Photos from Bike Tent 2016-09-22 by Jean Wan Anderson

The Bike Tent trailer. Advertising space available to any reputable party who would like to help sponsor a future community bicycle shop.

Bike Concord literature on the table. We are raising funds to open a nonprofit community bike shop in Concord.

Bike Concord organizer Aaron McHugh pulls the donated Surly trailer which carries the entire Bike Tent kit – tent, tables, repair stands, and all.

Concord’s Farmer’s Market at Todos Santos Plaza, Bike Tent’s regular home.

Bike Tent principal mechanic Bronwen Mauch (wearing glove) instructs a Bike Tent client and Bike Concord volunteers on a repair job.

Bronwen’s tool kit.

Kenji cannot abide a squeaky chain.

Bike Tent principal mechanic Bronwen Mauch, Lead Advocacy Organizer Kenji Yamada, and Bicycle Instigator & Ambassador Smitty Ardrey.

Smitty inspects his handiwork, the walled cargo machine built on the bed of a Surly Bill bicycle trailer. Weight capacity: 300 lbs.

Smitty extracts an inner tube without dismounting the tire.

Bike Tent 2016 launches April 21!

Bike Tent 2016 launches on Thursday, April 21 at Todos Santos! This is Bike Concord’s flagship service, a hub for our community, and a major venue for our public outreach.  Like last year, we’ll be there every Thursday from 5pm-8pm throughout the Farmers’ Market season.

Thanks to our new Surly Bill trailer, we’ll be hauling the entire Bike Tent kit to the plaza behind a single bicycle. (It’s an impressive load.) And thanks to the renewal of our sponsorship from John Muir Health, Bike Tent 2016 will again feature the mechanical expertise of Bronwen Mauch, supported by Bike Concord volunteer mechanics.

Stop by to get free adjustments and tuneups on your bicycle, hear the latest in our work to make Concord safe and convenient for bicycling, and get acquainted with our strong Bike Concord community. Bike Tent is located at the corner of Todos Santos across from Wells Fargo, near the intersection of Willow Pass Rd and Grant St. We look forward to seeing you!

John Muir Health will sponsor Bike Tent 2016

We are delighted to be able to announce that John Muir Health has officially decided to renew their sponsorship of Bike Concord’s Bike Tent for 2016!  This will allow us to bring the services of a professional mechanic, maintain our supplies and equipment, and even – thanks to JMH’s generous increase of the sponsorship amount – expand our services beyond the Todos Santos Farmers’ Market to reach more residents who need help keeping their bicycles in good working order.

Big thanks to Cynthia Armour of our partner and fiscal sponsor Bike East Bay for arranging this sponsorship for us.

The Farmers’ Market starts on April 21 this year.  We look forward to seeing you at Todos Santos!

Last regular Bike Tent of 2015 is this Thursday

This week is the last week of the Todos Santos Farmers’ Market for 2015, and it will also be the last regular week for Bike Tent until next season. We will have both our chief mechanic Bronwen Mauch, and a mechanic from REI, plus our experienced volunteers doing the easier work like patching flats. Please bring your bike! If you wear a Halloween costume, you will not be out of place, as some of the Bike Concord crew will be doing the same.

5pm-8pm this Thursday at Todos Santos, corner of Grant St and Willow Pass Rd.

Photos from Bike Tent 2015-09-17 by Jean Wan Anderson

Bike East Bay staffer Cynthia Armour and Bike Concord organizer Kenji Yamada talk with Concord Councilmember Edi Birsan.

Cynthia and Kenji talk with Concord Councilmember Ron Leone about the urgent safety need for bike infrastructure on Concord’s most heavily-trafficked streets.

New archway at the entrance of Todos Santos Plaza, paid for by a grant to the City for art projects.

Bike Concord organizer Smitty Ardrey explains to a Bike Tent visitor how to minimize danger when traveling through sections of the city which lack bicycle infrastructure.

Organizer Janet Young and chief mechanic Bronwen Mauch.

As this was the last week of the Music and Market Series (although not the Farmers’ Market), Bike Concord held a small celebratory potluck at Bike Tent.

Organizers Laura Bergman, Janet Young, and chief mechanic Bronwen Mauch.

Organizers Ady Olvera and Michele O’Keefe work with a junior BC member on t-shirts for Saturday’s Kidical Mass family ride.

David Schomaker observes as Michele and Bronwen work on a Kidical Mass t-shirt.

Bronwen holds up one of the t-shirts for Saturday’s Kidical Mass family ride.

Mechanic Ken, whose time has been donated to Bike Concord by REI, located at The Willows shopping center on Diamond Blvd next to the Iron Horse Trail.

Mechanics Ken and Bronwen confer about a repair job.

Bronwen, Kenji, and Cynthia observe a pair of dragonflies on one of the trees next to the Bike Tent.

Dragonflies!

Organizer Kenji Yamada announces Saturday’s Kidical Mass family ride and available t-shirts to Music and Market Series attendees.

Bike East Bay staffer and Bike Concord co-founder Cynthia Armour works on a t-shirt for Saturday’s Kidical Mass family ride.

Kidical Mass t-shirts.