Bicycle cooperative

For example, one co-op inside an Australian "community environment park" existed rent-free until recently.

That co-op continued to charge just US$8 for a one-year membership, including unlimited shop time, even after it began paying rent.

[citation needed] Some workshops stock new items such as brake pads, inner tubes, cables and housing, and bearings, for example.

In order to lower costs, retailers' cooperatives establish central buying locations, providing them with the opportunity to purchase in bulk.

Retailers' cooperatives also engage in group advertising and promotion, uniform stock merchandising, and private branding.

Another early co-op was "P'tit vélo dans la tête", founded in Grenoble, France, in 1994.

The Bike Collective Network includes a regionally sorted list of hundreds of co-ops scattered across a few dozen countries.