Grease Rag Ride & Wrench Winter Skill Share 2025
We’ll learn, connect, and share our collective knowledge on the basics of winter biking, supporting and empowering a community of FTW people to enjoy a safe and fun winter riding season.
- Date: Saturday, November 1st
- Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Location: Minneapolis Central Library, Pohlad Hall, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis
The afternoon will feature skill shares on the basics of winter biking, in a safer space. This year’s sessions include:
- Bike Maintenance
- What to Wear
- Safety, Handling, and Routing
- Self-Care will be interactive between sessions and we will provide resources on this topic.
Schedule of sessions:
10:15 am Routing and Safety
11:15 am Winter Bike Maintenance
(Lunch break at noon)
12:30 pm What to Wear
1:30 pm Gear Swap
A community gear swap with essential winter items and bike gear will finish off the event.
Things to know about the Skill Share
This event is open to all FTW (femme, trans nonbinary, two-spirit and women) riders! If you are a cis man who benefits from cis-male privilege, please respect this space and do not attend this event. Read more about WTF is FTW.
This event is NEWBIE and BEGINNER FRIENDLY! Come with questions and leave feeling more confident and ready to take on Minnesota’s most interesting season.
Masks are required in the presentation space. The smaller classroom has snacks; if you are not actively eating or drinking, please keep masks on during the event. The library does not require masks. Please stay home if you have a positive test or feel any symptoms.
This event is FREE. We want to keep things as accessible as possible to FTW, so this event, like all of our events, are volunteer-organized and run.
We run on DONATIONS of labor and goods. If you would like to donate your labor (volunteer) or goods (gear swap, snack table), please contact us at greaseragmpls at gmail.
The gear swap will include goods donated by community members like you! You’re invited to bring bike gear you don’t use, a sweater you outgrew, studded tires you want to pass on, or base layers you no longer need, for example. First-time winter bikers are given priority at the swap. We accept gear for all biking seasons.
The skill shares are meant to share the basics with you. We encourage you to engage with our social media, make real-life connections with people at the skill share, and to attend open shops if you wish to learn more. Because there are so many approaches to biking, like life, it is impossible for us to tell you every detail of everything you might need to know! So be prepared to have some lingering questions – but don’t worry, we have a large community of people who are interested in helping you.