Bikes
Everyone’s Welcome!
Open Garages are community oriented, welcoming of everyone and volunteer driven to support a DIY approach to understanding and fixing bicycles.
Visitors can come in and 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!
Open Garage
Community oriented and volunteer driven, the Open Garage helps 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 any Open Garage, volunteer three hours of labor, and then build yourself a bike for free using our collection of frames and gently used parts!
Donated bikes are always coming through and there’s lots to choose from in different levels of disrepair – from frame to functional, and just need your love (and elbow grease) to get them back on the road!
So help out at the Bike Garage and earn yourself a bike.
Don’t have time to volunteer? You can Adopt-a-Bike for a suggested donation.
Bike Library
Sign-up for our Bike Library Card for free and use it to borrow a bike from the Bike Library. The Bike Library welcomes all but is tailored toward Newport youth with basic tools and parts available should you need to do some repairs.
Big Blue Bike Barn Location & Bike Library Hours
Always make sure to return the bike before the Bike Library closes!
Donate a Bike
Our busy basement sees hundreds of bikes come and go yearly – to bike earners, summer student borrowers, and bike adopters. The bikes come from myriad sources! Recycling days, RIPTA buses, the Newport Police Department – and many basements.
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.
Most bikes find new riders who learn bike TLC 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 Open 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 here.
Call (401) 619-4900, or email info@bikenewportri.org for any questions.
All bikes come with a lock, helmet, lights, and a bell
Must be 16+ to rent
Bike Newport