Corvallis Bicycle Collective

Corvallis Bicycle Collective Our mission is to enhance health, safety, sustainability, and happiness through bicycling. Through o · Affordable used bicycles and parts for sale.

Complete bikes start at $60, frames at $10.
· Free stands, tools, and advice to help you fix up your bicycle.
· Always accepting donations of bicycles, parts, tools, money, and help to support our efforts. Donations to our 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit are tax deductible.
· Numerous volunteer opportunities to work on bikes, teach repair skills, and help promoting biking in the community.

"Should we go to a real bike shop?"I don't take offense at that rather common question. For all I know, we're their plat...
03/31/2026

"Should we go to a real bike shop?"

I don't take offense at that rather common question. For all I know, we're their platonic ideal of what a bike shop should be, a fantasy they hate to leave, but they're going to have to settle for reality.

Besides, we don't look much like a traditional bike shop. I mean, until yesterday we didn't even have our own water bottle.

We've had stickers and t-shirts, but we were lacking that last standard bike shop calling card. Now, thanks to our talented and generous neighbor Chris Adams at Sporelust, we've added that marker of bike shop status.

Chris designed our most popular t-shirt, featuring a free-spirited beaver pedaling hard through a surreal landscape, deliriously deep into the ride. Now he's adopted that design to fit a water bottle, and the result is fantastic.

We didn't want to dishonor Chris's work with a cheap bottle, so we had it printed on Specialized Purist bottles. They're BPA free, so they don't leach sketchy chemicals, and they don't leak, so you won't get sticky energy drinks dripping down your frame.

We picked up a big pile, so we should have them at the shop for some time, $12.

Happy Trails
Ron Georg
Shop Manager

Perhaps the only thing more delightful than being a kid on a bike chasing a parade is being a kid on Christmas. So when ...
12/03/2025

Perhaps the only thing more delightful than being a kid on a bike chasing a parade is being a kid on Christmas. So when you combine the two, it's like peace on Earth and goodwill toward humanity mixed with some spirited bicycle mischief.

If you haven't already heard, the Corvallis Holiday Parade is back, Saturday, December 6 at 6 p.m., and yes, of course we'll be there. Not only that, you're welcome to join us, and you don't even have to sneak in (but feel free if it adds to the excitement). The collective part of our name includes anyone who wants to be included.

To be accurate, while it feels like the parade is back (and oh, how we've missed it), this is actually a new event, under new management, with a new date (no longer right after turkey), and even a new location. We're grateful to the new organizers for taking on what must be some challenging logistics.

The parade is staging in heats, and we're Heat 2, which means we should meet at 5:35 at the staging area at the corner of 2nd Street and B Avenue. Your bike should be decorated for the holidays, which gets easier every year as battery-powered lights get cheaper and more sophisticated. Please avoid bright running lights as they drown out the festive lights.

I hope we'll see you there!

Ron Georg
Corvallis Bicycle Collective

Join Corvallis Bicycle Collective and Valley Color Rides for our monthly BIPOC events. Because nice weather is here, we'...
05/17/2025

Join Corvallis Bicycle Collective and Valley Color Rides for our monthly BIPOC events. Because nice weather is here, we'll be shifting our wrench nights to rides! Our BIPOC events are fairly new, and as we grow our community it's important we make a space that is held specifically for BIPOC folks. In the future we plan to include allies as well. Please spread the word of these events to anyone you know who would be interested in attending.

Check out Corvallis Bike Collective and Valley Color Rides on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/valley_color_rides/
https://www.instagram.com/corvallisbikes/

Thank you for coming to Filmed by Bike at the Whiteside Theatre on Saturday! The event was a huge success, with nearly 2...
05/12/2025

Thank you for coming to Filmed by Bike at the Whiteside Theatre on Saturday! The event was a huge success, with nearly 200 attendees! We're so grateful you came out to join Corvallis Bicycle Collectivein building community and supporting some superb filmmakers. Hope to see you all again next year!

We'd like to thank the local businesses whose generous support made the event possible:
Block 15 Brewing Co.
Airlie Winery
Hiatt Farm
Margin Coffee Roasters
Corvallis Cyclery

As well as our friends at:
Corvallis Spring Roll
Mid-Valley Bicycle Club
SAFECorvallis.org
Da Vinci Days Graand Kinetic Challenge
Corvallis Parks & Recreation

And of course, we are so very thankful for everyone at the Whiteside Theatre !

We are happy to host Valley Color Rides for our second BIPOC Night at the CBC!
11/13/2024

We are happy to host Valley Color Rides for our second BIPOC Night at the CBC!

10/26/2024

Thanks to everyone who came out to our Coffee Outside events this summer! We have wrapped up these events for the year, but stay tuned we may have a few special opportunities to meet up before the new year. If you have anything you'd like to see for coffee outside next year, please let us know in the comments 🥰

07/09/2024

We need intersection superheroes for Open Streets Corvallis 2024 on Sunday, July 21!

These volunteers help keep vehicles off the route and guide neighbors to their homes. Volunteer perks include a t-shirt, voucher for Go Giddy Pops, tamales, coffee and pastries.

Sign-up today: https://openstreetscorvallis.org/volunteer/

05/03/2024

DID YOU HEAR?! The Mayor of Corvallis has declared May BIKE MONTH!!!

There are so many wonderful ways to celebrate bikes this month. Share this with others and let's get everyone rolling!

Balancing is the dark secret of bike share programs, those public bicycle systems you see in bigger places (it didn't wo...
03/25/2024

Balancing is the dark secret of bike share programs, those public bicycle systems you see in bigger places (it didn't work out so well here). After making all of those human-powered trips during the day, the bikes need to be returned to their points of origin at night. Since they can't return themselves (though some scooters can, which is kind of creepy: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/future-scooters-central-park.html), they need to be loaded into panel trucks to be driven back to a place where they can provide alternatives to driving around. There is some irony.

That irony wasn't lost on me as I piloted my little pickup with a 20-bike stack towering over the cab last week. Straps kept it pretty secure, but I did notice no one was tailgating me.

Today, Corvallis Active Transportation Specialist Josh Capps showed up with a city flatbed filled (much more safely) with a couple dozen bikes. Then he did it again, for a total of 47 bikes saved from the recycling center. Now these bikes have a slightly larger carbon footprint, but I have no doubt that will be erased quickly when they get out on local roads, moving people quietly and efficiently about town.

I guess this is the community bike shop version of bike balancing. These were all left behind at apartment complexes when people moved out, so they were stalled until they could reach a new starting point. Soon they'll be ready to get back into the community.

Thanks to Josh, and to Brothers Hauling for helping to keep these bikes on the road and out of the scrap pile (well, most of them).

Happy Trails,
Ron Georg
Shop Manager
Corvallis Bicycle Collective

We get bikes, and trikes, in all sizes and configurations. Whether they're big or small, upright or reclined, old or new...
03/15/2024

We get bikes, and trikes, in all sizes and configurations. Whether they're big or small, upright or reclined, old or new, it doesn't matter--the right rider always seems to find us.

However, this is a rare case where we may need to get the word out to find that right rider. This Quickie Mach 2 is a hand-cycle, a trike designed for people who don't have the use of their legs.

Most of these that I've seen are custom, one-off creations, but this one is mass-produced. It's not as sophisticated as some of those custom rigs, but it pedals fairly easily, and it's comfortable and stable.

If you or someone you know could benefit from this interesting rig, please stop by--we'd really like to see this go to a good home.

Happy Trails,
Ron Georg
Shop Manager

12/15/2023

We always check used bags for leftovers. Usually we don't find much, just old tissues and hard candy. About the most exciting thing that ever dropped from a seatbag was a vintage iPod Nano, loaded with period-correct entertainment. It provided background music for the shop for some time.

That is, it was top of the list, until we upended an old, UV-faded pannier onto the front desk a couple of days ago. There was no smell to warn us off. That's because the tiny bat was completely mummified.

We don't usually think of bicycles as having much impact on the natural environment. Like so many other animals, bats are threatened by humans. They're sometimes hit by cars, and wind turbines have created a troubling new threat (I mean, we really want those things to be all good), but bicycles are largely innocent in the collapse of bat populations.

So we're going to assume this little one did go gentle into that good night, that the pannier was just a comfortable place to take that final sleep.

It's less troubling that way.

And in case you still, for some reason, want to see the desiccated bat, I'll post it in the comments--I know all too well just how shocking the little mummy can be.

Happy Trails,
Ron Georg
Shop Czar

Address

707 NW 11th Street
Corvallis, OR
97330

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 4pm
Tuesday 12pm - 4pm
Wednesday 12pm - 4pm
Thursday 12pm - 6pm
Friday 12pm - 6pm
Saturday 12pm - 6pm
Sunday 12pm - 6pm

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+15412246885

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