August, September 2011 Workshop and Events Schedule
August 3: 4 – 8 Women's Wednesday: 6:30: Basic Bike Maintenance
August 4: 6:30: Gears: Learns how to adjust derailleurs and set up shifters
August 11: 6:30: Gears and Queers: Stitch N'Bitch: Learn how to make things out of re-used bike tubes and other bike parts
August 17: 4 – 8 pm Women's Wednesday: 6:30: Stitch N'Bitch: Learn how to make things out of re-used bike tubes and other bike parts
August 18: 6:30: Stitch N' Bitch: Learn how to make things out of re-used bike tubes and other bike parts
August 25: Volunteer Night: Come hang out at the Good Life to meet other volunteers, eat some snacks, and volunteer together!
August 26: 5:30: Monthly Critical Mass Bike Ride: A world wide community bike ride organized by no one in particular. Meet in front of the Good Life Community Bicycle Shop.
August 31: 4 – 8 pm Women's Wednesday: 6:30: Maintaining your single speed
September 1: 6:30: Wheel Truing: From spoke tensioning to vertical and horizontal true
September 8: 6:30: Gears and Queers: Bike tricks of the trade: fixing seized derailleurs, putting the “click” back in trigger shifters, manual adjustments for spring tension on brakes etc.
September 14: 4 – 8 pm Women's Wednesday: 6:30: Bike tricks of the trade: fixing seized derailleurs, putting the “click” back in trigger shifters, manual adjustments for spring tension on brakes etc.
September 15: 6:30: Bike tricks of the trade: fixing seized derailleurs, putting the “click” back in trigger shifters, manual adjustments for spring tension on brakes etc.
September 16: 7 pm: Good Life Fundraiser begins with a bike ride meeting at Eau Claire Plaza, followed by a night of live bands and DJs at the Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association (8 pm to 2 am). Silent auction! Door prizes! Patch a flat contest! DECOY DECOY! DJs Molly Fi, Peekaboo Perkinn, and Density. $5 to $20 sliding scale.
September 22: 6:30 Volunteer Night: Come hang out at the Good Life to meet other volunteers, eat some snacks, and volunteer together!
September 28: 4 – 8 pm Women's Wednesday: 6:30: Wheel Truing: From spoke tensioning to vertical and horizontal true
September 29: 6:30: Brakes
September 30: 5:30: Monthly Critical Mass Bike Ride: A world wide community bike ride organized by no one in particular. Meet in front of the Good Life Community Bicycle Shop.
Introductory bike mechanics workshops include learning basic bike anatomy and how to lube a chain and patch a flat.
Women's Wednesdays (trans inclusive) are Good Life hours for women and trans people to work on and learn about bikes. The Good Life is always a trans-inclusive and non-judgemental space.
Gears and Queers workshops are workshops by and for queer folks and allies.
All workshops are two hours long and cost $10 by donation unless otherwise noted, subsidies are available upon request. Please call the Good Life at 403.984.4727 to register – space is limited!