Forty-four Brewarrina children will have the chance to learn to ride and maintain pedal bikes under a 12-month pilot to promote cycling in the area.

Children from public and central schools in Brewarrina, Weilmoringle and Goodooga were at the Brewarrina Local Aboriginal Land Council (Brewarrina LALC) on Tuesday 3 September for their first 'Bike Kitchen', painting helmets and assembling bikes together purchased with $37,000 from the NSW Office of Sport.

"The kids loved it today, they really did," Acting Brewarrina LALC CEO Urayne Warraweena said.

The Bike Kitchen workshop will be open every Thursday from 3pm-5pm at the land council for help maintaining the bikes.

There will be three more workshops over the 12 months, where bike mechanics from Tune Cycles will take children through bike handling and maintenance skills.

“When we put together sporting activities like seasonal football our kids not only revel in the activity but it reveals a talent base of young athletes with extraordinary ability," Ms Warraweena said.

The workshop on the Tuesday. PHOTO: supplied 

“Our Bike Kitchen will upskill a local person to provide repair services. We hope this leads to other exciting developments in physical activity like walk and run groups, and we are now looking at getting a PCYC which will be a great future base for our bike program."

The program is delivered by Tune Cycles through a $73,555 grant awarded under the NSW Government’s Transport Access Regional Partnerships (TARP) program.

The government hopes the pilot will increase mobility in the town, where 20 per cent of residents do not have access to a registered motor vehicle, more than double the NSW average.

There are no bike shops for parts in the town, so Ms Warraweena said she hopes the program will continue after the pilot period.

"The problem is if anything goes wrong there's nowhere to fix them," Ms Warraweena said.

"The hope is that this program will keep going, that it'll keep being funded. There is a need for it.

"We've got to make sure the program will work."

Program participants ranging from Years three to six were chosen based on their performance at school.

Funding permitting, the pilot could set the foundations for a broader roll out in other communities in western NSW.

A spokesperson for the Transport for NSW said the this will be assessed on students attending, maintaining their bikes, meeting learning goals and building riding abilities.

"Each participant has received a journal to track their riding hours and note their progress, participants who ride to school throughout the duration of the pilot will be noted by schools and feedback will be obtained through engaging with the stakeholders of the program," the spokesperson said.