Posts Tagged ‘Rich City Rides’
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 MoreThousands span SF Bay on Richmond’s new bike lane
The new bike and pedestrian path on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge is a four-year pilot led by various transportation agencies.
Read MoreRichmond mayor delivers State of the City address
Butt’s roughly hour-long speech, assisted by a data-laden slideshow and a short promotional video, provided a present-day overview of Richmond’s finances, education, public safety, transportation, housing, commercial development, business, economy and environment.
Read MoreCommunity involvement takes on illegal dumping
According to a city report, in 2017, Richmond’s abatement staff collected more than three million pounds of illegally dumped debris from 13,430 locations. A pile of waste strewn around the entrance of the Lillie Mae Jones Trail is just one example of dozens of waste piles illegally dumped throughout the city of Richmond on a daily basis.
Read More‘What would it be like if you owned the business down the street?’: Richmond residents fight for more ownership over their careers
Najari Smith, Josue Hernandez, and Roshni “Tay” McGee have opened a worker-owned cooperative in Richmond called Rich City Rides. The bike repair shop opened in 2015, but the organization responsible for community rides and outdoor activities, has been around for five years. The goal is to have a space where people can come in and…
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 MoreThe battle for bikes in Richmond
Richmond is in the throes of trying to placate a vocal group of cyclists who want their roadways to be safe for bikers.
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