Events
Micro-Tours are a quick way to escape the city on the weekend, on your bike. Meet at the shop on Saturday, meet new friends, ride to our destination, eat, camp, and return to the shop on Sunday. No work is missed, but worlds are opened up.
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This is the class to take if you want to get rid of that annoying rubbing sound. Braking systems, while plentiful, mainly follow the same few principals in terms of function and maintenance.
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Often a source of mystery and stress from cyclists, this class serves to show that these shifting systems are easily worked with and essentially the same cast of characters for many decades.
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Slightly more advanced, this class is a great finale for our Basic Maintenance Series of classes. This class covers bearing adjustments (hubs, bottom brackets and hubs), as well as wheel truing.
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Women's Class 01: Bike Demystification, Basic Maintenance, and Flat Fixing
Get to know a little more about your machine in this hands-on introductory workshop, and walk away feeling more self-sufficient. This class will cover routine bike maintenance, the tools you should never leave home without, and how to fix a flat, with plenty of time to ask questions.
About the Instructor:
Where bicycles are concerned, Meredith's heart is in the liberating power of the riding, and working on, of all types of bikes for all types of people, on any surface and in any weather. She teaches project-based mathematics at a public high school in Manhattan for recent immigrants, where she also facilitates an after-school bike mechanics and cycling program.
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This class covers basic points of do-it-yourself maintenance to get you self-sufficient with you bike. In addition, this class can serve as a gateway to learning more about these great machines.
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Wheel physics, component selection and lacing/truing techniques. Participants will then be able to schedule a 1-on-1 session to build their own wheel (parts available from 718 at a discount)
Our next shop ride will be August 20th, 2016. We will leave from 718 Cyclery (254 3rd Ave, Brooklyn) at 7am Sharp, arriving in time for the 8:15am Sea Streak Ferry at Wall Street. Tickets are $51 for round trip (includes bike pass).
The ferry will drop us at Sandy Hook at 8:50am. We will then ride south for 3 miles (map) on the Gateway Recreational Area, the west into Hartshorne Woods Park.
Bring a lunch. We will plan to catch the 3:45 Ferry back to Wall Street, but riders can make their own schedule.
If you would like to use one of our demo fleet mountain bikes for free, please indicate in the form here
Pretty Damned Fast and 718 Cyclery present the 1st Annual Women's Off-Road Jam on July 24, 2016 at Cunningham Park in Queens, NYC. The goal of this event is to welcome new riders into the world of off-road cycling through a free coached clinic and skills drills taught by female coaches, as well as provide a place for intermediate and advanced riders to have a blast on the trails, mentor new riders, and show off their skills.
Please join us on June 1st at 7pm at 718 Cyclery for the launch and planning meeting for women, female identifying and gender non-conforming people who are interested in adventure cycling and programming!
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At the meeting, we will make connections, share ideas and create some plans to get out and about this summer!
Please join us for our Summer Tour Meeting on Monday May 23rd at 7pm at 718 Cyclery. We need to determine who will be attending, and will be asking for a deposit shortly to cover shared transportation costs and insurance.
Tour is From July 9th to the 15th, 2016 in the Adirondacks. Please sign up for tour at: http://www.718c.com/tours/
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Starting from a frame, go through the process that we use at 718 to spec out and design a bike.
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The touring experts at 718 discuss their touring experiences, as well as help you plan for yours
March 12 overnight trip to Harriman State Park, sign up here:
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Class 09: Bar Taping
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This is a hands-on class. Bring your bike, 718 will provide bartape at a discount
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Into to mountain bike shock and fork types and care
718 Cyclery is proud to announce our 2016 Off-Road Racing Team. The mission of this team is to promote the enjoyment of riding in the woods with friends, as well as the accessibility of these rides to NYC. We are looking for 10 male and 10 female riders to make up this team for the 2016 Mountain Bike season. We will be hosting an informational meeting on February 24th, 7pm at 718 Cyclery. Please fill out the brief form here to get on our list.
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How to select and install a tubeless tire set-up.
NYC Adventure Cycling Meetup Group
NYC-ADV'ers, temps are sub zero and we're all just staring longingly at our bikes. That said, your loving founders have organized a happy hour so everyone can get together, meet, plan future rides, imbibe, and mingle.
Our friends at Givers and Takers have been kind enough to play host. Not only that, they've offered happy hour pricing throughout the event. According to the interwebs, Givers and Takers is a "mellow haunt that serves cocktails, brews & wines amid exposed brick walls & an old-school feel". We just think it's a rad bar, run by rad people. Not to mention it's a block down from 718 Cyclery, our home base.
As referenced above, there will be drink specials for NYC-ADV members. Also, expect occasional give-aways from group sponsors. If all goes well, we will be extend indefinitely every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. This will give members a recurring opportunity to hang with like-minded bicycle enthusiasts, tourers, adventurers, and travelers.
Come one, come all... let's meetup!
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Hands on demonstration of the bleeding and care of both Avid and Shimano systems
