Open Shop Hours:

Sundays 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Mondays 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Drop in, anyone welcome. Come volunteer.
Note: Sundays are normally just a volunteer day, but for the winter months anyone welcome to come fix their bike.

Volunteer Training & Intro to Bike Repair

We host monthly volunteer orientations in our shop and regular bike repair workshops.  We want to train you to be a volunteer in our shop and in other Community Bike Shops around the City of Winnipeg. Come learn basic tool use, bike anatomy and get comfortable in a bike shop.

Volunteer Orientations – Sundays 1:30 – 3:30 PM

January 22, February 12, March 11

* Please get in touch with us through email or phone if you can’t reach us during our posted schedule.

An Outstanding Success!

It’s hard to know where to start. We had over 70 volunteers over 24 hours and we built 229 bikes!!  

A HUGE  THANKS to each and every person that made it a fun, exciting, first time event. Here is a first attempt at thanking all involved:

All the people who volunteered to wrench on bikes!

The Bike Dump volunteers – for helping for the full 24 hours.

The Atomic Centre – for providing us a spectacular Santa’s bike workshop.

Bikes and Beyond, Orioles Bikes Cage, Elim Chapel, Hugh John MacDonald, Ice Riders, University of Manitoba Bike Dungeon, for dedicated mechanic volunteers that worked around the clock repairing and building children’s bikes.

To the following for feeding us and everyone that came through the doors: Black Sheep Diner, Organic Planet, Jonnies Sticky Buns, Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse, Salisbury House, and Curtis Palmer at Panago Pizza.

To the local media for helping us get the word out.

To all the public that heard about it and came down to lend a hand, drop off bike donations or provide food.

THANK YOU to everyone for being a part of the Cycle of Giving.

Cycle of Giving PHOTOS here.

Cycle of Giving brought volunteer mechanics together for a 24 hour kids bike building marathon. The Atomic Centre was turned into a magic workshop where salvaged and donated used bicycles were transformed into holiday dreams come true. Our goal was 150 bikes but we built 229! Ten community organizations received the donated bicycles and then distributed them to their clients and community members.

If you still want to make a donation, you can.

Donate online

Listen to WRENCH board member Pat Krawec talk about the Cycle of Giving on CBC radio One’s Information Radio here. Read the Uptown article about Cycle of Giving here.

Having some fun and getting greasy: participants repair hubs as part of WRENCH workshop.

June saw The WRENCH wrapping up 2 youth bike repair programs; a 5 day junior mechanics course with grade 5 students at Riverbend School and a 10 week earn-a-bike course with youth from Tuxedo Family Center.

Keep your eyes peeled to for young folks riding the streets of winnipeg beaming with pride, astride their newly rebuilt bikes! If you see us out in the community, stop and ask us about the WRENCH.