Come find us and get your bike safety checked and repaired!

Free Ride!, Pittsburgh’s bike co-op, is offering a new summer program in collaboration with Urban Youth Action’s youth summer internship. It is designed as an immersion learning experience for high school aged teens. The objectives are to gain mechanical knowledge through bike repair, leadership skills in managing the shop, and a deeper understanding of the sustainability in bike travel.

Interns will manage a self-contained traveling bike shop mounted on a bike trailer that will be transported around the city of Pittsburgh. Instructors and interns will offer basic bike maintenance and fundamental repair skills for anyone who needs their bike serviced on location. This program begins July 13th and will run through August 22th and will appear at various city venues.

Free Ride instructors will select 4 candidates to join the program as paid interns. The interns will receive 40 hours of intensive bike mechanics training and will split into field crews. These crews will then spend 30 hours a week working for FreeRide’s Mobile Bike Repair Project.

Our awesome youth interns will be wheelin’ around Pittsburgh for the next month repairing bikes! Check out our schedule and stop by to get your bike fixed-up.

Summer Calendar

• Wednesday, July 22nd 3:30 pm to 6 pm @ Highland Park Pool
• Thursday, July 23rd 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm @ Garfield Heights Community Fair
• Saturday, July 25th 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm @ Mellon Park (Venture Outdoors Family Festival
• Monday, July 27th 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm @ East Liberty Farmers Market
• Saturday, August 1st 12:00 pm to 5:30 pm @ North Shore Trail near Heinz Field
• Sunday, August 2nd 12:00 pm to 5:30 pm @ Riverfront Park in the South Side
• Monday, August 3rd 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm @ East Liberty Farmers Market
• Monday, August 10th 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm @ WYEP studios in Bedford Square
• Sunday, August 16th 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm @ East End Food Co-op
• Monday, August 17th 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm @ East Liberty Farmers Market
• Wednesday, August 19th 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm @ Carnegie Library in Oakland
• …more TBA..

Come find us and get your bike safety checked and repaired!

We are seeking community partners who wish to offer space at their site for the Mobile Bike Repair Project to set up shop. Interested parties can secure us a place and time during our hours of operation. We’d appreciate assistance with publicity.

For inquiries, please contact us at: freerideyouthprograms@gmail.com or call 412.731.4094
You can also stay up-to-date with the project by following them on Facebook.

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