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Here are some links to other bike and non-bike related stuff that we support or just dig:

Spoke n' Chain many of our unusable bike frames end up with these guys - they then warp and weld their way through them creating some truly fabulous results!

Jake's Bikes our favourite independent bike mechanic. Jake's Bikes provides recycled bikes, affordable maintenance and repairs and good old-fashioned service and pragmatic advice. We are lucky enough to be located right next door to cap'n Jake and as such, often trade bits of bikes and tap into Jake's expansive knowledge of our 2-wheeled friends!

Katcha Bilek belts, bags & fashion accessories made out of old tyres and inner tubes. All of our unusable inner tubes, tyres and warped wheels end up here. Lovely stuff!

The Ride Journal a great-looking journal of personal stories related to cycling, with some beautiful photography (available both in print and online).

Re-Cycle bicycle aid for Africa

Kebele Communtiy Co-Operative kebele is based in Easton, Bristol, and for nearly eleven years has provided space for the development of radical ideas and activities, community campaigns, and international solidarity.

The Nowtopian the fantastic blog by Chris Carlsson, the guy responsible for starting Critical Mass

Velocipede Bike Project a fantastic project promoting bicycle use and education in Baltimore, USA

Glasgow Bike Shed a Glasgow-based Community Social Enterprise that recycles bicycles from a variety of local sources and promotes safe cycling in town

Magnificent Revolution a not-for-profit education project based in London. Made up of artists, musicians, designers, ecologists, and engineers, MR has flourished into a cross-disciplinary organisation working in education, ecology, engineering, design, art, music and film.

Maya Pedal pedal-powered machines in Guatemala

Technique for Life Bethan Evans is a fantastic teacher of the Alexander Technique and supporter of the bristol bike project..

 

 

boneshaker magazine a collection of articles, stories and anecdotes about people and projects doing great things with bicycles around the globe

Common Wheel the first mental health support and recovery project offering training and experience in bicycle recycling and refurbishment.

Lock 7 a fantastic cycle cafe in London - go in and have a drink or some cake and get your cycle repaired or just browse their selection of cycle accessories or second hand cycles.

Pedal a Vancouver-based group developing and promoting the use of pedal powered technology.

Jole Rider
Getting African children to school by providing refurbished, recycled second-hand bicycles donated in the UK.

Bristol Wood Recycling
A timber merchant. An ecological waste wood management company. A community enterprise. A wood workshop. A self financing social enterprise. A wood reclamation yard. A home-grown business that has sprung out of derelict land. A unique specimen in an increasingly homogenised world.

Bikeworks Seattle building sustainable communities by educating youth and and making bicycling accessible and affordable to the Seattle community.

Adam Faraday one of the longest-standing volunteers at the project and a fantastic photographer.

Look Mum No Hands! a great cafe-cycle workshop in east london

Co-Exist
Hamilton House at the heart of Stokes Croft in Bristol is home to Coexist, where art, music, enterprise and innovation cluster as a community rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Refugee Awareness Project
Swan eaters! Gun lovers! Housing queue jumpers! Granny thumpers! You name it - asylum seekers and refugees have been called it, which is why Refugee Action set up the nationwide Refugee Awareness Project.

 
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