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We now offer memberships with benefits. Read about the different membership options and select the one that is right for you. Click on this link to make your payment.
May is Bike Month—sign up now!
The Collective organizes Bike Month for Central Iowa. Sign up now to receive weekly ride reminders for May activities. We have a new Bike Commute Challenge with a dozen categories for businesses, nonprofits and public agencies. Read about Bike Month events and the Commute Challenge.
New Central Iowa Trail maps are available
Organizers in central Iowa have created a great new map containing routes and descriptions of 18 loops for your biking enjoyment.
Information about that map is contained on www.cyclecentraliowa.org.
You can see a large PDF version of one side of the map and get a single trail detailed information PDF document.
You can also find how to order a map for free or go to a participating store to pick one up for $2.99
Where to people ride around here?
Our new 1-page info on weekly meet-up rides
Check out the Des Moines Bicycle Collective Commuter Corner
Convenient Financial Transactions
We have added the ability to use a credit card for many transactions. Among those are:
- General Membership
- B-Cycle Gift Membership
- Maintenance Class Tuition
- PedalArt poster show sponsor
- Bike Month support
- Supporting Donations
Click here for Financial Transactions
Our Shop
Take Tour with Brad Overholser, shop manager
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Regional Trail Maps Are Here!
New copies of the 2012 Greater Des Moines Regional Trails maps, produced by the Bike Collective, are now available at locally-owned bike shops, many Partners in Health (Iowa Health Des Moines) clinics, and cities and county offices. The map, which folds nicely for a seat bag or pocket, includes many updates, including the reopened Neal Smith Trail in the Birdland neighborhood and other improvements dotted across the metro area. View the maps online.
Maintenance Opportunities ANCIENT SECRETS OF BIKE MAINTENANCE REVEALED Yes, bike maintenance classes are returning to the Collective. Long overdue.
We're pleased to have Austin Bailey, who has eight years as a bike mechanic, as the Collective bike instructor.
If all goes to plan, we will continue classes throughout the year on Tuesday nights. Details, how to register. Too busy right now? Sign up now for classes.
Maintenance class will be hands-on, so bring your bike and get ready to get greasy. No previous bike knowledge is required or expected—just bring along your interest in learning the essential skills of maintaining your bike. Please sign up for classes ONLY IF you are certain you can make the dates. Space is limited. It really bites when people don't show up and/or cancel at the last minute.
Tuesday evenings, 7-9 p.m. What to bring: Your bike and your favorite non-alcoholic beverage
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MORE CLASSES The Collective intends to offer one-night special classes, depending on the response from Collective supporters like you. Austin Bailey will teach these classes, too.
Suggested classes include recumbent maintenance, tandem maintenance, wheel building/truing, Sturmey-Archer 3-speed maintenance, and building a fixie or single-speed. Interested? Let us know what classes you'd like to enroll in and we'll put them on the schedule. Four students minimum makes a class. One-night class is $25.
Fixie or single speed class. Will need to match you up with a frame and discuss how you plan to customize (possibly order rims) before classes begin.
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NEED SPACE TO WORK ON YOUR BIKE? CHECK OUT OUR BENCHES We've listened to several Collective supporters—downtown workers in particular—who have asked for evening hours at the Collective. Wednesday night it is; 5-9 p.m.
Wrench on your own bike with our tools ($7/hr contribution) or work on Collective donated bikes just because you're a good soul in the volunteering spirit.
Brad Overholser will be on duty to help with repair questions and locate essential used parts from our inventory. Interested? It would be nice to know in advance if you plan to stop by.
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