…Lowery had stumbled on a new collaboration between nonprofits in two typically disparate realms of the city — Newhallville and East Rock, home to the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op. The Co-op and the Community Placemaking Engagement Network are working to bring free bike repairs and maintenance classes to Newhallville in the name of community building.
If you have a bike needing repair, you can bring it by, and volunteers will fix it at no cost. But what they would really like to do is teach cyclists how to fix their bikes themselves. They'll even provide the tools.
Using grant funds, BSBC and CPEN have hired a program mechanic and community coordinator, Kapp Singer, who will staff The Bike Box for weekend repair clinics and maintenance workshops twice a month on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Following clinics on March 9 and 23, the next clinics will be on April 13 and 20, May 11 and 25, June 8 and 22, and July 13 and 27. Thursday maintenance classes are scheduled for 5:30 to 8 p.m. on May 9, June 6 and July 11. Click here to read the entire article.