Greensboro, Alabama’s BikeLab is about more than fixing bikes and building a few frames. Their goal is to create a self-sustaining, community-operated bike workshop.

BikeLab directors Blair and Mark welcomed me and some kits down to come build frames with bamboo straight from their (neighbor’s) back yard.

The big ideas–creating systems, empowering people, engaging minds–had a great backdrop of tiny details–squeezing Mark’s down tube into a conventional kitchen oven…

…roughing bamboo on the porch…

…and making a drying rack with bricks and sticks.

Show your support for BikeLab as Blair and Mark move forward in Alabama.

(all photos by–you guessed it–Mark and Blair)