Wellstone Bike Club
Minnehaha Falls, April 30, 2012
 Our Mission: Empowering Students through Bicycling
in Minneapolis' Diverse Urban Neighborhoods. 

Through the Wellstone Bike Club, students learn to ride for the first time, discover how to tune up their own bike, and to savor the joy of exploring Minneapolis on two wheels.   We maintain a fully equipped shop to restore bicycles for donation or sale at rock-bottom price.   We have distributed hundreds of bikes in this way over the last 6 years.   We host an annual Walk and Bike to School Event.  We specialize in empowering East African women to bicycle.
 

Donate your used bike!

Do you have a bike gathering dust in the garage?  

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Donate it to Wellstone Bike Club!    Quality bikes in good working condition are always preferred.  We accept bikes at Wellstone/Roosevelt from 1-4 on school days.  On weekends and evenings and some mornings we have a drop off location in the Whittier neighborhood (near Uptown).  If you have a bike you’d like to donate call Jeff at 612-668-5075 or e-mail jcarl001@mpls.k12.mn.us. 

 

"The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines.  The future will not belong to the cynics.  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

-Senator Paul Wellstone
Resolve to Ride!
Barite is ready to ride, October 2011
 
 
 
Check out our Partner Shop in the Whittier Neighorhood, The Alley Bike Club! http://mplsbikeworks.blogspot.com/ 
 
 
The Pleasant Avenue Alley Bike Club is a youth-focused community bike shop in the Whittier Neighborhood where young people can sharpen their repair skills and neighbors can obtain a low-cost refurbished bicycle!
Women's Riding Club SPRING 2012

 

It has been a beautiful spring so far!  And 4 women have learned to ride!!!  Congratulations!!

Bike To School Spring 2012

Thanks to all our volunteers, to Gustavo Bau for designing the T-shirt, to Catalyst for the locks and shirts and mostly to all you who rode to school!!!

Bike and Walk to School Day 2011

October 5th, 2011:   It was a beautiful morning for a celebration of non-polluting transportation to school! 

FALL 2011 Women's Riding Club

Seven women learned to ride this fall!  Many others joined for rides.

Women's Riding Club, Spring 2011

We had a wonderful spring 2011!  Four women learned how to ride for the first time.  Congratulations to Egigayu, Megertu, Lensa, Helen.  Ten other women continued to build their bicycling skills on twice-weekly rides.

Bikes for Gambia

In February 2011, Wellstone Bike Club sent 23 bikes to the Gambia, West Africa!

Women's Riding Club, Spring 2010!

Congratulations to all of the brave women who learned how to ride a bike this spring!  It was fun!

Bike/Walk to School Day 2010

On October 6, 2010, Wellstone and Roosevelt celebrated walking and bicycling at a before school event.   Over 60 students and staff either walked, took transit, or rode their bicycles to school.  They were greeted with a festive booth staffed by student volunteers.  Everyone enjoyed donuts, coffee, and a chance to "spin the bike wheel" for prizes like helmets, lights, locks, and water bottles.  This kind of event is easy and fun to organize.  If you would like to organize one at your school, please check out the Minneapolis Bike Ambassadors website:

http://www.bikewalktwincities.org/ambassadors

PEACE!

Winter Bike Workshop 2010
Women's Bike Club Fall 2009

Fifteen female Wellstone students learned how to ride a bike this year!  Congratulations to the courageous women of the Wellstone Women's Bike Club!

Wellstone Bike Odyssey - an Annual Tradition
document Roosevelt Wellstone Bike Report Spring 2012   --  2nd Highest on Record!
document Roosevelt/Wellstone Bike Report Fall 2009   --  Check out our Fall and Spring Bike Counts, conducted every spring and fall since 2009. Track the growth of bicycling here at Wellstone/Roosevelt. This is a model we hope other schools can emulate. Wouldn't it be great if there were a Twin Cities Bike to School League wherein schools would compete for "Bike to School" champion?
 Wellstone Bike Club
a Program of Wellstone International High School
4029 28th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406
Phone: (612) 668-5075
E-mail: jcarl001@mpls.k12.mn.us
A Big Thanks to our Community Partners!!!!!

Catalyst (bethecatalyst.org) provided U-locks and T-shirts for our Bike to School Spring 2012 event.   Many thanks to team at Catalyst for helping us to to jumpstart biking at Wellstone/Roosevelt! 

Sunrise Cyclery at 901 W Lake St has provided us with at-cost tools, parts, and components and has provided donated accessories.  Their website is http://www.sunrisecyclerympls.com/

THANKS!