Bicycle Network Victoria: Bikes 'n' Bits

To buy

If you are not a "gear fanatic" or even if you are, second-hand bikes are a great way to get into bike riding.  Keep your wits about you when buying second-hand bikes as most don't come with a warranty and it's hard to be sure of their history.  If possible, take someone with you to inspect the bike who knows bikes well.

Good Places to start looking:

• Start with your local bike shop.
• Check our bike shops and shopping forum
• Second hand dealers such as Cash Converters often stock second hand bikes
• Join the eBay craze and search for a bike - beware of bikes that you cannot test ride first however.

Victoria

Brunswick Bicycle Users Group (BrunsBUG) 

BrunsBUG built and maintains the bicycle recycle workshop at CERES in Melbourne, Victoria. They recycle abandoned/donated bicycles and either repair them to sell cheaply, or recycle the parts.

Become a member (you can join up at the workshop: $10/5 per year or family rate available) and have unlimited access to bike tools and advice. Parts can be bought or exchanged for equal value. Basic bikes start at $20 and range up to $100.

Open Fridays and Saturdays, 11am to 5pm. Contact Thorin Quinn: ph 0421 727 998.

Bicycle Recycle 

Bicycle Recycle take second-hand bikes that are in reasonable condition and sell new and second-hand bikes.

672a South Road, Moorabbin, 3189
Phone: 03 9555 8692
Email: bicyclerecycle@bigpond.com

To donate

Help Cathy Freeman and the children of Palm Island

Imagine trying to maintain your bike when you live in the fourth most disadvantaged community in Australia. That’s one of the challenges for some of the children on Palm Island, who have been awarded a bike by the Catherine Freeman Foundation in its Non Truancy bike initiative. You can help by donating tools so the children can keep their bikes in good condition.

How do I donate?

Bring your tools into the Bicycle Network Victoria office at Level 10, 446 Collins St, Melbourne and let our Rider Services team know that it's for Cathy's Palm Island project. We will pass them onto Cathy and her team.

What kind of tools do they need?

Just like you, the children on Palm Island need to look after their bikes. They need spare tubes (12" or 16" MTB tyres), tyre levers, mini-pumps and floor pumps, bottles of chain lube, puncture repair kits and mini-tools. 
 

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Victoria

The Bikery

The Bikery is a community-run project coordinated by the Monash Clayton Bicycle Users Group (McBUG), with support from the Monash Student Association (MSA) and Monash University, Victoria.

Volunteers recondition donated and rescued bikes to sell as cheaply as possible to Monash staff and students as a sustainable form of transport, while diverting waste from the scrap-heap.

The project needs bike donations, volunteers to do bike pick-ups and repairs and contacts for ethically-minded bike product suppliers.

For more information: http://www.msa.monash.edu.au/bikery/

Born Again Cycles

Born Again Cycles (BAC) is a not-for-profit initiative of South Port UnitingCare aimed at recycling unwanted bikes in Inner Southern metropolitan Melbourne. We are on the lookout for donations of bikes, and volunteers with time to help restore bikes and pass on their knowledge, whilst learning more about bike maintenance and repair from a qualified maintenance tutor.

For more information: http://bacycles.wordpress.com/

Outlook Environmental

Providing employment opportunities for people with disabilities, Outlook recycle bikes (amongst other recyclables).

Phone: 03 5941 1535
Address: Darebin Resource Recovery Centre, Kurnai Rd, Reservoir (for drop offs)
Website: http://www.outlookvic.org.au/
Email: enquiries@outlookenviro.org.au

New South Wales

Newcastle Bike Ecology Centre

Your local environment, not-for-profit, community based, sustainable transport, bike-fun centre, push-bike co-op. We take pre-loved bikes and parts that are then restored by volunteers. Free workshops on how to fix bikes, cycling tips and traffic skills. If you want a bike, we help you recycle one for free.

Phone: 02 4961 6582
Address: 106 Robert St, Islington, NSW, 2296
Website: http://newcastlebikeecologycentre.blogspot.com
 

Bicycle Recycling Network

Website provides information on places that accept donations of bicycles, tools and parts in and around Sydney. Volunteers are also sought to help continue this community program.

For more information:  www.bicyclerecycling.com
 

Queensland

The Bicycle Revolution

Accept all bikes and parts in any condition. Any frames that cannot be used are given to a Rotary programme that builds wheelchairs by using the back sections of the frames.Any remaining waste metal is sold to metal recyclers. The proceeds are used to pay for the proper disposal of bicycle tyres and tubes by Tyrecycle.

Phone: 07 3342 7829
Address: 294 Montague Road, West End, Brisbane, QLD 4101
Website: www.bicyclerevolution.org.au
Email: info@bicyclerevolution.org.au
 

ACT

The Recyclery

Do you have a bike gathering dust in a shed, unwanted, ignored, abandoned? Recyclery is a not-for-profit business that promotes re-use and recycling

For more information: http://www.recyclery.com.au