Check out what we've got to offer:
Open Shop
Thursdays 4-7pm, Saturdays 1-7pm.
Bring your bike, and we'll help you fix it. We have used and new parts, cycling accessories, and a wide variety of tuned-up used bikes for sale at affordable prices.
Adult Mechanic and Street Skills Classes.
Our classes run throughout the year. To register for or find out more about our May Street Skills Class, click here. For our mechanic course, Check here for schedule and curriculum. Our Spring class started April 6th and is led by Thomas Matthias. Email us to rsvp for a class, as we do have a class limit.
Youth Earn-A-Bike
We offer both after school and summer programs for Santa Barbara youth. To sign up yourself or your child on our waiting list come to the shop or email us.
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Where is Bici Centro?
Bici Centro is located at La Casa de la Raza, 601 E. Montecito St., Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
Our mailing address is Bici Centro, PO Box 91222, Santa Barbara, CA 93190.
Here'a a great video on us from Dorothy Littlejohn:
What is Bici Centro?
Bici Centro is a low to no cost bike eduction program where community members learn to work on bikes in a multi-lingual, comfortable and fun setting. We help participants of all ages learn to rebuild good, used bikes and we maintain an inventory of used bike parts taken from otherwise broken bicycles. Bici Cento empowers its members by teaching bicycle repair, craft and creativity, as well as an appreciation of the independence and self-sufficiency the bicycle provides them.
Who are we?
We are a group of volunteers who believe in the power of bicycles to engage people of all ages through sport and creativity.
We are a fiscally sponsored program of the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition, a countywide advocacy and resource organization that promotes bicycling for safe transportation and recreation.
We are forming powerful partnerships with important community groups and institutions, such as La Casa de la Raza and many community foundations. These partnerships will allow our shop to grow and to help spread our work throughout the community.
What do we do?
- Open Shop- Community members are guided through repairs by volunteers and have access to tools in order to complete their own bike repairs.
- Bike Recycling- We refurbish 'junk' bikes destined to collect dust in garages or to end up in the waste stream. These bikes are either refurbished and sold at Bici Centro or bought to be refurbished on site by patrons. By recycling bicycles into quality refurbished commuter bikes, Bici Centro raises funds to help self- sustain our non-profit work.
- Youth Earn-A-Bike (EAB) - many Santa Barbara youth do not bike ride because of lack of enjoyment or because they simply do not own a bike. At the same time, without constructive opportunities for our youth increasingly they engage in drug use, graffiti, and gang violence. EAB will consists of:
- Building to Earn a Bike
- Learning Street Safety Skills
- Helping teach each other and help the shop
