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Campus Bike Center (Ongoing)
Recent Project Updates
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7/21/2025All,Pretty slow week, except for the last hour on Friday—fittingly enough. We’re working through scrapping the remaining low-quality bikes that are only good for the occasional component here and there.We had staff in on Tue/Thurs to help ramp up...
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7/14/2025All,To my mind, a bit of a slow week. Sold some bikes and prepped more for B-a-B/sale bikes.This week I’ll be bringing staff in extra hours to help build more bikes for the inevitable Beginning Of Semester rush. We’re still hovering around 20 for...
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Description
The Campus Bicycle Center — a collaboration between the University of Illinois and The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign — is dedicated to empowering individuals with knowledge about how to repair and maintain bicycles and encouraging mode-shift away from single-occupancy vehicles. This educational center offers hands-on experiential learning that students can’t get in a classroom. By empowering people with the ability to fix a bicycle and providing a connection between the campus and the community, the Bicycle Center promotes bicycling, collaboration, and community spirit.
The Campus Bicycle Center distributes UI bike registration stickers; maintains the campus Bike Fix-it Stations; provides a central base for the bicycling community on campus; encourages mode-shift through various events and classes throughout the year; distributes and explains educational information and resources regarding bicycling; educates students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors about basic bicycle maintenance; and collaborates with campus and community partners in bicycle-related programs.
During open hours each weekday, the Campus Bicycle Center provides tools, parts, refurbished bikes for sale, and dedicated volunteers to help shop members and the larger community with their bicycle maintenance needs. This is a hands-on, educational space meant to provide knowledge and experience about fixing bicycles, not a "drop it off for repair" bike shop.
Membership in The Bike Project at Urbana-Champaign is valid at both the Campus Bicycle Center and the Downtown Urbana location, and costs $30 annually for all individuals and $65 annually for a family membership.
Campus Bike Center Total Visits
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Q4, FY16
- Q1, FY17:
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Q2, FY17
- Q3, FY17:
Q3, 2017
Memberships Sold
Project Team
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Project Leader:
Jake Benjamin
Dates
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Proposed November 1, 2008Proposed by Multi-Modal StudyStarted March 15, 2010Started by Morgan Johnston
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