Ride It Like You Built It

Community Bike Shops

Ibike List of community bike shops in the USA and worldwide: http://www.ibike.org/encouragement/freebike.htm

Working Bike Cooperative in Chicago - a very active community bike shop, specializing in shipping 5000 bikes/year to less developed nations www.workingbikes.org

Bikes Not Bombs (Boston) - another community bike shop that does a lot of youth programs www.bikesnotbombs.org

BICAS - Bicycle Inter Community Action and Salvage - a great bike shop in Tucson, AZ www.bicas.org

The Hub Bike Coop! A local worker run bicycle retail shop www.thehubbikecoop.org

Times Up! an NYC community bike shop that has also done advocacy work in support of Critical Mass and bikers' rights - www.times-up.org

Advocacy Organizations

Learn about Sibley volunteer Claire Stoscheck's 6000 mile Transnational Bike Tour for Climate Justice! http://movementporuncambio.blogspot.com/

Transit for Livable Communities (the St. Paul advocacy group in charge of allocating the $21.5 million non-motorized transit pilot program) www.tlcminnesota.org

Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) - www.itdp.org

Transportation Alternatives - NYC based transportation direct action and advocacy organization - www.transalt.org

World Car Free Day - lets organize to make one day per year completely car-free! http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/

Information and Research

Victorian Transport Policy Institute www.vtpi.org

Community Bike Shop resource and info sharing Wiki - Create a bigger wheel instead of reinventing a bunch of smaller wheels everywhere:  http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page