About The Bicycle Frame Show
Sopo Bicycle Cooperative is your community bicycle repair shop. We make bicycle repair affordable by helping you do it yourself, and we believe in doing this in a safe community space where everyone feels welcome.
The Bicycle Frame Show is a celebration of everything we love about life: riding bicycles, making things beautiful, working together, creating culture, inspiring each other, and claiming Atlanta as a place where we can do these things.
We borrowed an idea from established group shows like the Vinyl Show and the Boombox Show. We wondered if designing on a bicycle frame was possible and whether artists would be interested in participating. We didn't know what we were getting ourselves into...
Almost all of the bicycles in the show are ordinary donations we received. We even taught bicycle repair with them by having folks new to Sopo remove their parts. While we were sandblasting and priming the frames, we received an overwhelming response to our open call for artists, and we weren't sure we could meet every request. In the end, we distributed close to 40 bicycles.
The purpose of The Bicycle Frame Show is put rideable works of art on the road, to raise some cash for our operating budget without turning to big corporations for help, and to help us be a part of a diverse and dynamic creative community. You can make this happen by buying a piece, building it into a working bike (hopefully at Sopo!), and taking it for a ride.
A million thanks to Radial Cafe for the longtime support and for being a partner in environmental responsibility, to Epidemik Coalition for designing our posters and hangtags, to DGS Powdercoating for the sandblasting, to Sean McGlincy for the beautiful photographs, Nathan Bolster and Zach Wolfe at Studio 900 for lending their space for our photo shoot, Ben Brian for rigging up the bikes, to the artists for turning an idea for a show into a reality that transcends imagination, and to the entire Sopo Bicycle Cooperative community for growing everyday.
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Sopo Bicycle Cooperative is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Our mission is to create equitable access to bicycling by providing affordable bicycle maintenance services and education. All donations to Sopo are tax deductible. The shop is located in the East Atlanta Village at 465-C Flat Shoals Avenue. Operating hours are Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7 pm until 10 pm and Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 2 pm until 5 pm. Visit www.sopobikes.org for more information.
