Bikes del Pueblo

This Saturday 3/7/26 is kicking off their Slow Your Roll campaign, which aims to improve street safety. We'll be there doing street safety audits for car-free transportation, including on-road 🚲 and on-sidewalk 🦼🛴🦽🛹 audit options. Get there however you can, and then let's audit street safety for your favorite mode of car-free travel. We'll also be offering mechanical assistance for you bike etc. Tag someone in Spring Valley and come on by! This is part of our SEEDS project, a CA Transformative Climate Community planning grant.

January 31, 2026: Hundreds of cyclists gathered in Balboa Park for a solidarity ride for Alex Pretti, whose life was taken by ICE while trying to protect his community. called for a nationwide remembrance ride, and San Diego cyclists from all over the county showed up to support and shouted their hearts out.

Bikes del Pueblo made the last minute decision to lead this massive bike ride, just a couple days prior to the event. We couldn’t have done it without the help from the SD bicycle community .bike .buds .fun

And please remember, protests are just the beginning—please do more. You can volunteer to connect with your community, join a mutual aid group, join a rapid response team, join a bike patrol, or start one!!
Never forget the others whose lives were stolen by ICE in the last month. They are: Renee Good, Keith Porter, Geraldo Lunas Campos, Victor Manuel Diaz, Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez–Cruz, Heber, Sanchez Dominguez, and Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres.

SOLIDARITY FOREVER 🫶🏽

SAN DIEGO: Join us for a nationwide solidarity ride in honor of Alex Pretti, organized by Angry Catfish in Minneapolis. Alex was a 37-year-old Veterans Affairs ICU nurse and passionate cyclist whose life was stolen by federal immigration agents when he was fatally shot while trying to protect his community. Cyclists across the country are uniting to remember him and stand for justice.

Meet Saturday 1/31 in Balboa Park at the Bea Evenson fountain at 11:00 am.

7th Annual Resistance Ride: NO ICE IN CITY HEIGHTS
Ride with us through the streets on City Heights on New Year’s Day.
Meet at Bikes del Pueblo 3986 El Cajon Blvd at 8am.
Collaboration with and

For this Giving Tuesday, consider donating your time with Bikes del Pueblo! You can do that by:
💜 Working alongside community members and helping them with bicycle repair
💜 Helping us find a new location for next year in the City Heights area
💜 Keeping an eye out on our location when passing through the area
💜 Or donate time and funds to other mutual aid groups

We will be closed Sunday, November 16 🌧️🌧️🌧️
What will your rainy day activities be? Let us know in the comments!
Stay safe out there.

Photo taken today 11/15 at Fairmount & El Cajon 😰

Beautiful Saturday night with community in City Heights! Thank you for including us for another Dia de los Mu***os celebration 🧡
We led a bike ride from Pop Up Winona to and joined the procession, and ended the night with food and music. Great night!

¡Sábado! Haremos una rodada en bici corta, apta para niñ@s, desde hasta donde empezará el Camino de Almas para el Día de los Mu***os que acompañamos caminando hasta volver a .

Saturday! We'll do a short, kid friendly ride from over to where a Camino de Almas procession will start for Día de los Mu***os. We'll walk with the procession back to .

Check out our latest zine, ISSUE 2: Ice Melts, Community is Bond.

We produced another collaborative zine that features art, photography, poetry, and entries about community & solidarity, bike maintenance, bikepacking, volunteering, bike nicknames, cycling in foreign places, Bike!Bike!, and Enero Zapatista 🖤🖤🖤

Thank you for welcoming us another year!

SPOOKY CRAWL 2025 👻🎃🦇
Join Bikes del Pueblo and SD cycling buds for our annual costume ride.
Friday, October 24, meet at 7pm at Bea Evenson Fountain in Balboa Park. Ride ends at Golden Hill Park.

Slide 2 is us at Spooky Crawl 2024 🖤

THIS IS WHAT COMMUNITY LOOKS LIKE 👏🏽👏🏽
Huge thanks for .l.m.fest for organizing these benefit shows for great causes and for welcoming Bikes del Pueblo to be a part of Chinga la Migra Fest and letting us reach out to the community—we gave out a few bikes 💜
Another highlight was meeting another bike collective —we will reunite at Bike!Bike! next month. Thanks for the tattoos!

Keep these community spaces alive!