Free Cycles

• SHOP CLOSED ON JUNE 19th •

All are welcome to join our community breakfast potluck with Texas 4000 Texas 4000 For Cancer on June 19th, from 7-10am!

Bring a dish to share, and join the riders on their next leg up to Polson! (or just for a few miles…) 💪🏼

We hope to see you there!

We’ve got new dates for Gender Equity Mechanics night! 🚲

✨G.E.M. is a gathering of women, trans, non-binary and gender-expansive people interested in learning hands-on bicycle maintenance and repair skills. ✨

Want to learn how to change a tire? Or tune up your shifting? We will learn that and much more during G.E.M night! 🤟🏽

All skill levels welcome. Be ready to get greasy and challenge yourself! 🛠️

We ask that cis men come to Free Cycles during open shop hours, from Wed-Sat, 10am-6pm.

Free admissions, yet donations are appreciated. Led by staff of Free Cycles as well as incredible volunteers from the community.

We’re so excited to announce the 30th Festival of Cycles is only a couple weeks away! 🤟🏽

Join us on Sunday, June 7th from 12-5pm for a day of celebration of the community of cycles, with bike repair work stations, activities and games for everyone to enjoy ✨

Bring your bike for a tune up, or work on one of our project bikes with help from Free Cycles staff.

If you play an instrument, drop by and play during the festival, we would love to have you there! Some light snacks and refreshments will be provided, but feel free to bring food and snacks to share with the community as well.

We hope to see you there! 🚲🫶🏼

Ready to detox from plastic? Join us for a powerful film night!

Join for a screening of The Plastic Detox, the eye-opening new Netflix documentary that reveals how plastics and toxic chemicals are affecting our bodies, health, and planet — and what we can do about it 🌍💚

Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Doors open at 6pm
Free Cycles | 732 S. 1st Street

Stick around after the film for a discussion and community conversation where we'll explore tangible ways to reduce plastic exposure in our daily lives and advocate for systemic change in Missoula and beyond.

🌿 Bring a friend, bring your questions!

Presented by: Montana Plastic Free Missoula, Grow Safe Missoula, Families for a Livable Cliamte, Cliamte Smart Missoula, Home ReSource, and Free Cycles

We are happy to announce that we are making good, steady progress on our Free Cycles Forever Campaign that we launched last spring! With this campaign we aim to pay off the property debt and secure our space, so we can redirect our resources to increased services for the community, more staff training, more kids programs, improving our property and much more!

The lender contracts stipulate $200,000 due by July 1st, 2026 (we are so close to reaching that amount!!), and $100,000 due every July 1st thereafter, until the note is paid in full. Ideally we would like to pay off the whole amount now ($800,000), instead of fundraising every year for the property. We can do this! 💪🏼

So many people have helped Free Cycles over the last 30 years, and we've been honored to help the community with bicycle services, healthy city initiatives and hosting community events.

✨Help us secure our space by donating through the link in our bio. Any amount helps!✨

We’re excited to continue serving the community for years to come!

Save the Date for this year's Bike Sale & Bazaar!

We're hosting the 2026 Annual Free Cycles Bike Sale & Bazaar! Come support your local Community Bike Shop Saturday April 25th from 10:00AM-5:00PM


Discounts including:

• 20% off all our refurbished sale bikes
• All Warehouse Bikes on sale for $10.00

We’re also inviting anyone to bring their own parts, gear, and bicycles to swap, trade, or sell with the community at our Bike Bazaar!
For table details email: [email protected]

•Be sure to B.Y.O.T(-Shirt) to be Screen printed from 1:00PM-4:00PM

There is no set fee to sell your gear or your cycles, although we’d appreciate any donation from your proceeds!

Proceeds from the Bike Sale and Bazaar will go towards our Free Cycles Forever Campaign and to help keep our Open Shop and Build a Bike program free for the community.

With hundreds of bikes to choose from! Regular programming will be on hold for this special day (no bike fixing or building). Support your local non-profit, re-use, and pedal power!

Join us for an evening of community celebration in support of Earth Within Girls! Enjoy three hours of DJ-led dancing, seed bomb creation, and silent auction bidding on a plethora of items donated by local businesses.

🌼 All welcome! Costumes encouraged but not required! 🌼

Tickets are offered on a sliding scale of $10–$30, with a suggested donation of $20. Please choose the amount that best fits your ability to give—no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

All ticket sales benefit Earth Within Girls scholarship programs for low income, Indigenous and refugee youth.

Gender Equity Mechanics is back! 🚲

G.E.M. is a gathering of women, trans, non-binary and gender-expansive people interested in learning hands-on bicycle maintenance and repair skills. All skill levels welcome. Be ready to get greasy and challenge yourself! 🛠️

We ask that males come to Free Cycles during open shop hours, from Wed-Sat, 10am-6pm.

Free admissions, yet donations are appreciated. Led by staff of Free Cycles as well as incredible volunteers from the community.

Upcoming events this February at Free Cycles✨ What a busy month!!

Check our website for more information at freecycles.org/calendar

Time to spread some LOVE around! Come over to make Valentines Yard Signs, on Saturday, February 14th, from
3:00-5:00pm (before Square Dancing).
All ages welcome!

$5 donation (to cover supplies — we have blank yard signs etc.)
RSVP: [email protected] < so we have supplies for everyone.