Community Bicycle Network

Community Bicycle Network
Community Bicycle Network
Type Nonprofit
Industry Cycling
Founded 1993
Toronto, Ontario
Headquarters 761 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Area served Central Toronto
Key people Sherri Byer, Coordinator
Herb van den Dool, President
Employees Approx. 4
Website Official Site

Started in 1993, the Community Bicycle Network (CBN) existed to provide a network for bike recycling clubs and other community economic development projects in Toronto. [1]

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Non-profit Bike Shop

CBN currently operates as a non-profit bike shop (also known as a social enterprise) much like similar organizations like Bikes Not Bombs in Massachusetts and Our Community Bikes in Vancouver, BC. It's for-profit operations help to support other non-profit projects to the community. The main activity of the bike shop is to collect donated bikes from individuals, condominiums, small business and the City of Toronto, and refurbish the bikes for resale. CBN also offers up the space for individuals to rent tools and fix their bikes with mechanic help. CBN's bike mechanic workshops have proven to be popular with courses offered throughout the year and for specific topics. Other services CBN offers include bike and trailer rentals.

History

CBN has undergone a number of transitions throughout its history. It started out as a network of bike recycling clubs and a location to house such organizations as Transportation Options and the Latin American Bike Club. Over time most of the bike clubs folded and some of the other organizations either spun off to become independent or folded themselves. CBN transitioned to host Bikeshare as its main operations. CBN is popularly known for the Bikeshare program that functioned as a bicycle-lending library across Central Toronto with 16 hubs from 2001 to 2006. For its time it was North America's largest and most popular bike-sharing program with 150 bikes, 16 hubs and 400 active members.[2] Bikeshare, however, failed to gain long-term financial support from private or government funders despite much effort. In 2006 Bikeshare was shelved.[3] It was at this point that CBN transitioned to a non-profit bike shop while still maintaining a focus on its mission of refurbishing bikes and providing bike education to the community.

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