We offer a Ladies Only Do-It-Yourselfer Night on first wednesday of the month.  No boys allowed.  The goal is to create a testosterone free environment where women can learn how to work on their bicycles, and even show other women how to do the same.

Do you have an understanding of basic bicycle mechanics? Do you love to teach others your invaluable skills? If so, then we need your help! We are looking for new mechanics to help us out during our Community Bike Shop hours. We are unbelieveably busy down here, and with your help we could continue on our mission to help as many of our community members as possible. Please contact Cal

Thank you Denis and Rick for volunteering your expertise and time to install electricity in our storage unit! As you can see, we've hooked up our 3-phase 10hp compressor (capable of sand blasting), we also now have lights, wall outlets and a 220 outlet for future welding plans.

We'll soon have air lines running to the front of the shop.

As part of our mission statement, "...The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and offers educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households."

We take that very seriously and strive to make sure we reach those demographics.  To ensure that we establish partnerships with various organizations that help us pre-qualify those individuals.  The bikes that have been donated by the public and refurbished by our volunteers are then given to those individuals sponsored by partnerships.

If you represent an organization that could benefit from our program, please feel free to contact us.

 

In life you either have money or time and we accept both.  So you can buy a used bike or volunteer your time to earn the bike at our Community Bike Shop. First and foremost, bicycles and parts that are donated to our Community Bike Shop are repaired by volunteers and then given away through our Bikes for Goodwill Organizations program.  We then sell or let people volunteer in trade for the excess bikes and parts to keep the "lights on."

 

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DUE TO FUNDING THIS PROGRAM IS ON HOLD

If you are in need of an inexpensive helmet you can contact Robert J. Debry.

Our Community Bike Shop provides the materials and tools to make jewelry, furniture, crazy custom bikes, wind chimes, anything you can help us create, all out of bike parts. An example of bike part recycling is Resource Revival.

 

One of our volunteers, Cory "Zed" Bailey of saltcycle.com, planned a successful four hour Chop Shop this past Sunday.  The goal of this Chop Shop was to teach welding and reuse bikes that would otherwise end up at the land fill or the metal recyclers.  These castaways are re-invented into ride-able creations.

Great job Zed!