Box Dog Bikes, San Fransisco

Box Dog Bikes is a workers Co-operative that has built it's stock around second hand bikes to sell to the cool kids in San Fransisco. They produced a video that can now be viewed on youtube about them selves getting set up......

Check Their Video Here

Browse their site here

The Common Wheel Project, Scotland

The Common Wheel Project is another business built around reclaiming trash bikes to make resell, overhauled and shiny. The thing that makes Common Wheel stand out yet further is that the sustainablitiy motivation almost plays second fiddle to their main aim which is to provide careers for people with mental illness. The project has been so successful they've been able to branch out into all sorts of other projects.

Find out more here

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Our friend runs a bike workshop out of his backyard whilst his girlfriend makes the finest Vegan breakfasts in the capital. Ace.