In addition to great for-profit bike shops, the East Bay is also home to a number of non-profit community shops offering services such as bike repair and instruction, used bicycle sales, youth training and earn-a-bike programs, and more!
Donating bikes and bike parts
The following community bike shops in the East Bay accept used bikes and parts donations. Some shops also offer tune up services for a fee, with proceeds going to support their programs. Please consider supporting all of them with monetary or used bike donations, as a volunteer, or as a customer.Find a shop near you and follow the links below for shop hours and donation guidelines:
- Rich City Rides: 1500 Macdonald Ave, Richmond (RichCityRides.org)
- Concord Bike Kitchen: Olympic High School, 2730 Salvio St; Contact Info@BikeConcord.org
- Street Level Cycles: 84 Bolivar Drive, Berkeley (WatersideWorkshops.org)
- Biketopia Community Workshop: 1752 Alcatraz Ave, Berkeley (BiketopiaBerkeley.org)
- Spokeland: 813 37th St, Oakland (Spokeland.org)
- The Bikery/Cycles of Change: 1246 23rd Ave, Oakland (Bikery.org)
- Scraper Bike Team “The Shed”: MLK Jr Branch Library, 6833 International Blvd, Oakland (ScraperBikeTeam.com) (Facebook page)
- Bad Business Model Bikes: 19554 Jaydine St, Castro Valley (BadBusinessModelBikes.org) (Facebook page)
- Union City Teen Workshop: 33623 Mission Blvd, Union City (Info page)
Bikery and Oakland UpCycle
Concord Bike Tent
Street Level Cycles
Street Level Cycles, in Berkeley’s Aquatic Park, combines youth vocational training with a full-service community bike shop. On any given weekend the shop bustles with Berkeley students looking for a used bike, teenagers building up single-speeds and patrons of all stripes digging through bins for just the right replacement part.
Spokeland
After four years sharing space in A Place for Sustainable Living, community bike shop Spokeland has moved into its own space in West Oakland. In conjunction with the move, Spokeland now offers bicycle tuneups for a fee in addition to low-cost do-it-yourself shop hours. They have two programs, the Spokeland Standard and Wrench Together: Drop off your bike for service or participate in Wrench Together, where a Spokeland core member teaches a student one-on-one to fix their bike.
A full list of East Bay bike shops offering mechanics classes can be found at BikeEastBay.org/mechanics. If there is another East Bay community bike shop we should add to our list please let us know!