Recovery Bike Shop

If you haven’t been to Boom Island yet to see Saype’s Beyond Walls, we did the hard work for you last Sunday at Coffee (Outside). You can already see how much it has faded. There’s still something to see (even after the rain yesterday). If it’s on your list, make it happen. It won’t last much longer.

Thanks for the drone shots, Brad!

Have you ever been in a parade? This is your chance!

Have you ever been to the NE Parade? This is YOUR CHANCE!!

The more the merrier! Recruit your friends!

Meet us at Recovery Bike Shop Tuesday June 16 at 5:30pm. Bring you bike. We’ll roll out together to the staging line of the parade on 27th Ave. (If you’re running late, just find us on 27th west of Central Ave. We’ll be easy to find. Parade starts at 6:30pm.)

This will be our shortest group ride of the year (and our slowest). It will also be our most exciting!

Route basically ends at the . Join us there for a quick gathering (don’t go onto the property) and then we’ll head over to Sociable Cider for the parade after-party!

Oh my god, I’m so excited!

Thank you to the .LionsClub for keeping the Northeast Parade going for its 97th year!

Support the NE parade at…
celebrateneparade.com

Coffee (Outside) this week is going back to Boom Island. I didn’t plan this well (or at all), but this is an opportunity we can’t miss. So…

Boom Island is hosting Beyond Walls (until it fades away), an absolutely ginormous land-mural/fresco from and a small team of globe travelers.

Join us for Coffee (Outside) Sunday at 10am to see what we can see (honestly, it’s not much). But it is a happening. And it is an important project that we are more than happy to promote. With the planet as a canvas, Saype is creating a metaphorical chain of clasped hands across the entire world. Minneapolis is only the 21st destination for one of these ephemeral frescoes (created with eco-friendly materials) and the first North American site.

PHOTO 1: Saype’s piece stretches across the grass behind Patrick and his Nishiki Modulus. But what you’re really looking at is a Dura-Ace track hub, a component Patrick has been riding for 3 decades. This bike, and several others over the years, has been built around the hub. All of Patrick’s bikes are quirky (to match their rider), and this is no exception.

Patrick has the longest commute of anyone at the shop and today he chose to ride in on a two-speed, one of the more rare builds in the world because a two-speed tends to have all of the derailleurs but very little of the functionality. But the Dura-Ace hub makes it worth it.

Patrick has more mechanic experience than most bike shops and has been in shops all over town. He’s built more of this year’s bike fleet than anyone else. We’re lucky to have him and grateful that he has chosen to settle at Recovery Bike Shop.

As always, everyone is welcome at Coffee (Outside).

Free community yoga at the bike shop at 9am with .

And our weekly ride to put a presence out on the streets of Northeast starts after Coffee (Outside) around 11am.

“This is what community looks like!”

Summer is here! And there’s nothing better than meandering rides with the best people. Come be one of them every Wednesday at 6pm. Meet us at Sociable Cider for the best social ride in the tri-county area.

Thank you, for your reliable contributions 🚲. Apologies to who picked the best spot and still got cut out of this photo.

To paraphrase his daughter, Marko Fields packed a single life with an encyclopedic volume of stories and lived experience. But nothing he did has had more of an impact on me than Mojo Coffee Gallery, where he brought his passions (music, pottery, and most of all people) and put them on display for all to see.

Of course you could purchase many of Marko’s pieces, but Mojo has that lived-in feel of a working studio where a person has shaped and been shaped by an entire career. Mojo is part retail art gallery, part workshop and rehearsal space, and entirely Marko’s playground.

The people that inhabit Mojo on a regular basis meld perfectly with the collection of mismatched dining room and office chairs, each person adding to the decor. But every time I encountered Marko here, he stood out, not like a sore thumb, but like a king, presiding (benevolently) over his own court.

Mojo is one of the looms upon which the fabric of community is woven. Each of us regulars, a thread in that fabric. But Marko, in that space, appeared to be the wearer of whatever cape was being woven. Even as Mojo feels like ours, it was unmistakably Marko’s.

To me, Mojo is a rare perfect third space. For Marko, Mojo may have been first, second, and third space: home, work, and community gathering.

On this Memorial Day weekend we’ll do Coffee Outside of Mojo (Sunday 10am). But I encourage everyone to enjoy the inside of Marko’s coffee gallery too. It was his project and his contribution. Even in his absence Mojo remains Marko’s. But Marko succeeded in also making it ours.

As usual…
Yoga at 9am (at Reco)
Community Ride 11am-ish from Coffee

So we started bustling. We stroll along Central every Thursday at 5:30pm. Meet us at the bike shop to walk together.

It’s nice. 😊