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KnottedYet
07-03-2008, 08:24 PM
New Orleans has Rubarb www.rubarbike.org
Seattle has BikeWorks www.bikeworks.org
Sacramento has a bike kitchen www.sacbikekitchen.org
Bozeman Montana has a bike kitchen www.bozemanbikekitchen.org
San Francisco has a bike kitchen www.bikekitchen.org

What do you have in your area? Let's get a list compiled of the little-known but vital bike non-profits that might be hiding many pages down on Google searches, or might not be on the web at all.

Trek420
07-03-2008, 08:36 PM
whole lotta bike kitchens :D

www.bikekitchen.org/links.php

uforgot
07-04-2008, 01:59 AM
St. Louis Bikeworks (http://www.stlbikeworks.com/)

OakLeaf
07-04-2008, 02:23 AM
Third Hand Bicycle Co-op (http://thirdhand.org/joom/), Columbus, OH

Also many listed (without links) in the list of current registrants for this fall's Bike!Bike! (http://www.bikebike.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=29) conference

KnottedYet
07-04-2008, 04:31 AM
Oooh, I like that St. Louis's BicycleWorks has a "ByteWorks", too, where kids can earn a computer!

That is very cool!

PscyclePath
07-04-2008, 04:35 AM
Little Rock, AR has the Arkansas Sustainability Network, and their ReCycles program... very similar to Bike Kitchen.

http://www.arnetwork/bikes , 209 South Victory Street, just down the hill and around the corner from the state capitol building and two blocks up from the AmTrak station. (501) 372-6996.

Tom

madscot13
07-04-2008, 05:57 AM
http://bikeped.org/

pretty neat I have to say and part of the reason the Twin Cities are such a bike haven. Not everyone has the shill for a Bianchi. Love it. But I still want a Bianchi

smurfalicious
07-04-2008, 07:01 AM
http://www.communitycycles.org/ Boulder, CO represent! :D

Trek420
07-04-2008, 07:26 AM
What do you have in your area? Let's get a list compiled of the little-known but vital bike non-profits that might be hiding many pages down on Google searches, or might not be on the web at all.

But only one bike organization has a "dating game"

www.sfbike.org/?love

KnottedYet
07-04-2008, 07:31 AM
But only one bike organization has a "dating game"

www.sfbike.org/?love

The video is a hoot!!

Trek420
07-04-2008, 07:37 AM
Not only funny but informative! :D Check the statistics at the bottom of the page "are cyclists better lovers?" :cool:

Studies show we are ;) :cool:

DebW
07-04-2008, 07:50 AM
Boston has Bikes Not Bombs (http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/).

Sheesh
07-04-2008, 08:10 AM
Chicago has Working Bikes Cooperative: http://workingbikes.org/

And, World Bicycle Relief: http://www.worldbicyclerelief.org/

Melalvai
07-04-2008, 10:30 AM
http://www.getaboutcolumbia.com/
Columbia, MO