Making the most of summer

Hopefully you’ve been to the new site by now.
We’re loving the space and have great plans.

If you’re interested in being a part of HBK to help us deliver on those plans, please get in touch.
It doesn’t need to be bike skills, it could be project management, building, welding, training, communications or anything that you would like to contribute.

We’ve been making the most of summer with a steady stream of donations and people putting them to good use.

Last weekend we were really pleased to be able to help Hedda and Marte, 2 students from Norway who came to find out if they could get bikes.

Chef for the day Mike told them to have a look out the back and grab anything without a tag.  They fixed up the bikes, made a donation and left as very happy punters.

How good is that, sun, cycling and making the world a better place in one afternoon?

SOHO Resilience Fair

Congratulations to South Hobart Sustainable Community on the South Hobart Resilience Fair 2025, a terrific day of sharing and learning.

It was great to have HBK involved with the ever engaging Lance and volunteers showing the basics of bike maintenance and answering questions.

We know that every bike ride, whether it’s to school, shops or work, is another pedal towards making Hobart a better, more resilient city with kids that are independent, adults that exercise, communities that need less cars, have less pollution and fewer car accidents.

And we’re back!

We’re back in business, cooking up fresh bikes at our regular Sunday sessions (check the Upcoming Sessions page) at our new location – South Hobart Tip Shop/Resource Work Cooperative.

Find us here

We’re looking forward to seeing old and new faces.

Please come get involved and join us become a chef, an organiser of tools and parts, a welcomer, … Whatever your skills or interest there is sure to be a way you can make Hobart Bike Kitchen better and help us deliver more bikes to more people and make Hobart more liveable.

Yes it’s on! Grand Reopening!

Grand Reopening 
Hobart Bike Kitchen 

Sunday 21 September, 2025 
12:00 – 3:00pm 

30 McRobies Rd, South Hobart
(the original Tip Shop Shed at McRobies Gully Waste Management site) 

Please come and join us as we celebrate the move to a wonderful new space. 

We acknowledge the support of Resource Work Cooperative and Hobart City Council. 

More information: hobartbikekitchen@gmail.com 

We’re nearly back

How can the Bike Kitchen be nearly back?

The good news is that we have our insurances and agreements sorted out and we now able to open the shed doors and run some Sunday Sessions.

We haven’t been able to work on some of the things we need to do, such as workstands and bike racking, so we don’t have the space as fully functional as we’d like it to be.

That said Lance ran a great session last weekend.
The RWC crew had two trolleys of parts they wanted to give us.
We also received some great donations, met a new volunteer, answered some curious questioners and talked to some potential donators.
All in all it was a cracking first day!

However, it’s unlikely we’ll be able to run a session every weekend currently.

We need more chefs.

That doesn’t mean experienced bike mechanics. As has been mentioned before that’s not really our role.
We’re there to provide a welcoming space with bikes, parts, tools and advice while people work on bikes themselves and learn new skills.

As chefs we certainly help wherever we can, and Yes you will learn a lot if you become a HBK volunteer but you don’t need to be an experienced bike mechanic to join.

You also don’t need to commit any more time than you’re comfortable with.
Once a month, once a quarter it doesn’t matter it all adds up to more sessions.

If you would like to help Hobart Bike Kitchen grow please get in touch at hobartbikekitchen@gmail.com, or come along to a session and have a chat.

You’re not open yet, what’s going on?

Hi everyone, it’s been good to hear that people have been asking what’s happening, and when we’ll be open.

As you may know we were planning to open at the beginning of March, and at the last moment were unable to.

We have now been able to address the additional requirements and are restarting our planning process to set a new opening date.
So, there’ll be more announcements to come once we have a date, and you’re all invited to celebrate with us when we do.

If you would like to be involved in helping with the opening, or become a chef with us please email.
By the way you don’t need to be an experienced bike mechanic to be a chef. If you’re interested in being a welcomer, sorter, learner mechanic, photographer, social media lead, …. there are many roles and everyone is welcome.

The Big Day of Circular Living Ideas

We’re excited to be a part of the Big Day of Circular Living Ideas being put on by our friends at Sustainable Living Tasmania.

It’s Saturday 22nd March 2025 at 10am – 3pm at the C3 Convention Centre, South Hobart.

You can see the full plan at https://slt.org.au/the-big-day-of-circular-living-ideas/

“Exhibitors, speakers, community groups, chefs, entertainers, artists and sustainability enthusiasts will all converge to showcase initiatives, share their experiences and knowledge, participate in panel discussions and facilitate workshops lead by our special guest ABC’s War on Waste host, Craig Reucassel.“

But the news you’ve really been waiting to hear is that we’ll be holding our famous bike auction again.
It will be a quick-fire round of five bikes with something for everyone.
The details of the auction bikes will be up next week, so keep your eyes peeled and get your bids ready.

Hold your horses

Hi everyone, very sorry that we had to cancel the Grand Re-Opening last Sunday.

Unfortunately, on Friday some licensing issues arose that both Resource Work Collective and Hobart Bike Kitchen need to work through which meant we couldn’t open the site.

However, we’re working through them now.
It may take a while, but we need to be on solid ground before we open.

We will advertise through all our normal channels as soon as possible.

In the meantime, here’s a new project bike for you.