Bike to Work Week: October 21 to 27

Pump your tires, lube your chain, check your brakes and get ready for Bike to Work Week!

For more information, go to https://bikehub.ca/bike-events/bike-to-work-week.

Bike to Work Week: May 26 - June 1

Bike to Work Week is just two weeks away! Register by May 18 (Sunday!) and you'll still be entered in our early bird registration contest. 

Over 50 celebration stations will be set up across Metro Vancouver this spring - stop by for free snacks, free coffee and free bike repairs! Find all the celebration stations - check out our interactive map.  

Sign up, log your trips and be part of making Metro Vancouver a better place to live, work and play - register for Bike to Work Week today.

Bike to School/Work Week

Just wanted to let you know about some upcoming events:

Bike to School Week: May 27 -  31

Here's a great opportunity for your kids to get active, and have fun at the same time! Which kid wouldn't prefer to bike to school rather than be driven to school by his parents! Better yet is biking to school with friends!

HUB and HASTe (Hub for Active School Travel) are promoting Bike to School Week. A parent or teacher - and for secondary schools also students - can sign up to be a team leader for their school, and HUB will send you an information kit with posters, stickers and safety and other tips. (Secondary students can also sign up individually: see Bike to Work Week below).

Our local chapter would also like to provide some support (perhaps a "snack station"?), so if you decide to register your school, please also contact me at jchow23708@yahoo.ca.

Bike to Work Week: May 27 - June 2

Check out how it works, register for Bike to Work Week and log your miles on HUB's Bike to Work website and find the locations of the celebration stations, tips and prizes to be won.

Bike to Work Week Oct. 29 - Nov. 2

Sign up for Bike to Work Week now! HUB has bikes and bike accessories to give away for those who sign up and log their commutes during Bike to Work Week. Drop by one of HUB's Celebration Stations for a chat, a drink and a snack!

Bike to Work Week May 30 - June 5

Have the high prices at the pump made you grunt and groan recently? You may want to consider riding your bike for your commute, or at least part of it. It might not be as hard as you think.

Did you know that:

• the West Coast Express stations in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows have bike lockers?
• there are also bike lockers at the Haney Bus Loop?
• these bike lockers can be rented for $10 a month?
• all Translink buses in the Metro Vancouver area have bike racks?

Click here for more information on using the bike lockers or taking your bike on the West Coast Express.
Here's some useful info about bikes on buses, or on the Skytrain.

One thing that is interesting to know as well is that Vancouver is expecting to launch a public bike share system in 2012. Many of these PBS's are popping up in cities all over the world and rapidly becoming very popular. Once the Vancouver bike share is operational, it may help make it easier for people in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows to choose a greener mode of transportation for their commute. Exciting stuff, but we'll have to wait a bit.

This spring, during Bike to Work Week, we will be setting up our Bike to Work stations in the Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows area in the following locations:

on Wednesday June 1, from 4:00 - 6:30 pm:

at the West Coast Express / Park and Ride station

on Friday, June 3, from 4:00 - 6:30 pm:
at Memorial Peace Park

Click here for a map with the location of the stations

The local bike shops, Maple Ridge Cycle, Local Ride and Westwood Cycle are all participating with the Bike to Work Week event by providing free bike mechanics and prizes. When dropping by one of our stations, make sure you fill out a ballot in order to have a chance to win a prize. We are also offering drinks and snacks, provided by Superstore and Save-on-Foods.

You can sign up for Bike to Work Week on the Bike to Work website. Ask your colleagues to join your team. Even if you're the only one at your workplace who bikes to work, you can still sign up and log your miles to track your reductions in GHG's, kilometers biked and calories burned.

Finally, I thought you might enjoy watching this inspiratonal video, where you can see some of the changes that have taken place in New York in recent years. Note the bike lanes buffered by parked cars. If they can find the space to do this in New York, surely it can be done in Maple Ridge!

Hope to see you at one of our stations!