the Brookings Community Bicycle Collective is to promote the use and appeal of bicycles within the Brookings area as a sensible and sustainable mode of transportation and recreation. With bicycle recycling as its primary function, the collective will pursue its mission through collaborative education, as a multi-faceted community service, and by providing affordable and personable means by which to render bicycling a more accessible activity.
Where to Find Us
Entrance located in the alley directly in back of Cottonwood Coffee, downtown Brookings.details on google maps Tuesday & Thursday: 6:00-8:00pm Saturday: 12:00-4:00pm Also available by appointment.
Contact
Group on Facebookon Last.fmon Pandora Phone: 605-690-5362 or 719-432-9067 Email: bkxcom.cycollective@gmail.com Or just walk on in during shop hours.
Related Organizations
Business Plan in Brief
The Brookings Community Bicycle Collective will intend to promote the use and appeal of bicycles within the Brookings area. The collective will establish a network to acquire discarded, unwanted, or otherwise donated bicycles through contact with local businesses, property owners, the campus and city police departments, and the community at large. These bicycles will be recycled into use or salvaged for parts or processed to local recycling facilities as a two-fold service to the community--providing cheaply available bicycles and parts as well as reducing waste and clutter. The donations accrued by the shop will either be utilized by it's volunteers to produce salable bicycles to fund the collective or made available for community members to repair for personal use or to use toward the repair of bicycles already in their possession, under instruction from volunteers and with the use of the shop's tools and space.
Potential Sources for Bicycles Donations:
- Bargains on Main
- Brookings PD
- Campus PD
- Goodwill
- Rental Properties
- Discards and Donations
Local Resources:
- Robb Rasmussen - Sioux River Bicycles and Fitness
- Bob Semrad - Peddlars3
Informational Resources in Use:
- Bike Collective Starter Kit
- Starting a Non-Profit Organization[1]
- Bikes Not Bombs Earn-a-Bike Instructor's Manual
- Tools for Life Recycle-a-Bike Manual
- Sheldon Brown
- Bicycle Repair Manual by Chris Sidwells
- The Barnett's Manual of Bicycle Repair
Goals
- Nonprofit Group Exemption Status under Peddlers3.[2]
- Relation with the campus to promote the collective and assist the schools cycling needs.
- Semi-permanent volunteer group to work on showroom bikes for raising funds for the collective, to work on bikes for charity, and to contribute to the growth and enhancement of the collective.
- A staff-volunteer captain apart from the director and head mechanic to share the responsibility of opening and closing the shop and to expand the shop's business hours.
- Staff volunteers to contribute to the functionality of the shop on a fairly regular basis.
- General volunteers who volunteer any amount of time and effort but infrequently.
- Structured bicycle repair workshops lead lead by volunteers and guest experts.
- Earn-a-bike and bicycle-related educational programs for children.