Community Bicycle Organizations

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 in other countries.
• Shops that provide free or low-cost services to the community.
• Organizations that recycle bicycles and parts

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Maps of Community Bicycle Organizations

Please note: the maps are not synced with each other or the list on this page. Both maps are international.

Here is the Google map. It is probably more comprehensive for North America. You can edit this one to include your local bike collectives.

Here is the open street map, which includes all French ateliers (workshops) and is probably more comprehensive for Europe. You can find more information about this map here.

Here is a Re~Cycle's searchable map of UK bike re-use projects - bit more than on this site.

Here is the google map for the People's bicycle workshops (ciclofficine popolari) of Rome.

Argentina

Buenos Aires

• la fabricicleta

Australia

Bicycle Recycling Network List: A very comprehensive list of local benefit bicycle projects in Australia - Here

New South Wales

• Cycle Re-Cycle aka Nunnery Bike Workshop (Sydney)
• Cycle Rescue (Sydney)
• Newcastle Bike Ecology Centre (Newcastle)
• UNSW Bike Club (Sydney, Canberra)

Queensland

• Turnstyle (Brisbane)

Tasmania

• Hobart Bike Kitchen (Hobart)

Victoria

• The Bike Shed, CERES (Melbourne)

Western Australia

• Dismantle (Fremantle)

Austria

Graz

• Fahrradküche Graz (Graz)

Innsbruck

• Bikerei (Innsbruck)

Linz

• Bikekitchen Linz (Linz)

Ottensheim

• Radamt Ottensheim

Sankt Pölten

• LAMES Radl-Selbsthilfewerkstatt

Vienna

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

Wiener Neustadt

• Gründung einer Selbsthilfe-Fahrradwerkstatt (Wiener Neustadt)

Belarus

Minsk

• Bike Kitchen Minsk (Minsk)

Belgium

Ghent

• Bike kitchen Ghent (Ghent)

Brasil

Rio Grande Do Sul

• Cidade da Bicicleta (Porto Alegre)

São Paulo

• Mão na roda (São Paulo)

Canada

Alberta

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

British Columbia

• Hub City Cycles Community Co-operative (Nanaimo)
• The Bike Kitchen (Vancouver)
• The Kickstand (Vancouver) (Vancouver)
• Our Community Bikes (Vancouver)
• Recyclistas Community Bike Shop (Victoria)
• FreeHub Co-operative (Victoria)

Manitoba

• The Bike Lab (Winnipeg)
• The Bike Dump (Winnipeg)
• The Bike Dungeon (Winnipeg)
• The Orioles Bike Cage (Winnipeg)
• South Osborne Bike Hub (Winnipeg)
• Burrows Bike Garage (Winnipeg)
• Ralph Brown Bike Cupboard (Winnipeg)
• Sanctoral Cycle (Winnipeg)
• The WRENCH (Winnipeg)

New Brunswick

• La Bikery (Moncton)

Newfoundland and Labrador

• Ordinary Spokes (St. John's)

Nova Scotia

• Bike Again! (Halifax)

Ontario

• Recycle Cycles (Kitchener)
• The Bike Centre (University of Guelph, Guelph)
• MACycle (McMaster University, Hamilton)
• New Hope Bike Co-op (Hamilton)
• Recycle Cycles (Hamilton)
• Bikechain (University of Toronto, Toronto)
• Bikesauce (Toronto)
• Bike Pirates (Toronto)
• Evergreen Bike Works (Toronto)
• Community Bicycle Network (Toronto)
• B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop (Peterborough)
• Yellow Bike Action (Kingston)
• re-Cycles Community Bike Shop (Ottawa)
• Recyclore Bicycle Recycling (Ottawa)

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)
• VéloCentrix (Québec (Limoilou))

Croatia

Zagreb

• Biciklopopravljaona (Zagreb)

Finland

Helsinki

• Pyöräpaja

Espoo

• Bikepoli

Kotka

• Pyöräpaja

France

Marseille

• Collectif Vélos en Ville (Marseille)
• Vélo Utile

Dijon

• La Bécane à Jules (Dijon)
• La rustine (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

• Atelier vélorutionnaire

Toulouse

• Atelier de l’association Vélorution (Toulouse)
• l'Atelier vélo du Zinc Paul (Toulouse)
• Atelier de l’association vélo Toulouse (Toulouse)
• Vélo d'Occasion (Toulouse)

Bordeaux

• Recup'r (Bordeaux)

Germany

• Bike-Kitchen Dortmund
• Selbsthilfewerkstatt des ADFC Stuttgart
• Bikekitchen Augsburg

Ghana

• Earn-a-Bike Ghana

Greece

• Bike Kitchen Patras

Guatemala

• Associatión Maya Pedal

Hungary

• Bringakonyha Budapest

Iceland

• Keðjuverkun (Reykjavík)

Italy

Bologna

• Ciclofficina Ampio Raggio

Firenze

• Ciclofficina Brugola Rossa

Roma

• Ciclofficina Centrale
• Ciclofficina "Don Chisciotte" @ ex Snia
• Ciclofficina Popolare "ex Lavanderia"
• Ciclofficina "Macchia Rossa"
• Ciclofficina "Luigi Masetti"
• Ciclofficina "Fisica"

Sicilia

• Ciclofficina Etnea (Catania)

Torino

• Ciclofficina Casa delle Scimmie

Ireland

• Rothar
• Seomra Bikes at Seomra Spraoi

Mexico

Chiapas

• El Cafe Machete

Querétaro

• Fixed Queretaro Cadope

New Zealand

Wellington

• Mechanical Tempest

Portugal

Lisbon

• Cicloficina dos Anjos (Lisboa)
• Cicloficina de Alfama (Lisboa)
• Cicloficina do Barreiro (Barreiro)
• Cicloficina do Oriente (Parque das Nações)
• Cicloficina do Seixal (Seixal)

Oporto

• Cicloficina do Porto (Porto)

Spain

Galiza

• ReCiclos Propolis (a Coruña)

Madrid

• BiciLab (Madrid)
• Cicloficina Malaya (Madrid)
• Ciclotaller Secano (Madrid)
• Ciclotaller del Solar (Madrid)
• Maravillosa Ciclococina (Madrid)
• Taller de Autoreparación de Bicis del Dragón (Madrid)

Catalonia

• Biciosxs (Barcelona)

Sweden

• Cykelköket Göteborg (Gothenburg)
• Cykelköket (Malmö)
• Ateljén Veloisternas Kabyss (Uppsala)

United Kingdom

Aberdeen

• beCyCle

Bristol

• Bristol Bike Project

Brighton

• Cranks DIY Workshop

• Re-Cycle

Colchester

• Re-Cycle
• Re-Cycle_Colchester

Edinburgh

• The Bike Station

Glasgow

• Common Wheel Project
• The Bike Station

Leeds

• Pedallers Arms

Gloucester

• The Re-Cycle Shed

Lancaster

• Freewheelers Bicycle Workshop

London

• 56a Bikespace (Walworth)
• Brixton Bicycle Art (Brockwell Park)
• Ealing Bike Hub (Greenford)
• Hackney Bike Workshop (Hackney)
• Magnificent Revolution (Based in London But all over the country)
• Tower Hamlets Wheelers (Tower Hamlets)
• Walthamstow Bicycle Recycling (Walthamstow)

Manchester

• I Bike MCR
• Pedal MCR
• Bloomers Wimmin's Bike Project

Newcastle

• Recyke-Y-Bike

Oxford

• Broken Spoke Bike Co-op
• Oxford Cycle Workshop (closed down/insolvent, March 2012)

Stirling

• recyke-a-bike (Stirling)

York

• Bike Rescue

Warrington

• Cycling Projects

United States

Alabama

• Bici Coop (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)
• The Rusty Spoke (Phoenix)

California

• Changing Gears Bike Shop (Alameda)
• Arcata Library Bikes (Arcata)
• BicyCAL (Berkeley)
• The Green Bike Program (Pitzer College, Claremont)
• The Davis Bike Collective (Davis)
• Bicycle Kitchen (East Hollywood, Los Angeles)
• Bike Oven (Highland Park, Los Angeles)
• Bikerowave (Mar Vista, Los Angeles)
• Valley Bikery (Van Nuys, Los Angeles)
• Burbike Workspace (Burbank, Los Angeles)
• Bikery (Oakland)
• Spokeland (Oakland)
• Ontario Wheel House (Ontario)
• Caltech Bike Lab (Caltech, Pasadena)
• The Bicycle Lounge (Riverside)
• Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen (Sacramento)
• Bikes Del Pueblo (San Diego)
• The Bike Hut Foundation (San Francisco)
• The Bike Kitchen (San Francisco)
• Good Karma Bikes (San Jose)
• Local Bike Trader (San Luis Obispo)
• SLO Bike Kitchen (San Luis Obispo)
• Trips for Kids Marin aka Re-Cyclery (Marin, CA, USA) (San Rafael)
• Bici Centro (Santa Barbara)
• The Bike Church (Santa Cruz)
• Santa Cruz Campus Bike Center (Santa Cruz)
• Ventura Bike HUB (Ventura)

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)
• The Good Wheel (Manitou Springs)
• Colorado Rocky Mountain School Bike Shop (Carbondale)

Connecticut

• New Haven Bike Collective (New Haven)

Delaware

• Urban Bike Project of Wilmington (Wilmington)
• Newark Bike Project (Newark)

Florida

• Krank it Up (Tallahassee)
• The Kickstand (Gainesville)
• Lake Worth Bike Coop (West Palm Beach)
• Tampa Bay Bicycle Co-op (Tampa)
• Spokescouncil (Orlando)
• OutSpokin (Lake Worth)
• BicycleXchange-Community Built Bikes (Indiantown, West Palm Beach, Hobe Sound)
• Suncoast Community Bikes (Sarasota)

Georgia

• Sopo Bike Coop (Atlanta)
• Communicycle (Atlanta - Chamblee)
• Shift Community Bike Shop (Atlanta)
• Starter Bikes (Atlanta)
• South Atlanta 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

• Chicago Velo Campus (Chicago)
• 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)
• Columbus Bicycle Cooperative (Columbus)

Iowa

• The Iowa City Bike Library (Iowa City)
• Des Moines Bike Collective (Des Moines)
• NewBo Bike Collective (Cedar Rapids)

Kansas

• Topeka Community Cycle Project (Topeka)
• Wichita Bicycle Collective (Wichita)

Kentucky

• Brycc Freewheel Bike Collective (Louisville)
• Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop (Lexington)

Louisiana

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

Maine

• Community Bicycle Center (Biddeford)

Maryland

• Bikes for the World (Rockville)
• Mount Rainier Bicycle Cooperative (Mount Rainier)
• Renaissance Community Youth Bike Shop (Riverdale)
• Velocipede Bike Project (Baltimore)

Massachusetts

• Smith College Bicycle Kitchen (Northampton)
• Bikes not Bombs (Boston)
• The Community Spoke! (Boston)
• Broadway Bicycle School (Cambridge)
• Quad Bikes (Cambridge)
• Worcester Earn-A-Bike (Worcester)

Michigan

• Armory Bike Union (Jackson)
• Back Alley Bikes (Detroit)
• Bike Riot Network (Traverse City)
• Boston Square Community Bikes (Grand Rapids)
• Broke Spoke Bike Coop (Traverse City)
• Common Cycle (Ann Arbor)
• East Quad Bike Co-op (Ann Arbor, U of M)
• The Hub of Detroit (Detroit)
• Lansing Bike Coop(Lansing)
• MSU Bikes (E. Lansing, MSU)
• Mount Pleasant Bike Cooperative (Mount Pleasant)
• My Wheels Are Turning (Traverse City)
• Re-Bicycle Lenawee (Adrian)
• Share a Bike (E. Lansing)
• Traverse Alive (Traverse City)

Minnesota

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

Missouri

• Bicycle Works (St. louis)
• 816 Bicycle Collective (Kansas City)

Montana

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

Nebraska

• Community Bike Project Omaha (Omaha)
• Near South Bike Kitchen (Lincoln)

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 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)
• The Bike Works (Silver City)(575)388-1444

New York

• R Community Bikes (Rochester)
• 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)
• Green Options Buffalo (Buffalo)

North Carolina

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

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)
• Summit Cycling Center (Akron)
• Cycleworks (Columbus)

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)
  • The Bike Church (West Philadelphia)
  • The Bikery (South Philadelphia)
  • The Bike Salon (North Philadelphia)
• N.W. Pa. Re-Cycle (Meadville)
• Bike & Build (Manayunk)

Rhode Island

• Recycle-A-Bike (Providence)
• Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council - Red Shed Bike Shop (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)
• The 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)
• Vulture Space (Milwaukee)
• The Freewheel Collective (Madison)

Washington D.C.

• The Bike House

Statistics

U.S. Bicycle Collective Statistics by State (2011)

Rank	State	# BCs	Population	BCs Per Million Residents
1	South Dakota	4	819761	4.88
2	Vermont	3	630337	4.76
3	Alaska	2	721523	2.77
4	Oregon	8	3848606	2.08
5	Montana	2	994416	2.01
6	Idaho	3	1573499	1.91
7	Washington D.C.	1	601723	1.66
8	Washington	11	6753369	1.63
9	Michigan	15	9911626	1.51
10	North Dakota	1	675905	1.48
11	Utah	4	2770765	1.44
12	Colorado	6	5044930	1.19
13	Delaware	1	900877	1.11
14	Nebraska	2	1831825	1.09
15	West Virginia	2	1859815	1.08
16	Rhode Island	1	1055247	0.95
17	Minnesota	5	5314879	0.94
18	New Jersey	7	8807501	0.79
19	Arizona	5	6412700	0.78
20	Indiana	6	6501582	0.77
21	New Hampshire	1	1321445	0.76
22	Maine	1	1333074	0.750
23	Virginia	6	8037736	0.746
24	Wisconsin	4	5698230	0.702
25	Kansas	2	2863813	0.698
26	Ohio	8	11568495	0.69
27	Arkansas	2	2926229	0.68
28	Iowa	2	3053787	0.655
29	South Carolina	3	4645975	0.646
30	North Carolina	6	9565781	0.63
31	Massachusetts	4	6559644	0.61
32	California	21	37341989	0.56
33	Pennsylvania	7	12734905	0.55
34	Illinois	7	12864380	0.54
35	Maryland	3	5789929	0.52
36	Georgia	5	9727566	0.51
37	New Mexico	1	2067273	0.48
38	Louisiana	2	4553962	0.44
39	Nevada	1	2709432	0.37
40	Missouri	2	6011478	0.33
41	New York	6	19421055	0.31
42	Connecticut	1	3581628	0.28
43	Oklahoma	1	3764882	0.27
44	Florida	5	18900773	0.26
45	Texas	6	25268418	0.24
46	Kentucky	1	4350606	0.23
47	Alabama	1	4802982	0.21
48	Tennessee	1	6375431	0.16
49	Hawaii	0	1366862	0
50	Wyoming	0	568300	0
51	Mississippi	0	2978240	0

See Also

• Bicycle Organization Organization Project
• "Bicycle cooperative" Wikipedia article
• Bike Collective Network Directory
• Community Bike Programs: Directory