📣Cycles x Rad Power Bikes City Kit 📣

We are excited to announce a very special package of goodies available for one very special supporter of the Bike-a-Thon! The Cycles x Rad Power Bikes City Kit. This kit will include: a custom painted, Cycles of Change-inspired Ortlieb messenger bag ; Cycles swag (t-shirts, water bottle, and stickers); a helmet; a Cycles of Change x Roadrunner Bags Tool Saddle Roll bag; and a Kryptonite chain lock for the …. RadCity 3 Step-Thru Electric Commuter Bike!!!

Picturing yourself riding around the town on your brand-new e-bike while repping your favorite bicycle collective? Head up to the top of our campaign page, click "Donate & Tickets" button and you'll find a ticket (just one ticket!) available for purchase for $1,998, in honor of the year Cycles of Change’s established. First purchase wins!

*Important: This bike is for local pick-up only. Options would be at the Rad Power Bikes location in Berkeley, our community bike shop The Bikery located in East Oakland or at the Bike-a-Thon! We'll be in touch with you.

🎟️ RAFFLE: The Cycles of Change x Notchas Messenger Kit 🎟️

We are excited to announce a very special package of goodies available by raffle! The Cycles of Change x Notchas Messenger Kit! This dope kit will include: a custom painted, Cycles of Change-inspired Ortlieb messenger bag by our local Notchas; a Roadrunner Bags Tool Saddle Roll bag; and Cycles swag (t-shirts and stickers) - Picture yourself riding around the town repping your favorite bicycle collective! Raffle winner will be pulled out of a helmet at the Luckyduck Bicycle Cafe on 6/24 during our bike-a-thon after gathering!!🎖

🎟️ How the raffle works🎟️ Each ticket is one entry into the raffle. One ticket is $5, two tickets are $10, three tickets $15, four tickets are $20 and so on. The more tickets you "purchase" the better chance you have to win this dope kit 💫 It's that easy and impactful ❤️

Head up to the top of our campaign page, click "Donate & Tickets" button where you will find a tickets available for purchase.

*Important: This kit is for local pick-up only. Options would be at the Luckyduck Cafe gathering located in Downtown Oakland or our community bike shop The Bikery located in East Oakland! If you are out of town but still want to participate and win, you'll need to cover the shipping fees.

Cycles of Change is back with our annual Bike-a-thon! We have been pedaling ahead by expanding our education programming, resuming high school internships, and continuing to serve the community at The Bikery (for more detail on what we’ve been up to, check out our 2021 annual report HERE).

📣THE 3RD ANNUAL BIKE-A-THON IS OFFICIAL!📣

We have some exciting things on tap for this coming year and we need your help! Here’s how you can hop on board:

1) BECOME A RIDER in the 2022 Bike-A-Thon

Friday, June 24 / 11 AM - 12PM. Sign up HERE!

OR

2) MAKE A PLEDGE

Volunteer riders will ride around the lake as many times as they can in an hour in support of our campaign. You can scroll through the roster of riders and pledge a rider PER LAP or make a one-time donation to support this work.

How do you make a pledge? HERE! (for an instructional video) or HERE! (for an instructional PDF).

How can you make an even bigger impact? Easy! Share our campaign and encourage your friends, family, neighbors, acquaintances to make a flat donation by clicking on the Donate & Tickets button on our campaign page or text-to-donate "LAKE22" to 53555 for a direct link - try it!

Every donation ensures communities continue to pedal forward!

Do you want to join our campaign by bundling donations, but don’t want to ride? Yay! You can start your own campaign, on our behalf, here on our GiveButter page to reach out to your network to support this campaign!

YOUR IMPACT

Thanks to our community, we shattered through our seemingly impossible goal of $60,000 in last summer’s Bike-a-thon. Help us do it again! Your support means the world as we roll into next school year. Here’s what the funds raised will help make possible:

Help Mariposx Fly!

A decade ago, Cycles of Change began SugarBelly!, a weekly repair night specifically for women, queer, trans, and femme people. On hiatus since 2016, the program returns this year, better than ever, as Mariposx! Led by queer and trans Cycles mechanics, we are thrilled to once again foster a vital space for gender-marginalized cyclists in our community.

Help Our Mechanics Level Up!

We are raising funds to support Cycles mechanics to attend Universal Bicycle Institute’s intensive training program, where they will gain valuable knowledge and experience in their development as mechanics. Mentorship and job training, especially for transitional-aged youth, are key to Cycles’ mission and UBI sponsorships would be a major step for our staff to take that next step.

Help Us Expand Our Bike-Topia!

Cycles is growing and so is our fleet. With the expansion of school-based education programs and our Upcycle program, as well as the continuous demand at The Bikery, we are dreaming of more space for Cycles. Building in this way would support us to store and maintain fleet bikes, facilitate giveaways and community events, serve as a meeting spot for class participants, and support our administrative functioning.

Help Us Return to Our Roots!

Cycles of Change was founded in 1998 as a bike club at Roosevelt Middle School; we have recently renewed our partnership and plan to return to Roosevelt next school year! Restarting this bike club will be deeply meaningful to our organization, our staff, and the Roosevelt students who will be able to experience the life-changing magic of bicycles, exploring East Oakland’s wonders of nature by the power of the pedal.

All donations are processed through Cycles of Change, an exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; 11-3821114.

2022 Lake Merritt Bike-a-Thon: Cycles of Change

Continuing to Grow Bike Access for Oakland and Beyond

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