The Durham Bike Co-op is a membership-driven, consensus-based organization, located in the Bull City Headquarters at historic Little Five Points, Durham NC. We run a direct-service program designed to encourage the use of bicycling as a mode of transportation and recreation in Durham, NC including hands-on skill share programs for Durham youth and adults centered on bicycle repair and maintenance. Programs include community bike workshops, mobile repair clinics, and an earn-a-bike program pairing those in need of bicycles with skilled volunteers to rebuild and repair donated bikes.
Main Shop: Sunday 1pm-6pm
volunteers and donations are always welcome!
We propose an open community for bicyclists and bicycle culture in Durham. To this end, we further propose a bicycle co-operative that can function as a nexus of this community. This co-operative shall be member-driven, member-funded, and most importantly, fun! Aside from the pleasure of riding bicycles, we believe that bikes are a vital vehicle for sociality and movement and that they offer a real alternative to the (economically, socially, ecologically) disastrous hegemony of the automobile. We further believe that in connection with other practices and knowledge there is in bicycling a vision of autonomy... (more)
Durham Bike Co-op, P.O. Box 1225, Durham, NC 27702
