The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign

Membership benefits

Become a Bike Project Co-op member and maintain your bike, improve your bike, repair your bike, or build a new bike! Membership provides:

20 — 50 hours/week access to our bicycle repair shop and bicycle tool collection
(access during non-staffed hours requires taking Shop Orientation Class and one-time $20 refundable key deposit)
Members-only DIY hours.
free single-session Shop Orientation Class to review shop safety, resources, and use policies.
member-only discount on frames for the Build-a-Bike program
member-only discount on used parts and bulk ordered new parts
24-hour access to our new downtown-Champaign emergency bike-repair locker - for fixing flats and other bicycle trouble when many blocks west of Urbana
access to the "trailer library": borrow a cargo-hauling trailer that quickly and safely attaches to most any bike, for hauling large and heavy loads around town -- from two dozen bags of grocery bags to a quartet of donated bicycles. Fill up the large weather-proof covered plastic tub, bungie cord your stuff directly to the flatbed, or do both!
help from your friendly fellow Bike Project co-op members
all the bike know-how and bike enthusiasm you can handle
Optional Extra Shop Access: 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 reamaining term of these memberships; in these cases UC-IMC membership is only encouraged, not required.