"Every child in New Zealand should have access to a safe, working cycle"
Biketec
Bikes in Schools
The Bikes in Schools project - the most exciting activity to hit schools around NZ.
Many schools in the country are embracing the opportunity to become a cycling school complete with track and fifty cycles in a neat on-site container.
Biketec is ideally set up to maintain these fleets. We recognize the particular needs and problems that schools with large fleets of cycles encounter, so we've designed a maintenance contract that ensures that your cycles will stay safe and working well all year round.
Biketec was set up as a mobile service with workshops in strategic places - we come to you throughout the year to keep your cycles fit for purpose.
About Us
We build and maintain bikes for young people to access riding for exercise sport and fun, and through it we hope to improve young peoples lives and experiences.
Biketec is all about maintaining cycles for young people. We do this in several different ways; we operate mainly with and through Primary Schools and our work is fixing and maintaining young people's cycles so that they have a good and lasting, fun and engaging experience of cycling. We are all trained cycle mechanics and cycle skills instructors, training young people to ride safely, maintain their bike, and discover the healthy lifestyle of cycling.
We believe that every child in NZ should have access to a safe working cycle.
For some of the kids in the schools we visit, this will be the first time they've had the chance to ride a decent bike or been able to use their own cycle in good working condition and they love it! Our dream is to give them and all young people the opportunity to enjoy the experience and benefits of cycling, by actively assisting the Schools and participating Councils to promote the use and ownership of a cycle for every student in the School by either fixing School cycles or Student owned cycles and by passing on donated/used cycles to the Schools after we have refurbished them.
Our services
Biketec has been providing a professional Cycle mechanic service to Schools for nearly a decade, the business came directly out of a youth Trust provider service with 100% youth worker background. We are fully trained cycle mechanics and all staff are police-checked. We are also a fully re-recyclable service meaning that we recycle everything. We often provide full fleets of re-cycled cycles to your school whilst you build up the funds for your own purchase of a fleet, and we can often do that for free!
With the assistance of local Councils we repair children's bikes in Schools whilst the student is in class. The student then gets a fully fixed and serviced cycle at the end of the School day, which has been proven to increase their use of the cycle. We also run Maintenance classes to teach students how to maintain and fix their own bikes.
Repairs
We want young people to enjoy all the lifelong benefits of cycling. Part of this is staying safe on NZ roads, so to do this we team up with the National Bike Ready program to deliver cycle safety training in Schools. Biketec also teaches young people mountain bike skills classes for those who want to go off road and get out into the great NZ outdoors.
Training
Bikes In Schools
Schools all over New Zealand are equipping themselves with their own cycle fleet, and now Biketec can offer them a comprehensive and affordable service maintenance contract to take care of their cycle fleet so that it is always ready to use and maintained to the highest standards. The maintenance is just one very affordable yearly cost.
Biketec has 4 fleets of cycles aimed at youth and adult cycling. With more than 100 cycles ready to hire we have got a fleet to meet your needs and hire rates start at just $25.00 per cycle. Road and Mountain bikes available.
School outing or a City group rides. Hiring our cycles helps us to continue to provide free recycled cycles to Schools in Wellington.
Hire Our Bikes
Our Team
What really makes Biketec great is our awesome team with over 40 years of bike maintenance experience, and qualifications in Bike Repairs, training, racing and Simon's 18 years of full time work in the NZ youth sector we don't know of any other fully mobile youth cycle maintenance team in the country better equipped to provide all of your School cycle maintenance needs, from helpful advice choosing your initial options to maintaining your whole fleet of cycles we can keep you on your bikes!
Simon
Simon has worked in the NZ youth sector for 18 yrs running thousands of youth programs and events, one of which was Biketec. In 2015 in a stroke of brilliance he coupled his life long passion for cycling, his experience as a qualified Cycle Mechanic and youth events facilitator together to create the Biketec project. In the beginning there was a Cycle....
Ben
Ben got involved with Biketec 5 years ago as a volunteer in the youth space Secret Level where Simon started the Biketec Mechanics internship, later when Ben had left School he became an employee of Biketec and joined Simon, often Ben gets to fix cycles in the schools he recently left. Ben is now 20 and a valued Biketec mechanic.
Brendan
This is Brendan the Most! That is the most excellent cycle fix mechanic with 25 years in the NZ cycle trade, an awesome mountain bike Instructor and an XC legend!
Our services
Biketec has been providing a professional Cycle mechanic service to Schools for nearly a decade, the business came directly out of a youth Trust provider service with 100% youth worker background. We are fully trained cycle mechanics and all staff are police-checked. We are also a fully re-recyclable service meaning that we recycle everything. We often provide full fleets of re-cycled cycles to your school whilst you build up the funds for your own purchase of a fleet, and we can often do that for free!
"dirts’Kool" mountain bike training for secondary students has teamed up with Nuku Ora and landed right on the WTP bike trail network in Wainuiomata, Hutt City!
We are now offering colleges in the Wellington region the exciting opportunity to book in with us, so click below and help your students learn the skills to safely and skillfully master this amazing and popular outdoor sport.
dirts'Kool
We want young people to enjoy all the lifelong benefits of cycling. Part of this is staying safe on NZ roads, so to do this we team up with the National Bike Ready program to deliver cycle safety training in Schools. Biketec also teaches young people mountain bike skills classes for those who want to go off road and get out into the great NZ outdoors.
Training
Bikes In Schools
Schools all over New Zealand are equipping themselves with their own cycle fleet, and now Biketec can offer them a comprehensive and affordable service maintenance contract to take care of their cycle fleet so that it is always ready to use and maintained to the highest standards. The maintenance is just one very affordable yearly cost.
Biketec has 4 fleets of cycles aimed at youth and adult cycling. With more than 100 cycles ready to hire we have got a fleet to meet your needs and hire rates start at just $25.00 per cycle. Road and Mountain bikes available.
School outing or a City group rides. Hiring our cycles helps us to continue to provide free recycled cycles to Schools in Wellington.
Hire Our Bikes
With the assistance of local Councils we repair children's bikes in Schools whilst the student is in class. The student then gets a fully fixed and serviced cycle at the end of the School day, which has been proven to increase their use of the cycle. We also run Maintenance classes to teach students how to maintain and fix their own bikes.