Tomorrow night is the Salon discussion night of mechanical fascinations. If you like to hear people talk about interesting bike bits, or if you have facts to share, meet at Decapo Café at 7 pm – 8738 109th St NW. Participants might be seen riding in on a fascinating bike, fondling loved bike parts, and chatting about the minutia of bike bits from 1905-2009.
If you’d like to be part of the silly summer parade on Wed, July 1st, meet at Bikeworks, 10047-80 Ave, at 10 am to join other cyclists. It’s your chance to enjoy a ride down Whyte Ave without motor vehicles!
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This is the organizers’ favourite event. The forecast says it’ll clear up and we’ll have a clear evening. I love to see the field filled with bikes laid down beside picnic blankets, with cyclist descending into the valley all night. We have fantastic local music lined up:
Jill Pollock is a seriously funny entertainer and after we have
Aroot Bazaar who will offer up energetic world beat music that’ll fill your heart
We’re so thrilled to have such fantastic performers.
After the sun goes down, we’re playing some bike shorts and then our feature, E.T.
If you’re there ’till the end, there’s a joyous screen of flashing red lights meandering up the trails and out of the valley.
Bring a picnic, buy some popcorn while there, bring suncreen, bug spray and lots of layers for late at night. See you there!
June 26th, 5:30, in front of City Hall
www.ndya.ca/events/more.php?id=948_0_7_0
In the summer of 2006 Owen Hunt Richel was a five year old little boy recovering from aggressive chemotherapy, but that didn’t stop him from riding his bicycle across the High Level Bridge during the June Critical Mass. It would one of the last bike rides Owen would go on; Owen died from cancer in early 2007. Join the Owen Hunt Richel Memorial Critical Mass this Friday starting at 5:30 in front of City Hall…bring a water gun, Owen loved a good water fight!
Mocktails on the bridge today were delicious. Cool smoothies were appreciated under the intense sun and dramatic sky.
Come tomorrow for our last Bikey Breakie at the bicycle bottleneck – the Southwest side of the high level bridge. Organic fair trade coffee from Earth’s General Store, bars and juice from MEC, and doughnuts from Cram Dunk, the UofA student’s union coffee shop. Breakie is from 7-9
We’re off to the Mocktails on the bridge. Come out and pedal a bike to power a blender to make a pedal-powered smoothie! It’s at Ezio Farone park, NorthWest of the High Level Bridge.
Want to know what it takes to ride in the winter? Check out the Winter Cycling Salon tonight 7-9pm at the Parkallen Hall Skating Shack 11104-65th Ave.
Route finding, clothing, special care and feeding for your bicycle. Learn what you need to know to start winter riding, or come share your experiences as a seasoned rider. What better time to reminisce about winter riding than one of the longest days of the year.
(One of the presenters: Molly Turnbull and kids. Credit: Edmonton Journal)
Bikeology Day! Saturday June 20th, Noon until 5!
Here’s what’s happening on this jam-packed day of velo love!
Music, sweet music: Solar powered
All our music is powered by the solar panels of the Solar Energy Society of Edmonton. Here are a list of the extraordinary musician we have lined up for this day.
Jesikah Holtby www.myspaceprofiles.org/profiles/87989328.html
Rob Taylor www.reverbnation.com/robtaylorproject
Laura Yule Singh payplay.fm/singh
Doug Hoyer www.myspace.com/doughoyer
Day Of the Robot
Paul Bellows cdbaby.com/cd/pbellows3
Eco Fair Information and stuff for sale that’s related to sustainable living. Learn more, do more, and enjoy the company of those who think we can change this world for the better
Bike Resources come chat to bike stores, bike builders, bike enthusiasts, bike infrastructure engineers, bike touring guides, bike event planers.
Pedal Powered Smoothies get on the bike and power the blender for your own healthy drink of berries, soy milk and bananas
Trials Riders see cyclists move from a stand-still to jumping on a picnic table, hop around on the back wheel only, and dance a beautiful balance dance
Children’s events scavenger hunt, dress up, dancing, structured craft time, bicycle stories, chalk drawing, bike explorers (looking for different bikes on site)
-trials riders – cyclists who can jump sideways onto picnic tables from a stand-still and such
Flat tire fixing race want to enter? come down for 1:00 pm
Scavenger hunt yip, bike related
‘Spoke’n word Mark Henderson reads excerpt from a play he’ll product for Bikeology 2010. It’s set in a bike shop in Belgum around the time when they invented pneumatic tires
Bikes on Buses loading bikes race
Many many prizes
Cool Bikes all over the place for you to ogle
Free Bike Tune Ups minor tune-ups to keep you rolling.
I hear that city employees were just sent an email about bikeology. If this is your first intro to us – welcome! We’re here to provide free events for cyclist. We’re all about making community and providing resources through celebrating Edmonton’s cycling culture.
For your rainy day pleasure today, we’re having the Writing/riding circle. We’ll meet over coffee or tea and weave stories about bikes. Bring nothing but your imagination.
Look for details of the event under ‘events’
If you can’t make it today, please note at the top of the events listing, that we’ve described an on-going writing competition and there’s also a ton more events in June for you to come out and express your velo love!
Tonight at the bike salon one our trailers and the bike of our volunteer co-ordinator were stolen. We don’t have a photo of the bike but it is a black Norco Katmandu mountain bike with a grey seat,a front fender and slicker tires.
The trailer looks like this:
EBC has more than one of these but if you think you spot the stolen one please email us with a location and description. We’ll pass it on to the police handling the case. info@bikeology.ca Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tomorrow night’s Salon location, featuring John Tai and Allison Conroy and their travels in the Caribbean and across South America has been changed. Instead of meeting at Credo Café, we’re meeting at Enterprise Square, 10230-Jasper Ave Room 2-957. We’ll have a sign in-front of Credo Café to redirect people.
If you’re curious about the talk, see the events listing on this website for more details. Or, look at today’s Edmonton Journal. Their travels are featured in a big article on the front page of one of the sections – with a beautiful picture of them!
The repair-a-thon lasted more than 24 hours as the mechanics and people learning mechanics were so into it, they just kept on wrenching.
The twilight ride was lovely. A hot night is a delightful time to weave through the river valley, enjoying the gift of wafts of cool from the trees and river.
FIX: The Repair-a-thon lasts until noon today at the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Shop, Bikeworks: 10047-80 Ave ****entrance through the back alley only****. Once your noble steed is all fixed up, you can attend the….
RIDE: The Edmonton Bicycle And Touring Club is hosting a twilight ride. Enjoy a pleasant summer evening ride in Edmonton’s River Valley. This approximately 30km ride will go towards Rundle Park and back. Meet at Louise McKinney Park for a 7:00pm departure. Bring your own water and snacks, if needed
We look forward to seeing all of you there.
Saturday, June 13, noon until Sunday, June 14th noon. At Bikeworks 10047-80th Ave ***Back alley entrance only****
Free!!
Mechanics will be on hand for 24 hours to teach you how to fix and maintain your bicycle. Bikeworks is a non-profit bike shop that specializes in teaching people to be self-reliant cyclists. You can learn about bike mechanics even if you know nothing about tools. Usually there’s a shop fee, but for the Repair-a-thon the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters are waving that fee! There may be some wee charge if you need some of our salvaged bike parts.
Do you need a long old-fashioned bike rack? There are some bike racks being thrown away. If your building or home needs bike racks that are 16′ long with a 16″ base, email info@bikeology.ca
Help an Edmontonian find their stolen bike!
“Hey yeg! Please keep an eye out for a blue CCM with SEA BREEZE written in white script on the side. I’m a poor student, and would love to find her. Stolen around 102 and 11th ave. Email – andrea.mcquade@gmail.com”
The first Bike Breakfast has happened an it was great if a little chilly. Coffee, donuts, bike conversation and mechanics! I know my bike got some loving care including a new derailleur cable and I’m going to be back next week for some new brakes too.
There were, of course, bikes everywhere:
Including some very unique ones:
P.S.: If you take pictures at a Bike Month event and have a Flickr account be sure to tag the photos ‘Bikeology’ so we can find them.
Doughnuts, juice, bars, fair trade organic coffee, free tune-ups, give-aways, the company of cyclists and velo love. Come out tomorrow between 7am and 9am at the bicycle bottleneck – the Southwest side of the high level bridge.
Ready! Set! Go mark your Calendars!
Wednesday, June 3rd is Clean Air Day and you are invited to participate in the Amazing Annual Commuter Race. Participants will compete against each other using eco-friendly modes of transportation.
The race starts at 7:30 a.m. at Parkallen Community Hall (65 Avenue & 111 Street) and the celebration ends at 9:30 a.m. at City Hall (#1 Sir Winston Churchill Square).
Any eco-friendly method of travel will work — from cycling, carpooling, and public transit to rollerblading, jogging and skateboarding.
The event is FREE, and there will be food, refreshments and prizes!
If you have any questions or would like to sign up, please send an e-mail to Mary.Modrovcic@edmonton.ca or call 780-496-4013.
More detailed information will follow including a waiver that will be filled out prior to race day.
See you at the starting line!
www.commuterchallenge.ca
the whole week of Monday, June 1 to Friday, Saturday June 6th
Throughout this mighty land, people are registering and logging their commuter kilometers. If you commute by anything other than a single-occupancy vehicle – by bike, bus, walking, skate board, roller blades, car pool – you can log your km as an individual, part of a team, or for your community. Register as an individual or register your school or place of work. Let’s show how hip Edmonton is on the transportation front! (yes, you can sign up late in the week and still record you’re whole week’s efforts)
www.commuterchallenge.ca.