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Cycling Sisters Seek Wheel Truth
Grassroots Group Arms Women With Repair Skills to Encourage Biking

Amid the sculpture and paintings exhibited at this year's Critical Mass Art Show, gathered a group of women in late February to master an art of another sort: truing a bicycle wheel.

Instructor Sharon Kaminecki demonstrated to a rapt audience at High School Gallery the art (and science) of adjusting the wheel's trueness laterally, then adjusting radial tension, and finally, dishing the wheel.

The workshop is one of an ongoing series organized by Cycling Sisters, a grassroots organization that fosters education and support for women who use or want to use their bicycles as a primary mode of transportation.

To learn more about Cycling Sisters' maintenance workshops and other activities, visit their home page at www.cyclingsisters.org.

Above: Sharon Kaminecki (left) guides workshop participant Sherry Daun through the process of truing a wheel at the Cycling Sisters recent bike maintenance workshop.