Farmcycles 🚲
Our mission is to expand mobility options in Alameda Point by empowering our community with the skills and access to the tools they need to get around by bike.
Free bike clinics, 3rd Sunday of the month, 12-2PM, bring your bike and let’s oil up those creaky chains.
(if there is rain is forcasted for the day we might cancel the clinic. Check here by 11:45AM to know whether we’ll be open)
Alameda Point has been identified as a community with a large number of households and individuals who are low-income, transit-dependent (i.e. don't own a car), and reliant on a single bus line.
Enter the bicycle: a mobility solution that is extremely low-cost, does not contribute to local pollution, and is accessible. One of the downsides is that reliability and maintenance can be a challenge for relying on bikes to commute. But this can be easily overcome when someone in the household has access to both tools and knowledge to keep their bikes rolling.
Alameda and Oakland are currently in the early process of designing and building a bike and pedestrian bridge spanning the Estuary and landing not too far from MakerFarm. Such a bridge will open up downtown Oakland to transit-dependent Alameda Point residents if they have access to a working bicycle.
Our goal is to get more people riding bikes safely, comfortably, and reliably with the confidence of knowing how fix issues when they come up and where to access tools and expertise when they are needed.
What we do (and plan to)
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Tools available to all
We provide the community public access to tools, available to all during Makerfarm open hours.
Roll in, put your bike up on a stand, and do the maintenance you’ve been putting off.
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Clinics where you can learn
3rd Sunday of the month, 12-2 PM.
Bring your bike to one of our free clinics run by volunteers who can provide guidance, tips, and tricks to keep your bike running smoothly.
We’d also like to offer identity-based clinics to create safe and welcoming spaces for all and clinics on pedal-powered mobility devices beyond bicycles (such as trikes, cargo bikes and recumbents for accessibility needs).
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Build your next bike
Once we have enough accumulated donations and volunteers we’d like to offer build-a-bike programs for kids and adults.
The farm is home to a welder who could teach people how to build fun frankenbikes.
Help get Farmcycles rolling!
As a 100% volunteer-run initiative, we need help from people like you to get Farmcycles up and running!
What this project currently needs is eager volunteers to shape it.