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 LGBQ Trans* Inclusive Mechanics and Community

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at A Tran's Bay Bike Shop!

Super-Cool Savings Through the Tra-La-La-La-Holidays, All Season Long.

Great Gifts, Rentals and Repairs for Gear Heads, Brand New Cyclists,

And All Folks Living and Loving Active Living and The Growing Trend of 

Eco-Friendly, Alternative Transportation.

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Bay Area Holiday Deals: All Bike Tune-Ups Half Off: 

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Happy #Trans Friday and #ShopSmall Saturday!

A TRAN'S BAY BIKE SHOP:

LGBQ Trans* Inclusive Mechanics and Community

"Black Friday...Why It Gotta Be BLACK?"

                  -RuPaul

That's Right: It's Official.

Today is now TRANS FRIDAY, and that means
SUPER DEALS for you at A Tran's Bay Bike Shop!

   

You want coupons? WE GOT 'EM.

You want DISCOUNTS? We got em!

LGBQ Trans* Inclusive Mechanics and Community?  
That's what we're all about.

AND YOU?!

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What you need to do is get some TLC for your bike ASAP, and Tammy Powers is an expert mechanic with decades of experience ready to hook you up.

Redeem this coupon below (click, print and go!) or just visit us and tell us you saw it. We honor all quoted discounts, always.

(After November, please call for all current offers and deals.)

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Sojourn Bicycle Tours Epic Wine Country Trailer

Sojourn Bicycle Tours Epic Wine Country Video

Beautiful! 

Happy Holidays! Co-Cycle Vacation, Anyone?

Co-cycle participants, courtesy of Co-cycle

Cooperative Tourism

Take a Co-cycle tour across the US while visiting and learning about cooperative working and living spaces. It's a fun, but rigorous touring schedule that's best for avid cyclists. The deadline to apply is April 8th. Or kick back and relax at Breitenbush, an affordable hot springs resort in Oregon run by a worker cooperative/intentional community that so co-op it hosts the Western Worker Cooperative Conference. While you're there, stop by Portland, Oregon to get a broad taste of sharing culture and visit local worker coops while biking around a model bike friendly town. Take a tour of the San Francisco Bay Area's beautiful coastline, hills and redwoods, and while you're there, see how many worker coops you can hit up using this map. For more participatory fun, stop by any one of the many collective bike kitchens in the Bay, and Noisebridge a famous hackerspace. If Europe is your thing, visit Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, the famous worker cooperative complex in Basque, Spain and learn how to create an autonomous cooperative economic region. See this video about Mondragon - what could be more inspiring!

Read the rest at Shareable.

 

Queen - Bicycle Race - Ride On? RIGHT ON!

Today Is Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Today Is Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Today, We Share and Send Our Love, Light and Healing Energies Around the World.

Please join us in commemorating the International Transgender Day of Rememberance for all our brothers and sisters worldwide who sacrificed for us, just for being themselves. 

Let's promote visibility, upliftment, love and peace. We live in your honor and continue to make great strides. You will always be loved and special in our hearts. 

- A Tran's Bay Bike Shop Team

San Francisco and More! Best Cities for Female Entrepreneurs

 

A Tran's Bay Bike Shop Is In the Right Place!

 Best Cities for Female Entrepreneurs

"Intuit published an infographic presenting the best cities for female entrepreneurs, as well as some interesting statistics about the state of women-owned businesses in the US. The report looked at median education levels, unemployment rates, income, population and percentage of business owned by women in each city to provide an overall score for female entrepreneurship.
San Francisco ranks number one, followed by Seattle, Washington DC, Minneapolis, and Portland...."

Read the rest here.

GoPro Mountain Bike Backflip Is a Downhill Thrill

 

"Super-extreme freestyle mountain biking looks like a thrill. But it's also dangerous as all get-out, and something most of us are too scared (or smart) to try. So here's a solution: Take a virtual ride down a precarious mountain slope and even hit a soaring backflip off a clip via GoPro.
Pro biker Kelly McGarry had a camera attached to him for his silver medal run at the 2013 Red Bull Rampage competition in Utah. The resulting video hit YouTube and is embedded above. It's stunning."

Click here to read the full story

Check Out the Bicycle Blue Book

From the Website:

Bicycle Database

Find Your Used Bike's Value!

  The Bicycle Blue Book Marketplace from Bicycle Blue Book on Vimeo.
Learn how to use the Bicycle Blue Book Marketplace to sell your new and used bikes.
http://www.bicyclebluebook.com/Marketplace.aspx

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Bicycle Blue Book knows what your bike is worth. We've compiled data from years of transactions (that adds up to millions of sales) to give you the most accurate valuation of your used bike. Got one you're looking to unload, or just curious to know what one is worth? Use the filters below to find the value of your bike. Whether you're just looking for your next road bike, or the value of all Cannondale's over the past 5 years, we've got all the data tucked away just waiting to be pored over.

November Deal: PRINT THIS COUPON

ONLY $40

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Contact A Tran's Bay Bike Shop for more info, or bring your bike in, any time in November for this awesome special!


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(After November, please call for all current offers and deals.) 

 

Daily Deals In November: Buy, Rent and Tune Up Your Bicycle

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Gay Agenda Magazine Printed My Spirit Day Story!

Thanks again, Gay Agenda!

Please click this link to see all of the press coverage about A Tran's Bay Bike Shop and myself that they've written this year.

http://gayagenda.com/?s=tammy+powers

5 Great Apps for Mountain Bikers

Seems like everyone has a smartphone these days—and many mountain bikers are bringing the technology on the trails. If you like to mountain bike, and own a smartphone, keep reading for a list of apps that can help you navigate trails, fix your bike, track your workout and more.

1. Atomic Softwares’ Bike Repair ($3.99)

©Atomic Software

Atomic Softwares’ Bike Repair is a practical mobile app that puts bike repair back into the cyclist’s hands. Need to adjust your derailleur, fix your shifting, remove your rear wheel or bleed your hydraulic brakes? There is no need to take your bike to the shop when it’s possible to repair bike problems on your own—at home or on the trail. With assistance from the Bike Repair app, learn how to fix 42 problems yourself, maintain your bike properly and address common bodily aches and pains. Step by step guides and large photos trump long text in this useful application. Visit their website for more information.

 

Read the full article here

Plan for THIS.

Groningen: The World's Most Bike-friendly City

Groningen: The World's Most Bike-friendly City


Check out this Streetfilms video below to learn about the 10,000 bike parking spaces at the train station, as well as the other elements the city has put into place to create a fast, energy efficient, and low-cost transportation system with bikes at the center. Other cities would do well to learn from Groningen.

Read the rest at Shareable

Show Us Your Love and Look Hot Doin' It: New T-Shirts!

Show Us Your Love and Look Hot Doin' It:

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Are you an athletic supporter or what?
Show us our love with a brand new, smokin' hot tee. YOUR tee!

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Snag Your Local Bike Thief: Project Freeride

Project Freeride

by Danielle Baker  

If you ride bikes then you have had a bike stolen or know someone who has. This is a fact. Bike theft is rampant. This summer we have seen an elevated profile of bike theft in the local media both with police work and vigilantism. August alone saw Dunbar Cycles team up with police on an undercover operation that recovered their stolen property, police recovered seven bikes through their bate bike program, and a local Vancouver woman steal her bike back from a thief when she found it for sale on Craig’s List. And these are only the stories that have been publicized.

Items found by police in a bike thief's backpack by police.

Bike theft falls into an ugly category of property crimes, the perfect storm for thieves; it is an easy crime with a value low enough to excuse any real punishment. Theft under $5000 in provincial court will garnish a slap on the wrist for first time offenders, fines ranging from $100-$400, suspended sentences with probation, or where there is prior related criminal behavior, short periods of jail time. With the frequency and growing popularity of it, bike theft was up 20% in Victoria last year and 38% in Calgary, we have ended up in a situation where insuring for actual value or claiming with the threat of rising deductibles often leaves us bikeless and bitter. In the past, reporting our bikes stolen to the police has felt like an exercise in futility. Often dismantled and shipped out of province before you pick up the phone, the chances of ever seeing your ride again are slim to none. But with a combination of the growing popularity of mountain biking and the rising value of our bikes, the police are taking a more pro-active approach and it leaves us, the bike owners, in the hot seat. Are we helping bike thieves and hindering police work?

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More from the article:

For all of your rides, record the brand, model, color, serial number, and modifications. Lock them up, and then lock them up again. Be aware of your surroundings. Stop Stravaing your rides from your house. Be smart, think about the bigger picture. While Kayla Smith 'stole' her bike back, and we all love a good vigilante story with a happy ending, the thief has probably already stolen a few more bikes since then. Adam Mantle from Dunbar Cycles teamed up with police and using his online research they were able to arrest and charge Wesley John Devries. He has not stolen a bike since. If your bike is stolen, by all means look for it on Craig’s List, put in the time and be proactive, but team up with police when you find it. While myopic actions can be sensationalized, they will do nothing to progress a solution for our community as a whole. 

Read the rest of the story here

San Francisco Holiday Deals: All Bike Tune-Ups Half Off | New Coupon

San Francisco Holiday Deals: All Bike Tune-Ups Half Off  | New Coupon


Special Offer

San Francisco Holiday Deals:

All Bike Tune-Ups Half Off In November!

Regular Price: $80
Half Off Pricing: for the Month of November:

ONLY $40

for A FULL TUNE-UP

Visit the shop for a half-off bike tune up, done by an expert mechanic, me! Tammy Powers.

Contact A Tran's Bay Bike Shop for more info, or bring your bike in, any time in November for this awesome special!


PRINTABLE COUPON

(After November, please call for all current offers and deals.) 

 

Daily Deals In November: Buy, Rent and Tune Up Your Bicycle

| Visit Us in Beautiful Treasure Island! | A Tran's Bay Bike Shop

1 Avenue of the Palms #021, San Francisco, California 94130 (415) 678-5323 

Drive With Care: Support Your Local Cyclist

From Richard Masoner and TreeHugger
Richard Masoner of Cyclelicious: " Bike Pittsburgh created this campaign and bought the outdoor ad space to remind drivers to pass with care, drive like a grownup, and take the high road."

Pretty nice campaign. Check it out at TreeHugger.