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What We DoAs a community bicycle shop Recycle Cycles’ focus is on promoting cycling by making bicycle purchase, maintenance and repair accessible and affordable. Members of the public can reserve bicycle repair stand space and make use of our tools and volunteer assistance to repair their bikes. Recycle Cycles volunteers will not fix your bicycle for you, but they will service it with you. Use of the shop and volunteer assistance is free. Recycle Cycles volunteers work with members of the public to provide whatever level of assistance is required to repair their bicycles. Volunteers also work on refurbishing bicycles donated to us, which are then sold to help support our free services. Last year (2007) Recycle Cycles volunteers worked on over 2,400 bicycles.
Our Goals
Environmental BenefitsDonating a bike to Recycle Cycles helps someone else in our community afford one. Through repairing the bike community members can learn & share skills together.
Reduce - Using bicycles for transportation can help reduce our dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels which, when burned, contribute to a host of environmental problems. In 2007 our volunteers worked on over 1400 public bicycles! Reuse - Bikes donated to us get a new lease on life – using things longer, or again, keeps us from needlessly consuming more resources. In 2007 Recycle Cycles saved 874 bicycles from going to landfill! Recycle - When we finally can't use it, we recycle it. In 2007 we recycled approx. 20 tonnes of scrap metal! For more information on shop functions or volunteer opportunities, please call (519)749-9177 ext. 222 or e-mail us. |