James Coates
Program Coordinator
email: james@biketowork.ca
office phone: +1 (250) 920 5775
address: 1034 Hillside Avenue, Victoria, BC V8T 2A5
Office Hours:
Monday – Friday: 9:00am-4:00pm
For Provincial sponsorship enquiries, contact:
Terri-Lynn Gifford,
Provincial Program Manager,
terri-lynn@biketowork.ca
To learn about running an event in your community, contact:
Terri-Lynn Gifford,
Provincial Program Manager,
terri-lynn@biketowork.ca
For Provincial media enquiries:
Penny Noble,
Executive Director,
pnoble@biketowork.ca
GoByBike BC Society Mailing Address:
74591 Kitsilano RPO
Vancouver BC
V6K 4P4
The registration drive for Go By Bike Week is off to a great start. 1 week down, 3 to go! Today, we’re highlighting our supporters at BC Transit and the prize they’re offering for a lucky Go By Bike Week participant: a Marin Fairfax 2 bike! This bike comes with lights and a lock,... [Read More...]
Our limited edition Go By Bike Week 2021 T-shirts are now available for purchase. We hope you like them as much as we do! You can buy shirts online at the button below and pickup anytime from our office at 1034 Hillside Avenue. Made from organic cotton and printed locally, these... [Read More...]
With 4 weeks to go until Go By Bike Week, it’s time to claim your Team Leader Kit from the Capital Bike Office. Each kit contains goodies to help you promote the event to your team including a poster, free t-shirt, bike lights, CRD bike maps, and much more! Supplies are... [Read More...]
Today Adam and James of Capital Bike began the month long countdown to Go By Bike Week with a livestreamed launch. Featuring videos from some of our many sponsors we talked Team leader Kits, prizes, registration, the new t-shirts, and more! Watch the video below to get the inside scoop on... [Read More...]
In April 2021 we launched Capital Bike, a new organization created by the merger of the Greater Victoria Bike to Work Society and the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition. Capital Bike is committed to serving the entire Capital Region with cycling education, advocacy, and celebration. We’re happy to continue Go By Bike... [Read More...]
Exactly two months from today it’ll be time to don your helmets, hop on your bikes, and log those kilometres for Greater Victoria’s biggest bike event. In 2020, we changed Bike to Work Week to Go By Bike Week in response to COVID. With a whole new group of families, recreational... [Read More...]
We’re grateful that Winter Go By Bike Day wasn’t a day later, when we were blanketed with a lot of snow for the long weekend. Thanks to all those who logged their rides on Friday, February 12th to demonstrate Greater Victoria’s commitment to year round riding. Results: Prize Winners Usually, we’d... [Read More...]
Whether you’ll be riding to work, to school, for fun, or to stretch your legs while working from home, join bike riders around the world on and promote year-round riding! Commit to ride on February 12th to demonstrate Greater Victoria’s commitment to active transportation. With our milder winters, this could even... [Read More...]
Please find below the prize winners for Go By Bike Week 2020. Individual winners are listed first, with teams and special prize winners at the end. *We will be contacting prize winners via email with instructions about prize pick-up. Keep an eye out for that email! *Please Note bike skills prize winners... [Read More...]
The Bike to Work Week you know and love is back with a new name, new safety protocols, but the same goal of promoting cycling through one of the region’s largest free community events. What’s New? We’re shifting focus from large in-person events to safer and more inclusive bike activities and... [Read More...]
After postponing Bike to Work Week for the first time in 25 years, our event is returning with a new name, new safety protocols, and fun new activities, but the same goal of promoting cycling through one of the region’s largest free community events. We couldn’t be more excited to announce... [Read More...]
Enter to WIN a GoByBike BC Society Provincial Prize! To enter:
1. Register for the upcoming event
2. Log your bike rides between May 31 and June 6, 2021
Stay tuned for updates and more prizes!
This grand prize trip package sponsored by Exodus Travels includes hotel accommodations, a local leader and planned routes and itineraries with support vehicles to follow. Prize winner must be 19 years of age or older. Prize package does not include round trip airfare, To learn more CLICK HERE.
Win 1 of 4 – $50 Visa Gift Cards.
Winners will be contacted via email. Visa Gift Cards will be sent to each winner.
$250 Gift Card to go online-shopping at Sugoi.
See below for all our great prizes, from an e-bike, to bike tune ups, to free groceries. Many more yet to be added so keep checking back :)
Thanks to Westshore Bicycles for donating this year’s grand prize!
A description of the Norco Scene VLT from Norco’s website, which describes why this e-bike makes for such an awesome grand prize:
“The Scene VLT is an ultra-versatile, relaxed step-through electric hybrid that allows riders of all sorts to get around easily and replaces the need for a car in the city.:
These 12 pairs of tires, kindly donated by Schwalbe, include versions for touring, road biking, mountain biking, basically whatever type of riding you’re doing, we’ve got tires for it. Schwalbe Marathons offer a high degree of puncture protection for any lucky winner.
Thanks to our friends at Two Wheel Gear for this great prize! Think of how much you could get done on your bike with these panniers!
10 lucky Go By Bike Week participants can win a free tune up by the fine folks at Cycles West, $79.99 value each!
Get your bike tuned up for free after Go By Bike Week by our friends at North park Bike Shop! Log your rides from May 31-June 6 and maybe you’ll be a lucky winner 🙂
2 $50 value tune ups and 1 $90 value major tune up kindly donated by JK’s Bicycleitis!
That’s a lot of free groceries for seven lucky prize winners!
The Greater Victoria Bike to Work Society and Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition and are excited to announce their merger and the creation of a new cycling Society, titled Capital Bike. Capital Bike’s vision is to serve the entire Capital region with cycling education, celebration, and advocacy.
You can find out more about our newly merged organization on our new website www.CapitalBike.ca.
