Grease Rag Ride & Wrench

The first place I went to when I moved to Minneapolis was Sunrise Cyclery.  One of the very first people I met in the city was Jamie McDonald, the owner.  Sunrise has moved to a new location since then, but I always find myself gravitating toward the shop when I'm just biking around.  It's my home base.  I know I'm not the only one, too.

Sunrise Cyclery was where Grease Rag started, on July 7, 2009.  It took zero convincing to get Jamie to stay open just for us, give us staff and space and tools, and encouraged us to pack the shop with awesome WTFs.  If that doesn't make you feel wanted, I don't know what will.

I'm happy to announce that Sunrise Cyclery will be celebrating their 9th birthday, and they are inviting us to the party!

Monday, April 1, 2013
2pm-10pm
 2901 Blaisdell Avenue South

From Facebook:

Stop in to help celebrate Sunrise Cyclery's 9th Birthday! 
Check out the new shop
8:30p Up the Mountain Down the Mountain is playing LIVE MUSIC
Eat some chili, guac & chips, enjoy a beverage
We can't wait to see you!

View Sunrise Cyclery's new location in a larger map

Visit Sunrise Cyclery's website, or like them on Facebook!

At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window.
-Rumi

Full Moon Ride

Meet at 8pm, Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The language door is only open a smidge, so we will be succinct:

Meet at Grease Rag House at 8, roll out at 8:30, howl at and ride under a full moon, wrap up with hot drinks/ cold beers around 10 at Seward Cafe (closes at midnight).

This will be a slow meandering ride on trails and some road. I'll be on my cruiser, so we're not in it to win it. Bring lights! Helmets are nice too!

All moon-loving bike riders are welcome to join.

RSVP on Facebook

GreaseRag.org is a work in progress.  Kind of like that frame you stripped down last fall, and now you've mostly got your components assembled but just need the time and a few tools to get it all finished up.  And you've never been happy with that saddle, but you are going to work on getting a replacement seatpost before you worry about that.

We have made some changes around here that we think you'll be very happy with!  Since we launched this new website from a new platform, we've been working on addressing your comments.

I want an events calendar!

You're going to like this.  See the Calendar navigation tab at the top of every page?  Clicking on that will take you to our Grease Rag calendar.  All events and open shop nights and rides are posted on this main calendar.  We are using Google Calendar, so if you click on an event it opens in Google Calendar, or the corresponding Grease Rag blog post!  This makes it easy for you to get the full details on any event, and you can even copy events into your personal calendar.  That's right!  I said, "You can copy events from our calendar to your personal Google Calendar."  This will make it easy for you to keep track of when Grease Rag is in your neighborhood!

When you visit a location page,  you can view events that are specific to that Grease Rag location!

I want to be able to read GreaseRag.org on my phone, tablet, etc.!

Your wish is our command!  GreaseRag.org is now accessible on a whole smörgåsbord of Internet machines.  Check it out.

Why do I get your old URL when I search the intertubes for "Grease Rag"?

Our web developer is looking into a way for users that visit our old Wordpress.com site to be redirected here, but that isn't ready yet.

I'll use this opportunity to say I don't know anything about SEO, and if anyone would like to volunteer their skills to help us woo Google's search algorithm, please contact us!

If you have any questions about these features, please leave comments down below, or email us at greaseragmpls at gmail.  Please let us know if something looks or acts funky.  We may not be able to fix it right away, but we definitely listen to your comments!

Thank you for donating your time and expertise to update the website, Jeremy Werst.

Grease Rag is now happening 7 times a month!

Spokes likes having us over on 4th Mondays so much, they've asked us to come back on 2nd Mondays, too.  Thank you for adding another night for us to wrench together in your beautiful space, Spokes!

Located in the Seward neighborhood, near the Light Rail Trail: 1915 East 22nd St.

The next SPOKES Grease Rag will be Monday, March 25, 7-9pm.

Do you use Google Calendar?  

Now you can copy Grease Rag events to your calendar!  If you don't use Google Calendar, you can still use the calendar as a handy visual guide to all of our events.  Check it out: http://greaserag.org/calendar/

Join us at 7pm at Recovery Bike Shop (2555 Central Ave NE)!  From 7pm – 730pm we’ll be doing a quick session on adjusting shifters.  So bring in your bike with all of it's shifty goodness and we'll break down how to make your ride hit all of it's intended speeds.  

Oh, and you know there will be coffee.

From 730pm – 9pm we’ll have open shop to work on anything you like.  Do you have any projects you want to work on?

Hope to see you there!  It's getting warmer...