Latest Posts From Ridge Meadows
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. […]
Art Studio Bike Tour, May 11: photos
The weather was fabulous on Sunday, just perfect for our first Art Studio Bike Tour. It happened to coincide with Mother’s Day, which I thought was going to bring out lots of moms. Not so. We only had 8 people altogether on our tour. It made it certainly more relaxing for me to have fewer […]
Photos: our first Spring Bike Tune-up Workshop
Quite a few people had told us over the last few years that they would like to learn how to do simple repairs and maintenance on their bikes.On May 10, we finally organized a Spring Bike Tune-up Workshop at the first Haney Farmers Market of the season. It was a rather cold and miserable day, […]
Earth Day 2014: HUB’s Cycle Recycle photos
Here are some photos of our annual Cycle Recycle at Earth Day 2014 in Maple Ridge: Bikes have all been cleaned and are ready to go Barry trucked all 16 bikes and the parts box over to Memorial Peace Park – photo: Geoff Hancock Hmmm…what’s this all about? Free bikes? Really? There are Gerry Pinel […]
FREE Spring Bike Tune-up Workshop, May 10
At the Haney Farmers Market, HUB volunteers will be teaching basic bike repair and maintenance to whoever wants to learn! Where: Bandstand, Memorial Peace ParkWhen: Saturday, May 10Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Just drop by! Update April 28: the first 25 people to arrive by bike at the market will receive a $5 coupon, […]
Art Studio Bike Tour, May 11
Do you know the annual Art Studio Tour in Maple Ridge is coming up? It’ll take place on May 10th and 11th. This year you have the option of joining members of our local HUB committee on our first Art Studio Bike Tour. Date: Sunday, May 11 Time: 10:00 am Where: The ACT, Memorial Peace […]
Cycle Recycle at Earth Day 2014 on April 26
HUB will be back at Maple Ridge Earth Day 2014 with our Cycle Recycle. The Earth Day event happens this year on April 26, from 10 am to 2 pm. It looks like we may have more than 10 used bikes to give away. Some kid’s bikes, some adult bikes; a great selection. I just […]
35,000 kms of bike paths, almost around the world
My parents in the Netherlands sometimes send me articles about cycling, thinking that I can use it in my cycling advocacy efforts here in Maple Ridge. I just received the latest one, a big, 2-page article in one of the national newspapers, the Algemeen Dagblad, with an interview with Saskia Kluit of the Dutch Fietsersbond […]
Column The News: ‘I have more money in my pocket and am healthier, too’
My latest column in the Maple Ridge News: Posted Mar 27, 2014 As I was parking my bike in front of municipal hall recently, an elderly lady was unlocking her bike. As I often do with fellow riders, we had a little bike talk. She told me she could no longer drive her car because […]
The cost of bicycle vs. car infrastructure/transit/bridges
Often people claim that we can’t afford to build bicycle infrastructure. This myth is busted in this Treehugger blog post by Zachara Shahan: 1 mile of a protected bike lane is 100x cheaper than 1 mile of roadway, with an article from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and a mindblowing chart from PeopleForBikes.