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March 2014 Shop Hours

Announcing our March Shop Hours: Volunteer Shop Hours Come into our shop, learn some wrenching and help fix up some bikes for the community. Wednesdays 6pm – 9pm Thursdays 6pm -9pm Special Dates Saturday, March 29th, 4-9pm - Community Night Join us as we open the Yellow Bike space to the community and celebrate the…

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Enter the New Year: January 2014 Shop Hours

After a bit of a rough start, SF Yellow Bike is happy to announce we will be holding shop hours for the remainder of January. Please come by if you’d like to learn something about bikes, want to work on something on your bike, or just to check out our new space. Come by our…

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Special Announcement & Limited October 2013 Shop Hours

We have sad news, after only a year in our physical shop, we are losing our space. There are a lot of mixed feelings about this, but in the end this separation will be better for all involved. This is merely a new chapter in the life of YB and we are optimistic that our…

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August 2013 Shop Hours (effective 8/5)

Shop Hours, starting August 5th: Volunteer Shop Hours Come into our shop, learn some wrenching and help fix up some bikes for the community. Mondays 6pm - 9pm Tuesdays 6pm - 9pm Wednesdays 6pm - 9pm Thursdays 6pm -9pm Special Shop Hours Craft & Upcycle - let’s reuse and repurpose as many old bike parts into…

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Freespace—the Bike Hack

We have exciting news! We are proud to announce that for the entire month of June we will be sponsoring our first Yellow Bike Library (YBL) - a free bikeshare program! As the Bay Area limps toward a 700-bicycle regional bikeshare program at the cost of $7 million, some enterprising San Franciscans decided to make use of…

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We won a SF Weekly Best of!!

http://www.sfweekly.com/bestof/2013/award/best-10-bicycles-3477886/

This year we won SF Weekly’s “Best $10 Bicycle“* for 2013! We want to thank all our volunteers, supporters, and all volunteer-staff who have all helped us get this far. Looking forward to more things to come and let’s shoot for another win in 2014!! *to be totally transparent, we don’t really have many, if…

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[FreeSpace] Happenings

It’s [Day 12] and we’ve already lent 7 out of our 10 bikes. We’ve had tourists, community members, [FreeSpace] volunteers, dreamers, and organizers come by to use one of these free to the community bikes. Keep an eye out for future developments with these bikes! You can also check out all the amazing happenings at [FreeSpace] and…

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UPDATED—June Shop Hours

The shop hours for June 2013: Volunteer Shop Hours Come into our shop and volunteer your time, learning and fixing up the bikes we have for our community partnership. Tuesdays, June 11th & 18th, 6pm - 9pm Wednesday 2-5pm (at SFYBP) - ONLY June 5th FreeSpace SFYBP is proud to partner with the Wigg Party & others…

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Sunnyside Elementary School Bike Swap

MBS in the wild!! We brought the beast out to Sunnyside Elementary School’s Bike to School Day & Festival. This was our 3rd bike swap we’ve held there and as usual, it was a blast. Students and families were able to trade their old bike for a new-to-them bike. We also brought several of our ready-to-ride…

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Earth Day 2013—Mobile Bike Shop

What a better place to show off our working Mobile Bike Shop, than at the SF Earth Day celebration in Civic Center? We were lucky enough to join the SF Bicycle Coalition and table for the event. We offered light tune ups and several workshops. It was such a beautiful day to celebrate Earth Day and the fact that…

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