Kickstand Community Bike Shop

✶ Accredited

Buy BC (independent) · Repair Shop📍 Vancouver

Staff help with urgent mechanical issuesPump availableE-bike serviceDIY stand

Kickstand is a volunteer-run, non-profit community bike shop in East Vancouver operating as a low-barrier DIY and Do-It-Together repair workspace where visitors use shop tools and workstands with on-site volunteer guidance. The shop sells new and used parts and refurbished bikes, and runs community programs including bike donation, refurbishment, and partnerships that provide bicycles to refugees and Indigenous families. It is a genuine grassroots resource for cyclists needing affordable, hands-on support with common mechanical tasks.

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“We provide an accessible, safe, and positive workspace for folks from all walks of life to repair and maintain their bicycles and other wheeled modes of transportation.”

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What's here for you

✓Staff help with urgent mechanical issues

Volunteer-guided DIY during open hours: 'You do not need bike mechanic skills to use Kickstand facilities, we will teach you what you need to know'

✓Pump available

Website describes shop tools available for visitor use during open hours

✓E-bike service

Limited: per e-bike policy, non-electrical component repairs may be permitted; electrical components (motors, batteries) are explicitly not serviced. Bike must be mountable on a workstand (stands rated to 100 lbs) and only one e-bike at a time

✓DIY stand

Core offering: 'We offer a bicycle workstand, tools, and someone to guide you' — Kickstand is explicitly described as a 'Do It Yourself / Do It Together bicycle workshop.'

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Walk-in repairsSame-day urgent repairsTouring parts stockedBike boxes / packingShipping bikesBike rentalsShuttle / trip supportGuided ridesWashroomsWater bottle refillDevice chargingE-bike charging

Indigenous

This place is in the traditional territory of the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), Stz’uminus, šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), and Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla.

Territory data from Native Land Digital, for educational purposes only.

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