:: Durham Bike Co-op :: Durham, North Carolina ::

The Durham Bicycle Cooperative is a community-run bicycle workshop located in Durham, NC. We facilitate hands-on skillshares in bicycle repair and maintenance, in order to foster the goals of mutual empowerment through practical knowledge, free and open community interaction, and social and ecological justice. Our programming includes weekly open bicycle workshops, mobile and special clinics, community events, and an earn-a-bike program pairing those in need of bicycles with skilled volunteers to rebuild and repair donated bikes. We employ and value practices of consensus and participatory democracy in our decision making, and are always looking for new organizers and volunteers.

Volunteers and donations are always welcome!

We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

715 Washington St. (lower level)

Open: Sunday 1pm-6pm

No new projects after 5pm.

Open: Thursday 7pm-10pm

No new projects after 9pm.

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)