About B!KE
We operate a Do-It-Yourself, community focused bicycle repair workshop in downtown Peterborough. We specialize in teaching people people how to get to know their bicycles better, so that they can get out riding more often. Our team of instructors and volunteers will able to 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 likely 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 is a member supported organization. We have been operating on Treaty 20 Territory, know as Nogojiwanong, since 2006.
Vision, Mission and Values
Vision
People empowered to travel by bike.
Mission
- Teach people to maintain, repair, and ride bikes
- Provide a workshop space and tools for bikes
- Provide access to new and used bikes
- Advocate for people on bikes
Values
Fun | Sustainability | Inclusivity | Well-being | Self-Reliance
B!KE's Story
Sarah and Clifford where the two people who started it all. They were both students at Trent university back in the early augts. There was a photo on the wall with a tarp spread out commons outside the Bata Library. Some simple hand painted signs, and a travel stand and a few volunteers were all they had.
Later, the University of Trent was able to offer a storage locker that they converted into B!KE @ Trent, which remained for many year, until the administration converted it back to storage. The main root of the bike shop would be downtown, first at the Third Space, in the basement of Knox United. There was a big effort on the board to write a grant to secure the first paid role for an executive director. they were successful, and Clif was hired as the first ED. At Knox. We strapped tubes to the rafters in the basement to hang bikes up. It was dark, with low ceilings, but is was a good space that was transformational.
Later, the shop was moved to Rubidge Street. Tegan Moss had become the Executive Director, and ushered in a new decade of growth and prosperity. Charlie Best also became a fixture of the shop over those years.
