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Oaks and Spokes began as a grassroots movement in Raleigh, NC, founded by Kristy Jackson, a passionate advocate for safe and sustainable transportation. Her goal was simple: to get more people on bikes. With support from Raleigh’s cycling community, she organized rides, spoke before City Council, pushed for better biking infrastructure, and built momentum for change.
In 2013, Oaks and Spokes hosted its first bike festival, drawing over 1,200 participants and kicking off a tradition of annual Bike Month events. By 2016, the organization had officially become a 501c3 nonprofit, expanding its reach and helping secure Raleigh’s first protected bike lanes on West and Harrington Streets. In 2017, a group of volunteer bike mechanics affiliated with Oaks and Spokes formed the Raleigh Community Kickstand, a bike-donation and repair co-op help individuals with housing insecurity obtain and maintain reliable and independent transportation.
Growth continued, and in 2021, Oaks and Spokes hired its first staff member. That same year, the League of American Bicyclists named it “Club of the Year.” In 2022, the organization secured its first contract with Wake County to expand Safe Routes to School educational programming for school children. And in 2023, the Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) honored the organization’s impact with their “Excellence in Advocacy” award.

The Green Line: Adult Bike Bus 50 Years of the Greenway

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The Green Line: Commuter Bike Bus for Working Adults

Raleigh Kidical Mass

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Kidical Mass: Fall 2026!

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A letter to the Mayor and members of City Council regarding recent cyclist collisions on Hillsborough St - May, 2026

The Green Line - A Weekly Commuter Bike Bus for Working Adults

Kidical Mass - Spring 2026

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Update: Driver suspected being impaired. Crossed centerline head on. Injury count is now 20, with 1 death. Awful news out of Apex this morning. Please check in on your riding groups and friends.

Our next monthly mail club risograph print, printed by @roundaboutriso, is here! Designed by a human, and that human is @justicedunne! To join our monthly mail club, all you have to do is become a monthly sustaining member of Oaks and Spokes at $10 (or more) a month. Linked in profile. If you’re not already a monthly sustaining member and sign up this month, we’ll go ahead and send you the previous two prints (while supplies last) along with this month’s print! Also, look at that tiny yellow basket on the back of the bike!

Last night, Raleigh voted YES on the Transportation Bond! This bond will fund important new infrastructure that will improve safety and access for people biking, walking, and using micromobility.

Reposting for those who missed it and are going out to vote today. The transportation bond supports active mobility infrastructure, including the City of Raleigh’s Big Jump scope of projects, which aims to deliver 50 new miles of bike infrastructure in 5 years.

CRANKSGIVING 2026 Cranksgiving Raleigh is back! Sunday, November 22nd | 1:00 PM | Crank Arm Brewing - Raleigh Last year, we had over 150 participants who purchased, hauled, and collectively donated nearly 2 tons of food to the Raleigh Rescue Mission! Let’s see if we can repeat that again this year! What to bring: Yourself, your bike (or another micro-mobility vehicle), family and friends, a lock, a bag or bags, a basket (or some other way to carry groceries), and some money. Remember, Cranksgiving is a fun, family-friendly food drive by bike. There is no competition. All donations, no matter how big or small, are welcome and appreciated. Yes, we do gamify the event for those riders looking to have a little extra fun with it, but we want to encourage everyone to participate at whatever level they can and feel comfortable with. The event is free to attend. No purchase is required to participate if you just want to ride along with your friends or volunteer. All donations for this event go to the Raleigh Rescue Mission. Photos by @lisaheegaard

217! Happy Halloween. Stay safe out there.

Looking for a ghouls night out tonight? Join @raleighcriticalmass! 7:00 PM from the NCSU Bell Tower.

Reminder: If you need a ride to vote, use “VOTE26” to unlock 2 free 30 minute rides with @lime. Share with someone who you know needs help getting to early voting now or their polling place next Tuesday. Or, take a bike or a scoot and ditch the car yourself!

The LAST Green Line ride for 2026 in THIS WEDNESDAY! Wednesday, October 28 | 7:30 AM | Lockwood Park Starting this spring, we kicked off our pilot commuter bike bus on the greenway, called The Green Line. As we approach the colder, darker months of autumn and winter, we’re taking the opportunity to pause the bike bus until next spring 2027. So, if you’ve always wanted to join this ride but haven’t had the chance, this Wednesday is your opportunity! If you’ve already done the ride, come join us one last time THIS WEDNESDAY. And if you’re a regular, we hope to see you out there once again THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING! Meet us at the starting point or anywhere along the route. Full route is approximately 16 miles, 90% on greenway. GREEN LINE SCHEDULE (arrive early): 7:30 AM: Lockwood Park – Departure 7:45 AM: Industrial Dr – Ride by 7:48 AM: Kiwanis Park – Ride by 7:50 AM: Anderson Dr and Claremont Rd – Ride by 7:58 AM: Lassiter Mill Rd – Ride by 8:05 AM: Alleghany Dr – Ride by 8:08 AM: Ironwood Trail at Crabtree Creek Trail – Ride by 8:12 AM: McDonald’s at Crabtree Valley Ave – Stop (2 mins) 8:19 AM: Field at Glen Eden Park – Ride by 8:25 AM: Gravel Parking Lot at Horton St – Ride by 8:28 AM: Pedestrian Bridge at Reedy Creek Trail – Stop (2 mins) 8:36 AM: Hillsborough St at Faircloth St – Ride by 8:46 AM: NCSU at Carmichael Gymnasium – Ride by 8:52 AM: Central Prison at Western Blvd – Ride by 8:56 AM: Boylan Bridge at Rebus Works – Ride by 9:03 AM: Moore Square – End of Line FUN FACT: It has rained ONLY ONCE on a Wednesday since April 1st. Shout out to @itza_mariza for all the selfies and basically attending almost every ride!

FREE RIDES TO THE POLLS WITH @lime. Between now and November 3rd, you can use code “VOTE26” in the Lime app to unlock two free 30-minute rides. Ditch the car and take a bike or scooter to vote. Or better yet, share this info with someone you know who doesn’t have reliable transportation and could use this benefit to vote.

Just got a bunch more copies of our zine, “Spoke City: A Guide to Navigating Raleigh by Bicycle... or Any Way You Choose, If You Choose to Ditch Your Car.” It’s 26 pages of route planning and wayfinding resources, along with grainy film photography of life on a bike in the Raleigh area. Speaking of route planning and wayfinding, we have two upcoming Bike Commuting workshops at Dix Park’s Chapel. All attendees will get to take home a copy! TOMORROW, Thursday, 10/22 at 5:30 PM: Bike Commuting 101: Route Planning and Wayfinding Thursday, 10/29 at 5:30 PM: Bike Commuting 201: Don’t Pollute the Commute: An Intro to Riding Your Bike to Work.

Voters can’t believe slide #7! —————— Early voting starts today, and there is a lot on this year’s ballot for you to consider. Here is what you need to know about the City of Raleigh’s Transportation Bond.

Two free bike maintenance classes in the books at Dix Park! Thanks to all who came out, learned, and help. Don’t forget, next Thursday (10/22), we are hosting our Route Planning and Wayfinding workshop. And the following Thursday (10/29), our Bike Commuting workshop. Registration linked in profile.

UPDATE 10/10: Learn to Ride at Lions and at Dix Park canceled due to rain.

Our first Learn to Ride for Adults wrapped up yesterday. Give a round of 👏👏👏 for our graduates!!

October mail club going out this week! Want to join? Become a monthly supporting member at $10 or more (linked in profile). Support our work, get art in the mail! Designs by human: @justicedunne Printed by @roundaboutriso

One of the benefits of being an Oaks and Spokes member is access to our GoPass which you can use to ride GoRaleigh and GoTriangle buses for free! 1400+ potential car trips replaced by bus during our first year with GoPass, and 3800+ in our second year. How many car trips will we replace in year three? Sign up today! If you’re already an Oaks and Spokes member and you’re reading this, your new GoPass code is in your inbox right now!

UPDATE (10/2): Sunday’s (10/04) 50 for 50 ride is canceled due to the forecasted rain and storms. Let’s keep celebrating the 50th anniversary of our greenways! The first week of October, the City of Raleigh, alongside Oaks and Spokes and several other organizations and community groups, will be hosting a series of events to acknowledge and celebrate our greenways’ birthday! See all events on the last slide. Outside of the events featured above, we also want to invite you to the @cityofraleighmuseum’s special greenway exhibit, “A Park With a City In It,” on Thursday, October 8th, from 5–7 PM. There will be a discussion panel featuring our own Executive Director, Jared Harber. We hope to see you out there! Branding concept and artwork made by a human, and that human is @bryancouchman

The algorithm hates text-heavy images, so we need you to read and then like, comment, share, and repost. We need your help to turn the power on at our two sea cans (named Sherri and Larry) we have in Dix Park. These containers will act as mini workshops to do a lot of the work we’ve been doing for years- open shop hours, bike donation repairs, and bike maintenance and repair skill share. We also hope they can become a little more. We are asking for a small contribution to help purchase a whole solar power set up so that we can have lights, fans, and power for other things like tools or, who knows, a projector in which we can host tiny movie nights. Happy end of summer to you and yours.

Upcoming bike workshops at Dix Park this October, kicking off two weeks from today on October 1st! Registration is live for the two bike maintenance classes (linked in profile). Attend one, two, three, or all four. Sign up for whichever class you want to attend. We will have a few bikes to practice maintenance on, but if you want to bring your own, please do! We also want to encourage those attending the Bike Commuting 101 and 201 classes to bring their bikes. There will be an optional riding activity as part of each class to put what we learn into practice.

Drafting out our new, PERMANENT traffic garden at @dixpark. Wait for the jazzy ride along at the end.

Do you or someone you know want to learn how to ride a bike? Starting next Monday, we are kicking off a four part Adult Learn To Ride series at Pullen Park. Registration is open (link in profile or take a screen shot of this flyer and follow the QR code).

Happy Labor Day! Please read: Raleigh Community Kickstand rarely, if ever, asks for financial support, but they do need a little bit of help with getting a solar power setup for two new shipping containers. If you got a little bit extra you can give, please do. Link in profile to donate and to learn more.

We will be wrapping up our back-to-school fundraiser this weekend, supporting all of our Safe Routes to School programming for the remainder of this year. We are 50% the way of our goal. So far in 2026, we’ve helped more than 540 kids learn to ride, build their biking skills, learn essential traffic rules, and simply enjoy riding bikes with their families in Raleigh. But fewer kids are biking today. In the U.S. in the 90s, an average of about 20.5 million kids rode bikes regularly. By 2023, that number had fallen to about 10.9 million. We want to help change that, hope you do, too. In our monthly Learn to Ride classes, nearly 40% of kids, on average, are pedaling independently by the end of class, and more than 90% improve their riding skills. Helping kids fall in love with biking today can create adults who continue to ride tomorrow and who better understand and respect people biking on our roads. Make a donation today and help us get more kids riding! Donation link in profile.

Mark your calendars. The first week of October we are celebrating our greenway’s 50th birthday! More details to come. Design made by a human, and that human is @bryancouchman

Kidical Mass (09/04) CANCELED due to significant heat advisory.

It’s back to school! Help us raise $10,000 to reach 500 more kids before the end of the year! So far in 2026, we’ve directly served more than 540 kids through our Safe Routes to School programming. A big part of that work is bringing All Kids Bike balance bike fleets and bike education curriculum to Raleigh elementary schools, with the majority going to Title I schools. We’re now up to 18 schools, giving more kids the opportunity to learn how to ride a bike right at school! Help us keep growing this work and reach the next 500 kids. Make a donation today (link in profile)!

JOIN OUR MONTHLY RISOGRAPH MAIL CLUB! Become a monthly sustainer member at $10 or $20 a month and receive a tiny risograph print in the mail this month and for the next six months. Printed right here in Raleigh by @roundaboutriso. This month’s print is designed by our friend @justicedunne. In fact, this month’s and the next five prints will all feature unique designs by Justice, with artwork inspired by Raleigh’s greenways in celebration of their 50th anniversary this year. How it works: Go to the link in our profile, become a monthly sustainer at $10 (or more) a month, be sure to include your mailing address, and you’ll get a new print every month! Easy peasy lemon squeezy. If you’re already a member, you can also update your membership to a monthly membership plan to join the mail club! More about Roundabout Riso: Roundabout Riso is a risograph print shop run by Justice Dunne out of his home in Raleigh, NC. Justice has been offering small-run printing and custom notepad creation since 2024. Justice also hosts risograph workshops for anyone interested in creating and printing their own designs. You can learn more about the shop and sign up for a workshop over at @roundaboutriso.

Upcoming August events presented without music so you can read and plan in blissful silence. #thankyouforridingyourbike

Sat, Aug 15: Point to Point: Coffee to Coffee Ride sponsored by Drift Coffee. @driftcoffee.kitchen’s new Dix Park location at the Weld is opening this coming August, and they are sponsoring a point to point ride to celebrate and help us continue to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the greenways. Meet at Drift Ridgewood at 8:30 AM for coffee or breakfast before we roll out at 9:15. The route will be a 10 mile out and back, all on greenways!

POV: riding your bike in the Hillsborough St bike lane

Kidical Mass is THIS FRIDAY | 5:30 PM | from Walnut Creek Wetland Center

Before there were trolls, there were sunflowers!

Literally people are killed due to inadequate funding for safe infrastructure for non car-drivers, but sure, if you think it’s an OK editorial decision to allow/include Bike Lanes, which make up like 2% of Wake County’s combined transportation budgets, as Biggest Waste of Public Money, then bravo, @indyweek.

Kidical Mass summer schedule is live, kicking off this Friday from Green Hills County Park. June 26 | 5:30 PM | Green Hills Park July 17 | 5:30 PM | Walnut Creek Wetland Center August 7 | 5:30 PM | Eastgate Park If you have not attended a Kidical Mass before, you can learn more about to expect at OaksAndSpokes.org/blog

Reminder: If you did not pickup your Bike Month Passport swag at the Bike Month finale party, you can pick them up at @munjomunjo in Downtown Raleigh. If you attended and received stamps for 3 events, you get a patch, 5, a free small pizza at Trophy Brewing (Morgan St or Five Points), 7 (or more), a Bike Month musette (pictured). Available for pickup through the end of June! All musettes left over will be available for purchase if you wanted one but were unable to attend 7 events.

“Hey, I’m going to be late. I am stuck in traffic, and LOVING every second of it!” Critical Mass last Friday had over 300 riders, making it the single largest group ride in Raleigh’s history. So, when they say Raleigh doesn’t have a bike culture, show them this. They can’t ignore us anymore! Bike Month is the best! Video from @netposer

I mean, who even says “Five Points Street?” See you Sunday at @le.dive.bar for the Bike Month finale.

@raleighcriticalmass tomorrow (and every last Friday). 7 PM from Bell Tower. ✌️🎂

We had a great time for a our second Bikes Mean Business ride with @downtownraleighalliance this past Sunday, celebrating Geek Pride Day by biking as a group to @rebusworks, @sorrystate, @thenewsagentsshop, @k80stew latest art install, @soandsobooks, @superradretrolounge, and to @dixpark to see the Trolls! Bikes Mean Business is a ride to show how easy it is to bike and explore all that Downtown Raleigh has to offer AND to show others, including our small business owners, that people on bikes are economic engines, and that making it easier to bike to your shop, restaurant, bar, etc is good for business!

THE LAST WEEK of Bike Month starts now. Bike Month is coming to a close, but there are still a few more events we want you to check out. The Green Line Commuter Bike Bus on the greenway rolls every Wednesday morning! @oakcitycycling is hosting another Short Track MTB race at Spring Hill in Dix Park on Wednesday night. THIS FRIDAY IS THE TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF @raleighcriticalmass!!! Join @torc_nc for their Intro to Mountain Biking for Kids workshop this Saturday. AND YES! COME TO THE BIKE MONTH FINALE! The official afterparty at @le.dive.bar is where you can pick up all the free swag you earned with this year’s Bike Month passport. And that’s not all! We will be hosting Gold Sprints at the afterparty, so come get your swag, hang out, and test your strength and speed at Gold Sprints!

‼️DID YOU KNOW‼️that becoming an Oaks and Spokes member gives you access to ride both GoRaleigh and GoTriangle buses for FREE? All members have access to Oaks and Spokes’ GoPass, which gives unlimited bus rides around Raleigh and between Raleigh, Cary, Wake Forest, Chapel Hill, and Durham. An Oaks and Spokes membership is only $25 a year, basically the cost of takeout for one dinner nowadays. It supports our work, provides insurance coverage while attending our events and rides, strengthens our advocacy impact, and gives you a say in the organization’s future as well. It is an easy way to get more involved. So the next time you pass a gas station and say, “DANG! THE PRICE WENT UP AGAIN?” consider becoming a member. Sure, not everyone can bike, commute, or walk to work. But taking the bus, or taking the bus with your bike, can make car-free commuting much more possible. Membership linked in profile.

On tonight’s Ride of Silence, we gave the 18-year-long-standing ghost bike on Nazareth Street its name. Nancy Leidy was killed while riding her bicycle by a drunk driver in 2008. Thank you to everyone who showed up tonight. Your presence means so much.

This evening (05/20) is the Ride of Silence. Communities from all over, including Raleigh, will be leading rides to to honor victims of traffic violence. The Ride of Silence is a way to reflect, protest, and honor cyclists, pedestrians, and anyone who undeservedly died on American roads outside of a car. If you have ever ridden a bicycle on a road, which is nearly everyone, we ask that you attend. We will be meeting at Nash Square at 5:30 PM. There will be a short program before the ride, during which we will hear a couple of survivor stories. The overall distance of the ride is 7 miles. We will be rolling at a casual pace, visiting a couple of nearby sites where people lost their lives while riding and walking. I know we are competing for your attention with Crank Arm’s Wednesday night ride and Oak City Cycling’s Short Track race at Spring Hill in Dix Park, but if you can make it, please do. We should be wrapped up by 7 PM. Thank you

How many people will you bring to Critical Mass this month? May 29th at 7 PM WE ARE TRAFFIC. Rolling from the Bell Tower on Hillsborough St. All people-powered wheels welcome! This is the original street takeover. All people and modes deserve to exist on public roads, not just the most expensive, destructive, and polluting ones.

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