Thanks to the West Central Community Center for hosting another amazing Neighbor Day Festival on Saturday. This free event feels just like an old school carnival: games, music, popcorn, face painting and goodies. P2P was happy to be involved and tuning up bikes for people. We serviced 35 bikes, nearly all of them children’s bikes. We love this opportunity to get kids ready to ride this spring and summer!

Check out these events at the country libraries for other ways to get ready to ride in May–info for kids and adults.

But there’s still room in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th classes. We’ll discuss and adjust mtn bike brakes, road bike brakes, and gears and derailleurs in 2, 3 and 4. Sign up now if you’re interested in the these topics! Taught by our hero, John Gaz. All classes are at the P2P shop at 1802 E Sprague.

Thanks to everyone who came to our open house, grand opening party at the Empyrean, and big on our silent auction items. what a great night! We saw old friends and P2P supporters, and met a lot of new supporters too.

We’ll be at Earth Day on Main St today, so bring the kiddos and stop on by for a tire changing demo.

Ladies night is tonight from 7-9. This open-shop event is free and is only open to women. There’s is no instruction, but there will be a mechanic available to answer questions and to point you in the right direction. You will you make your own bike repairs and adjustments, and we’ll be there to help.

Maybe you want to switch your clipless pedals to flat pedals, and you just need a wrench and a quick demo. Come on by! Do you need to adjust your seat and raise your handle bars for a more comfortable ride? Please stop by. Is your bike grimy from fall and winter riding, and you haven’t gotten around to cleaning and lubing your chain lately? You guessed it–come to the shop tonight. This is a great opportunity if you don’t want to commit to class and you just want to work on your own bike.

Bring your bike to the shop: 1802 E Sprague.

This event repeats every second Tuesday of the month.

Wednesday the 23rd, we’ll be sorting and recycling at the new shop–1802 E Sprague. Come and join us. John and Ryan will be breaking into boxes, paring down the tires, and setting up the retail area. They’d love the company. 11-2. Thanks!

We have our permits from the city, so we are ready to start building out our space. We’re partnering with SNAP to get our new space in order, and we are so excited to see the walls go up, and the shop to come together. Wish I had more to report on the space, but I will post more as it happens.

We meet at the shop tonight at 7 for everything you ever wanted to know about bottom brackets. We’re hoping to cover every major bike component over the next several months. If you miss one, that’s ok, but if you’re a lady who rides, this is a great FREE opportunity for you to learn more about your bike and how to keep it running!

Pedals2People is moving to east Sprague! We’ll be sharing a space at 1802 E Sprague with SNAP, right next door to One World . P2P’ll be moving in this fall, which means that we will have HEAT this winter, and we’ll be able to schedule classes, host more open-shop hours, and all manner of bike fun!

P2P will have a booth at Spoke Fair this Sunday the 13th. We’ll have information on volunteering, our community bike shop, and our other programs. We’ll also be selling some limited edition t-shirts, quality used parts, and patches. Want a SpokeFest spoke card? Stop by our booth and get yours!

Hope you enjoy the ride and bike festivities at the 2nd Annual SpokeFest.

Erica Roscoe, Joe Tomlinson, and Jeff Everett’s designs have been chosen for the 2009 Spokefest spoke cards.

Their designs are smart and unique. They depict SpokeFest’s and P2P’s vision of cycling as a fun activity that offers something for everyone. If you want to sport your own ’09 Spokefest spoke card, register online. Sorry you have to wait until September 13th to get yours, but we think it’ll be worth the wait!