It's a beautiful day to celebrate our seven newest independent bicycle riders, #STL! After the downpour this afternoon, the skies calmed down just in time for this dedicated crew's final week of Learn-To-Ride class. Big thanks to teachers Cate and Chad and to all seven brand-new BWorks grads! 🚲🌧️🤩

Weekly recap: Sept. 14-20 A few moments of joy this week in no particular order (and not all pictured)… ★ Gathering with 36 BWorks riders of all ages for our Balloon Glow adventure ★ Sharing dream-bike drawings at City Garden on Day 2 of Earn-A-Bike 1/X

On September 27th Bworks is loading a shipping container and could really use some help! Getting a shipping container out of STL right now is really finicky and so we dont have much notice on this loading! tinyurl.com/mr2ys87h

Great STL volunteer opp ⬇️

All aboard the #bikebus! Our team is supporting bike-to-school efforts at several local #STL schools in the coming weeks — and we're recruiting a small army of adult riders to help keep these great students rolling safely and joyfully on specific dates. Able to join us? Learn more and sign up 👇🚲🍎🚸

Weekly recap: Sept. 7-13 This week’s activities included 14 BWorks staff and volunteer teachers running 12 classes at seven different locations: four schools, a rec center, a library and, of course, at our headquarters! At the shop, our mechanical crews refurbished dozens of bikes and computers 1/3

In this week's inbox: "We've tried for years to teach D. how to ride a bike and it never clicked for him. He went from unwilling to try for fear of failure to confidently riding in the span of four weeks. We're so happy to see him excited to get outside and ride his bike to school each morning. ..."

We kicked off two more in-school Earn-A-Bike cohorts with fourth graders at Walbridge and City Garden elementaries on this beautiful Monday! Big thanks to our four BWorks teachers and the school teams at both of these schools for making this magic possible for every one of their fourth graders 1/2

What's great about St. Louis? @stlbworks.bsky.social Look at all these kids learning and earning bikes. 🧵

Weekly recap: Sept. 2-6 We hit the ground running after Labor Day weekend, launching the first of our in-school Earn-A-Bike courses for the semester at two SLPS elementary schools this week! We also got to meet seven new Learn-To-Ride students 1/X

It's a great day to launch an Earn-A-Bike class at SLPS's Oak Hill Elementary!

As we reach more kids where they live, play & go to school, it's becoming more common for a student to bike home at the end of Day 6, following a joyous graduation ride. This was true for two of our students in U. City last night, who had parents & sibs greet them on their own bikes at dismissal. 😎

We obviously need traffic calming barriers in our alleyway to protect the building from alley repaving equipment…..

Weekly recap: August 17 to 23 It was too nice to be inside more than necessary over the past week! Fortunately, our Earn-A-Bike, Learn-To-Ride and Earn-A-Computer classes and other activities had us rolling here and there and everywhere anyway. In some cases our teachers 1/3

If you need a break from bad news, @stlbworks.bsky.social is a great feed full of St. Louis kids with big grins learning and earning bikes and computers.

We hope you're getting a chance to enjoy this cooler week! Yesterday's activities had our team out and about, rolling to Benton Park for an Earn-A-Bike graduation with one great group and another crew kicking off a course at Millar Park! Meanwhile, intrepid Earn-A-Computer grads took home machines!

Looking back on the past week, we're feeling especially grateful for shade & water! Thanks to those good things & a dedicated crew of staff & volunteers, the heat didn't keep us from running classes in locations ranging from U. City to Granite City. We also had 26 riders of all ages join our 1/2

We just had some more @stlbworks.bsky.social #EarnABike spots open up in this east-side cohort starting NEXT Saturday. Know a kid (ages 8 to 17) who would enjoy taking home a BWorks bike of their choosing, plus a brand-new helmet, lock and light set? Please share this registration form with them.

More spots have opened up in a few of our fastest-approaching classes & events; check out www.bworks.org/classes/, spread the word & see what works with you/your child's schedule! While each of these experiences is free, advance registration & confirmation of commitment to the activity are required.

Supporting a request for 95 feet of the new Tower Grove Connector We ask you to consider the current construction underway adding a bike trail along Tower Grove Avenue. Less than two miles of infrastructure is costing $18 million.

We're rounding out the week enjoying this amazing weather! Thumbs up to milder temps, lots of great riding practice, great conversations and lessons, and most of all to all of our amazing students this week, including this afternoon's crew of Earn-A-Computer graduates! 1/2

We just announced some more classes and alumni adventures at www.bworks.org/classes/ ... take a look! All of these experiences are free; advance registration is required! Join us 🌻🚲🌞

It's that time again ... for our weekly recap! We celebrated a total of 39 graduates on the Earn-A-Bike side of things over this last handful of days — and also welcomed some new students to the program in partnership with the University City Police Department at Heman Park. 1/X

It was a wild Wednesday! Our Soulard-based graduates cooled off at Pontiac Park partway through their graduation ride, while another crew of BWorks students took on the skills course at Kinetic Park out west. 1/X

One hundred and two #STL-area kids joined us over the past week for a BWorks class! Adventures ranged from earning computers at our weeklong Divoll library camp with @stlpubliclibrary.bsky.social, to power pedaling from Firm Foundation Tutoring to Tower Grove Park and back, to six different 1/2

One hundred and two #STL-area kids joined us over the past week for a BWorks class! Adventures ranged from earning computers at our weeklong Divoll library camp with @stlpubliclibrary.bsky.social, to power pedaling from Firm Foundation Tutoring to Tower Grove Park and back, to six different 1/2

What are your thoughts on this? Shouldn’t all #STL schools automatically be a priority with these long-awaited, just-unveiled maps of planned calmer streets in the TMP? Don’t all St. Louis youth deserve safer streets? Or should we stick with the same piecemeal system that continues to leave 1/X

In partnership with the U. City PD, we've added yet another fast-approaching Earn-A-Bike option for #STL area kids! Learn more and register for this free Heman Park Community Center-based cohort at the link 👇

Are you more of a mini van (long tail bikes) rider or a hatchback (front loader) type of rider? Friends Friday and we have to give a shout out to @gnargobikeco for lending us this sweet ride! Between being used to run errands and haul materials (or kids) for class, you can stop by and take this….

Check out the amazing donations rolling in to BWorks! Donations such as these are sold back to the stl community and funds are used to continue our free Earn A Bike and Learn To Ride program! Talk about full cycle! Come check out all our Bentley used bikes at 2414 Menard in Soulard.

After yesterday's late-afternoon downpour, the skies calmed down enough that our Willmore Park students were still able to squeeze in their graduation ride with teachers Tom and Chad. 🌧🚲

Each year we help spread the love of two wheels by partnering with various non-profits all over the world! Come lend a hand as we load our next container of bicycles and bicycle parts headed to Ghana! tinyurl.com/ye2564zw

But have you ever changed a flat tire using only one hand? :-) On Monday, both of our YMCA-based Earn-A-Bike crews, in Maryville and Granite City, IL, managed it in teams of two or three, demonstrating how we can do seemingly impossible things if we work together! 1/2

We just added a couple more Earn-A-Computer cohorts to the lineup in the coming weeks! Check out www.bworks.org/classes/ to learn more about our year-round youth class offerings, spread the word and/or register!

Weekly recap: June 22 to 28 We’re so proud of our BWorks community! Over the past week, our dedicated staff and volunteer teachers conducted 13 class sessions plus two makeup classes at eight different locations around the #STL region. Our mechanical team pushed through dozens of bike builds 1/3

Are you as excited as we are about all the new bike lanes (aka free parking) going in around town!! Just a reminder that without enforcement and education these multi million dollar projects do nothing to protect vulnerable road users.

We just added a couple more Earn-A-Computer cohorts to the lineup in the coming weeks! Check out www.bworks.org/classes/ to learn more about our year-round youth class offerings, spread the word and/or register!

Last night we launched yet another 6-week Earn-A-Bike cohort at our headquarters, while a different group dove into Week 4 at Willmore Park! Did you know that after the 6-week program, BWorks grads (family members welcome too!) often keep riding w/ us? We just announced 3 more free alumni rides 1/2

Weekly Recap: No need to look back three years! This week, 114 young people across the STL region participated in 14 class sessions at eight different locations and 22 of them just completed six weeks with us.....

Fixed it for you: Teen visiting from out of town, run over and killed by out of control driver in front of his family, officials and advocates cowardly stay mum as death toll of pedestrians in a single week passes 8 for the region. VDT

We were delighted to return to Ferguson this spring for another six-week Earn-A-Bike course, which wrapped up tonight with a fabulous, fun and rather hilly graduation ride! Kudos to teachers Mark and Gerry, our 11 brand-new graduates this evening 1/2

It's been a full Thursday! Our computer crew finished up preparations for this Saturday's graduating Earn-A-Computer cohort, our evening crew all got to choose a bike of their very own, and we also kicked off our second summer of partnership 1/2

Etrailer donated over 300 of these for the community to help get more kids on bikes and we are down to the last dozen. These are FREE to any families with kids under 48 lbs!

Being out in the community working with great kids is not new for Bworks. The way back machine this week reminded us that ten years ago we were in Ferguson leading an Earn A Bike class. Fast forward….

🧵 What's good in the St. Louis area... bikes for kids

Weekly recap: June 2 to 8 🧵 Summertime at BWorks means all sorts of fun, learning and service, and the first week of June was full of all three! 1/X

Our Earn-A-Bike program made its debut at another #STL park last night: Willmore Park! It was a great evening to dive into the 1st of 6 classes focused on everything from bike anatomy to riding skills. Big thanks to the St. Louis Hills Business District, whose support is making this cohort possible!

Weekly recap: May 26 to June 1 We wrapped up National Bike Month over the weekend with our fifth alumni adventure of the year — a 10-mile trip over the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge and down into Gabaret Island. Meanwhile, our Gana-Una-Bici class reconvened 1/3

We've had 14 great kids graduate from three different Learn-To-Ride cohorts over the past week and a half at locations around #STL! We couldn't be more thrilled for all of these brand-new riders.

Two spots just opened up in our previously full Willmore Park cohort that kicks off Tuesday evening. Know a child or teen (ages 8 to 17) who would enjoy learning basic bike maintenance and riding skills ... and get to choose a free bike to take home at the end of the six-week class? Learn more 👇