Edmonton Bike Shops, Bike Shops in the Edmonton Region, News
Alex Hindle
Our South Shop is Closing

Our South Community Bike Workshop will be closing permanently at the end of the day on Sunday June 16th. The shop was consistently bustling, but the building changed hands last year and its new owners were unwilling to sign a new lease without a substantial rent increase. We hoped to relocate nearby, but a search found no suitable affordable spaces. This came during a challenging financial time for Bike Edmonton, and after much discussion and analysis, our Board of Directors concluded that we must consolidate operations out of our downtown shop. 

Our South Shop is Closing

Safe, accessible, equitable: an accurate description of construction detours in Edmonton?

Edmonton has come a long way over the years in how it considers and accommodates people who are walking, wheeling, and cycling around construction zones.

You can generally expect to see, at the least, temporary curb ramps provided to access sidewalks, and usually some consideration for a detour route.

This is a huge improvement over just a few years ago, and we are grateful for how far we’ve come.

A new City report, Active and Public Transportation: Safety, Accessibility and Equity, will be discussed at Urban Planning Committee on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.

This report states:

The review of current policies and procedures has identified that they are sufficient to ensure safety, accessibility and equity for active and public transportation and therefore no changes are recommended at this time.

While a lot has improved thanks to the current policies, has your experience been that they are indeed sufficient and succeeding at ensuring accessibility?

Recently, the intervention of three community organizations and two councillors was required to ensure a 30 metre section of the 102 Ave bike route, one of the busiest in the city, was kept accessible during a summer-long (March to August) construction project. The fact that we were notified at all about the project, and given the opportunity to meet with EPCOR, is a positive result of some of the changes in procedures over the past several years. We did not have an opportunity for consultation ahead of time, but we also shouldn’t necessarily need to be consulted: recognizing the importance of active transportation routes and pathways should be built-in to everyday practice.

The 102 Avenue bike route is an example of a highly-travelled bike route, and so it attracted the attention of many advocates.

But less visible projects can still have major and unncessary impacts on people, especially those with mobility challenges. Detouring through the grass may seem minor for some people, but for someone with a broken ankle, or a walker, or a stroller, especially in winter, these barriers can be impassable. The closures of sidewalks and curb ramps, long or unsafe detours, construction signage blocking or narrowing sidewalks: these are tied to the “accessibility and equity” points in the report.

Thankfully, the City does have some policies in place. The Manual of Temporary Traffic Control, for instance, requires that:

  • All bike detours must be reviewed and approved by Parks and Roads Services, prior to implementation, and

  • Cyclists shall be detoured to routes that offer a similar level of comfort, safety and travel distance as the existing facility.

It also states:

  • When developing temporary traffic control, pedestrians and cyclists should be prioritized wherever feasible.

The question is: are you seeing this followed on your streets?

If not, you can register to speak to the Urban Planning Committee on April 26, about agenda item “6.4 Active and Public Transportation - Safety, Accessibility and Equity”.

You can also write to your councillor about your experiences, good or bad! If you’ve had positive experiences with temporary closures, let them know what has worked well.

High Level Bridge Rehabilitation

City Council’s Executive Committee will be discussing rehabilitation options for the High Level Bridge on April 13, 2022.

Administration is currently proceeding with the planning and design for rehabilitation of the bridge combined with active mode enhancements on the upper deck, including:

  • Shared use paths on the upper deck;

  • Widening of the lower east deck sidewalk;

  • Rehabilitation of the north and south approaches of the upper deck; and

  • Maintenance of the streetcar track and provision of safety barriers.

This aligns with the High Level Line proposal, a fantastic proposal put together by the High Level Line Society. The proposal also extends well beyond the bridge itself, stretching 4.3 km and connecting MacEwan University to Whyte Avenue at Gateway Boulevard along the old CPR rail right-of-way.

Illustration of the High Level Bridge upper deck from the High Level Line proposal. Pedestrians and cyclists travel along landscaped paths adjacent to a streetcar on one side.

High Level Bridge rendering from the High Level Line proposal

We’re happy and excited that this may be moving forward now, and grateful for the excellent advocacy and comprehensive work done by the High Level Line Society!

Did you know this isn’t the first proposal for using the upper deck?

Back in 1992, Bike Edmonton (then the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society [EBC]) presented a Rails to Trails concept plan to the City. Part of this eventually became the Ribbon of Steel plan, which built the shared pathway along the streetcar line that now stretches from 105 Ave to Ezio Faraone Park. Some of the south sections were only just built in the last couple years, almost three decades later!

In 1999, members of EBC pitched a Community Greenways concept across the upper deck of the bridge. We raised the idea again in 2016 in response to reports of numerous bicycle collisions along the congested pathways.

Check out the image gallery below for some archival designs and photos (did you know the upper deck used to carry 2 streetcars AND a freight train on three separate tracks?), and inspiration from New York’s High Line.

You can view the reports from the Executive Committee meeting below.

Capital Project Profile for Bridge Rehabilitation - Options



Bike Edmonton will be at the Flying Canoe Volant Festival

We’ll be at the Flying Canoe Volant Pimihaw Waskwayosis Festival tonight, Saturday March 5, 2022, 6pm-9pm, the last night of the festival. Our volunteers have set up a light display and information booth in front of La Cité Francophone on Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury. Come and chat about bike programs, bike maintenance tips, and other cycling supports Bike Edmonton offers to keep you rolling. If you cycle to the festival, you can use our pump to fill up your tires!

Flying Canoe Volant is an outdoor event that includes a walk through an urban forest, stunning light and sound art installations, music, dance, food and more. This festival is sponsored in part by WinterCity Edmonton, who also sponsors our free Bike Edmonton and WinterCity Studded Tire Challenge - 2022. For more information about the festival, visit the Flying Canoe Volant, Pimihaw Waskwayosis Festival website

121 St bike lane detour, 102 Ave bike lane closure

121 St and Stony Plain Road Detour

EPCOR is responsible for relocating all the power, water and drainage utilities to avoid potential conflicts with the Valley Line West LRT infrastructure. This is the second stage of the Valley Line, an urban-style 27 km line that will operate between Mill Woods in southeast Edmonton and Lewis Farms in west Edmonton.

To meet the overall LRT project schedule, the City has requested that EPCOR perform the utility relocations within specific areas along the alignment prior to LRT construction.

Please see attached for information on upcoming work for this project on Stony Plain Road at 121 Street. Hard copies will be delivered to residents/businesses located near the work areas outlined in the attached notice.

  • The bicycle lane on the west side of 121 Street near the work area will be closed. Bicycles will be directed to travel in a single file with vehicle traffic.

  • Cyclists crossing on the west side of 121 Street across Stony Plain Road will be required to dismount and follow the detour to the east of 121 Street.

  • No pedestrian crossing will be permitted across Stony Plain Road on the west side of 121 Street. A detour will be provided.

Construction is anticipated to start on March 8, 2022 and expected to be completed by mid-May 2022.

107 St construction

Additionally, work on 107 St between 102 Ave and 103 Ave will happen from March 7, 2022 and is expected to be completed by early April 2022. No impacts on the 102 Ave bike lane will occur, though 107 St will be narrowed.

 

102 Ave and 116 St total closure

Finally, from EPCOR expects to work at 102 Ave and 116 St from mid-March 2022 until the end of August 2022. This project is drainage manhole construction in the Oliver area.

  • The bike lane on 102 Avenue from 115 Street to 117 Street, will be closed. Detour signs to use 103 Avenue, will be posted.

  • Crosswalk closures on the east and south side of the 116 Street and 102 Avenue intersection. The crosswalks on the north and west side of the intersection will remain open. Pedestrian detour signs will be posted.

This is a significant closure of one of Edmonton's busiest bike routes, for the entirety of spring and summer. We have reached out to EPCOR with a list of questions for clarification, and possible modifications to improve safety, limit detour length, and ensure clear signage and safe detours. Edmonton’s Manual of Temporary Traffic Controls states “Cyclists shall be detoured to routes that offer a similar level of comfort, safety and travel distance as the existing facility”, a high bar given the comfort level of the 102 Ave bike lane.

Prizes, inflating tires, and talking about gear at Elements Outfitters

You’re invited to visit us at Elements Outfitters, 8222 Gateway Blvd, tomorrow February 26, from 11am to 3pm. You can enter into a draw for a chance to win fresh gear from Bike Edmonton and Elements Outfitters! While you visit, we’ll be delighted to talk about getting around by bike, bike maintenance, and dressing for cycling comfort. We’ll even come outside and fill your tires up! You can also take advantage of Elements Outfitter’s winter sale to get beautiful functional clothing with a conscience. Elements Outfitters is a 1% for the Planet company, putting people and the planet over profit.

The Mall

Calgary's Stephen Avenue

Pedestrians walk on Stephen Avenue on Wednesday, August 7, 2019. PHOTO BY AZIN GHAFFARI /Postmedia Calgary

At City Council on December 6, 2021, Councillor Anne Stevenson put forward the following motion (video starts at 9:24:10):

That Administration explore the opportunity to pedestrianize 102 Avenue adjacent to Valley Line LRT and return to Urban Planning Committee with options for consideration.

The motion passed unanimously, and is due to come to Urban Planning Committee on March 8, 2022, at which time the public will be able to speak to the committee (and we encourage you to do so in support of 102 Ave!).

The report will look at a high level at the technical feasibility and costs of potential options. You can read more about the proposal from Paths for People, who spearheaded this idea.

Calgary already has Stephen Avenue, but Edmonton doesn’t currently have any pedestrian streets. But this is not the first time that a pedestrianized street has been proposed for Edmonton.

The Mall (102 St, central view)

In 1968, Edmonton proposed an open air pedestrian mall on 102 St, north of Jasper Ave. The report opens with a focus on how the core lives or dies not by ease of driving, but rather by what happens once people exit their vehicles:

Direct accessibility was, at one time, the principle requirement for a thriving City Centre. In the Edmonton of today however, this is no longer the case. While one may be able to reach the City Centre by car, bus, and in the near future rapid transit, nevertheless there can be very little exchange of goods and ideas (the principle "raison d'etre" of the City Centre) until one leaves his motor car, bus, or train. In the City Centre goods and ideas are exchanged by way of direct face to face contact: Downtown Edmonton can function in no other way. How satisfactorily the City Centre functions directly depends upon how safely, comfortably, and conveniently, goods and ideas can be exchanged.

The introduction continues with this suprisingly figurative section:

Downtown is the heart of Edmonton. As in the human body, a strong heart is an essential element to a healthy body. If the heart of Edmonton is to properly satisfy the needs of its citizens, improved provision must be made for pedestrian activity and movement.

No one denies that, in order to function, vehicles of all types must have access to the City Centre. But at the same time we must never forget that the success of the City Centre depends directly upon the ease with which goods and ideas can be exchanged through the medium of face to face contact. While traffic arteries are essential, the City Centre, as the principle activity core of Edmonton, will die if it is entirely converted to arteries, resulting in very little room remaining for "heart".

The report also mentions plans to turn 101 A Avenue (now Rice Howard Way) into “an urban park — an area considered essentially for passive relaxation”.

The appendix of the report includes a description of a public meeting where, while the reaction was on the whole favourable, “a small number of retailers voiced misgivings as to the effect ot he proposals on their businesses”. A “small but vocal group” of people claimed that, in the similar Sparks Street Mall in Ottawa, “adjacent shopping streets suffered a decline in trade and property values fell”.

“Whilst members of the Planning Department had previously conducted research and responded to the arguments at the meeting”, the group remained unconvinced.

The appendix includes statements from Ottawa officials confirming that property values had increased both on the Mall and in the surrounding area, and none had dropped. They also emphasized that:

its implementation had acted as a "blood transfusion" to the Downtown Area which had been decaying as a result of decentralization, competition from outlying shopping centres and the accessibility of Montreal by special "shopping" train services. The Mall had given confidence to developers interested in the Downtown Area, and had encouraged the development of a large hotel, office and commercial centre nearby.



View the original report here: The Mall: 102 St Pedestrian Mall Report (1968).

And check out the detailed proposal for 102 Ave from Paths for People:

Bonus update: In 1984, the Mayor's Task Force on the Heart of the City: A Blue Print for the 21st Century also recommended pedestrianizing 102 St, this time as a covered arcade!

Elements Outfitters partners with Bike Edmonton through 1% for the Planet

Elements Outfitters is supporting education and advocacy for cycling and sustainable transportation in Edmonton by sponsoring Bike Edmonton through the 1% for the Planet program. We're excited about this new partnership!

Elements Inc. is Western Canada’s leading Patagonia and Filson dealer. They also carry other complementary brands that meet the highest standards of both quality and style. They are proud to be a 1% for the Planet member and actively support conservation and environmental protection efforts. In addition, they are involved and support local communities and youth programs through events and donations. Elements owns and operates Patagonia Banff, Calgary and Victoria, as well as Elements Outfitters at Willow Park, Edmonton (8222 Gateway Blvd NW), Tsawwassen.

We’re looking forward to combining our passion for the environment, for youth, and for the community!

the Spoke in partnership with Ever Active Schools

We’re proud to announce that Ever Active Schools has sponsored this season’s youth earn-a-bike program, the Spoke! Thank you to the Edmonton Community Foundation for funding this initiative.

Ever Active Schools is a registered national charity designed to create and support healthy school communities. They address health and education goals to improve the social outcomes of children and youth in Alberta.

Ever Active Schools provides excellent cycling education through their City Cycling Clinics in the spring, summer, and fall. Youth learn bike handling skills, rules of riding, and how to navigate Edmonton’s cycling infrastructure. Bike Edmonton plays a part in delivering the City Cycling Clinics.

The Spoke is a program of Bike Edmonton. It’s a bike repair and adventure program in which youth ages 12-17 years old inclusive learn introductory bike repair skills and on-road skills with the help of our volunteer mentors. This season, the Spoke combines mechanical learning with Ever Active School's bike clinic and riding curriculum to foster even more self-reliance and joy in bike riding.

Learning both mechanical and on-road cycling skills equips youth with the confidence and knowledge they need to embrace cycling. Bike Edmonton is delighted once again to collaborate with Ever Active Schools to produce programming that fosters activity, resilience, independence, health, and fun for youth!


 





City of Edmonton engagement opportunities

The City of Edmonton currently has a number of important projects that you can provide your feedback on.

101 Avenue Streetscape (50 St to 84 St)

  • Survey closes Tuesday, November 30, 11:55pm

  • This is, overall, a fantastic improvement and a good plan

  • We do have serious concerns about the turning lanes crossing the bike lanes at 75 St, however.

    • They allow cars to make high-speed lane changes across the bike lane, and then block the crosswalks. This is extremely dangerous and will deter people from using this otherwise excellent route.

    • Don’t give up at the intersection

  • We’re not sure if the cross slope (the slope from the centre of the road down towards the curbs) is drawn to scale, but if it is, it is far too extreme, and will cause bikes to slide into the gutter, especially in winter.

  • We are hoping for some kind of all-ages, all-abilities, all-season connectivity between 84 St and 80 St (currently just a shared street with cars), which would connect 101 Ave to the river valley (Muttart, Low Level Bridge, Mill Creek) and the Forest Heights shared use path.

  • Information materials

  • Project website

Snow and Ice Clearing Communications Survey

  • Survey closes Thursday, December 2, 11:55pm

  • Points to consider in your feedback:

    • There is a lack of information on the status of snow clearing for active pathways. The City should provide a map showing the current status of routes.

    • 311 complaints about bike lanes and shared use paths are often closed with the reason “No action required” or “No reason”, without any additional information, even when the paths haven’t been cleared. At the very least, the City should provide more information as to why they close complaints without addressing the issues.

  • Map of all sidewalk and multi-use trails cleared by the City of Edmonton using machinery, including service levels

  • Edmonton’s current Snow & Ice procedure

Rossdale Transportation Network

142 Street Pedestrian/Cyclist Bridge & Terwillegar Drive Expansion

  • Survey closes Thursday, December 9

  • Share your feedback on the preliminary design for the 142 Street Pedestrian/Cyclist Bridge and Stage Two: Whitemud Drive and Interchange Upgrades

  • The proposal includes the bridge over Whitemud Drive in line with 142 St, as well as a new pedestrian/cyclist bridge adjacent to Whitemud Drive over Rainbow Valley and Whitemud Creek.

  • No improved connections through Brookside are proposed, though they had been discussed in previous stages. The City has decided they will revisit the potential for improvements after construction of the bridge is complete.

    • In your feedback, emphasize how important these Brookside connections are for providing all-ages, all-abilities, all-season access to these new bridges.

  • Project website

107 Avenue Revitalization

  • Draft concept plan options are ready and will be available December 1

  • Saturday, December 4: Live online presentation and Q&A (register)

  • Survey opens December 1 - 15.

  • Project website

WinterCity Studded Winter Tire Challenge 2021

Are you just starting to winter cycle and need studded tires? Or did you try to winter cycle, but found you needed support to be successful? We have some studded winter tires to give away and a number of ways you can embrace winter cycling in our winter city!

The City of Edmonton WinterCity Strategy has donated funds to Bike Edmonton so that we can give away a limited number of studded winter tires to help people start to winter cycle!

To be eligible to receive free studded winter tires, you have to

1. Read and fill out the WinterCity Studded Tire Challenge 2021 form

2. be 16 years of age or older,

3. be new or relatively new to winter cycling,

4. do three winter cycling challenges by December 31, 2021, like attending a virtual winter cycling seminar or sending us pictures of you and your bike out in winter conditions. You can choose from ten challenges that are listed on the form. All challenges help you gain the knowledge and confidence for winter cycling! Six of the ten challenges are free.

5. finally, you'll fill out a questionnaire by January 15, 2022 to tell us if the program helped you.

Pretty easy, right? After filling out the form (step 1 above), we'll let you know if you'll receive free studded winter tires. If you are selected to receive free studded tires, you get the tires first, then you'll work toward your selected winter cycling challenges and email us when you've achieved one of your challenges (or when you decide to switch to a different challenge).

This challenge is generously sponsored by the City of Edmonton WinterCity Strategy. WinterCity works with community groups and Edmontonians to enable and promote positive winter experiences. Bike Edmonton is thrilled to work with the WinterCity Strategy to help Edmontonians embrace the colder season!

Which Edmonton municipal election candidate are you?

Take the Taproot Edmonton survey to see where you agree and disagree with the candidates in your ward on 30 questions derived from Taproot’s People’s Agenda project. The survey only takes a few minutes, and helps you see at a glance where your candidates stand on issues relating to a range of important issues, including active transportation and urban planning. (You can also just look at candidate responses without taking the survey yourself.)

Paths for People also surveyed candidates specifically on active transportation, including school board trustee candidates.

We have compiled all the active transportation-related responses from both surveys, as well as looked at every candidate’s priorities from their websites (as well as some interviews and social media), and summarized everything for you into comparison tables.

You can see our voter guide here.

Voting

Election day is Monday, October 18. Find your voting station (which also tells you which ward you’re in). One piece of ID showing both your name and current address is required.

Advance voting runs Monday, October 4 to Wednesday, October 13, including specific days at the University of Alberta, MacEwan University, and Norquest College. Find advance voting stations and details here.

 
 

Ward maps

Enter your address in the look-up tool to find your City of Edmonton ward (including an audio clip with proper pronunciation), school board ward, and your voting station (including advance voting stations). The look-up tool displays a map showing the ward boundaries, as well as the previous ward boundaries were for reference.

 
 

As-is Sidewalk Rummage Sale

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Come check out our outdoor sale in front of our downtown shop (10612 105 Ave) on Saturday, October 2, 2021 from 11am-1pm.

We have a lot of one-off and unusual items that would be gems in the hands of the right person.

We have BMXs, vintage cruisers, and a lot of bikes and bike frames that we don't have the capacity (or parts) to refurbish.

We also have quite a few pairs of cycling shoes (many were never worn), obscure items, collectibles, etc., and they will all be priced to move!

Job re-posting: South Shop Assistant Manager

Bike Edmonton is hiring an assistant manager for our South Community Bicycle Workshop.

This is an updated posting, with qualifications and duties modified to reflect our openness to hiring someone with less bicycle-specific experience.

The assistant manager will work with and support the shop manager, including managing daily shop operations.

This is a Canada Summer Jobs funded opportunities, with possibility of extension on a part-time basis.

Bike Edmonton 2021 Annual General Meeting

The Bike Edmonton Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held Sunday, November 7, 2021, from 1-3pm virtually on Google Meet.

To register, please RSVP here. RSVPing is strongly encouraged so that we can verify your membership status and issue your secret ballot for voting.

If you wish to participate but do not have the technical means to participate via Google Meet, please contact us so we can make arrangements for your participation.

Everyone is invited to attend, meet our new Executive Director, hear updates about the past year, where we're headed in the future, and vote on important business. Only members-in-good-standing are eligible to vote: check your membership status (and renew your membership) here.

If you are interested in helping to set the direction of our growing organization, or know someone eager to help build Edmonton as a better city for cycling and walking, please visit our board of directors nominations page for details about the roles and responsibilities. Candidates can also be nominated from the floor at the AGM. Directors will be elected by our membership at the AGM.

Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/kik-nyyq-ufm

Or dial-in: +1 647-734-0020‬ ‪(this is a California phone number: your phone plan rates for calling USA will apply)

PIN: ‪381 549 084‬#

More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/kik-nyyq-ufm?pin=4122609860697

Casino volunteers needed Sunday and Monday

We are in need of a few volunteers to help run our casino on Sunday and Monday! The casino has implemented vaccine passports (aka the restrictions exemption program, REP), so all patrons and volunteers will be required to present proof of vaccination or a negative, privately purchased COVID-19 test completed in the previous 72 hours..

Sunday, September 26, 2021

  • Daybanker: 10am-7pm

Monday, September 27, 2021

  • General Manager: 6:15pm-3:45am

  • Evening Banker: 6:15pm-3:45am

  • Cashier: 6:30pm-3:30am

If you aren’t interested in and of the above roles, please consider signing up to be on-call for any other position of your choice. Having volunteers on-call is especially important this year.

For more information and to sign up, please click here and we’ll contact you shortly.

Bike Edmonton uses licensed charitable casino events to raise funds for our activities. Approximately once every 22 months, we provide volunteers to help staff a casino event. Pooled funds from several casinos over several months is shared by charitable organizations: we generally receive over $70,000. Faced with significant financial impacts from the pandemic, this coming casino is critical for Bike Edmonton's financial stability.

Date: Sunday September 26, and Monday September 27, 2021
Location: Starlight Casino (West Edmonton Mall), 8882 170 St NW

Bike Edmonton's tune up session at the Repair Café by Edmonton Tool Library

The Edmonton Tool Library is holding a Repair Café on Saturday, Auguast 21, 10am to 3pm and Bike Edmonton will be there!

7308 112 Ave NW, behind the Bellevue Community Centre

What is a Repair Cafe?
The Repair Café concept comes from the Netherlands. It was formulated in 2009 by Martine Postma, who was at the time an Amsterdam-based journalist/publicist. Postma hit on the idea of setting up low-key meeting places nationwide where neighbours could repair their broken items themselves, supported by specialists and in a relaxed atmosphere.

This means on August 21, you'll be able to bring broken items to the parking lot of the Edmonton Tool Library to have them assessed and repaired, if possible, and learn about repair along the way. We will have volunteer experts on site specializing in:

  • Bicycle care & repair

  • Sewing & upholstery

  • Household electronics

  • Tool maintenance & repair


Why?
The Edmonton Tool Library wants to reduce waste. We'd rather see broken items get repaired than replaced and we know how frustrating it is that the cost to repair is often much higher than buying new. We want to champion a repair culture in Edmonton in addition to our mission to strengthen the local sharing economy, to make the most of valuable resources and reduce our impact on the environment. We also hope that you wish to be part of this culture, by learning from our repair experts and passing on the repair knowledge.

To find out more about the Repair Café, visit http://www.edmontontoollibrary.ca/


Free minor tune ups at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival, August 13 and 20, 5pm -8pm, 2021

Bike Edmonton is providing free minor tune up services at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival on August 13 and 20, 5pm to 8pm. Donations are gratefully accepted.

Two friendly bike mechanics be just South of the Cosmopolitan Music Society, 8426 Gateway Blvd NW on both Friday, August 13 and Friday, August 20 from 5pm -8pm. You don’t have to have a ticket to the Fringe grounds in order to come and get a minor tune up. Stop by to get your bike safety checked and adjusted or just to ask the knowledgeable volunteers about cycling in Edmonton or finding cycling resources.

For more information about the Fringe visit https://www.fringetheatre.ca/festival/

Two volunteers are still needed for August 20, 5-8pm. For more information or to sign up, please visit
Fringe Festival 2021 volunteer sign-up form

Free supervised bike parking and bike adjustments at Heritage Fest this weekend, August 31 to Sept 2

If you’re riding to Heritage Fest this weekend, Bike Edmonton is supervising two bike compounds from 9am to 9pm all three days of the festival. Please bring your lock. On each evening between 5pm and 7pm, at compound #1 by Hawrelak Park’s main gate, our volunteer mechanic is offering free bike inspections and adjustments. You don’t need to have a ticket to Heritage Fest to get into compound #1. If you are headed into the festival, you’ll need a free Heritgae Festival ticket, which you can get through their website heritagefest.ca Donations to Bike Edmonton for cycling services are greatly appreciated at either compound.

Volunteers needed: charitable casino event

Volunteer with us on September 26 and 27! No knowledge or experience of casinos, gambling, or bicycles is needed. By volunteering at this event, your 4-8 hour shift is equivalent to a donation of thousands of dollars to Bike Edmonton.

Bike Edmonton uses licensed charitable casino events to raise funds for our activities. Approximately once every 22 months, we provide volunteers to help staff a casino event. Pooled funds from several casinos over several months is shared by charitable organizations: we generally receive over $70,000. Faced with significant financial impacts from the pandemic, this coming casino is critical for Bike Edmonton's financial stability.

Date: Sunday September 26, and Monday September 27, 2021
Location: Starlight Casino (West Edmonton Mall), 8882 170 St NW

To volunteer, and to see more details (including volunteer roles, perks, schedule, and transportation), please click here.