Community Bicycle Organizations

Criteria

The list below uses the criteria in found in the Bicycle Organization Organization Project zine 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

Bike Shops

Canada

Alberta

• Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society (Edmonton)

British Columbia

• The Bike Kitchen (Vancouver)
• Our Community Bikes (Vancouver)
• Recyclistas Community Bike Shop (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)

Quebec

• Freewheels Bicycle Club (Montreal)
• Velogik (Montreal)
• Right to Move/La voie Libre (Montreal)

Austria

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

Ghana

• Earn-a-Bike Ghana

Guatemala

• Associatión Maya Pedal

United States

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)
• Bicycle Kitchen (Los Angeles)
• Bikerowave (Santa Monica)
• Bike Church (Santa Cruz)
• Santa Cruz Bike Coop (Santa Cruz)
• Bici Centro (Santa Barbara)

Colorado

• Community Cycles (Boulder)
• Derailer Bicycle Collective (Denver)
• Fort Collins Bike Co-opOld (Fort Collins)

Delaware

• Urban Bike Project of Wilmington (Wilmington)

Florida

• Krank it Up (Tallahassee)
• The Bottom Brackett (Gainesville)

Georgia

• Sopo Bike Coop (Atlanta)

Idaho

• Village Bicycle Project (Moscow)

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)

Indiana

• Bloomington Community Bike Project (Bloomington)

Iowa

• The Iowa City Bike Library (Iowa City)

Louisiana

• Plan B (New Orleans)

Massachusetts

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

Michigan

• Back Alley Bikes (Detroit)

Minnesota

• The Grease Pit (Minneapolis)
• The Sibley Bike Depot (St. Paul)

Montana

• Free Cycles Missoula (Missoula)

New Jersey

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

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)

North Carolina

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

Ohio

• Ohio City Bike Coop (Cleveland)
• Oberlin Bike Co-op (Oberlin)
• Mobius Trip Bike Shop (Cincinnati)
• Third Hand Bicycle Cooperative (Columbus)
• Toledo City Bicycle Co-op (Toledo)

Oregon

• Ashland Community Bike Program (Ashland)
• Center For Appropriate Transport (Eugene)
• Community Cycling Center (Portland)
• City Bikes Repair Shop (Portland)
• North Portland Bikeworks (Portland)

Pennsylvania

• Bethlehem Bicycle Cooperative (Bethlehem)
• Free Ride (Pittsburgh)
• Neighborhood Bike Works (Philadelphia Earn-a-Bike youth program and Bike Church coop)

Rhode Island

• Recycle-A-Bike (Providence)

South Dakota

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

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)

Virginia

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

Washington

• Bike Works (Seattle)
• The Bikery (Seattle)
• The Bike Shack (Seattle)
• The Hub (Bellingham)
• The Evergreen Bike Shop (Olympia)
• Bike and Bike (Olympia)

West Virginia

• Positive Spin (Morgantown)

Wisconsin

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

Washington D.C.

• Chain Reaction

See Also

The Bicycle Organization Organization Project