It takes lots of imagination and artistic flair to find new uses for old bicycle parts. Graham Bergh at Resource Revival and his staff must have a limitless supply of both.
They certainly have a limitless supply of parts from which to choose.
The Mosier, Oregon, outfit acquires boxes of used bike parts from shops and bike centers and churns out clocks (wall, desk and pendulum), picture frames, candle holders, bottle openers, CD storage racks and even several styles of tables.
What materials do they use for these treasures? Bicycle chains, cranks, rims and freewheels.
Bergh had the idea for recycling bicycle parts back in 1991 when he got a flat tire on his bike and began wondering what happened to all those used innertubes. Three years later he was selling Tube Tie straps to REI out of his Portland home.
Although that line has been discontinued, the company has been moving forward. Bergh partnered with several artists and others to create the designs, moved into ever-larger facilities and linked up with the Portland's Community Cycling Center to gain access to more used bicycle parts and help with their mission of reaching kids, recycling bikes, and restoring communities.
Their goods have been sold at the Whitney and Guggenheim museum stores in New York and Resource Revival's customers have included Nike, Bloomingdale's, The Nature Company, among others.
Their offerings were recently featured at Gearlog.
Resource Revival isn't the only bike part recyler out there, though. I recently wrote about Eli Reich at Alchemy Goods who makes messengers bags and other items from discarded bicycle innertubes.
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