The Cycle Re-cycle Club are looking for bike-minded people!

Bike riding is a fantastic way to reduce your CO2 emissions and get around town. When living in a city, owning a car is more of a hassle than handy, a bike can get you anywhere and is cheap and accessible.

With the Cycle Re-cycle Club also known as the 'Nunnery' Bike Workshop, and other co-operatives of the like, you can build and repair your on bike working with other volunteers... and out of complete recycled parts! Or receive a donated second-hand bike that is already built.

The Nunnery collects abandoned bikes and parts to create working bikes to put back into the community. As stated in their mission statement, the Cycle Re-cycle Club set out to:

• assist disadvantaged people from the local and wider community to own a bicycle.
• maintain and increase the availability of bicycles.
• provide a social forum for exchange of ideas and experiences to enhance client knowledge.

At the Bike Store, donated bikes are given away for a small donation. They find many travellers, back packers and international students who build a bike, use it for a while and then donate it back to the Club when they return to their homeland.

There are many initiatives such as this one all of Australia.

In Melbourne there is, The Bike Shed at CERES, which teaches you how to fix your own bike, or fix a second-hand bike of their own. They are not a bike shop, but simply a teaching unit aiming to give you the knowledge to fix and maintain your own bike.

In Hobart there is, The Bike Kitchen, who provide advice and assistance for people to learn bike maintenance skills and use parts from old bikes to make other bikes and get them out on the open road.

And there are plenty more, check out this site to locate one near you.

Now you can re-cycle your way around town!