Bikeology Festival » 2009 » June

Salon and parade

Molly Turnbull — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:58:58 +0000

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!

Bike-In Movie!

Molly Turnbull — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:01:18 +0000

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!

The Owen Richel Critical Mass

Paul Turnbull — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:36:44 +0000

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!

Bright and early

Molly Turnbull — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:00:02 +0000

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

Mocktails

Molly Turnbull — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:48:50 +0000

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.

Most Excellent Bike Park in Hinton

Paul Turnbull — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:10:33 +0000

Winter Cycling Salon

Paul Turnbull — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:45:09 +0000

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 Photos!

Paul Turnbull — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:18:20 +0000

Great Photos From the Big Day.
Here are three. See the rest.

Bikeology day velo love!

Molly Turnbull — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:26:24 +0000

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.

Rain – a perfect day for the Writing Circle

Molly Turnbull — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:03:44 +0000

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!