UBC’s Community Bike Shop
the BIKE KITCHEN
Providing students and the wider community with an accessible environment where they can learn to fix bicycles, share resources, and work together.
Providing students and the wider community with an accessible environment where they can learn to fix bicycles, share resources, and work together.
We provide masks free of charge for our employees and any customers/volunteers who wish to wear one and have 3 HEPA air purifiers total running throughout the shop. Please help protect your community by staying home if you have any symptoms indicative of COVID-19, or you have had COVID in the last 2 weeks.
Please note that some of our programming is currently suspended due to COVID-19.
Our Women/Trans/Queer nights are back, every Wednesday evening first-come-first-served! From 6.15-9pm, Access nights welcome people who are often marginalized in the bike community for an evening of D.I.Y. repairs, and good-vibes!
From Bici-Libre to Kids’ Bike Library, we’re dedicated to creating a broad range of programs that promote sustainability and social change with bicycles in the Lower Mainland.
We often collaborate with our fellow community bike shops to make bicycles accessible to everyone. Whether you’re a novice or an expert, consider volunteering with us to get bikes out to the broader community.
Previously known as P&Y Night, this is the Bike Kitchen’s longest running drop in volunteer night which runs every Tuesday. Get hands on practice tuning up bikes for various Bike Kitchen programs. These evenings are a great way to learn how to fix a bike other than your own in a fun and supportive environment, no prior experience necessary!
Membership structure is currently being revisited since the impact of the pandemic; you can become a member of the Bike Kitchen by volunteering 6+ hours with us, and join the board/vote in our AGM.
Volunteers are the lifeblood of the Bike Kitchen, helping us to refurbish 100s of bikes each year while learning about bike mechanics!
Donations of bikes, helmets, lights, locks, as well as monetary donations, directly support our community programs.
In 2017 we recycled over 4,000 lbs of rubber from bike tires and inner tubes, an increase of over 1000 lbs from our 2016 total of 2,932 lbs.
In 2017 we recycled 6,612 lbs of steel and aluminum, nearly 1000 more pounds than the 5, 626 lbs of metal we recycled in 2016.