Earn your bike
While learning basic bike mechanics and building bikes for transit- and bicycle-dependent community members identified by our partners. No bike repair experience is necessary, but diligence, patience, and the ability to work independently with minimal instruction are highly recommended.
Your bike is only 2 steps away:
STEP 1: Volunteer
Volunteer 18 hours within a three month period, during Community, Volunteer, or Women/Trans/Femme Workshops (if applicable).
Volunteers can help out by working on bikes, sorting bike parts, cleaning up the space, or any number of tasks that help keep the shop working to our potential.
Check our Calendar for dates and availability.
STEP 2: Build your bike!
Receive a pre-owned bike and put your new bicycle skills into practice.
You’ll have continued access to our shop resources during our workshops to help you complete your bike project successfully. While fixing up your earned bike, you can use any of the donated parts for free, but if you want to put on new parts, we’ll expect you to pay for them. Unfortunately, electric bicycles are not available to earn.
Please keep in mind that our storage space is limited, so please take your “earned” bicycle home if you can and bring it with you when you plan on working on it at our Community Workshops.
VIDEO TUTORIALS
If you would like to learn on your own or just need a refresher course without having to come into our shop, we have assembled a catalog of instructional videos.
This LINK will take you to a page with the major systems of a bike and they in turn will link you to a page for each of the subsystems.
