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Rag & Bones Bicycle Co-op

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Rag & Bones Bicycle Co-op

Richmond's DIY community bicycle workshop space, keeping bicycles & DIY knowledge accessible to all

Rag & Bones provides near universal access to used bike parts and bicycles in Richmond. We will continue to do this with our open shop & sales, which will expand to include a few new necessities for the Northside neighborhood. We will still provide affordable refurbished bikes and used parts, and for adults who cannot afford a bicycle we have an Earn a Bike program. For kids in the shop, we will h

ave a youth night, where young folks can fix bikes, volunteer for a free bike, and learn repairs. During the summer, we help run a youth camp called Camp Spokes. To learn repair in our shop in a more structured way, we’ll offer sliding scale workshops on a variety of bike topics. If you want Rag & Bones to join your community event, we have a mobile bike repair set up.

06/04/2024

It’s camp spokes week!! 🚲🦋
‼️We are CLOSED today because we’ve got our high school campers building their bikes, screenprinting shirts and making other crafts like hydrodipped water bottles, safety pizzas, and more!
🛠️We’ve already had a jam packed two days of learning how to fix a flat, identifying tools and then immediately testing that knowledge with tool bingo, and racing to label all the parts on a bike correctly.
🗣️Rag & Bones will REOPEN for normal hours on Wednesday again and have our first Thursday volunteer night from 6-8pm this week. Come on by!
🥗Very big thanks to our lunch donors so far, roots provided diy lunch bowls on Monday and today we had sandwiches and sides from our *new cafe* coming to a front space of rag and bones near you 🙂

04/28/2024

TONIGHT ONLY!!!
Watch as our shop is transformed into a showcase for the , a show featuring dozens of pieces made from and inspired by our garbage world.

“Trash objects have a fraught life before going into the hands of artists, giving them special energy. An ethos of scrappiness, playfulness, and devotion to trash has emerged.” - Rowan & Victor, curators

After tonight, select pieces will stay in the space to serve as our first batch of featured makers and artists, a one-two month residency spot on the walls and shelves of our space that you too can apply for! You can visit our website and fill out the form under the “featured artists” tab. We will also sell your work for you! The only thing we ask for in exchange is that you teach one workshop on an aspect of your craft in our space.

Come tonight for the opening, come see community art anytime, or get involved yourself at “Rag & Bones, a bicycle cooperative full of joy, community care, skill sharing and trash”

🖤🗑️🖤

04/11/2024

📚Hey Richmond!📚
We’ve officially launched our zine library! You can find it between the 1st and 2nd disco ball on your way to fix your bike 🙂

Within the library we will be selling a variety of printed media from local to global. Everything from Bikes to Gardening, Political Theory to Music.

To kick off our first installment of local zines we’ve got work from the following makers.
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We’ve also got the beautiful 2024 Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac from in the shop! “This is a Farmers Almanac for the end of the world and the beginning of many others.”

Come by to check them out and stay tuned for more zine news!
Have a zine you’d like to share or sell?
Email us at [email protected]

02/06/2024

🛠️VOLUNTEER WRENCHING🛠️
🗜️We’re changing up our volunteer structure a little and adding some drop in nights, where you can just show up and work on bikes that we’re fixing up for the community. No sign up or orientation necessary just come by!
📆First and Third Thursday every month, 6-8pm.

📝If you do that for a bit and wanna help us actually run this organization (we are all volunteers) you can talk to us about it there or get in touch via email to fill out our longer application.

👩🏼‍🏭Included of course are some photos of what happens if you keep volunteering and wind up like us, doing really weird stuff to bikes with your new co-op family. SEE YOU SOON FRIENDS!

01/31/2024

💥EVENTS!💥
🪩We’re up and running in the space with diy shop hours and also got our disco ball installed so let’s get it friends. We’ve got TWO events this week for ya:
👕SUNDAY (2/4) 12-4pm clothing swap open to all with a focus on masc clothing so bring your items or just show up to get other people’s items! $FREE
🖼️WEDNESDAY (2/7) 7pm we have a special presentation from , a volunteer art collective that spends years designing intricate posters to tell stories of global resistance. Come hear them present tales of struggle with their book the true cost of coal and poster “mesoamerica resiste” $5-10 because they are on tour!!
✏️If you’re interesting in throwing a special event we will have more info up soon about how to do that! See you 🔜🤍

11/30/2023

🦋WE’RE BACK BABY!🦋
🛠️Finally, FINALLY, we’re reopening this Saturday for regular ole DIY shop hours. Come by and work on your bike, check out the space, get some parts, say hi! Our winter hours are looking like Saturday 11-5, Tuesday 5-8 is youth night (meaning you’re welcome to shop and hang but we’ll prioritize youth working on bikes and earning a free bike) and Wednesday 5-8 (this is the day we prefer donation drop offs). See ya then!
📚Memberships can now be used and we’re getting members annual shirts very soon, stay tuned! If you want to become a member check it out.
☕️ All this other cool stuff coming in 2024. Right now, if you’re interested in us having some copies of your zine or you would like to be a featured artist please reach out! Links on our website.
📅 The VERY FIRST evening event in December is also listed, come discuss various topics and learn from each other
✨CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU✨
And big thank you to everyone who has helped, all our members and friends, and everyone who has patiently waited.

11/12/2023

TODAYS THE DAY!!
🥬FIRST Cranksgiving begins at scuffletown at 2PM, bring $5 or a bag of food and get ready to do good stuff for hours while supporting and
🌟THEN come see our space! We’ll have some food and drinks and a bunch of raffle prizes from awesome folks that we’ll post today. Lots of info about upcoming programs and ways to get involved with the expanded community space. Our open house cranksgiving celebration goes from 6-9PM, 2916 North Avenue. If you aren’t riding today feel free to bring food for the fridges or something for us all to share together.
👯See you soon!! AHH!!

11/04/2023

Hello?!!??
🔨 Day 1 renovations complete! Thanks to everyone who came out, we built out the bones of the cafe bar and seating last week, outlined all the tools and made our workbenches super ✨beautiful✨.
💅🏼We’re working on getting a few big things done this week and then some finishing touches. We’ll be having a little open house in conjunction with so check that out!
—More info about opening coming soon—
We appreciate ye ❤️‍🔥

10/23/2023

🙀Well, WE’VE GOT POWER
⚡️If it seems like it’s been forever, it’s because it has been, but we FINALLY got everything hooked up, floors redone, and are now finishing the build of a super rad little co-op cafe coming to you very soon!
🛠️ We’ve been setting up our tool boards and hark! That’s what our space looks like when the lights are on 💅🏼
📚🎨There’s gonna be a ton of stuff happening really fast, we’re gonna be selling zines and displaying art so keep an eye out if you’re interested in us having your stuff!
🪚🧰THIS WEEKEND
If you are experienced with building counters, bench seating, walls, big projects and you think you could help with big tools and your time and experience please get in touch!

GET READY We’ll be announcing more info and dates very soon! ⏰🚲💨

09/15/2023

🚲🏕️👑 ADVENTURE TIME
is a free program for girls and gender-variant youth to learn about bike riding of all types, and it’s back for a weekend overnight adventure! Brought to you by and and sponsored by and 🏞️🎉

High schoolers age 14-18 can sign up to ride down a portion of the Capital Trail, camp the night at Chickahominey Riverfront Park, and bike back in the morning. It’s free and gear and camping equipment will be provided, campers should have a bike and know how to ride it well but we’ll do the rest!

The trip is October 21-22. The pre bike check and ride is October 14th. If you’re on the fence but want more info, register for the program and come to our virtual info session, September 28th at 7PM. Registration will be confirmed on a rolling bases but closes on October 6th.

The link to register is on the flier, and in our bio! Please share and we hope to see you! Flyer followed by pictures of adventures in and out of the city this year with our weeklong high school campers. 🎉🪩🛠️

08/31/2023

♻️The life cycle of a kids bike
🚲 A number of kids bikes were donated this spring, but since we’re still waiting on some things for the space to open we decided to fix them up and take them out around town

🌎 First, we joined the Randolph Community Center in promoting cycling to youth while they closed the street to traffic for a block party. Then, we took the Hotchkiss Community Center summer program youth on a ride in Northside to check out the Cannon Creek Greenway and the secret skills park in the woods. Finally, we gave them to the community youth shop to give away to forever homes for back to school events. Big thanks to the coaches and center staff for having us and for providing a bike resource for youth in Southside.

📰 We should have some news about the space for you very soon! Til then, we’re always stoked to support other events and programs :)

07/13/2023

🪴A cool few days!
🚵🏽Thanks for hosting a wholesome bike evening, for leading a MTB ride, for screening the film Monte and talking about the sweet programs you do, and everyone who came out to learn something new at our short “spotting and fixing issues before and on the ride” clinic.
🪨Then from and (and lots of other things) helped some of our alumni get comfortable riding the track down at Gillies Creek in our series of continuing to do different types of biking with .
🚫⚡️The shop still doesn’t have power, but one day soon we’ll be back open and doing programming in the space. We miss you! 🐛

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2916 North Avenue
Richmond, VA
23222

Opening Hours

Tuesday	5pm - 8pm
Wednesday	5pm - 8pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm

Telephone

+18044104154

Website

http://ragandbonesrva.org/

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If your ride is a bit of a clunker, bring it to us and we will teach you how to fix it. We have refurbished bicycles for sale, and depending on what we have in stock, you can even build your own! We also have repair manuals and other types of useful literature for you to browse while relaxing on the couch during down time.