Bicycle Communities

Everywhere bicycle communities pop up, but a growing trend is how vintage bikes are used just as reliably as newer cheaper bicycles. In Salt Lake City, UT a not for profit organization called the Bicycle Collective is usually full of bicycle enthusiasts repairing and fixing old vintage bikes. The Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is a place for anyone interested in bikes to go and volunteer.

 Once at the collective amateurs bicyclists can volunteer to repair bikes that the store can sell. Every hour worked can add up though, each hour is $5 off any bike in the store. This means you can volunteer your way to owning your own vintage bike! This facilitates community involvement as well as helping the shop produce working vintage bikes.

 Conventionally there is an increase of bike riding during Summer months for those that are more environmentally conscientious. Many vintage bikes made 20 years ago are still better or as good as bikes that go for the same price at Walmart.

 Not only in Salt Lake City but in Cambridge Massachusetts vintage bikes are popular. A small shop called Cambridge Used Bicycles sold over one thousand bikes in the summer of 2013. Some days the shop would open with a hundred bikes lining the walls of the store and by the end of the day there would only be 4 or 5 left. One of the reasons for this is that for $120 you can buy a better vintage bike than a new one for the same price.