Bike Month, Coming Again In June 2010: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Blogging the Friday morning Bike Breakfasts
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.
Fortunately there are people out there who take better pictures than I. Chris Chan has put up a great set from the first Bike Breakfast. Doesn’t he make my girls look good.
And John hard at work fixing bikes up:
I’m glad I pulled the kids to the first breakfast. They made themselves useful by handing out Bike Month handlebar fliers. Ah! another generation of positive propaganda pushers!
My favourite part of the kick-off to Bike Month breakfast – other than the fair trade, organic coffee, funky tunes and being by so many bikes – was meeting some astonished out-of-towners. I think they might have been from Holland. They had arrived three days ago and were on borrowed bikes. The bikes were a bit weary so they were thrilled that the mechanics fixed them up – for free! They’ll be here another 3 months so I equiped them with the Edmonton Bike Map, and information about how to use the racks on buses to get clear across the city. If you’re checking this blog – I hope to see you at more cycling events!
Hi everybody and welcome to Bike Month in Edmonton! Stay tuned for pictures and posts about upcoming events and events that have just happened.
If you’ve attended a Bike Month event and have a Flickr account, tag the pictures bikeology to add them the photostream on our sidebar.
We’re off to the first Bike to Work Breakfast at the Bicycle Bottleneck (South end of High Level Bridge; NW corner of 88 Ave and 109 St), pictures to come.
Paul Turnbull