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The Bike Project

of Urbana-Champaign


The Bike Project co-op offers a space, tools, and community to repair bikes, share knowledge, hold classes, and advocate for bikes in Urbana-Champaign.


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Open Hours — Staffed Teaching Repair Shop Hours

In addition to providing 20 — 50 hours/week of workshop access for co-op members, the Bike Project offers staffed shop hours to non-members and members alike, five days a week. Come on by and check out the tools and work stands you can use to fix your own bike, tour our massive collection of parts, spares, and used bikes, plus meet friendly Bike Project folks who can provide help and advice! You will do the repairs yourself, but staffers can provide guidance, advice and instruction.
Dates: Every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday; Aug. 31, 2008 – Aug. 15, 2009.
Hours: Open to: Everyone! Non-members welcome: your first visit to The Bike Project is free. Then see our membership page to learn how to join the Bike Project co-op.
Location: 202 S. Broadway, Room 24, Urbana, IL  (corner of Elm and Broadway)

Enter via south-side basement staircase.The 202 S. Broadway building contains the downtown U.S. Post Office, the Independent Media Center, and the Bike Project co-op shop. The building is grey stone with large columns, is just north of Lincoln Square mall, and just south of the southeast corner of Elm and Broadway. Enter the Bike Project via the outside staircase going down on the south side of the building. To find the Bike Project entrance, start outside facing the main west-side entrance (columns), then walk counter-clockwise around the outside of the building until you reach a small parking lot with bicycle racks and a staircase going down.

Phone: (217) 469-5126
Note: Full 24-hours/day, 7-days/week workshop access is also available, but requires a Bike Project staffing commitment, or purchase of UC-IMC membership. Annual Bike Project memberships that start before June 8, 2008 already include 24-hour/7-day access for the remaining term of these memberships, in these cases UC-IMC membership is only encouraged, not required.

Shop Orientation class: get a key for off-hours access


Join the Co-op — Membership

Become a co-op member and get: access to the co-op bicycle workshop in the heart of downtown Urbana, and access to our bicycle tool collection to maintain your bike, repair your bike, or even build a new bike!
   More membership details and ways to join.

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