Fort William Bike Shed

Our Bike Shed promotes the bicycle as a low cost, low carbon transport option. We help individuals and community groups to overcome barriers to cycling.

 

Active Travel Library

Please sign up to our Active Travel Library which reduces consumption by offering bikes, tools and accessories on a short term loan basis.

Our Bike Library has electric and conventional bikes that can be borrowed free of charge for a few hours or a few weeks.  We have an ever growing selection of bikes available, from Ebikes, Etrikes, Recumbant, Tandem and normal bicycles. We will have the right bike to borrow, allowing our users to try a selection of bikes before deciding to invest in their own. The Bike Library also host a selection of accessories aimed at breaking the barriers to using a bike daily. With luggage trailer, child trailers and seats, Tag Along style tows, we will be able to get you shopping, doing the school runs and commuting by bicycle.

 

The Bike Tool Library now has a wide range of bike tools available for you to borrow on donation only basis. If we don’t have the tool you need, we will get it! You can borrow the tools or attend a ‘Fix Your Own Bike’ session where you use our tools and work stands and work under the guidance of our bike technician to make sure you do the job right! The Bike Tool Library is housed in our Bike Shed in the corner of Claggan Park amongst the greenfingers polytunnels.

Refurbished Bikes

One of the main aims of the Bike Shed is to reduce waste by refurbishing old and unwanted bikes and finding them a new home. Our Mechanics and volunteers recondition bikes donated to us. Any bikes deemed unsuitable for refurbishment are stripped into material groups with our metal and plastics being recycled locally and rubber including tyres and tubes recycled by Velorim.

Check out our current Refurbished Bikes for Sale

If you would like to volunteer, there is no experience required, please email [email protected].

Bike Maintenance

We aim to empower the community with the skills to maintain and repair their own bikes. Owning a bike is the most efficient and cost effective mode of transport. The Bike Shed improves this further by offering Bike Maintenance Workshops and courses and Fix Your Own Bike sessions.

Our Bike Maintenance classes range from our basic class including puncture repair up to bespoke wheel building workshops.

Fix Your Own Bike (FYOB) – allows our users access to our workshop and tools. Users can hire a workstand (£5p/hour suggested donation) and have access to our full inventory of tools. Our mechanic will watch over and provide advice and support but with the key focus of the user carrying out the work. This is by far the cheapest way to maintain your own bike. Sign up for our Tool Library to access this service.

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Community Engagement and Green Health

We build relationships with NHS, Highland Council (Schools, Social Work, Active Schools etc), Charities and other Third Sector organisations to skill/asset share. From offering support to people lacking confidence to encouraging people looking to improve their physical or mental wellbeing through cycling-we deliver maintenance workshops to Third Sector user groups and provide volunteering opportunities for people from all backgrounds, we build links within our community.

If you would like to discuss how we can work with your organisation, please contact [email protected]

 

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If you would like any further information please email [email protected]

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