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    Portland Gear Hub

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    Tues – Fri 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
    Saturday 10:00am – 4:00 pm

    207-761-7632

    155 Washington Ave. Portland, ME

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    The Portland Gear Hub’s Bike School is an education and program space located at 85 Anderson St. in Portland, ME.

    Interested in learning more about bike maintenance? Register for a Class or sign up to Volunteer.

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    For service, retail, and donation drop-offs, visit our retail store at 155 Washington Ave.

Getting Everybody on Bikes, Together

Did you know that with your support, over 200 people earned bikes at no cost in 2021? Every donation and every purchase YOU make helps us get more of our community safely out on bikes through our Bikes for All Mainers and Kids Bike Party earn-a-bike programs.

2022 Program Registration Now Open!

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Volunteering is a great way to learn about repairing bikes and meet other bike friends! View the details and sign up for a shift here:

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MTB Skill Builder Classes

Our MTB Skills Builder Classes are back for the 4th year with the Gear Hub!

The MTB Skill Builder offers classes for new and seasoned MTB riders alike to practice body positioning over different terrain, cornering, braking, climbing and descending. It’s a fun and friendly way to meet other riders and hone your skills!

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Antique of the Week 🐎 WALD BASKETS 🧺
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Antique of the Week 🐎 WALD BASKETS 🧺 Presented by the heavy-lifting steel-is-real @jessebillypilgrim ::: In the early 1900's America experienced a bicycle boom and hundreds of small businesses sprung up around the country creating new accessories and tools for a bottomless market. One of these companies was named WALD who created an early bicycle multitool in a garage in Sheboygan, Michigan. They were fairly successful with this invention, but WALD needed room to grow and they relocated to Maysville, Kentucky, and started producing bicycle baskets out of steel. Over 100 years later they are still producing the same baskets, in the same location, as well as handlebars, kickstands, and training wheels and continue to be one of the only major manufacturers of bicycle components in the US. We think Wald Baskets look great and are very handy for grabbing groceries, transporting small dogs, or even major bicycle touring. Norma Jean Belloff toured across the country from West to East in 1947 on a single speed Schwinn DX balloon tire bike and carried her belongings in one. We ❤️ WALD baskets so much that we featured them on our brand new Portland Gear Hub Tees. If you are in the market for a handy and stylish way to carry stuff, or a T-Shirt we have both. ((The inspiration // obsession revealed)) Thanks, WALD!!!

We’re psyched to announce that we’ll be hostin
We’re psyched to announce that we’ll be hosting monthly GEO Open Bench Time every month this summer!! ☀️ We’re matching them up with @joyrideportland (4th Sunday of every month), so following every Joy Ride there will be a Free night of wrenching (Tuesdays) at the Bike School! Gender Equality Outdoors aims to make space for, share skills with, and to celebrate folx who identify as women, femme, trans, and/ or are more gender fluid. It’s free, but advance sign-ups encouraged to reserve a bench - we only have a few! Link in bio ☝🏽 #genderequalityoutdoors #openbenchtime #gearhubbikeschool

Do YOU or someone you know want to earn a bike thi
Do YOU or someone you know want to earn a bike this summer?! Bikes for All Mainers kicks off another summer season starting June 1st! Bikes for All Mainers is a FREE program open to anyone age 12+ (yep, youth and adults) who would like to take a class learning the basics in traffic awareness and bike maintenance. At the end of the 2 hour class students get a bike, helmet, lights, and u-lock!!! Read about eligibility guidelines on our website and sign up! (Link in bio) 📸 Amazing bike portraits by @cpandre22 Thanks to support and funding by community volunteers, individual donors, the Onion Foundation, @planet_bike @kryptonitelock , the Michael T. Goulet Foundation, @bikemaine , and the awesome students who bring their whole families to earn bikes together. #teamworkmakesthedreamwork

Antique of the Week in sunshine yellow 🌞brought
Antique of the Week in sunshine yellow 🌞brought to you by a friend of the huffys, @jessebillypilgrim Huffy is one of the most recognisable names in the bicycle world, and is synonymous with a "department store bike". This week's Antique of the Week is a wicked cool looking, 80's Huffy Action SX BMX bike in bright yellow. This thing screams "please skid me" with its coaster brake and crayola tires. Huffy started in 1887 when George Huffman bought a sewing machine company and moved its production line to Dayton, Ohio where the company still calls home. They used the name Huffman and Dayton and eventually settled on the name Huffy in the 1950's. They dabbled in "high end" bikes like the Huffy Radio Bike, (a balloon tired bike that had a radio built into the gas tank) but always ended up doing best with mass produced discount bikes for the masses. A large number of Americans learned how to ride on a Huffy and they made bicycles that the average consumer could fathom spending on a new bike. Unfortunately as bikes got more complicated they had a hard time keeping up and produced bikes that were poorly made and had components that rarely held up. That being said I think that Huffy does a great job when they make simple bikes like this Action SX. #antiqueoftheweek #huffybike #huffybmx

Oh wow oh wow we are over the moon about these new
Oh wow oh wow we are over the moon about these new Gear Hub Basket tees and sweatshirts! Rachel Kobasa (@rachadilla) does it again with the stellar design &&& perfect printing from @littlechairprinting !!!! Get yourself a new pocket tee: Black/Teal or Natural/Eggplant Or sport a crewneck sweatshirt in Legion Blue/ Goldenrod And then load up your bike basket and riiiiide!!! #basketpacking #waldbasket #gearhubbike

While bikes are flying off the racks outside the s
While bikes are flying off the racks outside the shop, don’t forget to peek inside… lots of camping gear and some of our coolest and most unique bikes are hanging out in the “showroom.” See and test out the @tanglefootcycles Moonshiner (size medium) or take a spin on a @seven_cycles elium titanium road bike (size xs). They are surely wow-worthy 🤩 #portlandbuylocal #shopusedshoplocal

Huge thanks to Greater Portland NEMBA @gpnemba for
Huge thanks to Greater Portland NEMBA @gpnemba for volunteering yesterday afternoon and repairing 26 kids bikes for our upcoming Kids Bike Parties!!! Extra shout out to the awesome two young volunteers who test rode every bike to check the adults’ mechanic work 😉 They also donated funds to help us purchase repair parts like tires and fun grips so that our program bikes look spiffy and new again ✨ GPNEMBA is our local chapter of the New England Mountain Bike Association. They’re a nonprofit dedicated to promoting trail access and maintaining the mountain biking trails we all love to use! You can join as a member, volunteer, or donate! Check out their website at GPNEMBA.org 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲 Thank you!! #gpnemba #communitysupport #ridemtb #volunteerpower #thankyouforyourdonations #kidsbikeparty

Antique of the Week 🌍
Presented and restored in
Antique of the Week 🌍 Presented and restored in tandem by @jessebillypilgrim @dirtbag_randonneur [photos: the OG, the Before, the After] ✨ We were recently donated a well cared for and very well spec’d 1987 Jamis Dakar ~ Competition Series. I'll admit that I know very little about the bicycle company Jamis, so I was kind of excited to do some sleuthing. Luckily the mechanic that tuned this beauty up is a fellow antique bicycle aficionado and pointed me in the right direction. Jamis started in 1979 in Florida when they built a beach bike called the Earth Cruiser. They then started adding gears and tougher components to their beach cruisers to fill a need for the ever increasing demand for Mountain Bikes. In 1985 they introduced the Dakar, naming it after the capital of Senegal, and it is still a model in their lineup. This bike now has new handlebars, fast rolling Maxxis Ikon tires, and a complete restore of the original XT components. We DEFINITELY put our signature "Butter Bike" sticker on this one and it is one of our favorites to ride around our parking lot. #26inchlifestyle #antiqueoftheweek #jamisdakar #jamisbikes #gearhubbike #gearhubbutter #butterbikes

👋 Hi, heads up, we’re closing early today at
👋 Hi, heads up, we’re closing early today at 5pm!! Be back tomorrow when the sun’s shining! Thanks and apologies for any inconveniences. 🌦


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