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pictures, events, and of course, to be our friend!Worcester Earn-a-Bike is a community program dedicated to teaching people bicycle maintenance while enabling them to earn a bike from our inventory of donated bicycles. Everyone ages 9 and up is welcome.
Worcester Earn-a-Bike is a non-profit community based bicycle program. Our mission is to teach fun, affordable bike repair to neighborhood youth and community members by providing tools, instruction, and repairable bikes and parts. We encourage bike riding as an empowering, economical, and healthy alternative to car culture.
Our earn-a-bike program provides donated bicycles and parts. Participants can choose a bike to earn after volunteering five hours towards our shop operation: for instance, removing and organizing parts, building bikes for donation or sale, or general help in the shop. We provide a teaching environment that allows people of all ages to learn repair and maintenance skills specific to bicycles as well as more general skills, instilling confidence far beyond the bike stand. We operate as an open shop where anyone can come and volunteer in exchange for parts and skills to earn a bike or fix up their own bike. We try to keep a reasonable student-to-teacher ratio: please be aware that our space limitations will sometimes require us to ask that people come back later if we have reached our limit.
Our shop is located at The Stone Soup Community Building, 4 King Street, Worcester, MA 01610. The shop entrance is around the back of the building.
Shop hours:
Wednesdays 4:30 - 7:00 pm
Saturdays 4:30 - 7:00 pm
Sundays 4:30 - 7:00 pm
Please Contact Gray at 508-579-9093 or email gray (at) worcesterearnabike.org for more information