tour of Melbourne's longest running bike workshop - The Bike Shed ! 

awesome, thank you for explaining! was def tricky to work out CERES when i first visited, but ya you are spot on !

Great comment love to hear the history!

Hell ya ! No worries , glad you liked it ! 😊

Ya ! Amazing place, great for the community

Sure are ! Thank you 😊

😂😂😂 thirsty for wd40

I've only watched several of Gary's videos this morning and already know enough lore to laugh so much at this.

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Wow!! That is amazing !! I love that , keep up the great work !!

awesome!! ya they are doing a great job of saving old bikes was inspiring for me too! cheers !

Ya super cool vibes

Wow thank you my dude i appreciate that !! That’s the great thing about the internet, can easily share stuff. Hope to do more in the future , will do my best cheers!!

Cheers my dude ! I agree!

Hahaha what no way ! That’s funny thanks for sharing ! Honored 😊

thank you very much Joe!

Thank you i appreciate that, glad you like it! always cool to meet up and talk about bikes !

thank you ! great place for sure!

Cheers mate! i totally agree & also save a lot of those bikes form going to landfill too! win win for everyone!

@@los_rubos lucky to live here

For sure great space! Yeah when you think about all the old bikes they gotta go somewhere ay 😬

Definitely! Great place. Cheers!

Hell ya ! No worries thanks for watching!

@@garysprojects Hey Gary, I had the pleasure to visit the bike shed today, one of the volunteers showed us around. I nearly bought a bike! I only have a couple days left in Melbourne, so I will drop by next time I come here for more days and get another bike for sure. Thanks again for the tip.

That’s awesome ! Hope you enjoyed your stay haha

Thank you my dude I appreciate that !

No worries , thanks for watching! Ya great to be able to share the place with people! Cheers

breaks my heart to see bikes on the back of scrap collectors vans, thanks Gary@@garysprojects

awesome great job!! tbh i probably won't because it's a bit far from where i live, but def will stop by here and there, maybe another project together in the future, we'll see !

Thank you very much ! 😊

gotta start with the man in the mirror

Thx you I appreciate that !

hell ya do it up!

Totally rad 👍

No worries mate, thanks for watching ! Cheers

Thank you very much !

😂😂😂 ya go check out it if you get the chance, was a good time !

Hell ya it’s awesome, great place to work on bikes if you don’t have space / tools etc

definitely!! had a good chill positive vibe to it for sure!!

Thank you !! Great place 😊

Thank you !

Thank you Todd! I appreciate that 😊

Ya cool place! Lots of replacement parts to get you outta trouble

Hey, why not do a build collab with someone at that shed? I'd be interesting to see what you come up with.

Cheers 👍

See if you can setup a tent out back 😂😂

thank you mate, i appreciate that!

Thank you Carson ! Was cool to visit for sure 👍

So true!! some of new bikes are cool, but yeah definitely a lot of junk (new) bikes get produced too

I think we just need more people to use bikes more often, not just buying or making them.

Hell ya

Nice!! Classic Aussie bikes

Cheers

Nothing like some sunny fresh air! Hopefully it warms up for you soon !! 😊

I can try to answer that question! All the really good bikes are fixed quickly and sold the same week, but everything that gets donated has sat around unloved outside or in a garage for a good long while before being donated anyway. We aren’t losing parts to weather that we want to use, that stuff is long dead before it makes it to the shed. Being in the inner north of melb its a fair way from the sea so no salty air getting to the parts and a lot of the donations are from nearby(even further north too) with similar conditions. Our geography is a massive benefit to us. we also aren’t overly concerned with the cosmetic side of the bikes, if everythings working its ready to go to a new owner.

@@nickwatson2217 thank you Nick!! appreciate the insight!

@@nickwatson2217 hi nick, cheers for your reply I guess I should have been a little more specific with my question lol.... Firstly I've been involved (either directly/indirectly) with the second hand bike industry for several years and I understand the lottery behind whats donated. The last shop I worked at we struggled with keeping any inventory from environmental damages and it was a mission to keep it all serviceable, let alone sellable. In the vid I noticed an awful lot of inventory outside incl wheels, tyres, forks, saddles all of which do not react well over time to rain or sun exposure, is this stock dead or is there no room to store it away from the environment safely? Essentially what is the co -op doing to mitigate environmental exposure to inventory? ... hint, shipping containers are a godsend for the industry and are relatively cheap

@@blairrighton6270 A lot of what you see stored outside is recently stripped junk that hasnt made it up to the rubbish area yet, that stuff gets moved to the bins as we find the time. Lower quality wheels/tyres live outside, some of them get used, the good stuff is well protected. Anything thats stored outside is essentially stuff we are’t too sad to lose to theft or weather. Cant save everything! Theres plenty of good saddles, wheels, tyres and frames stored inside the shed ready to be put on the bikes we fix every week. We send on some donations to other more recently started bike sheds around melbourne that dont get as many donations as we do so they can build up their operations. So I guess the answer to your question is: Prioritisation of usage and storage. The more storage space we have the more it would get filled with junk! Kinda like adding lanes to highways. Dunno where we’d fit a shipping container onsite but great idea! The shed is a not-for profit, not a co-op. All profits go back to the running of the shed. It started 40 years ago as a large pile of bikes… you’d see the part you wanted, reach in to the pile, strip it off and put of your bike! Its come a long way since then :)

Links in description, she also gives directions on where to find them at the end of the video

I found the address at the end of RU-vid clip

I guess every country has their own thing aye ;)

Hahah thank you ! Hopefully it’s better next time

Thank you mate, great values for sure , glad they are doing good. haha yes they have so many parts, maybe next time i will buy some 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@garysprojects alright, let me now😉☺️