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=== California === | === California === | ||
* [[Arcata Library Bikes]] (Arcata) | * [[Arcata Library Bikes]] (Arcata) | ||
* [[The Davis Bike Collective]] (Davis) | * [[The Davis Bike Collective]] (Davis) | ||
* [[The Bike Kitchen (San Francisco) | * [[The Bike Kitchen]] (San Francisco) | ||
* [[The Bike Hut Foundation]] (San Francisco) | * [[The Bike Hut Foundation]] (San Francisco) | ||
* [[The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen]] (Sacramento) | * [[The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen]] (Sacramento) | ||
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* [[The Bike House]] | * [[The Bike House]] | ||
=== Statistics === | |||
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" | |||
|+ U.S. Bicycle Collective Statistics by State | |||
|- | |||
! scope="col" | Rank | |||
! scope="col" | State | |||
! scope="col" | # BCs | |||
! scope="col" | Population | |||
! scope="col" | BCs Per Capita | |||
|- | |||
| 1 || South Dakota || 4 || 819761 || 0.00000487947096775768 | |||
|- | |||
| 2 || Vermont || 3 || 630337 || 0.00000475935888262945 | |||
|- | |||
| 3 || Alaska || 2 || 721523 || 0.00000277191440882688 | |||
|- | |||
| 4 || Oregon || 8 || 3848606 || 0.00000207867472014542 | |||
|- | |||
| 5 || Montana || 2 || 994416 || 0.00000201123071229747 | |||
|- | |||
| 6 || Idaho || 3 || 1573499 || 0.00000190657890472126 | |||
|- | |||
| 7 || Washington D.C. || 1 || 601723 || 0.00000166189426031579 | |||
|- | |||
| 8 || Washington || 11 || 6753369 || 0.00000162881666913210 | |||
|- | |||
| 9 || Michigan || 15 || 9911626 || 0.00000151337429398567 | |||
|- | |||
| 10 || North Dakota || 1 || 675905 || 0.00000147949785842685 | |||
|- | |||
| 11 || Utah || 4 || 2770765 || 0.00000144364462522083 | |||
|- | |||
| 12 || Colorado || 6 || 5044930 || 0.00000118931283486590 | |||
|- | |||
| 13 || Delaware || 1 || 900877 || 0.00000111002944908128 | |||
|- | |||
| 14 || West Virginia || 2 || 1859815 || 0.00000107537577662294 | |||
|- | |||
| 15 || Rhode Island || 1 || 1055247 || 0.00000094764543277545 | |||
|- | |||
| 16 || Minnesota || 5 || 5314879 || 0.00000094075518934674 | |||
|- | |||
| 17 || New Jersey || 7 || 8807501 || 0.00000079477708830235 | |||
|- | |||
| 18 || Arizona || 5 || 6412700 || 0.00000077970277730129 | |||
|- | |||
| 19 || Indiana || 5 || 6501582 || 0.00000076904359585098 | |||
|- | |||
| 20 || New Hampshire || 1 || 1321445 || 0.00000075674734854648 | |||
|- | |||
| 21 || Maine || 1 || 1333074 || 0.00000075014590337821 | |||
|- | |||
| 22 || Virginia || 6 || 8037736 || 0.00000074647885922105 | |||
|- | |||
| 23 || Wisconsin || 4 || 5698230 || 0.00000070197236685778 | |||
|- | |||
| 24 || Kansas || 2 || 2863813 || 0.00000069836962120083 | |||
|- | |||
| 25 || Ohio || 8 || 11568495 || 0.00000069153334119953 | |||
|- | |||
| 26 || Arkansas || 2 || 2926229 || 0.00000068347350805422 | |||
|- | |||
| 27 || Iowa || 2 || 3053787 || 0.00000065492452486044 | |||
|- | |||
| 28 || South Carolina || 3 || 4645975 || 0.00000064572022019060 | |||
|- | |||
| 29 || North Carolina || 6 || 9565781 || 0.00000062723576883059 | |||
|- | |||
| 30 || Massachusetts || 4 || 6559644 || 0.00000060978918977920 | |||
|- | |||
| 31 || California || 21 || 37341989 || 0.00000056236961560885 | |||
|- | |||
| 32 || Pennsylvania || 7 || 12734905 || 0.00000054967037445509 | |||
|- | |||
| 33 || Nebraska || 1 || 1831825 || 0.00000054590367529649 | |||
|- | |||
| 34 || Illinois || 7 || 12864380 || 0.00000054413815512291 | |||
|- | |||
| 35 || Maryland || 3 || 5789929 || 0.00000051814106874195 | |||
|- | |||
| 36 || Georgia || 5 || 9727566 || 0.00000051400319463266 | |||
|- | |||
| 37 || New Mexico || 1 || 2067273 || 0.00000048372904788095 | |||
|- | |||
| 38 || Louisiana || 2 || 4553962 || 0.00000043917801685653 | |||
|- | |||
| 39 || Nevada || 1 || 2709432 || 0.00000036908104724533 | |||
|- | |||
| 40 || Missouri || 2 || 6011478 || 0.00000033269688419387 | |||
|- | |||
| 41 || New York || 6 || 19421055 || 0.00000030894305175491 | |||
|- | |||
| 42 || Connecticut || 1 || 3581628 || 0.00000027920264192708 | |||
|- | |||
| 43 || Oklahoma || 1 || 3764882 || 0.00000026561257431176 | |||
|- | |||
| 44 || Florida || 5 || 18900773 || 0.00000026453944502693 | |||
|- | |||
| 45 || Texas || 6 || 25268418 || 0.00000023745055982531 | |||
|- | |||
| 46 || Kentucky || 1 || 4350606 || 0.00000022985303656548 | |||
|- | |||
| 47 || Alabama || 1 || 4802982 || 0.00000020820398660665 | |||
|- | |||
| 48 || Tennessee || 1 || 6375431 || 0.00000015685214066312 | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
Revision as of 12:04, 18 January 2011
The list below uses the criteria found in the old Bicycle Organization Organization Project 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 in other countries.
- Shops that provide free or low-cost services to the community.
- Organizations that recycle bicycles and parts
Australia
Queensland
- The Bicycle Revolution (Brisbane)
Tasmania
- Hobart Bike Kitchen (Hobart)
New South Wales
- Cycle Re-Cycle aka Nunnery Bike Workshop (Sydney)
- Cycle Rescue (Sydney)
- Newcastle Bike Ecology Centre (Newcastle)
- UNSW Bike Club (Sydney, Canberra)
Austria
Graz
- Fahrradküche Graz (Graz)
Linz
- Bikekitchen Linz (Linz)
Vienna
- WUK Fahrrad Selbsthilfewerkstatt (Vienna/Wien)
- Bikekitchen Vienna (Vienna/Wien)
Brasil
São Paulo
- Mão na roda (São Paulo)
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)
- The Orioles Bike Cage (Winnipeg)
Newfoundland and Labrador
- Ordinary Spokes (St. John's)
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)
- Bikesauce (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)
- BICYCLE - Bike Initiative of the Cabbagetown Youth Center (Toronto)
Quebec
- 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)
- BQAM (Université du Quebec à Montréal (UQAM), Montréal)
- Coop roue libre (Laval University, Quebec City]
Croatia
Zagreb
- Biciklopopravljaona (Zagreb)
France
Federation of French speaking community bicycle organizations
Dijon
- La Bécane à Jules (Dijon)
Grenoble
- uN p'Tit véLo dAnS La Tête (Grenoble)
Lyon
- Le Recycleur (Lyon)
Montpellier
- Le Vieux Biclou (Montpellier)
Nancy
- Atelier Dynamo (Nancy)
Nantes
- Vélocampus (Nantes)
Paris
Toulouse
- Atelier de l’association vélo Toulouse (Toulouse)
- Vélo de Occasion (Toulouse)
Ghana
Guatemala
Hungary
Iceland
- Keðjuverkun (Reykjavík)
Italy
Bologna
Firenze
Roma
Sicilia
- Ciclofficina Etnea (Catania)
Torino
Ireland
Spain
Madrid
United Kingdom
Aberdeen
Bristol
Brighton
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Leeds
Gloucester
London
- 56a Bikespace (Walworth)
- Brixton Bicycle Art (Brockwell Park)
- Hackney Bike Workshop (Hackney)
- Magnificent Revolution (Based in London But all over the country)
- Tower Hamlets Wheelers (Tower Hamlets)
- Walthamstow Bicycle Recycling (Walthamstow)
Manchester
Newcastle
Oxford
Stirling
- recyke-a-bike (Stirling)
York
Warrington
United States
Alabama
- Bici Coop http://bicicoop.org/ (Birmingham)
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)
- Bike Saviours Bicycle Collective (Tempe)
California
- Arcata Library Bikes (Arcata)
- The Davis Bike Collective (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 (Los Angeles)
- Valley Bikery (Los Angeles)
- Bike Church (Santa Cruz)
- Changing Gears Bike Shop (Alameda)
- Community Cycles (Oakland)
- Bikery (Oakland)
- Santa Cruz Campus Bike Center (Santa Cruz)
- Bici Centro (Santa Barbara)
- Local Bike Trader (San Luis Obispo)
- SLO Bike Kitchen (San Luis Obispo)
- The Bicycle Lounge (Riverside)
- The Green Bike Program (Pitzer College, Claremont)
- Trips for Kids Marin aka Re-Cyclery (Marin, CA, USA) (San Rafael)
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)
Connecticut
- New Haven Bike Collective (New Haven)
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)
- Bike Broward (Fort Lauderdale)
Georgia
- Sopo Bike Coop (Atlanta)
- Communicycle (Atlanta - Chamblee)
- Shift Community Bike Shop (Atlanta)
- Savannah Bike Coop (Savannah)
- Bike Athens Bicycle Recycling Program (Athens)
Idaho
- Boise Bicycle Project (Boise)
- Village Bicycle Project (Moscow)
- The Powerhouse (Pocatello)
Illinois
- Blackstone Bicycle Works (Chicago)
- Bikes for Chicago (Chicago)
- The Chicago Community Bike Project (Chicago)
- The Recyclery (Evanston/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)
- Pedal & Park (Indianapolis)
- Shadeland Bicycle Collective (Anderson)
Iowa
- The Iowa City Bike Library (Iowa City)
- Des Moines Bike Collective (Des Moines)
Kansas
- Topeka Community Cycle Project (Topeka)
- Wichita Bicycle Collective (Wichita)
Kentucky
- Brycc Freewheel Bike Collective (Louisville)
Louisiana
Maine
- Community Bicycle Center (Biddeford)
Maryland
- Renaissance Community Youth Bike Shop (Riverdale)
- Mount Rainier Bicycle Cooperative (Mount Rainier)
- Velocipede Bike Project (Baltimore)
Massachusetts
- Bikes not Bombs (Boston)
- Broadway Bicycle School (Cambridge)
- Quad Bikes (Cambridge)
- Worcester Earn-A-Bike (Worcester)
Michigan
- Boston Square Community Bikes (Grand Rapids)
- 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)
- Common Cycle (Ann Arbor)
- The Hub of Detroit (Detroit)
- Share a Bike (E. Lansing)
- Lansing Bike Coop(Lansing)
- Re-Bicycle Lenawee (Adrian)
- East Quad Bike Co-op (Ann Arbor, U of M)
- Mount Pleasant Bike Cooperative (Mount Pleasant)
- Armory Bike Union (Jackson)
- MSU Bikes (E. Lansing, MSU)
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)
- 816 Bicycle Collective [1] (Kansas City)
Montana
- Free Cycles Missoula (Missoula)
- Bozeman Bike Kitchen (Bozeman)
Nebraska
- Community Bike Project Omaha (Omaha)
Nevada
- Reno Bike Project (Reno)
New Hampshire
New Jersey
- Pedals for Progress (High Bridge)
- Hobiken (Hoboken)
- New Brunswick Bike Library (New Brunswick)
- The CycLAB (Princeton)
- South Orange Maplewood Bicycle Coalition (South Orange/Maplewood)
- Brick City Bike Collective (Newark)
- Second Life Bikes (Asbury Park)
New Mexico
- Chainbreaker 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 and Albany)
- Time's Up! Bike Co-op (New York City)
- Buffalo Blue Bike (Buffalo)
North Carolina
- Asheville ReCyclery (Asheville)
- Durham Bike Co-op (Durham)
- The ReCYCLEry (Carrboro)
- 1304 Bikes (Raleigh)
- Bike Me! (Greensboro)
- ReCyclery (Charlotte)
North Dakota
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)
- Summit Cycling Center (Akron)
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)
- Car Free CAT-Coalition for Appropriate Transportation (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)
- Bike & Build (Manayunk)
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)
- Brookings Community Bicycle Collective (Brookings)
- Sioux Falls Bike Collective (Sioux Falls)
- Spearfish Bicycle Cooperative (Spearfish)
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)
- The Bike Village at George Mason University (Fairfax)
- Sharebike.org (Roanoke)
- VéloCity Bicycle Cooperative (Alexandria)
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)
- The Recyclery (Port Townsend)
- 2nd Cycle (Tacoma)
West Virginia
- Positive Spin (Morgantown)
- Spokes4Folks (Charleston)
Wisconsin
- Sunshine Community Bikes (Ashland)
- Wheels for Winners (Madison)
- Milwaukee Bicycle Collective (Milwaukee)
- The Freewheel Collective (Madison)
Washington D.C.
Statistics
| Rank | State | # BCs | Population | BCs Per Capita |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Dakota | 4 | 819761 | 0.00000487947096775768 |
| 2 | Vermont | 3 | 630337 | 0.00000475935888262945 |
| 3 | Alaska | 2 | 721523 | 0.00000277191440882688 |
| 4 | Oregon | 8 | 3848606 | 0.00000207867472014542 |
| 5 | Montana | 2 | 994416 | 0.00000201123071229747 |
| 6 | Idaho | 3 | 1573499 | 0.00000190657890472126 |
| 7 | Washington D.C. | 1 | 601723 | 0.00000166189426031579 |
| 8 | Washington | 11 | 6753369 | 0.00000162881666913210 |
| 9 | Michigan | 15 | 9911626 | 0.00000151337429398567 |
| 10 | North Dakota | 1 | 675905 | 0.00000147949785842685 |
| 11 | Utah | 4 | 2770765 | 0.00000144364462522083 |
| 12 | Colorado | 6 | 5044930 | 0.00000118931283486590 |
| 13 | Delaware | 1 | 900877 | 0.00000111002944908128 |
| 14 | West Virginia | 2 | 1859815 | 0.00000107537577662294 |
| 15 | Rhode Island | 1 | 1055247 | 0.00000094764543277545 |
| 16 | Minnesota | 5 | 5314879 | 0.00000094075518934674 |
| 17 | New Jersey | 7 | 8807501 | 0.00000079477708830235 |
| 18 | Arizona | 5 | 6412700 | 0.00000077970277730129 |
| 19 | Indiana | 5 | 6501582 | 0.00000076904359585098 |
| 20 | New Hampshire | 1 | 1321445 | 0.00000075674734854648 |
| 21 | Maine | 1 | 1333074 | 0.00000075014590337821 |
| 22 | Virginia | 6 | 8037736 | 0.00000074647885922105 |
| 23 | Wisconsin | 4 | 5698230 | 0.00000070197236685778 |
| 24 | Kansas | 2 | 2863813 | 0.00000069836962120083 |
| 25 | Ohio | 8 | 11568495 | 0.00000069153334119953 |
| 26 | Arkansas | 2 | 2926229 | 0.00000068347350805422 |
| 27 | Iowa | 2 | 3053787 | 0.00000065492452486044 |
| 28 | South Carolina | 3 | 4645975 | 0.00000064572022019060 |
| 29 | North Carolina | 6 | 9565781 | 0.00000062723576883059 |
| 30 | Massachusetts | 4 | 6559644 | 0.00000060978918977920 |
| 31 | California | 21 | 37341989 | 0.00000056236961560885 |
| 32 | Pennsylvania | 7 | 12734905 | 0.00000054967037445509 |
| 33 | Nebraska | 1 | 1831825 | 0.00000054590367529649 |
| 34 | Illinois | 7 | 12864380 | 0.00000054413815512291 |
| 35 | Maryland | 3 | 5789929 | 0.00000051814106874195 |
| 36 | Georgia | 5 | 9727566 | 0.00000051400319463266 |
| 37 | New Mexico | 1 | 2067273 | 0.00000048372904788095 |
| 38 | Louisiana | 2 | 4553962 | 0.00000043917801685653 |
| 39 | Nevada | 1 | 2709432 | 0.00000036908104724533 |
| 40 | Missouri | 2 | 6011478 | 0.00000033269688419387 |
| 41 | New York | 6 | 19421055 | 0.00000030894305175491 |
| 42 | Connecticut | 1 | 3581628 | 0.00000027920264192708 |
| 43 | Oklahoma | 1 | 3764882 | 0.00000026561257431176 |
| 44 | Florida | 5 | 18900773 | 0.00000026453944502693 |
| 45 | Texas | 6 | 25268418 | 0.00000023745055982531 |
| 46 | Kentucky | 1 | 4350606 | 0.00000022985303656548 |
| 47 | Alabama | 1 | 4802982 | 0.00000020820398660665 |
| 48 | Tennessee | 1 | 6375431 | 0.00000015685214066312 |