Paint-A-Helmet is a Spokane-wide Kiwanis service project that donates properly-fitted bicycle helmets to children and gives them the opportunity to decorate their helmets to encourage wearing them.
Start Time: 8:00 AM End Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Fair Grounds
A great family event.
Back by popular demand, our ladies classes will be offered again this May:
Tuesdays, May 4, 11, 18, 25
6:30–8:30 pm
Introductory, Mtn Brakes, Road Brakes, and Shifting/Derailleur classes
Each class will include discussion and a hands-on lab–a perfect opportunity to ask questions and cover mechanics in a relaxed and welcoming environment. Register online here! $10 discount if you register for the 4-class series.
If you have a bike hanging around that is not in use, that clutters up your life, please consider donating it to us. It’s basically spring, and our refurbished bikes are selling like hotcakes, and we would really appreciate some more bicycles.
Bike donations are the foundation for teaching our volunteers by giving them something to overhaul and fine tune, and by allowing them to familiarize themselves with bicycles through stripping them down and organizing the parts into our used parts buckets.
Please, we could use a few good bikes. Read this list first, as we have very limited space and can’t accept all bike donations. Thanks!
Well, it’s a tall-person bike: 68 cm Schwinn World for sale at the P2P shop. Come check it out if you are tall and are looking for a cool, retro road bike.
Thursday and Fridays 2-6, Saturday 11-6–1802 E Sprague
So awesome! Check it out and let Google know how to improve it and add things that are still missing. Luckily, they will listen, as evidenced by the addition of this feature ito Googlemaps in the first place, due to the feedback from 50,000 cyclists. Here’s some info from the Business and Tech section of the Seattle times:
The “Bicycling” layer coming to Google Maps isn’t a technological tour de force, but it looks like a fun and useful feature for cyclists, especially those visiting a new area and looking for places to ride. It’s also been the most requested addition to Google Maps, with an online petition calling for bike routes drawing more than 50,000 signatures.
Google worked with the national Rails to Trails Conservancy to add the group’s trail maps,combining them with publicly available bike-route information.
But the maps are still incomplete. Google hopes users will help fill in the gaps, suggest routes and make corrections using the “report a problem” feature.
“We really are thinking of all this data as a starter set,” said Shannon Guymon, project manager for driving directions and lead on the bike routes.
Maps display three tiers of bike routes — bike trails such as the Burke Gilman, dedicated bike lanes on streets and roads, and roads without bike lanes that are appropriate for biking.
Come work on your bike with us. I’m bringing my old Rockhopper to lube the chain and maybe overhaul the rear hub.
You have the time and interest; we’ll help you out. Tuesday 7-9pm, 1802 E Sprague
Start your bidding!
Today is the first day of the silent auction for the New Belgium cruiser. A unique bike that’s perfect for the Centennial trail, FBC rides, or cruising around campus or your neighborhood. Bidding starts at $250. Come in to our shop and sign up on the silent auction sheet. The auction will end on April 9th. 1802 E Sprague–open Thu/Fri 2-6pm and Saturday 11-6.
New Belgium donated one of their cool cruisers to P2P for our fundraising event coming up in April. Sweet!
I am told that the bikes are never sold. NB commisions a small number of them each year and they are given to employees after thier fiirst year of service or donated to charitable causes. It’s hard to find any pictures of the 2010 bike online, as they are sort of special. So if you want this bike, stay tuned. We’ll be auctioning it off soon.
And thanks to NB for helping us out!
This is the last night of our wheelbuilding series. Tuesday and Wednesday everyone laced, tensioned, trued their wheels. Tons of info, and it was good to practice the same set of skills on a second and consecutive day. Tonight, they’ll go over repairing and diagnosing wheel. I’ll try to get some pics up from tonight’s class.
We’ll offer the wheelbuilding class again since it was such a hit. If you have other class suggestions, send me an email,.
This is the last week for you to get down to Two Wheel Transit to donate your old bike. This is a sweet deal for a few reasons: