Second Cycle Community Bicycle Shop

Programs: Youth programming: the following is a description of second cycle's youth programs. 1. Earn a bike: an eight-week program where students learn bike anatomy, how to fix a flat tire, how to safely navigate the streets, and other skills in order to earn a bike. Students have the opportunity to explore the neighborhoods by bike, practicing the safety skills acquired in class. Students get the bike they work on, along with safety lights, a helmet, and a lock. 2. Diversion program: second cycle works as a community partner with the pierce county juvenile court's diversion program. The diversion program provides low risk youth offenders with an alternative to formal adjudication and detention. This program increases the capacity of at-risk youth and gives us the opportunity to introduce a diverse and marginalized population into the world of cycling, giving youth access to a positive, safe, and healthy community. 3. Second cycle has built a satellite location in south tacoma that builds upon our work with youth. In conjunction with idea, an industrial design high school, we run youth programming and an open workshop. This location expands and builds upon our current youth programming and delves into fabrication and design. In addition to serving youth, the open shop space is available for the surrounding community to utilize on weekends. The eastside of tacoma is diverse, home to multiple ethnic groups and tight-knit immigrant communities. This neighborhood, separated from the rest of the city by a major interstate, is lacking a neighborhood bicycle shop, and second cycle fills a significant neednot only by providing a community-based bike shop, but by providing opportunities for low income youth and youth of color. Our goals and activities for the location include the following: a. To engage students of idea; b. To provide additional classroom space for second cycle; c. To provide a community workspace for the neighborhood; d. To extend our resources available to a new community. 4. Probation program: second cycles partnership with the pierce county juvenile courts probation program was created to connect young people with the resources they need to empower themselves and work toward a more positive future. We use the surrounding environment and mountain biking as vehicles toward fostering community and building self-reliance among some of our societys most vulnerable membersnamely, young people in the criminal justice system.

open shop 2017: the open shop program is the backbone of second cycle. The community workspace is where people get the tools, knowledge, and resources to keep themselves rolling. The open shop provides critical access and inspiring engagement by empowering people to fix their own bikes. It is an incredible resource for those who can't afford to have someone fix their bike for them. For some people, biking is a necessity, not a choice, and we strive to keep those people rolling. The open shop area was open an average of 46 hours/week for 51 weeks of the year and served over 5,000 people during that time. Between our main location and second location, we were open for a total of 2,582 hours. The open shop program also hosts a variety of activities, including women and lgbtq night, which is a safe and supportive night that strives to primarily serve people who identify as female, queer, genderqueer, gay, lesbian, asexual, and/or transgender. Patrons are invited to come work on their bikes; volunteer mechanics are available to lend guidance as needed. All volunteer mechanics are female and/or lgbtq. The women and lgbtq night occurred every other week for 2017 and served approximately 10 people per night. We also bring our open shop program out into the field. We do mechanical support for charitable rides and go to various community events to spread the word about the empowering opportunities of the bicycle. Other open shop program activities include giving bikes away to those in need and partnering with social service organizations like nativity house and catholic community services.