Community Bicycle Organizations: Difference between revisions

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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

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 current, open-collaboration Google map, entitled "Earth's Community Bicycle Organizations". It is probably more comprehensive for North America. The comments associated with the map contain information about the organization and management of the map and its list; you can edit the map to include, or correct, information for 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.

--- FIND US ON FACEBOOK! Here's a list of "community bicycle organizations on Facebook".

Argentina

Buenos Aires

la fabricicleta

Australia

ACT

Cycle Jam (Canberra)

New South Wales

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

Northern Territory

Shed Workshop (Darwin)

Queensland

Turnstyle (Brisbane)

South Australia

Community Bike Workshop (Adelaide)

Tasmania

Hobart Bike Kitchen (Hobart)

Victoria

The Bike Shed, CERES (Brunswick East)
The Bikery (Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne)
Back2Bikes (South Melbourne)
Cycle Saloon (Footscray)
Good Cycles (Docklands)
Wrenchworthy Bicycle Shed (Reservoir)
Second Chance Cycles (Collingwood)

Western Australia

Dismantle (Fremantle)

Austria

Graz

Fahrradküche Graz (Graz)

Innsbruck

Bikerei (Innsbruck)

Wels

Bikekitchen Wels. Existing since 18/10/13. Dragonerstrasse 22, Wels. Supported by BK Linz?

Vienna

WUK Fahrrad Selbsthilfewerkstatt (Vienna/Wien)
Bikekitchen Vienna (Vienna/Wien)
Flickerei - (temporary) workshop at Marxergasse 24, 1030 Vienna. Every Tuesday 4pm to 9pm.

Wiener Neustadt

Gründung einer Selbsthilfe-Fahrradwerkstatt (Wiener Neustadt)

Belarus

Minsk

Bike Kitchen Minsk (Minsk)

Belgium

Brussels

Brussels has more workshops than most European cities. All are run by volunteers except Cyclo and Rue Voot.

Ghent

Bike kitchen Ghent (Ghent)

Francophone Belgium

25 workshops in l'heureuxcyclage.be network

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)
Cycle Transitions (Cobourg)

Quebec

Right to Move/La voie Libre (Montreal)
SantroVelo (Montreal)
CRABE (Montréal)
The Flat: Bike Collective (Montréal)
Mile End Bike Garage (Montréal)
Biciklo (Montréal)
BQAM (Université du Quebec à Montréal (UQAM), Montréal)
Coop roue libre (Laval University, Quebec City)
VéloCentrix (Québec (Limoilou))

Defunct:

Velogik (Montreal)
PX "The Space" Bikeworks (Montréal)

Saskatchewan

Bridge City Bicycle Co-op (Saskatoon)

Croatia

Zagreb

Biciklopopravljaona (Zagreb)

England

Devon

Ride On - Cycling for All(Exeter)

Finland

Helsinki

Pyöräpaja

Espoo

Bikepoli

Kotka

Kotkan 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

Ghana

Earn-a-Bike Ghana

Greece

Bike Kitchen Patras

Guatemala

Associatión Maya Pedal

Hungary

Bringakonyha Budapest

Iceland

Keðjuverkun (Reykjavík)

Italy

Altamura

Adressopedala, http://adessopedala.tumblr.com/ Via Garibaldi 6

Bologna

Ciclofficina Ampio Raggio

Firenze

Ciclofficina Brugola Rossa

Roma

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

Auckland

Tumeke Cycle Space

Christchurch

ICEcycles

RAD (Recycle A Dunger)

Dunedin

The Crooked Spoke

Titahi Bay

NZ Green Bikes

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

United Kingdom

Aberdeen

beCyCle

Bath

Bath Bike Workshop

Bristol

Bristol Bike Project

Brighton

Cranks DIY Workshop

Re-Cycle

Colchester

Edinburgh

The Bike Station

Glasgow

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)
Recycle-a-Bike (Uxbridge)
Walthamstow Bicycle Recycling (Walthamstow)

Manchester

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)
Bike Concord (Concord)
The Davis Bike Collective (Davis)
Bike Garage (Woodland)
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)
Bike Peoria Coop (Peoria, IL)

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

Kansas

Revolve Community Bike Shop (Kansas City, KS, USA) (Kansas City)
Lawrence Unchained Bicycle Co-op (Lawrence)
Topeka Community Cycle Project (Topeka)
Wichita Bicycle Collective (Wichita)

Kentucky

Falls City Community BikeWorks (Louisville)
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

816 Bicycle Collective (Kansas City)
Bicycle Works (St. Louis)
Revolve Community Bike Shop (Kansas City, MO, USA) (Kansas City)

Montana

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

Electric City Bike Rescue (Schenectady)
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)
Utica Bike Rescue (Utica)
SUNY Cortland Community Bike Project (Cortland)
Bikeatoga Workshop (Saratoga Springs)

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)
Bikes4Humanity (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)
Rosewood Initiative (Portland)

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 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)
KickStand Bicycle Collective (Knoxville)

Texas

Austin Yellow Bike Project (Austin)
Workshop Houston, the parent organization of the Third Ward Bike Shop (Houston) (reported possibly not operational)
Bikes Across Borders (Austin)
Waco Volunteer Bike Center (Waco)
Querencia Community Bicycle Shop (Denton)
The Bike Cave (San Marcos)
San Antonio Bicycle Co-op (San Antonio)

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)
Rags & Bones (Richmond)
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.

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.	2	601723	3.32
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

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