Bike Pirate Tune Up...Help Needed

Please note that we will be CLOSED on December 25th and 26th due to a penchant for sitting on our couch all day watching terrible Christmas movies - that opportunity only comes round but once a year!

And From January 1st through the 9th we will be CLOSED for an overhaul. We'll be doing a lot of cleaning and reorganizing, small reno work, upkeep, re-visioning and implementing some new organizational plans (think: inventory! usage log! bike sales tracking! Pirates are dreaming big this year).

If you would like to help with this tune-up - which may include creative thinking and heavy lifting - please let us know! Contact us at info (at) bikepirates (dot)com and we'll let you know what hours we plan to be in the shop.

Pirates will be open again for all regular scheduled hours on Monday January 10th. Any further closures over the winter due to weather or volunteer availability will be posted HERE.

We also have a Christmas Wish List, with some items that would make this tune-up even more successful. If you are able to donate any of these items or know where we might get them please let us know:
vinyl/rubber/laminate flooring (approx. 8' x 45')
new electric range
small display case
folding chairs (10-20)
Books and magazines related to cycling and bicycle repair (current or old, new or used)
sturdy extension cords (long or short)
screws and nails!
a gallon of paint - green or blue or purple maybe

many thanks for your help and support all year round!

RADICAL MOVIE NIGHT G20 Legal Fundraiser

RADICAL MOVIE NIGHT
G20 Legal Fundraiser

On Friday December 3rd we will be hosting a radical movie night to raise funds for our friends and allies facing G20 related legal charges.

Come join us for an amazing night of movies, drinks, board games, snacks, hanging out, and all around rockin good times.

All welcome!

7pm – 9pm: Land and Freedom (Tierra y Libertad)

Directed by Ken Loach, this 1995 film narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. A heart wrenching portrayal of the attempt by ordinary people to build an anarchist society, and its subsequent betrayal. The movie won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

10:30-midnight: What to do in Case of Fire (Was tun, wenn’s brennt?)

Directed by Gregor Schnitzler, this 2002 film tells the humorous and touching story of six anarchist friends living as squatters in Berlin in the 80s, when they leave a handcrafted bomb in a mansion. Only thirteen years later the bomb explodes, wounding two people, forcing the group to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated years ago.

Free popcorn!

Pay what you can (suggested $5-10). Come for one or both movies.
All proceeds go to the G20 Legal Defence Fund.

Winter Riding Workshop - This Sunday

This Sunday evening Bike Pirates will be hosting a workshop on Winter Cycling.

Topics will cover Winterizing your bicycle and yourself, as well as riding and safety tips, including suggestions on doing this DIY as well as tips on reliable clothing and equipment you can purchase.

Presented in cooperation with No Apathy the event is $5/pay-what-you-can, open to the public and will also include a meal from Food Not Bombs.

The Bike Pirates workspace and all No Apathy events strive to provide a safe and respectful environment open to everyone. Any oppressive behaviour or actions (racism, sexism, violence, etc.) will not be tolerated.

Bike Pirates also asks that folks respect our Women & Trans Hours on Sunday (running 12-6pm), by waiting until after 6:30 to queue for this workshop.

Winter Riding Workshop
Sunday November 28th
7pm-9pm $5/pwyc
Bike Pirates - 1292 Bloor St. West

More details available on the Facebook Event page.

Memeorial Ride in Solidarity with Fallen Cyclist

About a dozen of us rode to install a ghost bike and observe a amonement
of silence for Vicente 'Vince' Sering, 61 assistant pharmacist at St.
Mike's Hospital, father and husband of 33 years and very close to
retirement.
What a shitty place to die.

Star Obit:
"SERING, Vicente A. - Suddenly on Friday, November 19, 2010 at the age of
60 years. Beloved best friend and husband for 33 years of Laurene. Loving
father of Joey. Dear son of Victoriana and brother of Nena, Panoy and
Bobote. Predeceased by his father Eusequio. Also will be sadly missed by
all his nieces, nephews, sisters and brothers-in-law, friends and
co-workers. Vicente was a dedicated employee at St. Michael's Hospital for
over thirty years. Friends may call at the Turner & Porter 'Peel' Chapel,
2180 Hurontario St., Mississauga (Hwy 10, N. of QEW) from 7-9 p.m. on
Wednesday and from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Thursday. Prayers Thursday at 7:30
p.m. Funeral Mass will be held at Holy Angels Church, 61 Jutland Rd.,
Toronto on Friday, December 3, 2010 at 11 a.m. Interment Park Lawn
Cemetery. For those who wish, memorial donations may be made to the
Children's Make A Wish Foundation."

Group Bike Ride

Friday, October 15 - "Bike to the Future" Mobile Dance Party

Ghost Bike Placed at the Bottom of Colborne Lodge and Lakeshore

A cyclist was killed Sunday night after being struck by two cars.

Police say the male cyclist in his 40s was traveling south on Colborne Lodge Dr. and was trying to cross Lake Shore Blvd. W. when he was hit.

He was struck by a car travelling east, and the force of the impact threw him into another lane, where he was hit by a second car.

Nigel Ghough was pronounced dead at the scene.


The Bike was placed today and will be in the island where he was lost. His friends and fellow cyclists will remember.

Please visit his Memorial page
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=157499424275176

Or Flicker
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinreis/sets/72157624996068617/

Hello Everyone!
It is with great enthusiasm that we invite you the season finale of Art Spin on Thursday, September 30th which promises to be our best one yet. As usual we will be meeting in Trinity Bellwoods Park at the Queen St. gate between 6:30 - 7 pm. Geoff from the Bike Pirates will once again be on hand conducting complementary bike tune ups and we'll be Arting-up our bikes before we set off to visit a whole new selection of galleries and site specific performances, as well as a very special light based interactive group installation. There will be many surprises along the way and the whole tour ends at a 10,000 square foot historic warehouse for a group exhibition featuring the work of over 20 artists in all fields and disciplines followed by a racus after party with live musical performances by Michael Louis Johnson & The Red Rhythm, MooCow, Ludy Dobri & The Organic Streetscape Project and Rambunctious. Catered appetizers and drinks will be served.

Whether or not you've been on Art Spin before this tour is poised to be one of the most engaging and exciting art events of the season and something not to be missed.

See atached evite for more details, or visit our website, www.artspin.ca, for a more complete list of all participating artists.

If you are interested in only attending the exhibition portion of this event the warehouse space is located at 1655 Dupont St in the Planet Building. It runs between 9pm - 1am, and feel free to invite your friends.

On behalf of the Art Spin team thanks for making the 2010 installment of Art Spin so successful and so much fun. We hope to see you all on the 30th!

Cheers,

The Art Spin Team
info@artspin.ca
www.artspin.ca

Celebrate a Car Free Day

Car Free Day Event on Concord Avenue (Sun. Sept. 12th) Toronto, ON

This has become an annual event for this neighborhoods with a street party, road closures for several blocks south of Bloor Ave. Contact Ron Nash (ron.nash@sympatico.ca).

Car Free Day Event on Delaware Avenue (Sat. Sept. 18th) Toronto, ON

Delaware Ave. between Shanly and Hallam Streets in the Dovercourt neighborhood will be closed for a petrol-free party for residents from noon to 11 pm. Contact Heidi Westfield at heidiwestfield@yahoo.ca.

Main Car Free Day Event at Queen’s Park North (Wed. Sept. 22nd)Toronto, ON

Our biggest Car Free Day has moved from Yonge & Dundas Square this year to Queen’s Park North. We are planning activities with U of T for their Environment Week. City of Toronto Council supported this event in a 31 to 3 vote on August 27. Activities will include cycling education and bike repair, an Art Battle, community tabling, yoga classes and more! Contact Emma Cane (emmac@sierraclub.ca).

Car Free Day in Mississauga, (Sat. Sept. 25th) Mississauga, ON

Mississauga's Car Free celebration will take place at Streetsville Memorial Park from 9 am to noon.

Co-sponsored by TD Friends of the Environment, City of Mississauga and Ontario government along with the busy Peel Group of the Sierra Club. You can expect face painting, community groups, speakers and displays on environmental and transit issues, musical entertainment, BBQ and much more. Contact Rosemary Keenan (rosemarykeenan@rogers.com) or Peter Orphanos (porphanos@rogers.com).

Car Free Day in Leslieville, (Sat. Sept. 25th) Toronto, ON

Another annual road closure and party organized by the residents, this one includes a pot luck dinner & activities. Contact Jennifer Story (jstory@rogers.com).

Car Free Day at 10/3 Lake Promenade in Etobicoke (Sun. Oct. 3rd) Etobicoke, ON

LakePromenadefrom 39th to 42nd Streets will be closed for a street party. You can bike or skate in from the Waterfront Trail near Marie Curtis Park. Join the folks for street hockey, a bike clinic and kid activities. Contact Mike Olivier (rapidtransitman@yahoo.com).

Let me tell you, lots of Canadians came out to party and celebrate bicycles. Few workshops were cancelled and fewer had no facilitation. Each workshop had about fifty people attending. Four workshops where held at a time. Food was organic, vegan and glutton free.

The mobile shop workshop was my favorite cause i learned about not having a shop and be committed to helping people ride a safe bike. I think about forty people came in from Montreal, Canada. They will be committing a regional bike bike named velo velo in the end of September. The next bike bike 2011 will be held in San Marcos, Texas.

Bike Bike delegates from the states where surprised to see how many cyclists ride our narrow urban streets.

First night we had dinner picinic style in the park. Next night we had a scavenger hunt matched with outdoor movie night in park followed by a midnight swim on the shores of Lake Ontario. After the workshops on Saturday, we took some delegates out on a tour of all the DIY bike spaces in Toronto, five in all. Then after the tour we put on a party that stretched the night away with hot steamy dance dance fun.

On sunday we had a group discussion about the4 next bike bike. We asked Fargo to hold a winter bike bike. Some talk of New York hosting a regional bike bike. I think LA wanted a bike bike in 2012 but that is up for the talk in Texas. New Orleans group Plan B wishes to host the tenth anniversary of bike bike 2013.

On a personal note. Bike Bike would have been nothing without the help of a pack of dedicated volunteers that operated the kitchen and supplied people with breakfest, lunch and dinner for four days.


Hopes and dreams to the flying cyclists of America and beyond.
Geoffrey B
Bike Pirates

Video of one Party

Stolen Bike?

We had a bicycle donated to the shop on Thursday that, upon closer inspection, appears likely to be stolen. It is a very large single-speed. If you or anyone you know has lost such bike recently, please write me at needleandthread (at) gmail (dot) com with a detailed description.

We are enraged by the continued climate of bike hate - both in theft and vandalism - in this city, and we want to ensure that this bike finds its way home.

Bike!Bike! Wrapup

Thanks to everyone from the shop and in the community for helping to make Bike!Bike! 2010 a great success!

We hosted over 150 people from all over North America - learning and sharing, riding and eating and dancing our asses off. It was an awesome weekend with awesome folks. We met new shops and made new friends.

Thanks to all of our outstanding volunteers who put in lots of hours (especially those up at 5:30am to cook every day!), and everyone who helped make it happen.

Bike!Bike! is awesome because you are awesome.

Much love. See you in Texas for B!B! 2011!

xo BP

Closures this week for Bike!Bike! Conference

Hello all Pirates and swabbies,

Please note that Bike Pirates will be CLOSED for DIY repairs for the duration of the Bike!Bike! 2010 Conference. Hours this week will be as follows:

Open Mon Aug 9 and Tues Aug 10 regular hours
Open Thursday Aug 12 12-4pm (Closed Thursday 4pm onward!)
Closed Saturday Aug 14
Closed Sunday Aug 15

The space will be used for workshops throughout the weekend, so please respect that that space is CLOSED for repair time.

We will be having more bike building and art making - last minute prep of screen printing, cutting, folding and stapling handbooks, making spokecards, etc!! - on wednesday. Starting at 4pm, going up 10pm or until everything is finished! We will also need help logging and tagging all of the loaner bikes which we will have collected.

Thanks to everyone who came out last night. We got a lot accomplished and have a good (and safe!) pile of bikes for loaning! All your help is appreciated.

This is going to be an awesome week and we thank everyone who has donated, helped, volunteered, organized and given us support.

Love,
Bike Pirates

Help House Bike BIke 2010 on Aug 12th to 15th

Bike! Bike! is an international annual conference organized by and for not-for-profit bike projects. It takes place in a different city each year. This year it will be hosted by Bike Pirates in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

There will be an assortment conference workshops geared towards helping bike projects better serve their local communities. There will also be social events to foster networking and fun. Some things which may (or may not) take place include (but are not by any means limited to): Anti-oppression, Consensus Decision Making, and Working with Kids workshops, as well as a dance party, a scavenger hunt, a ride-in movie screening, and other bike rides.

If you have services, housing, or supplies you would like to contribute, or would like to help out in any other way, please fill out our volunteer form and/or send us an e-mail at: bikebike2010 -at- gmail.com

Bappy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Bike Pirates.

Our birthday past this weekend without us even noticing. This summer has been hectic, and we hope to have time to celebrate very soon. In the meantime, we won't mind if you stop in to give us a hug and tell us you love the Bike Pirates.

Happy 4th Anniversary. Here's to many more.

xx

HOLIDAY CLOSURE

Sorry for the late notice. Pirates will not be open for regular hours today, July 1st. This is moreso because of a need to recover from recent personal stresses than because we want to BBQ for Canada Day - Pirates don't believe in Holidays or in Nationalism.

We will be open again and able to focus on Saturday, 12-7pm.

Thank you for your understanding.

Bike Pirates.

Community Garden Ride and Dance Friday May 18th

Community Garden Ride 7pm...meet at bike pirates,

aferwards 9pm

Bike!Bike! Fundraiser DANCE PARTY 9pm.

Bike Pirates Needs Your Help

CYC Program
We are in the process of starting the Bicycle Program at the Cabbagetown Youth Center. This is a collective undertaking between Pirates and other organizations in the Toronto cycling community. We are sorting bikes this week, and having meetings the next two weeks, with hopes of the program beginning the first week of July. Volunteers will be needed to help run the program, including organizing and hands-on teaching. Please contact me if you would like to be involved: needleandthread@gmail.com

Bike!Bike!
As of yet we do not have enough volunteers to help us fulfill the organizational tasks of Bike!Bike! The conference is coming up in less than 3 months! We needs folks to help wtih coordinating AND we also need members of the community to get involved by donating resources or money, as well as billeting and bike-lending for the folks attending the conference.

If you want to help out with organizing please write to: bikebike2010@gmail.com
for more info or how to donate/billet/lend please visit the website: www.bikebike.org

Bike Building
Our once-a-month bike-building nights have been going really well! I want to suggest the date for June's bike build for Friday May 4th. If this doens't work for most people we can reschedule. We've been able to build up about 12 bikes on these nights (and get some others half-way done), so it's a good way to get some recycled, affordable bikes out to the community. Also, we love building bikes!
The build will go from 7pm until 4am or until we are toast.
If you would like to participate - keeping in mind that this is a fast-paced, results-driven evening - please contact me: needleandthread@gmail.com
there will be pizza and beer!

Bike Month
See the full calendar of events for Toronto's Bike Month here: http://wx.toronto.ca/festevents.nsf/Cycling?openform

We have a few events that we will need people to help out with and people to have fun attending (your call!). Check it out and speak to a volunteer or contact me, I guess, since I answer the emails :)

- Donate a bike to Bike Pirates (fake event) May 6th
- Bike Wash (like your high school fundraiser, but with bikes and no football players, I hope) May 12. Fundraiser for Bike!Bike! fun times cleaning and checking bikes in the back alley. 4 or 5 volunteers needed
- Third Friday Event! May 18th
communtiy garden ride 7pm, Bike!Bike! Fundraiser DANCE PARTY 9pm. This will be awesome. both things. we will mostly need help with setting up and tearing down the space for the party. and come out and drink beer and dance too.

Third Friday Pirate Comedy Night

Bike Pirates Presents: Bike Jokes
3rd Friday Event for May

Friday May 21st @ Bike Pirates

Join us for a night of Stand-up comedy featuring young comics from Toronto's stand-up scene (not a bunch of Pirates making bad jokes!).

Featuring:
Dylan Gott
Kathleen Phillips
Rebecca Kohler
Tim Gilbert
Adam Christie

Show starts at 9pm / Doors at 8:30
$5-$10 sliding scale donation
Proceeds of our monthly events are going to fund Bike!Bike! an annual conference for community bicycle projects which we will be hosting this August. For more info and how to get involved please visit www.bikebike.org

facebook link

Pirate AGM - April 21

Wednesday April 21st will be the first Bike Pirates annual general meeting.

This meeting will be centered around discussion of current policies and proposed changes to meeting and decision making processes at the shop. We will also give people an update on the work that we have been doing, what community partnerships we have forged, and what our future plans look like.

We will be starting the meeting at 6:30 pm at The Toronto Free Gallery (the hardware store across the street from Pirates) There will be an intermission in the meeting for a Pirate cooked dinner. Feel free to bring anything to turn it into a pot luck!

If you are interested in participating in this important discussion please attend this meeting.

Bike Bike Film Night: Quick Silver

Friday April 23rd @8:30pm
1292 Bloor Street W

Join us for a fun filled night of drama and popcorn staring Kevin Bacon and his road bike.

Film starts at 8:30pm @Bike Pirates 1292 Bloor St. W

The film night is being put on to start awareness of a grand conference on non-profit bike-isms called BikeBIke. We will give informations and ask for support for our international conference held in August 12-15

www.bikebike.orgW

Friday, April 16 - Third Friday - Alley Ride!

Bike Pirates invites you to join us for a ride through the laneways and alleys of Downtown Toronto! We had lots of fun last year - and no flat tires - so we are excited to go out again, and to explore new spaces we may not have seen before.

Lead us to your favourite hidden spot, down your favourite short-cut, and through your backyard. We will come with ideas and make the route as we go.

Meet in the Alley behind Bike Pirates at 6:30pm. Ride will leave at 7pm, and last for about 2 hours. Beers afterwards at a location TBA.

This event is FREE!

As with any of our events donations will gladly be accepted to help fund Bike Pirates - a registered non-profit - and the projects that we run. Right now we are fund-raising for Bike!Bike! an annual international conference for community bicycle projects that we will be hosting in August!!!

Can't make it? Don't worry! The following Friday (April 23rd) we're hosting a another event: a fund-raiser movie night. Details soon.

Anarchist Talk at Bike Pirates

FRIDAY APRIL 9, 7 to 9 p.m.

Bike Pirates (1292 Bloor Street West)(wheelchair accessible)

Panel Discussion: "Anarchism in the 21st Century"

Cindy Milstein is a well-known anarchist and educator. She has been involved with the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont with Murray Bookchin, as well as the Institute for Anarchist Studies in Montreal. (not confirmed)

Lesley Wood is a longtime anarchist grassroots organizer in Toronto. She is an active member of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, the Toronto Community Mobilization Network against the G8/20, and a Professor at York University.

Karen Emily is an activist and organizer with the Anarchist Black Cross Federation - Toronto, working in support of political prisoners and prisoners of war.

Bike Pirates Restructuring

At our February meeting, a committee was formed to try to create an
organizational structure for Bike Pirates. That group presented a
proposed structure at the March meeting. We definitely didn't
have the kind of time needed for a thorough discussion, and we want to
make sure that everyone in the Bike Pirates community has a chance to
give us feedback before we give the group our final proposal.

There will be a second meeting on Wednesday, April 14th at 7 pm at
Bike Pirates to discuss the proposed structure in more detail.
Everyone is welcome. A copy of the presentation will be available in
the shop at the beginning of our Saturday hours. The presentation is also available here:

• Powerpoint (.ppt)
• PDF

If you want to ask questions or give us feedback, you can email margaret.jean [at] gmail.com or tjsands66 [at] gmail.com

With all of your feedback in hand, we will revise the proposal and bring it to the Bike Pirates AGM, on Wednesday, April 21st at 7pm, where we hope it will be adopted. The AGM is a general meeting open to all members of the Bike Pirates community. More info and an agenda is forthcoming, but we know for sure that there will be a food element.

Closing Early TONIGHT!

Ok kids, there are 3 reasons why we will close the shop early -

unbelievably bad weather (i.e. 3 feet of snow)
very sick volunteers (i.e. no one is able to open the shop)
Dramatic restructuring and in-shop construction.

...okay okay there are 4 reasons.
an historic birthday party! Like tonight's bicycle-related 18 kegs birthday party.

Sorry folks. It looks like we will be closing at FIVE PM tonight, rather than seven. Let your friends know. take the opportunity to go for a beautiful evening ride!

March 19 - Bike Pirates Craft Night

Break out your puff paint, bedazzlers, and DIY spirit! Bike Pirates' first craft night is happening Friday, March 19th at 7:30 pm.

BYO Craft supplies and Beverages.
Homemade snacks! Tea!
Mini-workshop on making jewelry out of bike parts!

Crafts do not have to be bike-related.

Bike Pirates is a fully accessible space.

Family Day?

those who sail the sea have no family but those on their ship! We don't serve a government or religion, only the rocky waves, and the whispers the gales tell of buried gold. We do not lower the sails for a day because a queen wishes it so! But if a mate is ill with scurvy you bet we will have to put off our pillaging for another day.

.........

We are open tomorrow. yes. see you there.

Annual Ice Race - Early Closure

Please note that as per tradition, Bike Pirates will be closing early the evening of the annual ice race! Tomorrow, Saturday February 13th, we will be closing the shop at hour early at 6pm SHARP in order to get set up for the party we are hosting.

Please come out to the races at Dufferin Grove rink 7-10pm, and to Pirates afterwards for an awesome dance-party fundraiser for Charlie's Freewheels. This is a fantastic, fun, hilarious, exhilarating tradition in the Toronto Cycling community!

See you there!

The Pirates.

Icycle 2010 & Bike Pirates Afterparty

Icycle, Toronto's annual bicycles-on-ice race, takes place Saturday, February 13, 2010 from 7-10pm in Dufferin Grove Park. Free admission! The afterparty, a fundraiser for Charlie's Freewheels, is right here at Bike Pirates.

Speaking of Charlie's Freewheels, congrats to them for winning a 2009 Toronto Bike Award!

Charlie's Volunteer Callout!

Charlie's Freewheels is seeking volunteers to act as Mechanic Mentors in the second session of our youth bicycle project. The sessions will run every Friday from 5-8pm. The First session will be Friday February the 5th and the program will run for 12 weeks.

Charlie’s Freewheels will enrol 6 youth participants from the Regent Park community to learn basic bicycle mechanics and safety through the process of assembling their own bike. Through a combination of hands-on practice, cooperative work, discussion and mentoring, the participants will focus primarily on the repair of one bicycle each that, upon the project’s completion, will belong to him or her.
The volunteer mechanics will be working with the youth from last session in assisting the new participants with the assembly of their bicycles. We are looking for mechanic volunteers who have previous experience working on bikes and who have had hand on experience in repairing and building up bicycles for the bottom up.

We are also looking for people who would be interested in being involved in other aspects of the program. Last session we had one volunteer work with one of the participants on putting together a manual for the session that turned out amazingly.
We are looking for people who are interested in or have skills to share including but not limited too:

• Snack planning and food prep
• Photography and web site making/ blogging knowledge
• Grant writing
• Party planning and fundraising

Volunteer Info Meeting
Tuesday February 9th at 6:30 pm
Location: U of T, International Student Centre, the building at 33 St George
In the the Baldwin Room (located on the ground floor)

If you need more info you can email Caitlin at:
mccarlisle (at) gmail.com

Pirates - Helping 3,000 a day!

The quality of fact-finding and direct-quoting in the media Never Fails to Impress. Yesterday's papers had a fantastically blown-out-of-proportion quote about Bike Pirates usage during this mild-ish Winter! (see the portion marked winners)

Rest assured, we are seeing more people than you might expect in January, in Cananda, but not 140 people a day! That would blow our minds!

Business is steady over the winter months but a bit quieter, and less hectic than the spring/summer season. So if you are thinking about getting your bike ready for spring or you have decided that you want to be a Winter Cyclist too(!) come by the shop. We have lots of volunteers on hand to help you fix and learn.

As usual, you can't believe everything you read ;)

Third Friday Event - January

This Friday, January 15th we will be screening "2 Secondes" a Canadian French film by Manon Briand which won 4 awards at the 1998 Montreal World Film Festival. The story following the trials and tribulations of a young women who goes from downhill racing to couriering and street-racing in the city.

As usual the event is family friendly, accessible, and will be held at the bike shop (1292 Bloor St West).
$5/pwyc. BYOB.

Hope to see you there.

New Year!

Happy New Year bike folks.
Not to worry, despite the wind and snow our regular scheduled hours will continue all the way through the winter, so you can keep your winter ride in running order, or build a new bike for spring.

Any changes to our hours or unexpected closures will be announced here on the blog/website.
(Please don't email our info account to ask about hours. It is checked once a day off-site so it is NOT a reliable means of such information.)

Happy 2010, and safe riding.