By popular demand, we’re changing the hours again. We’re going to try Sundays from Noon to 3pm. Bring lunch, beverages, bike projects…. Even if you don’t have bike work to do, this is the Lounge! Come chat with us, Lounge with us, talk bikes, rides, routes, or whatever.
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Hello Everyone,
First off, thanks to all who have made this project so successful so quickly. We are committed to expanding The Bicycle Lounge and you have shown us that we definitely can and should do so.
Given how big the group has grown at The Bicycle Lounge, and given how chaotic it has [...]
Yesterday’s BBQ Tuesday was our Third Annual Somewhere-Around-The-Fourth Chili Festival. It was also a hugely successful evening at The Bicycle Lounge.
Many thanks to our friends Steve and Kimbra, who not only brought fantastic food, but also demonstrated their repair stand. On top of that, Steve stuck around in the shop to help our [...]
Today was our first official, organized board meeting. Following a leisurely morning bike ride, we congregated at Greg’s house for a BBQ and discussion about The Bicycle Lounge. We touched on many important aspects of getting this project started and the ins and outs of running the place.
Immediate needs include:
Creating a mission [...]
In the past couple of weeks, we’ve gotten a lot more people involved with this project. Local bike gang, The Cycledelics, have been coming to BBQ Tuesday and adding their ideas and inspirations. Rob, of Rob’s Vintique, is entertaining the idea of selling more bicycles out of his vintage shop. And we’re [...]
Today we took a bit of a field trip. Tanya had to be in the Highland Park area anyway, so we coordinated with fellow bicycle advocate and enthusiast, Alice Strong, to visit her friends at The Bike Oven. Our goal was to get a sense of how they ran the business and maybe some ideas [...]
The Bicycle Lounge is taking shape. Over the weekend, we removed the old workbench — the rats nest that it had become, destroyed it (thanks Virgil), removed all the rat residue, broke down and recycled Tanya’s lathe station into shelving, built a new workbench, purchased a rolling tool cabinet and organized all of the [...]
Welcome to the offical blog of The Bluewood Bicycle Lounge, or just The Bicycle Lounge for short, or The Lounge for shorter, or you can just make a gurgling sound and we’ll likely answer to that too. Here we intend to advertise events, keep you up to speed with how things are going at [...]