WTFQ (Women’s Trans Femme and Queer) Night at Free Ride is for women, trans, queer, and femme people and anyone who has experience gender as a barrier to using a bike shop. Women’s and Trans night occurs every Wednesday at Free Ride.
During WTQF Nights, we strive to create a positive environment where women, genderqueer, and trans folks can work together to make repairs and solve problems. We emphasize making people feel more confident about wrenching, especially if you are new to it. If you want to make repairs to your bike, or just want to wrench around and troubleshoot on one of our recycled bikes, then this is for you.
We understand that bike shops and bicycling culture in general can seem uncomfortable or even unwelcoming to non-male people. Free Ride, as a community organization, tries our best to facilitate an inclusive environment that is friendly and safe for ALL people at ALL times. We also find that is appropriate to host Women and Trans focused programming as a way to extend an extra welcome to those of us who identify as women, trans, and genderqueer.
2nd + 4th Wednesday of the month: Open Shop, 6-10 PM
Free Ride hosts an open shop night for women, genderqueer, and transgender folks ONLY every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month from 6-10pm. Open shop is an opportunity to have access to our tools, work stands, repair manuals, used parts, and the collective knowledge of shop users.
1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesday of the month: Drop-in Mechanics Classes, 6:30-8:30 PM
Free Ride offers drop-in mechanics classes for women/trans folks, in addition to our regular schedule of adult basic mechanics classes. Receive classroom style instruction from a woman or trans identified instructor on any of six basic mechanics topics. See our website for next week’s class!
