Posts Tagged ‘bicycles’
Rich City Rides launches $6 million fundraising campaign
Rich City Rides is racing to raise $6 million in the next four months to secure its future in Richmond and expand services. The bike group launched a campaign in March to purchase three properties, including the longtime home of its bike shop at 1500 Macdonald Ave. The organization has received $1.2 million in donations…
Read More“The world needs more Najaris”
Founder of Rich City Rides, Najari Smith, is using bikes to support Richmond’s community through Covid-19.
Read MoreAgents of Change: Scenes of a city in motion
Old opinions about Richmond often seem set in stone, but at least some of the worst may be on the way out.
That’s what we tried to document in “Agents of Change,” a series of photographs and feature stories by Richmond Confidential’s Brittany Kirstin, a photojournalism student at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Read MoreCreating a stronger community through bicycling
When you walk into Rich City Rides you’re immediately met with the sweet smell of bicycle oil and the satisfying click-click-click of shifting gears. Najari Smith, the owner and founder of the nonprofit group that owns the shop, is working in the back along with mechanics Taye Roshni McGee and Rafael Fernandez.
Read MoreRich City Rides bike recovery program: Reuniting bikers and their stolen bikes
Najari Smith launched a bike recovery program as executive director of Rich City Rides. For him, the business of hunting down stolen bikes is personal.
Read MoreCan bikes and people peacefully co-exist on BART?
Last week, BART officials launched a five-day pilot program to see if bikes and people could fit comfortably onto its trains at all times. Now they are asking the public to complete an online survey that seeks to measure whether the experiment was a success.
Read MoreAfter three years of dreaming, Spokeshop bike lounge opens its doors
It’s not really about bikes for Brian Drayton.
This week, he’s opening what he calls Richmond’s first full service professional bike shop, the Spokeshop Bike Lounge. But, says Drayton, “I don’t want to be a bike shop owner. Retail’s not my thing.” Really, he’s out to change the world – or at least Richmond. Spend fifteen minutes with him, and you begin to think he might just pull it off.
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