May Bookings Open at 7pm today!

Hello MN Cargo Bike Library friends!

Thanks so much for your patience with us while we work to reopen our library AND scale to more locations this year (both inside Minneapolis and elsewhere in the state). We’re still finalizing details for our 2 additional Minneapolis locations, but we don’t want to keep our existing members from being able to borrow bikes in the meantime.

May Bookings Opening Tonight! At 7pm tonight our booking will reopen to existing MCBL members (those who took an in-person orientation in 2025). If you are signed up for our April or May orientations, you’ll get access to our booking platform following your orientation and will be able to book bikes then. If you haven’t gotten into an orientation yet, we’ll be opening our June orientation with our May 15th newsletter (and July with our June 15th newsletter, etc.) so stay tuned here! Our first bikes will roll out on May 7th. June bookings will open on May 15th.

Bikes Available: or May, we will roll out 4 bikes at the Lyndale location and 2 at our Brackett Park location. The bikes listed below will be bookable on our site for logged-in members starting tonight at 7pm (if you forgot your password, you can reset it via our site). Please be sure to closely read over the description of the bike you’re looking at to ensure it will fit you, your needs and your schedule re: check in/out days. When our new locations get up and running we’ll roll out more of our bikes. We may also rotate bikes between locations depending on demand, storage, etc. Check out the full fleet here: mcbl.bike/bikes

Check In/Check Out Times Changed: Please note: our check in/check out dates and times have changed from last year!

Check Out:

• Both locations: Thursdays from 6:30pm-7pm

Check In:

• Lyndale: Tuesdays by 7pm
• Brackett Park: Wednesdays by 7pm

Other Program Reminders

To protect our volunteer capacity to run the program, please do NOT book a bike if you are not able to check it out Thursday between 6:30-7pm. Each bike listing has details on the bike itself, which location it’s at + check in/out days/times, so be sure to review that before booking a bike. If your schedule changes at any point prior to your loan, you can cancel your booking directly through our website.

As a reminder, all bikes need to be transported by riding them to/from our locations – we do not allow members to transport bikes in a car (for safety and liability reasons), so please plan to walk, take transit, get a ride from a friend, or use bikeshare. OR – if you have a folding bike, most of our bikes can easily transport a folding bike in the cargo area with some straps/bungee cords!

For safety reasons, we do not permit members to install or uninstall accessories on the bikes (like child seats). We can make some limited modifications to install or uninstall kid seats, depending on volunteer availability, but please choose the bike that is set up to most closely fit your needs (based on the photo/description) and reach out to us at info@mcbl.bike ahead of your loan to see if we can help meet any individual needs you have re: different accessories.

If you want to volunteer or have any questions, ideas, feedback for us please don’t hesitate to email us via the contact form on our site or directly at info@mcbl.bike.

Upcoming Events: We hope to see many of you at the following events:

• April MCBL Orientation: Saturday, April 19th @ 10am (sold out)
• BikeMN’s 17th Anniversary Party on Thursday, April 30th from 4:45-8pm at Arbeiter
• Perennial Pastry Rides: Every Saturday in April @ 9am
• Lyndale Wheels & Bikes Rodeo: Saturday, May 16th 11am-2pm (we’re hoping to do bike test rides at this event! Reach out if you can help volunteer!)
• May MCBL Orientation: Saturday, May 2nd @ 2pm (sold out)
• June Orientation: Sunday, June 7th @ 11am (registration will open with May 15th newsletter)