Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective

For those of you who are interested in improving your wrenching skills, we will be offering FREE lessons from the Park Tool School for the first 30-45 minutes of each Monday Volunteer Night at the Community Bike Shop.  Each week we will pick a different chapter (schedule below), and provide you with bikes to practice on, so don't bring your own.  We will have the textbook, Park Tool's Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair, for sale during the classes.

• January 11th @ 6pm sharp: Tires and Tubes
• January 18th @ 6pm sharp: Hubs, Rear Sprockets Martin Luther King Day
• January 25th @ 6pm sharp: Wheel Truing
• February 1st @ 6pm sharp: Pedals, Cranks & Bottom Bracket
• February 8th @ 6pm sharp: Chains
• February 15th @ 6pm sharp: Derailleur Systems Part 2 President's Day
• February 12th @ 6pm sharp: Derailleur Systems Part 1
• March 1st @ 6pm sharp: Rim Caliper Brake Systems
• March 8th @ 6pm sharp: Caliper Disc Brake Systems
• March 15th @ 6pm sharp: Headsets
• March 22th @ 6pm sharp: Hubs, Rear Sprockets REDO
• March 29th @ 6pm sharp: Derailleur Systems Part 2 REDO

• April 5th @ 6pm sharp: Tires and Tubes
• April 12th @ 6pm sharp: Hubs, Rear Sprockets
• April 19th @ 6pm sharp: Wheel Truing
• April 26th @ 6pm sharp: Pedals, Cranks & Bottom Bracket
• May 3rd @ 6pm sharp: Chains
• May 10th @ 6pm sharp: Derailleur Systems Part 1
• May 17th @ 6pm sharp: Derailleur Systems Part 2
• May 24th @ 6pm sharp: Rim Caliper Brake Systems
• May 31st @ 6pm sharp: Caliper Disc Brake Systems Memorial Day
• June 7th @ 6pm sharp: Headsets
• June 14th @ 6pm sharp: Caliper Disc Brake Systems REDO
• June 21st @ 6pm sharp: Open Slot for Guest Instructor

• June 28th @ 6pm sharp: Tires and Tubes
• July 5th @ 6pm sharp: Hubs, Rear Sprockets
• July 12th @ 6pm sharp: Wheel Truing
• July 19th @ 6pm sharp: Pedals, Cranks & Bottom Bracket
• July 26th @ 6pm sharp: Chains
• August 2nd @ 6pm sharp: Derailleur Systems Part 1
• August 9th @ 6pm sharp: Derailleur Systems Part 2
• August 16th @ 6pm sharp: Rim Caliper Brake Systems
• August 23st @ 6pm sharp: Caliper Disc Brake Systems
• August 20th @ 6pm sharp: Headsets
• September 6th @ 6pm sharp: Open Slot for Bike Fit Instructor
• September 13th @ 6pm sharp: Open Slot for Guest Instructor

• September 20th @ 6pm sharp: Tires and Tubes
• September 27th @ 6pm sharp: Hubs, Rear Sprockets
• October 4th @ 6pm sharp: Wheel Truing
• October 11th @ 6pm sharp: Pedals, Cranks & Bottom Bracket
• October 18th @ 6pm sharp: Chains
• October 25th @ 6pm sharp: Derailleur Systems Part 1
• November 1st @ 6pm sharp: Derailleur Systems Part 2
• November 8th @ 6pm sharp: Rim Caliper Brake Systems
• November 15th @ 6pm sharp: Caliper Disc Brake Systems
• November 22nd @ 6pm sharp: Headsets
• November 29th @ 6pm sharp: Open Slot for Bike Fit Instructor
• December 6th @ 6pm sharp: Open Slot for Guest Instructor
• December 13th @ 6pm sharp: Open Slot for Guest Instructor

If you really get into it, inquire about volunteering your new found knowledge during our Do-It-Yourself Nights (we really need confident women for the women's night), or as an Youth Instructor in our Earn-a-Bike classes.  We can teach people to be technical, but we can't teach them to be personable, so if you like people, we can turn you into a great mechanic.

If you have any questions contact our Shop Manager.

Courtesy of the Deseret News:

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Council members earlier this month approved a deal to donate up to 400 bicycles found or confiscated by the city police department each year to the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective.

"It provides people with a low-cost, sustainable form of transportation that's environmentally friendly," said Dave Iltis, chairman of the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee. "It's healthy and it doesn't use gas."

The collective refurbishes the used bicycles and puts them back out in the community. Most of the bikes go to low-income and refugee families.

"Everyone needs to get around," said collective director Jonathan Morrison. "And car ownership is not cheap."