Helping people use bicycles.
"We help people use bicycles."
The Ohio City Bicycle Co-op was founded with bicycle education as its primary activity, with the purpose of increasing bicycle use, as reflected in its incorporation filing:
"The mission of the Ohio City Bicycle Co-op (OCBC) is to promote the use of bicycles in greater Cleveland and engage area youth and adults in cycling activities that foster independence, resourcefulness, and good health. The OCBC works to accomplish this by offering safe cycling and bike repair education, Earn A Bike programs, and a consumer's cooperative bike shop; by providing dependable used bikes and accessories; and by producing cycling events and tours that impart skills while encouraging riding for fun, fitness and practical transportation."
The OCBC is a non-profit, volunteer-driven, cooperative bicycle education center. Our Earn A Bike program accepts donations of used bikes, which kids can earn by learning about bike repair and safe cycling. Surplus bikes are refurbished for sale or rent to support the organization. We also offer bike maintenance classes, public shop-use, shop credit for volunteering, and the League of American Bicyclists' Bike Driver's Ed course.
We are not a typical bike shop, and do not take drop-off bike repairs. We do, however, offer a 30 minute, "While you watch bike check-over", and we sell used and new-old-stock parts & accessories, refurbished used bicycles, and new parts and accessories such as tires, tubes, cables, locks, and lights.
