The Bike Dump

An all-volunteer organization, The Bike Dump offers space for bicycle repair and community education. You can borrow our tools to fix your bike. The Bike dump is a 100% volunteer-run bike workshop offering tools for working on your own bike! Temporarily unavailable: We have stock of parts and frames from recycled bikes that you can use to build your own. Volunteers can assist with repairs or project builds. Refurbished bicycles accessible on a sliding scale! Our vision is to make bikes and bike repair accessible to all. Reducing economic, social, and knowledge-based barriers to cycling. Being transparent, non-hierarchically and democratically organized. Providing creative alternatives to auto dependence and its consequences (urban sprawl; lack of exercise; lack of community; poor t.v. commercials and other such things.

The Bike Dump, Winnipeg's original community bike store, offers a heartening environment. The web is packed with gracious and committed volunteers, donation-based repairs, and no-frills, low-cost options. Most customers mention the shop's employee knowledge and overall helpfulness. The reviewers gladly appreciate their primary education programs and parts requirements. The store also offers a program for some nights to serve all types of customers. There are few concerns, such as the dangerous location of the store and the availability of free bikes. A group of customers agreed to join the workshop once it is set. One account on the service improves the repairer's morale; he decides to keep and use the bike rather than sell it. It is also noted that everyone in the store is willing to help, making the environment easy and productive._Store details are absent; the website is inconvenient. Hence the store should consider listing them. The responses reveal a profound appreciation and the store's contribution to the social life. Customers also thank the store publicly. People in social channels write messages of goodwill.