get ready!

thanks to our great friend blaine for donating his time to make a great poster!

upcoming fundraiser and an alleycat

 so at bdp we're all about having a good time. we like to work on bikes and share bike related skills with people, but we mostly like to party. so at the end of may we're hosting a fundraiser dance party as well as an alleycat.

the dance party will be at the sherman heights community center, located at 2258 island, and will go from 7pm to 10pm may the 24th. it's a $3 suggested donation, but, you know, if all you've got is bigger bills we'll gladly take all of them and still let you in. vrock the beatsmith will be djing and roadrunner bags (long beach), bonita (tj), and chicle (tj) will have vendor tables.

the very next night we'll be having an alleycat starting at 8pm from a very secret location. i will say this though, the starting point will be very close to where we do saturday morning workshops. very very close. entry is $5, $3 for bmx and female participants. there will be prizes! 

so far several of the vendors have agreed to donate prizes for the alleycat and to raffle during the dance party, as well as subterranean coffee in north park. we are still open to more donations to help us in these fundraisers, so if you are interested please contact

dcarpano@gmail.com

up there in the east bay

how many bike mechanics does it take to hold up a banner?

so this last weekend four of bikes del pueblo's dedicated, attractive, and mechanically adventurous volunteers took a trip to oakland for the california bike coop conference Bici!Bici! (Bici!Bici! is a regional version of the north american conference, Bike!Bike!). needless to say the trip was great, we met plenty of great, experienced people also working in communities to promote the bike in various ways. we participated in conversations around women of color and families gaining greater access to biking, gender inclusivity within bicycle coops, the logistics of storage and getting things unstuck, and brushed up on our spanish bike vocab.

we'd like to apologize for not being at the market this past saturday, but even more we'd like to give a shout out to all the los angeles bike orgs out there, including bici cocina/bike kitchen, bici digna, and ovarian psychos, spokeland in oakland, and all the participants.

bottles and patches and a dance party

Hi internet! BDP has ordered fancy water bottles and patch kits with our likeness emblazoned on the front. What a great way to show people how exclusive and in the know you are about cycling! I'll let you know when they come in. Also, we're planning a fundraiser for the end of May to be held at the Sherman Heights Community Center. It'll be a dance party, no spd shoes allowed.

ps if you're looking for more updates, we have some more posts happening on the facebook page from time to time. 

Everybody come see how good I look.

Get greasy with Bikes Del Pueblo | San Diego Reader

Our event tomorrow, a bike build for the Sherman Heights Community Center, was blogged about in the Reader. It's tomorrow nine to noon at the SHCC, get ready for wrenching!

bobby from bici cocina in la

so watch this video okay? its a ted talk from a friend with several bike kitchens in la and the la bike coalition.

just so you know

here is where this image is from