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Social Ride to Davis/Rominger West Winery – Saturday, January 28, 2012 (1pm)

SBK is organizing a social ride to Davis this Saturday, January 28th. Bike Kitchen staff and the general public are invited to participate in this ride to Davis and visit the Rominger West winery.

Details:
-Start time: 1pm
-Meeting point: SBK (1915 I Street)
-Duration: 3 hours

The distance is approximately 30 miles round trip over the causeway to Davis. There will be a visit to Rominger West winery for their last Saturday wine tasting event.

What to bring:
-Bike that can make the journey
-Water and snacks
-Flat repair kit

Come join us….should be fine weather for long ride.

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By andrea – January 26, 2012

Upcoming Classes

The new year’s heading our way, and we’re going to get it rolling in style with a new batch of training classes, including a retread of our hub class for those that missed it last time and a class on wheel truing.  With all this focus on wheels, there should be no excuse for rough riding!

Wheel truing: The True Is Out There

Saturday, January 21, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

Suggested donation: $5 at the door.

10 seats available; e-mail register@sacbikekitchen.org to preregister.

Instructor: Michael Larmer.

Amaze your friends, entertain at parties, be one of the kewl kids!  At last, the secrets of wheel truing are revealed by one of the initiate. Your instructor has trued (and built and rebuilt) more wheels than he can recall (but at his age, he honestly recalls very little), having been forced by poverty and circumstance to spend the earliest years of his biking life riding around on other people’s cast off junk wheels.

This will be a one session class, and if you have a portable truing stand, it would be nice if you brought it with you.  Also, bring your own wheel or wheels as a practicum, otherwise you will be working on one of the many crappy wheels we have lying around in the shop.

Overhauling your hub

Saturday, January 28, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

Suggested donation: $15 at the door.

4 seats available; e-mail register@sacbikekitchen.org to preregister.

Instructor: Mel Melvin.

Don’t be frightened of the inner workings of your bicycle.  Open that thing up and get greasy!  In this two-hour class you will take apart, clean, and re-pack your front hub.  This simple maintenance procedure will keep your wheels rollin’ smooth and fast.

We’re still working on nailing down another Basic Maintenance class, and possibly working with some local League of American Bicyclist Certified Instructors to teach Traffic Skills 101 in our humble little space, so keep your eyes peeled.

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By sharpe – December 28, 2011

Holiday hijinks

If SBK’s holiday shutdown is leaving you jonesing for that bikes + awesome people fix, don’t worry; there’s still plenty of stuff going on in the next couple of weeks besides our behind-the-scenes effort to get the shop all sparkly clean and spruced up for 2012.

First off is the Night Brite Bike Parade, Wednesday, December 21. It starts at 7:00 PM on M Street between 40th and 41st, but a few SBK volunteers will be ganging up at Luigi’s Slice at J and 20th at 4:00 for some pre-ride carb loading.  For more information, check out the Facebook event.

Second is the Capitol Cargo Cruise, a benefit for the River City Food Bank. Bring your most cargo-y bike — even if it’s just your polo bike and your back pockets — and help schlep a bunch of canned goods from Edible Pedal at 1712 Liestal Row (the alley behind Old Soul on L) down to the River City Food Bank. There’ll be a first ride around 9:00 AM to collect food from local collection bins and a second ride at 2:00 PM to take the collection down to the food bank. A full itinerary and food bank wish list is up at the ride’s Facebook event.

And of course, if you’d like to lend a hand painting or scrubbing or reorganizing our shop, fire off an e-mail to i...@sacbikekitchen.org and we’ll put your idle hands to good use!

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By sharpe – December 20, 2011

Updated: Winter closure

With the one-two punch of Christmas and New Year’s coming up, we’re going to repeat last year’s two-week closure.

This year, we’ll be closed for the week before and after Christmas. So if you need bike work, pop in to our last shift on Saturday, December 17, or you’ll have to wait until our next shift on Tuesday, January 3.

We’re also hoping to get some work and organization done on the shop over these two weeks, including a special painting day on December 26. E-mail i...@sacbikekitchen.org if you’d like to help swing a hammer, swipe a rag, work a brush, or rearrange the furniture. We’ll find something for you.

Update: Bicyclette! On Monday, December 19, will *not* be affected by the shutdown. Saturday, December 17 will still be our last general shift, but we’ll keep our doors open for the special women’s and LGBT shift.

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By sharpe – December 15, 2011

Dad’s Kitchen/New Belgium Pint Night – Wednesday, Dec. 7, 6-9pm

Looking for a fun way to support the Sac Bike Kitchen? Here it is: Dad’s Kitchen/New Belgium Pint Night! Wednesday, December 7th from 6pm-9pm. Featuring Snow Day Winter and 1554 Black IPA. Portions of event proceeds go to the Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen. If you like the idea of drinking good beer and helping out your local nonprofit bike shop, head over to Dad’s Kitchen at 2968 Freeport Blvd. on Wednesday night. See you there!

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By andrea – December 3, 2011