Bikes
Everyone’s Welcome!
Our Community Bike Garage is community oriented, welcoming of everyone, and volunteer driven to support a DIY approach to understanding and fixing bicycles.
Visitors can come use our knowledge, tools, and used parts for free to repair or build their bikes. The hope is that visitors leave with a new, affordable, healthy and fun way to get around town!
Staff and volunteers at the Community Bike Garage help everyone understand and fix bicycles.
Anyone can come and share knowledge, tools, and parts to repair and build bikes for free.
Donated bikes are restored, repaired or parted out by volunteers and visitors.
With a new, affordable, healthy and fun way to get around, maybe you’ll come back to pass your new knowledge on!
Have a bike to donate? Email info@bikenewportri.org with photos of the bike and we’ll determine if it’s road-ready, fixable, or suitable for parts.
Earn-A-Bike
You can come to the Community Bike Garage, volunteer for three hours, and then choose a bike from our inventory – for you to restore and keep!
We have an always-changing inventory of donated bikes. There’s lots to choose from in many styles and sizes – road bikes, hybrids, mountain bikes, BMX and lots of kids bikes! They just need a little love and elbow grease to get them back on the road!
Come help out at the Community Bike Garage and earn yourself a bike.
Don’t have time to volunteer? You can Adopt-a-Bike for a suggested donation.
Bike Library
Our Bike Library is a series of after school clubs with students from Newport Community School, The Boys and Girls Club and FABNewport. Students borrow bikes, learn bike safety and enjoy group rides around our neighborhoods.
Donate a Bike
Hundreds of bikes come and go from our busy basement yearly – to bike earners, summer student borrowers, and bike adopters. The bikes come from many sources! Recycling days, RIPTA buses, the Newport Police Department – and many basements.
Have a bike to donate? Email us with photos of the bike. We’ll determine if it’s road-ready, fixable, or suitable for parts.
Most bikes find new riders who learn bike care and road safety as part of the process. For bikes with extra value, we give extra thanks and put it up for adoption. Funds from adopted bikes help keep the program going.
Adopt a Bike
We like to keep a stash of low-cost road-ready bikes on hand for folks who need a bike on the fly. Our staff, volunteer, and intern mechanics ensure they’re ready to ride and make them available first-come-first-served in exchange for a below-market value donation to Bike Newport.
Most price from $75+, but the occasional hand-built stylin’ Italian road bike – well that’s another story 🙂
If you want to adopt a bike, stop by during our Community Bike Garage Hours, or call (401) 619-4900 to schedule an appointment.
Rent a Bike
Bike Newport has a fleet of bikes available for daily rentals. All revenue supports our bike safety education programs!
Book your rental online, call (401) 619-4900, or email us with any questions.
All bikes come with a lock, helmet, lights, and a bell.
Must be 16+ to rent.
Bike Newport