Bluestem Bicycles of Brookings, SD. LLC owned by three people; 50% owned by a woman, 50% owned by two men.

Back story if anyone cares: She helped me formalize and operate a 501(c)(3) (inspired by my times at Bike Farm and Plan B) when she lived with me in my brother's house during her graduate studies. The organization worked in a space my former boss (owner of previous sole shop in town for decades) rented until he tried using that space to coerce me into working more days/hours, at which point we swiftly moved that organization out and I quit working for him. She immediately offered to invest money for me to open a new shop. Overwhelmed by the prospect, I then asked my former co-mechanic to join me and take part of my half of the ownership. Coming up on four years later, we still pay ourselves shit (when we can afford to pay ourselves), and she's pulled nothing out of the place, but we all have fun with it, and the shop's future looks bright (so long as one ignores mass extinction, climate change, politics, etc). As she did from the beginning, she insists she embraces the possibility she'll never see any return on that money. She's loving life in Alaska, and we wish she'd come back for awesome bike rides and community.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:17 PM Audrey Wiedemeier <audrey@bikelibrary.org> wrote:

The Iowa City Bike Library!

McGuirk and I are the only paid staff at our shop here in Iowa City and we are both ladies. Our board president is also a woman. 

Thanks for starting this thread!!! 

Peace & grease, 

Audrey Wiedemeier (She/her/hers)

Iowa City Bike Library, Director 

700 S. Dubuque St, Iowa City

Hours: Sat. 10-3, Mon. 5-7, Tues. 6-8, 

Wed. 6-8, Thurs. 6-8, Fri. 4:30-6:30

BikeLibrary.org

C: (515) 450-1651

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:33 PM Catarina Gutierrez <catgutierrez@gmail.com> wrote:

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 5:56 PM, Aida Mas Baghaie <aida.masb@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi! 

I'm with a bunch of rad women & non-binary bike people and we put together this list of shops! Feel free to use & add to the google doc. 

Shop	Location
Moxie Bikes	Atlanta, GA
Kindred Cycles	Pittsburgh, PA
Bikes Together	Denver, CO
Bike Shop Girl	Denver, CO
Fairmont Bicycles	Philadelphia, PA
Brewerytown Bicycles	Philadelphia, PA
Frontier Bikes	Eudora, KA
Gravel City Bikes	Eudora, KA
Chili Pepper	Moab, UT
Cutters Bike Shop	Bethelhem, PA
Queen Bee Cyclery	Portland, OR
Gladys Bikes	Portland, OR
Sugar Wheelworks	Portland, OR
Bike Recyclery	Portland, OR
Four Star Family Cyclery	Chicago, IL
BFF Bikes	Chicago, IL
Cosmic Bikes	Chicago, IL
Uptown Bikes	Chicago, IL
On the Route	Chicago, IL
Sun & Air	Brooklyn, NY
Kween Kargo Bike Shop	Brooklyn, NY
District Bicycles	Stillwater, OK
Sidesaddle	Vancouver BC (Canada)

Hope that helps! 

<3 aida 

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 3:34 PM dave ellis <enjoybikes@gmail.com> wrote:

I feel like one of the Kansas City non profit bike shops is founded by a female social worker, names of both individual and shop I forget.

dave

On Feb 19, 2020, at 2:46 PM, Jim Sheehan <jim@ohiocitycycles.org> wrote:



I think the worker-owned http://broadwaybicycleschool.com/blog/  was founded by a group of women...

LAB's Equity report may have data on female owned shops: http://bikeleague.org/sites/default/files/The_New_Movement_Report_Web.pdf 

Jim Sheehan
Executive Director

Ohio City Bicycle Co-op
1840 Columbus Rd
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
216 830 2667
OhioCityCycles.org

jim@ohiocitycycles.org

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 2:55 PM Kevin Dwyer <kevidwyer@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi There-

Here are the ones that I am aware of:

The Bike Lady- Salt Lake City, UT

Chili Pepper-Moab, UT

Bingham Cyclery-Salt Lake City, Sandy, Sunset and Ogden, UT

Salt Cycle-Sandy, UT

Spun Bicycles-Cincinnati, OH

Gladys Bikes-Portland, OR

Frontier Bikes-Eudora, KS

Kevin Dwyer



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On Feb 18, 2020, at 4:31 PM, Deb Salls <deb@bikeworks.org> wrote:



Hi All 

Free Range Cycles in the Fremont Neighborhood of Seattle is owned by Shawna Williams and lead mechanic Nikki Mcthewson  ( both former Bike Works staff members and amazing people!!) and before Shawna it was owned for many years by Kathleen Emry.  See this article about their great work  in this  post in the Seattle bike blog https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2020/02/14/how-free-range-cycles-works-every-day-to-become-a-more-and-more-welcoming-bike-shop/

Also this post in the Seattle Bike Blog is about a survey about how comfortable WTFNB folks feel at bike shops https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2020/02/14/splain-survey-rates-seattle-bike-shops-by-how-comfortable-women-trans-femme-and-gender-nonconforming-people-feel-there/  this kind of survey is likely replicable in other cities

Deb

Deb Salls Executive Director she/her pronouns what's this? 206.695.2607        bikeworks.org Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Bike Shop: 3709 S Ferdinand St, Seattle, WA 98118

Office, Warehouse & Classrooms: 3715 S Hudson St #111, Seattle, WA 98118

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 3:14 PM Sunny Nestler <programs@bikecoop.ca> wrote:

Would love for someone to prove me wrong on that last point btw :))

Sunny Nestler, Programs Manager

AMS Bike Co-op + Bike Kitchen

University of British Columbia

604-822-2453 | thebikekitchen.ca | @BikeKitchenUBC

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 2:44 PM Sunny Nestler <programs@bikecoop.ca> wrote:

Sidesaddle in Vancouver BC !

The Bike Kitchen's program office is also operated by me, a non-dude ✌

Also a fun fact, when I was the founder of Bike Saviours Bicycle Collective in Arizona in 2007 there were ZERO non-dude bike mechanics employed anywhere in the entire city of Phoenix.

x

sunny

Sunny Nestler, Programs Manager

AMS Bike Co-op + Bike Kitchen

University of British Columbia

604-822-2453 | thebikekitchen.ca | @BikeKitchenUBC

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 2:42 PM Judith Feist <judith.feist@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hello everyone!
> So, a question has going on among us.
> Any of you know any bike shops on your city that are owned and/or operated by/mainly by women?
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> Thanks
>
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