What do you get when you mix a truckload of bicycles from Melbourne with dirt roads in the South Australian outback? Some might humorously say 'sore derrieres', but connecting the community is the main aim.

Around 65 second-hand bikes will arrive in Coober Pedy later this month, thanks to a collaboration between a Melbourne couple and a regional Aboriginal health service.

Melbourne psychologist Kelly O'Brien and social philanthropist Stuart Allen began a bike restoration initiative in Melbourne, and Coober Pedy proved an ideal recipient for the restored bikes.

"Initially we wanted to create a project to give people in a state of homelessness a sense of meaning and purpose, we got together and started to recycle bikes, but they needed a destination.

"I just happened to have a conversation with a health service outside of Coober Pedy, they were doing some amazing things and desperately needed bikes- this just seemed like the right place for the bikes to belong."

In Coober Pedy, George Laslett at the Umoona Pjutagku Health Service said the bikes would offer a handy way to get around in a town devoid of public transport.

"Most people here basically walk around and it gets pretty hilly around the place and it certainly gets very hot up here, so this will help people to just get there a lot faster," Mr Laslett said.

However, the bikes are expected to have a more significant benefit to Coober Pedy via a variety of community initiatives.

The bikes will feature in a pre-employment program for young people, used to teach them mechanical skills, and the local Men's Shed will serve as a workshop for maintaining the bikes.

"For young people particularly, they'll feel good about themselves and they'll be able to develop a sense of purpose and industry," Mr Laslett said.

The bikes will also be a fundamental addition to a number of community cycling events, which are expected to help connect adults and youth in Cooper Pedy.

Mr O'Brien said the community is very excited about the bikes' arrival, including the Director of the health service, Priscilla Larkins.

"Priscilla had said to me in one of the initial conversations that said she feels like her prayers have been answered- they have all these bike events but no bikes," Ms O'Brien said.

Community bike events include the Breakaway Bolt fundraiser ride, as well as a police mentorship initiative which will see local adults and teenager's team up to ride 190km from Coober Pedy to Oodndatta.

However, Mr Laslett acknowledged the region's dirt roads might result in a bumpy ride for these Melbourne bikes.

"We've got bitumen out to the rubbish dump here, which is about 7km out, but once we go past there it's corrugations.

"Even when we're practicing we don't go on the bitumen, we go on the side of the road so we can get our derrieres used to that kind of thing."