Salt Spring Island

Friday, June 7 from 4 to 6pm, join us at the Lions Bike Park for a Kids Bike Rally! Teenagers will be leading an obstacle course, jump competitions, and skill-building circuits for the younger ones. There will be free BBQ, simple bike tune-ups, prizes, and info about safer cycling on Salt... [Read More...]

On Tuesday, June 4th, the Minister of Tourism, Lana Popham, will join Salt Springers from 12:30-2:30pm for a cycle tourism loop, starting and ending at the SSI Library at 129 McPhillips in Ganges. Then, from 2:30-4pm, join Let’s Go Biking author, Colleen MacDonald for an inspiring vision of safer cycle tourism... [Read More...]

I love riding bicycles around the quieter Gulf Islands. A group of eight from Salt Spring joined two from Mayne for a jolly Earth Day bikeride on Sunday, April 21. We met at Village Bay to chart our course: After leaving Neil in capable hands to fix a few punctures in... [Read More...]

We organized three great events for Fall GoByBikeBC Weeks: An Outdoor Movie Night, a Kids Bike Rally, and a Spooky Bike Disco to the Haunted Forest Walk this coming Saturday. OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHT About 50 people came out to get inspired by this fabulous film! We also shared GoByBikeBC sign-up cards... [Read More...]

Over 30 people gathered for the Cycling Safer on Salt Spring GREEN DRINKS at the golf course restaurant on Thursday, August 25. It was super fun, and we came up with some great ideas. Here are a few of the best: Prioritize, plan & timeline for funding construction of bike lanes... [Read More...]

Please join us at the Golf Course restaurant veranda on Thursday, August 24th at 5pm to discuss cycling safety on Salt Spring, efforts to construct bikeable road shoulders, and upcoming Fall GoByBikeBC events! [Read More...]

Friday, June 2nd was a full day of BIKE fun and advocacy for better cycling infrastructure on Salt Spring Island. Weeks of planning and promotion went into this day, focused around bike path meetings, both public and private, with the BC Minister of Transportation & Infrastructure, Hon. Rob Fleming, as well... [Read More...]

Monday, May 29 to Sunday, June 4 is BC-wide GoByBike Week! Join us for coffees and rides and even a meeting with the Minister of Transportation, Rob Fleming and MLA Adam Olsen on Friday, June 2 to advocate for safer cycling & active transportation paths on Salt Spring! Are you an... [Read More...]

In the freezing cold and rain, 30 people rode bikes with MLA Adam Olsen to Vesuvius along the new, safer marked route, to show their support for improved cycling trails and infrastructure on Salt Spring. Here’s a sweet video Natasha Kong made of the event! (click on photo to link) https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrWOztXhAiF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MmJiY2I4NDBkZg== [Read More...]

Valentines weekend on S,ḴŦAK / Mayne Island was a whirlwind of discovery, filled with natural beauty and great people. To start with, my obsessive participation in Mayne’s Love Local Bingo (hosted by the Mayne Island Community Chamber) had paid off. On Thursday, Lauren Underhill, the Executive Director there, pulled my name... [Read More...]