Fund Open Shop

Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles is one of the longest running community bike shops in the country, and we need your help!

Please consider Donating to RIBs and help fund our Open Shop.

RIBs offers a wide range of services centered around Open Shop.  It is our goal to always keep these services free and open to the public.

During Open Shop  anyone in the community can come in and use our tools, parts, and expertise to repair their bike. 

Additional opportunities around Open Shop include:

• Earn-a-Bike: This is the main way RIBs provides free bikes, through years of experience we've found that the longevity of a bike is greatly extended when sweat equity, often in the form of fixing and learning maintenance, is put into it.  Participants can learn to repair, or build their own bike and once it is safe to ride it is theirs to take home.
• Volunteer: RIBs provides volunteer opportunities for adults and youth alike. Spending time at open shop is a great way to learn bike maintenance, reinforce those skills, and share them with others.
• Bike Sales: For the first time RIBs will be selling completed bikes as a way to subsidize our other programs with the goal of having even wider Open Shop Hours.

RIBs is a program of the Southside Community Center

Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles strives to follow and elevate Southside's mission: "Through forums and activities in education, recreation, political and social awareness, the Southside Community Center is a community resource center. We serve as a vehicle to develop an appreciation for the contributions and presence of those peoples of African descent in the greater Ithaca community and in the larger world community." 

For Recycle Ithaca’s Bicycles, awareness of abuse and unjust oppression, and the radical, liberating, creative, beautiful and balanced systems required to offset or end abuse and oppression, are one and the same as studying and understanding the nature of the bicycleand supporting and enhancing its use and reproduction.