Bicycle Kitchen or Bike Kitchen is a term that refers to a number of independent non-profit and often cooperative organizations that educate cyclists on bicycle mechanics and ridership, and encourage local cycling.[1]
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Starting as an American West-coast urban phenomenon, bicycle kitchens have spread as far as Bozeman, Montana, Nashville, Tennessee, and even Hobart, Tasmania. [2] The city of Los Angeles has three bicycle kitchen organizations, the original Bicycle Kitchen in Koreatown, the Bike Oven in Cypress Park, and the Bikerowave in Mar Vista. Other prominent bicycle kitchens are in San Francisco and Sacramento.
Meanwhile the concept of non-profil bicycle self help workshops as spread to many continents, see for example the Bikecollective's Community Bicycle Organizations list.
One of the earliest self help bicycle workshops was the Fahrrad.Selbsthilfe.Werkstatt founded in 1983 in the WUK, a formerly squatted factory in Vienna, Austria.
Bicycle kitchens typically provide low- or no-cost instruction in bicycle mechanics and offer educational workshops to fill community needs and to promote cycling in the greater public.