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Building a Better Bikery

Seattle deserves a fresh bike kitchen, so we're overhauling The Bikery. We need your help.

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Building a Better Bikery

Building a Better Bikery

Building a Better Bikery

Building a Better Bikery

Building a Better Bikery

Seattle deserves a fresh bike kitchen, so we're overhauling The Bikery. We need your help.

Seattle deserves a fresh bike kitchen, so we're overhauling The Bikery. We need your help.

Seattle deserves a fresh bike kitchen, so we're overhauling The Bikery. We need your help.

Seattle deserves a fresh bike kitchen, so we're overhauling The Bikery. We need your help.

Wesley Barga
Wesley Barga
Wesley Barga
Wesley Barga
1 Campaign |
Seattle, United States
$1,405 USD 18 backers
14% of $10,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

The Bikery is a non-profit volunteer-run community bike kitchen located in Seattle’s Central District. The Bikery empowers Seattle bicyclists and encourages cycling through collaborative hands-on education, social engagement, and fun.

The Bikery has operated in Seattle since 2006, and has enriched the cycling community by:
  • Making professional-grade tools available to everyone
  • Providing a welcoming and inclusive workshop for the neighborhood to share
  • Empowering cyclists of all ages, genders and income levels to take control of their means of transportation
  • Creating an environment for people to share and grow knowledge
  • Providing an avenue for volunteers to serve their community
As you may have seen recently, Grist profiled The Bikery as a piece on the new sharing economy. As they aptly put it, "turns out donated bike parts and shop hours don’t pay the bills." We need your help.

The Bikery is reinventing itself to help Seattle meet the transportation challenges of a growing city, and to be a more effective resource for our neighbors. As more people shift towards bicycling as a means of transportation, the Bikery seeks to be a community resource making cycling accessible for everyone, and to help riders understand and maintain their bikes.

We need financial support from our community in order to move forward into a new phase. We’re seeking to raise $10,000 to upgrade our facilities, cover operational costs, and expand our operations. We'll use these funds for the following investments:

  • Redesign our shop, create new workstations and a more well-organized environment
  • Buy a broader set of tools, including an air compressor and additional workstands
  • Pay our rent and other operational expenses. (we'd like soap in our bathroom)
  • Invest in technology that will bring modern wonders like instructional videos, point-of-sale software, and electronic communication into our shop
These upgrades will allow us to do the following:
  • Serve more people, more effectively in our shop.
  • Engage with additional volunteers, providing valuable work experience and skills.
  • Keep more bikes rolling smoothly
  • Keep more smiles out there in the world

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A Sweet Bikery Patch

$20 USD
We're gonna make a special run of embroidered patches just for this campaign. The wonderful Brad Urso will design this patch, and it will look super-cool on your hat, backpack, pannier or wherever your want it to be.
Estimated Shipping
November 2015
2 claimed
Ships worldwide.

A Really Cool Bikery Shirt

$50 USD
The first 40 donors of $50 or more will get one of our wonderful t-shirts. Trust us, they're cool.
Estimated Shipping
November 2015
5 out of 40 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Annual Membership

$150 USD
We're launching a new membership program, and donating $150 will get you in on the ground floor. An annual membership will get you the following: -The pleasure of supporting and being involved in an awesome organization that does great things for your community. -1/2 off stand time in the shop (yes, shop time is by donation, but now you can donate half of what you would have otherwise) -10% off all goods in the shop, new and used. -50% off classes -A super cool membership card
Estimated Shipping
November 2015
1 out of 100 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

We Will Teach a Class for You.

$500 USD
The Bikery will teach a one-hour class just for you and your friends. We'll host, or we can come to you work, school, home or wherever. We'll even do it under a tree in the park. We'll design a curriculum around your needs and interests.
0 out of 3 of claimed

Guided Bike Camping Trip for 4

$2,000 USD
Seasoned bicycle travelers of The Bikery will guide up to 4 people on a 3-day adventure through the forests of the Pacific Northwest. You provide the bikes, the gear and the food, and we'll provide expertise, routing, mechanical support, encouragement and smiles. We suspect that you'll leave this trip with knowledge and experience to explore the whole northwest on 2 wheels.
0 out of 2 of claimed

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