Bikes | Free Ride | Lower Hutt

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Our programme

Get a free bike and free fix ups for your bike.

Build your cycling skills with your whānau with our Pedal Ready sessions. Volunteer to help us fix and maintain bikes in a community workshop setting.

Here are the dates for our next series of programmes.

Sat 23 Sept
Free Ride Workshop open
Lower Hutt
Multiple Dates
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Lower Hutt, 35 Hillary Court, Naenae, Lower Hutt 5011, New Zealand
Our workshop is open and we welcome volunteer mechanics with some experience. Our mission is to work through the pile of bikes to get ready for giving away. We are also available to service or fix your bike, but we have a limited capacity, so we'll let you know if it can't be done on the day.
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Sat 23 Sept
Whānau Bike Skills
Lower Hutt
Multiple Dates
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Lower Hutt, 35 Hillary Court, Naenae, Lower Hutt 5011, New Zealand
Learn to ride, build your skills or learn how to help your tamariki ride safely. This is a supportive whānau friendly bike riding course in the safety of a small, off road bike park. You can bring your own bike, or if you don't have one, we'll supply one, just let us know. Meet at Free Ride Workshop
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Sat 07 Oct
Monthly Free Fix UP at The Naenae Village Market
Lower Hutt
Multiple Dates
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Lower Hutt, Hillary Court, Naenae, Lower Hutt 5011, New Zealand
Get your bike safety checked or fixed for free at The Naenae Village Market on the first Saturday of the month.
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Stories

5 days ago
1 min

E Bike News

We have been tinkering with the idea of how we can bring e-bikes into our community, for our community to try. Some of you would have...

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Jul 12
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2023 Matariki Report - our numbers for the past 12 months.

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Nov 17, 2022
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Bike Drop!

Everything at Free Ride comes together in a Bike Drop. Giving away bikes is central to our community led model. When we have enough bikes...

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Aug 21, 2022
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Free monthly fix up kicks off!

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Aug 15, 2022
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The Evolution of Free Ride

It all started at The Bike Box... The Bike Box was set up by Project Lead Lily Chalmers while managing Naenae Clubhouse. Lily saw that...

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Jul 29, 2022
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How we work

Free Ride builds it's programme using member voice. Every member fills a membership survey, and the data from this survey is used to...

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Apr 12, 2022
1 min

The Kumara awards

We won a kumara award... Our Project The Bike Box won a Placemaking Aotearoa Kumara award. The Bike Box was set up by Project Lead Lily...

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About Free Ride.

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Free Ride was established in response to Hutt City Council building the Beltway Cycleway. Project lead Lily Chalmers was working at Naenae Clubhouse and was inspired to reduce the barriers to cycling for the local community in Naenae, after a bit of experimentation, the Free Ride membership programme came to life.