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New Year’s Eve PARTY!

Posted December 21st, 2011 in Uncategorized by ned

Hey Free Riders, Come to our benefit party! Flyer below, print & post if you’re able. Details repeated if it’s too big… 10pm-?? at the shop DJs & live performers: Hip-hop, Bounce, Balkan, Cumbia, Electronic & more! $10 cover, free booze (BYO champagne), 21 & over event. Bring friends & get in free; if your [...]

Holiday Bicycle Build-a-Thon

Posted December 6th, 2011 in Uncategorized by ned

We’ve opened up some extra shop time to fix up bikes for local charities including FORGE/Pitt, the Thomas Merton Center, North Allegheny School District, Three Rivers Reservation and a community bike shop in Northview Heights. Stop by: Sundays 11 & 18 December, 12-4pm Refreshments, tools & oversight provided, experience suggested. Flyer

COFFEE!!!

Posted November 29th, 2011 in Uncategorized by ned

Thanks to La Prima Espresso for donating coffee for the shop, it makes our wrenches spin really fast!

Departed bikes mid-June through mid-October in 2011

Posted November 16th, 2011 in Uncategorized by William

Here is a list from the computer spreadsheet we have been keeping. You can see the completed earn-a-bike projects, fix-for-sales sold, and also as-is purchases. Congrats to the 23 Earn-a-bike projects that were completed. *.report td { border: 1px solid black; border-width:0 0 1px 1px; margin: 0px; padding:0; padding-left: 2px; font-size: .8em; } ID # [...]

Winter Hours 2011

Posted October 25th, 2011 in Uncategorized by William

Free Ride Winter Hours Free Ride will begin a winter hours schedule this November. For the weeks between November 26 2011 and March 3 2012, we will have open shop on Saturday and will be closed for all other days. Classes in 2011 end November 13 and will resume in March 1, 2012. Starting November [...]

Bike Bonanza 2011

Posted September 16th, 2011 in Uncategorized by William

Come on out to the Kingsley Center this coming Saturday, September 24. Several organizations are teaming up to have a family friendly day. There will be refreshments, crafts, and guided tours to help introduce you to bike lanes in the city. See the event flyer

Completed EAB projects in Spring 2011

Posted August 1st, 2011 in Uncategorized by William

Spring and much of summer is behind us and I would like to take time to look back at some numbers to see what happens with the bikes that go through Free Ride. In the spring, we started giving bikes an ID number. We have been revising our paperwork system and started accounting for bikes [...]

Friday Free Ride June 24th! Music & Bike Repair!

Posted June 17th, 2011 in Uncategorized by Morgan

Next Friday, June 24th, come on out to the shop for our first Friday Free Ride! Open Shop from 6 to 8pm, followed by some local DIY punk starting at 8 On the 24th we’ll have Napalm Dount (Female fronted classic punx) & Taser Wound (Lawrenceville Hardcore) Come on out, get that summer bike maintenance [...]

Class schedule update for summer 2011

Posted May 22nd, 2011 in Uncategorized by William

Starting in June, the adult drop-in classes will have a new schedule. What is changing? Well some of the classes that we were calling “advanced” are being included with the rest of the drop-in classes, since they really were not anything more challenging. So, it made sense just to include the Frame, Headset and Bottom [...]

Wishlist, Spring 2011

Posted April 25th, 2011 in Uncategorized by William

Free Ride has a wish list for Spring 2011. We are asking for a few modest items. Folding chairs Large white boards Please see the wish list page for up to date information about non-bike donations we would be super happy to receive.