B!KE

About B!KE

B!KE operates a Do-It-Yourself, community-focused bicycle repair workshop in downtown Peterborough. We help people to keep their bikes in better repair, so that they can get out riding more often. Our team of instructors and volunteers can support you on your bike repair journey, even if you know nothing. All you need is the time and the motivation to learn – we will figure out the rest together.

By getting to know more about bicycles, we hope that you will feel more confident, more capable and more excited to get out for a ride. You may learn to do things that you might not have expected, and feel a sense of accomplishment that adds to your love of riding bikes.

B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop is a registered charity, and a member-supported organization. We have been operating on Treaty 20 Territory, known as Nogojiwanong, since 2006.

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Vision, Mission and Values

Vision

People empowered to travel by bike.

Mission

Values

Fun | Sustainability | Inclusivity | Well-being | Self-Reliance

B!KE’s Story

Sarah and Clifford were the two people who started it all. They were both students at Trent university back in the early 2000s. They started with a photo on the wall and a tarp spread out on the commons outside the Bata Library. All they had in the way of assets were some hand painted instructional signs, a travel stand, and a few volunteers.

Later, Trent University was able to provide a storage locker to house the operation. That locker became B!KE @ Trent, and remained the on-campus base for B!KE until 2019 when the administration reclaimed their storage space. Meanwhile, the main location of the shop moved downtown. Its first home was the Third Space, in the basement of Knox United Church. B!KE’s fledgling Board of Directors put a big effort into writing a grant to support the organization’s first paid position. They were successful, and Cliff was hired as B!KE’s first Executive Director.

Facilities at the church were still very simple. The space was dark, with low ceilings. Bike stands were fashioned from tubes strapped to the ceiling joists. But the organization flourished. Tegan Moss took over as ED, and ushered in a new decade of growth and prosperity. In 19XX, the shop was moved to a storefront location on Rubidge Street. Before long, B!KE had outgrown that space as well. In spring on 2016, with the help of many volunteers, B!KE was moved to its current location on George Street.


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