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Join Terri and Levi of Piecycle Club as they join Perennial Cycle , Ducks in a Row (Fargo, ND), and Hardt Family Cyclery (Aurora, CO) in a discussion about starting family friendly cycling clubs!

Whether you are an individual thinking about organizing some social group rides, a few neighbors thinking about doing a bike bus or a bike shop thinking about having rides/events, this webinar will be a great place to hear ideas from a few people that have experience doing it.

You’ll hear about other people’s experiences starting a club and hopefully get some ideas about how to start your own! There will also be a Q&A at the end, but keep the chat questions rolling in throughout

The Panel:

• Terri and Levi from Piecycle Club (Minneapolis)

• Jimmy from Ducks in a Row (Fargo ND)

• Mackenzie Hardt, the owner of Hardt Family Cyclery (Aurora, CO)

• Ellie, Perennial Cycle ride organizer

Date & Time

Wed, Feb 26, 2025 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

We’re going Trick or Treating! 👻🎃

It’s a costumed Mini Pie Ride! The residents of Walker Place Senior Living will be handing out candy to our bike Trick or Treaters on Bryant Ave! We’ll meet at Farmstead Park playground at 9:45 AM to get into adorable parade formation, then roll together along Bryant to Trick or Treat. All ages welcome!

Mini Pie rides are especially great for the tiniest of riders. They’re VERY short and there will be plenty of time for casual hangs, playground time, and bike loops along Bryant or at the park. Striders, scooters, and stumblers are welcome and able to ride all in their own!

We can’t wait to see your costumes!

P.S. Bring some baked goods to share for a post-ride hang at the park! Brunch candy might not fill all of the tummy’s at the ride and we want to see and taste the best Fall bakes 😋

P.P.S. Thank you to Walker Place for reaching out with the idea for a Halloween ride along Bryant! What a great opportunity to highlight infrastructure and community

It’s a Pumpkin haul Fall group ride!

Meet at the Lynnhurst Rec Center at 9:30AM and we’ll rollout at 10AM. The route is a luxurious 3 miles East along Minnehaha creek (at Pastry Pace) to the Our Lady of Peace Pumpkin Patch 🎃. We’re so excited to see how (and how many) pumpkins get bike-hauled! There might be a pie for most impressive haul 🥧

This Saturday we’re riding East to the oldest worker-run restaurant in the United States, Seward Cafe (since 1974)! We’ve got to capture the beginning of this magical Fall weather! Along the way we’ll be using the most lovely bike infrastructure Minneapolis has to offer - Bryant Avenue and the Midtown Greenway.

Details:

Start: Lyndale Farmstead Park playground at 9:30AM, roll-out at 10AM

End: Seward Cafe

Pace: 8-10 mph. No drop, and we’ll do our best to make sure we get through intersections as a group.

We’re super excited to announce that we’re hosting a Cargo Bike ‘Show & Tell’ event this Sunday, September 8th at Lyndale Farmstead Park! This event is for any and every cargo-curious folks out there AND for cargo bike owners. The goal is a wide variety of bikes and curious people to chat about them.

If you have a cargo bike please, please, please bring it! We’d love to hear what you think of it!

If you don’t own a cargo bike but have even the tiniest interest, this is the place for you! You can see a variety of cargo bike brands & styles and ask owners what they like and dislike. Do you carry children? How many? Has it replaced car trips? What about winter? Do you wish you had e-assist? Etc, etc

Free coffee, ice cream, and a few cargo bikes will be provided by @perennialcycle (❤️❤️❤️). It should make for quite the cozy Sunday morning of bike chit chat. We’ll be there from 9:30 to 11AM!

Note: this isn’t a group ride, but we encourage you to use the opportunity to cruise Bryant Ave. Pop into @bogartsdoughnuts, grab coffee and a burrito at @gigiscafempls

Piecycle Club will be creating a chalk bike course for little bikers at Armatage Summer Jam! Bring your Striders and pedal bikes down to Armatage Park for food trucks, live music, bubbles, and bike fun!

All are welcome to join, not just Armatage residents - We want to meet (and ride with) our neighbors.

We’re biking to Dancing Bear Chocolate! 💃🍫

Join us this Saturday the 17th for a leisurely 5 mile group ride from The Trailhead building at Theodore Wirth to @dancing_bear_chocolate. Meet at The Trailhead (right outside the front doors) at 9:30AM and we’ll rollout at 10! As always, we’ll be chugging along at Pastry Pace (8-10 mph) and we’ll ride as a group.

Dancing Bear Chocolate is a chocolate, pastry, and gelato shop in the Victory Neighborhood! Via Dancing Bear, customer favorite’s include Key-Lime Pie, Fruit and Savory Crostatas, Crème Brûlée, Carrot Cake, Almond Cloud cookies-wheat free, handcrafted chocolate bars, and Artisan Chocolate Truffles 😍

Victory Park playground is right across the street from Dancing Bear so it’ll be a mega-fun destination!

That’s right, we’re rolling out for a rare evening ride in the middle of the week!

We had so much fun riding to the Kingfield Farmers Market we decided to invite everyone to join us as we ride to the Nokomis Farmers Market on Wednesday, July 31st!

Meet: Lynnhurst Rec Center at 5:15PM on Wednesday, July 31st. Rollout at 5:30.

End: Nokomis Farmers Market

Vibe: Extra casual. Expect a smaller group and more space/time to chat! We’re excited to stock up on good food and conversation. It’s a short ride down Minnehaha to our destination and we’ll take it slow.

By popular demand, we’re riding to @siftglutenfree this Sunday! If you’ve never had the pleasure of visiting SIFT, you’re in for a treat. We’ll meet at Howe Elementary School Playground at 9:30 AM, chat for a bit, then rollout at 10. We’ll follow the river South before heading West on Minnehaha. Total ride distance will be about 5 miles. Bring ya glutes, not gluten.

You do not have to be gluten free to appreciate the jamboree of deliciousness that SIFT baked goods deliver! All are welcome (and heavily encouraged) to join!.

Details:

Start: Howe Elementary School Playground @ 9:30 AM on Sunday, July 28th. Rollout at 10:00 AM

End: Sift Gluten Free

Pace: 8-10 mph. No drop, and we’ll do our best to make sure we get through intersections as a group.

Who: Any and everyone! We get a lot of subtle ‘is this just for people with kids?’ questions and we totally understand why. But the answer is NO! If ya like snacks or coffee or bikes, it’s for you.

Join us for a short group ride to the Kingfield Farmers Market at Dr. Martin Luther King Park! We’ll start at the Lynnhurst Park playground and meander our way (Pastry Pace) along Lake Harriet and the new Bryant Ave, before heading east to the market for park hangs and whatever vendor treats your heart desires.

Meet at Lynnhurst Park (the playground) at 9:30 and we’ll rollout at 10! All are welcome.

This ride is Part 2 of a double-header family biking weekend in collaboration with @perennialcycle! The Perennial ride is on Saturday the 13th, meeting at 9:30 at the @mplsbikeparks Bike Park at Lake Nokomis.

Come to both rides and get a highly coveted ✨Pastry Bouquet✨ sticker!

Alley Allez Allez! This destination has been on the short list as a must-visit and we’re so happy to be heading their way! This Sunday morning we’re riding 6-ish Pastry Pace miles from Phelps Field Park playground to @fawkesalleycoffee in Loring Park ⚽️!

We’ll take a super simple route, ⬅️ West on 40th and ⬆️ North on Bryant, all the way to beautiful Loring Park. All ages welcome, but the wee littlest kids may want to hitch a ride - We’ll be traveling 8-10mph.

About @fawkesalleycoffee: Fawkes Alley Coffee is located in an alleyway as cozy as it is historic. Nestled alongside the Fawkes Building, built in 1911 by smith and BIKE BUILDER Leslie Fawkes*, the coffee shop helps funds the @futsalsociety! The Futsal Society offers free competitive soccer programs.

*L.H. Fawkes did build the Fawkes building as an automobile showcase and went on to be one of the primary sales and spokespersons for autos in Minneapolis. There was lead in everything back then, so we reserve judgement.

The forecast is too nice to ignore - We’re going on a group ride! Join us for a ~6 mile ride from Nokomis Triangle Park (playground) to Fireroast Café. We’ll ride on Nokomis Trail, hit Minnehaha, ride to and North on the River Parkway, then head west on 38th. The pace will be around 8-10 mph. All are welcome!

Meet at 10AM and rollout at 10:30AM. That should give the young ones some time to get their wiggles out at the park. Feel free to show up early for extra play time!

LIVE w/ Karl Huemiller, Recreation Services Director at @cityofrichfield! Join us for an Instagram Live chat with Karl all about the new (and sensational) Taft Park bike park and Richfield bike infrastructure!

We’ll go Live at 12:00PM CDT on Thursday, 4/18. Drop any questions you’d love to ask below or in the chat.

Pizza Day! The pie family is large and delicious and we’d be remiss to forget the big P-I-Z-Z-A.

Join us for an afternoon ride to Punch Pizza, where we’ll pick up some pies before picnicking at Park Siding Park. Meet at Lynnhurst Recreation Center at 3pm and we’ll head out at 3:30pm.

All are welcome and encouraged to join! The route will take us ~5 miles and we’ll be traveling at Pastry Pace (8-10mph). It’s BYOP, buy your own pizza or bring your own picnic .

We’ll leave a little time at the beginning of the ride to make online orders from phones if you want to save some pick-up time! Or pack some snacks for when we hang at the park!

Join us for a Mawrvelous bike tour of Bryn Mawr! This Saturday at 2:00PM we’re meeting at Bassett Creek Playground and setting off on a *pastry pace* ride of ~8 miles through the Bryn Mawr neighborhood of Minneapolis! After winding through some classic neighborhood landmarks, we’ll finish at Le Café by @bberidesserts at @afmsp for snacks 🥐.

This ride will by cohosted by the Bryn Mawr Neighborhood Association (@bmna_mpls)! This is ride is no-drop, and *pastry pace* is typically ~8-10 mph. All are welcome and encouraged to join!

SPRING SOFT LAUNCH 🚀. Come ride on (Y)Easter Sunday! Last second short ride from the Minnehaha bunny statue (🚏Portland & Minnehaha) to @wildgrindcoffee. Super short and friendly for the whole family at 2.5 miles! Pastry Pace, no drop, as always. All are welcome and encouraged to come along!

We’ll hop on the Minnehaha Trail for the first section, then turn onto the appropriately named Pleasant Ave for the remainder. Then we’ll all warm up with some Coffee & pastries at Wild Grind ☕️.

This isn’t an official Piecycle Group ride, but we thought we’d share it because Eli & Emma have been such important fixtures in Piecycle since the beginning. Many of you have met Eli and Emma at a Group Ride. They’re lovely, sweet, kind, and they’re moving to Colorado. As hard as it is to see them go, it’s an incredibly exciting change for their family and we’re as happy for them as we are sad for ourselves. The bright news - They’re hosting a little get-together to say ‘bye’.

Saturday, December 30th

11 AM

Bike Ride w/ friends of Emma and Eli

Join us for a short Instagram Live chat w/ @perennialcycle this Wednesday at noon! Have questions about cargo bikes, dynamo lights, bromptons, or reflective vests? Now is your time! Watch it though the Piecycle Instagram account.

This is the first in what we hope to make a series of interviews with bikes shops and peeps of Minneapolis. They’ll be short, informal slices (🍰) of what makes this city’s bike community so great.

See you there!

The weather pixies have graciously granted us one more weekend of magical fall weather and you know we have to take advantage!

On Sunday afternoon we’re slow rolling to the NEW @pimentokitchen (@pimentolake) on Bde Maka Ska! Meet at Lynnhurst Rec center at 1:30 and we’ll head out at 1:45. Pastry pace, a little under 5 miles.

We’ll bring along some fabric paint and stencils, so if you’re looking to make an old tshirt 100% more Pietacular bring it along!

Casual Craft n Hang alert! Meet at Todd Park playground (south end) at 10AM Sunday morning. We’ll do a kid-friendly slow roll to Guava’s Cuban Cafe at 10:30.

We have stencils for DIY Piecycle swag. Bring a t-shirt, sweater, or other fabric item and we’ll attempt to tag it with some paint.

It’s a Mini Ride: Costumed bike park edition! Come on down to the newly opened Taft Park bike park for a one-location Piecycle ride around this Saturday!

Meet at the bike park at 10:30AM, share some coffee and snacks, and roll over some jumps with costumed buds! Costumes encouraged but not mandatory.

All are welcome, kids and adults!

We’re hitting the road! It’s a DESTINATION RIDE down to Apple Valley on October 1st.

@zchanderson and @morganrf are leading an 11 mile round-trip route to the Rose Valley Neighborhood Farm (@rose_valley_farm). The little neighborhood farm has goats, alpacas, chickens & more.

Meet near the playground at East Lake Community Park in Lakeville at 10AM, rollout at 10:30, go pet some goats!

All are welcome and carpooling is encouraged! Let us know if you could use a ride

Join us for a real deal, honest-to-goodness GROUP RIDE to @undito_mn! 🤌

Meet at Bracket Rec Center at 10:30 to rollout at 11. The pace is no-drop Pastry Pace (8-10 mph) and all are welcome!

Everyone put their best ‘Rain Rain, Go Away’ vibes into the world until then! (NOTE: the weather looks good!)

A New Addition to the Saint Paul Classic! Meet The Phalen Fun Fest

Perfect for young or new riders. Pay just $10 (FREE for 5 & unders) and do as many laps and visit the Lake Phalen rest stop as many times as you want. Each lap is 3 miles. Jog with a kiddo on a strider or scooter, bring your unicycle, skateboard or inline skate, there’s no wrong way to do the Phalen Fun Fest!

MPLS Piecycle Club is giving away 10 adult registrations to Phalen Fun Fest, so stay tuned to the Instagram for details!

We’re rolling out for another Mini Pie ride! We had such a great time last week we decided to bring the slow rolling party to the Ericsson Neighborhood.

We’ll meet at Nokomis Bike Skills park (the tennis court), ride the obstacles for 30 minutes, then ride as a group to the Hiawatha Wading Pool to cool down! We’ll also conveniently be in the vicinity of @northerncoffeeworks and @bakerswifempls ✨🍩☕️

All are Welcome! Mini Pie format reminder: These rides are super short and accommodate even the earliest beginners. Come hang out! Tell your friends! Make flyers with crayons and hand them out door to door!

If you’re driving to the start, parking should be available at the Nokomis Community Center. The bike park/old tennis courts is right across Minnehaha Pkwy from the lot

New ride category! We’re so excited to introduce “Mini Pie” neighborhood rides: Super short neighborhood rides that give even the smallest of riders a chance to join on their own wheels! Every kind of scoot, pedal, and stride is welcome 🚲

These rides will have an extra long (30 minute) playground hang at the start, donut snacks, and a coffee shop play session at the finish. The routes, including this one, are short and low on traffic.

We’re opening with the Windom neighborhood in Southwest Minneapolis and everyone is welcome! In fact, we’re hoping these rides are a great way to explore neighborhoods you might not usually visit. We’re also hoping for some neighborhood ambassadors to host future Mini Pie rides in their neighborhoods!

8/26 ride details: Meet at Windom South Park Playground at 9:30AM (Wentworth & 58th). Play on the playground and chat until 10. Super-slow roll to @wildgrindcoffee, less than a mile away. Hang out, eat donuts, drink coffee, and play! Hope to see you there

Over the Loon!

July 30th, 2023

We’re headed East!

Join the Piecycle Club for a Sunday slow roll from Joanne R. Levin Park near Lake of the Isles to Loons Coffee! Meet by the playground at 10:00 AM and we’ll rollout at 10:15. We’ll roll along Isles, jump on midtown greenway, and use just a smidge of the river parkway - Super kid friendly!

All are welcome! Piecycle Club rides are open to all and encourage every kind of participation. Come to eat snacks, come with the whole family, come solo, come to meet friendly faces.

The Tour de France has arrived! Join a slightly slower group ride this Sunday to celebrate.

Meet at the Kenwood Park Playground, across the street from the Elementary School at 10AM. We’ll roll out at 10:15, slowly and French-ily making our way down to Patisserie 46 in Kingfield!

All are Welcome! Piecycle Group Rides are perfect for towing kids along and we welcome any snack or potty breaks necessary.

We’re headed North! 🧭

Join the Piecycle Club for a Sunday slow roll from The Trailhead building at Theodore Wirth to Thirsty Whale Bakery! Meet at the front of The Trailhead building (it’s big and beautiful) at 10:00 AM and we’ll rollout at 10:15.

All are welcome! Bring yourself, bring your whole family, bring good vibes via the internet - it’s all appreciated!

8-10 miles at Pastry Pace (no drop, low speeds). There will be stickers 🤫