GoManitoba- Bike WeekChallenge
2024-05-20 12:00, 2024-06-09 12:00 - 2024-06-15 12:00 (America/Winnipeg) | GoManitoba, 286 Smith St #300, Winnipeg, MB
At GoManitoba (gomb.ca) we want folks to love their trip! GoManitoba is a commuting tool to find carpool partners; transit, bike and walking routes; and pools for those traveling by bus or bike for the first time to connect to those more experienced. GoManitoba is FREE for all Manitobans. Log your rides during Bike Week with GoManitoba at: https://gomb.ca/#/challenges Folks who log bike trips during the week will earn points, which gives them chances to win prizes.

Learn to Ride with Winnipeg Trails Association
2024-05-26 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-05-30 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-06-02 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-06-06 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-06-09 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-06-13 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-06-16 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-06-20 18:00 - 20:00 and 5 more dates | The Forks, Forks Market Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 4L9, Canada
These workshops are geared toward adults learning to ride for the first time or brushing up on their skills.

Cost: Free! (Donations accepted)

Please sign up here to get email updates. We will be announcing special bike rides and workshops soon!

CAA Bike Tune Up Day
2024-06-01 09:00 - 14:00 | Valour Community Centre – Orioles Bike Cage, 444 Burnell Street, Winnipeg, Winnipeg, R3G 2B4, Canada
Are you ready for a safe bicycling season?! CAA can help! In collaboration with Bike Winnipeg, The WRENCH and Valour Community Centre, CAA will host its 3rd annual free Bike Tune-Up Day on Saturday, June 1st from 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Bring your bicycle for a free tune-up, and learn basics so you’re prepared to do your own tune-up in the years ahead. Come with the kids and their bikes. We’ll have snacks and juice boxes available as well!

Green Action Centre Commuter Challenge
2024-06-02 08:00 - 2024-06-08 17:00
Commuter Challenge is a week-long event that encourages participants to partake in sustainable transportation for their health, for the environment and for workplace morale. Sustainable commutes include:

-Walking

-Cycling (including roller blading, scootering, and skateboarding)

-Taking the bus

-Carpooling -Telecommuting (working from home)

Register online by yourself, with a friendly team, or with your workplace and log your trips for a chance to win some great local prizes. This event is open to all Manitobans (and is a national event), so there is some friendly competition between provinces!

Ride Marshal Training w/ Bike Winnipeg
2024-06-02 09:00 - 12:00 | Disraeli Bike Bridge- Point Douglas (south side), Winnipeg, Manitoba
Bike Winnipeg Ride Marshal Training helps create safer group rides for everyone! This workshop is offered for those interested in supporting medium to large groups of all ages and abilities. If you are an experienced cyclist this is a great way to get involved in our efforts to get more people biking more often. Although this training is useful for anyone running group rides, those attending are expected to volunteer to marshal with Bike Winnipeg at least twice this summer. There is no cost for this course.

Training will take place in Room 2 of the Sport Manitoba Building (145 Pacific @ Lily). Bikes can be locked in a secure bike room in the parkade. Ask for the key to the bike room at the security desk.

Please RVSP Mark (mark@bikewinnipeg.ca) to attend.

Training is free, but space is limited.

outSPOKEn - w/Dave Elmore as special guest
2024-06-03 13:00 - 13:30 | UWSA Bike Lab, 395-403 Spence St, Winnipeg, Winnipeg, R3B 3J5, Canada
THIS WEEK! Tune in to hear our very Dave Elmore on the show talking about Bike Week!

outSPOKEn is a radio show on CKUW 95.9FM every Monday, at 1:00 PM featuring the UWSA Bike Lab Coordinators David Dorning and Sandra Leone! The radio show seeks to promote the interests of cycling to riders of all levels and backgrounds. The show features interviews and fresh takes on subjects from alley cat racing, current events, products, to women’s topics, and anything else of interest to our listeners in the cycling world.

PEDAL POLL/SONDO VÉLO
2024-06-04 08:00 - 2024-06-09 17:00
Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo 2024 is taking place June 4 to 9. The count is a chance to evaluate the state of cycling in our communities. Together we get a “snapshot” of what cycling looks like in communities across Canada, at the same time, year over year. The data collected helps build the case for more, and better, cycling infrastructure. This growing data set is there for everyone to use to advocate for access to safe cycling choices for everyone, everywhere. Fill the poll here –> https://velocanadabikes.org/pedalpoll/

Pit Stop Supply Pick Up
2024-06-06 11:00 - 17:30 | Legislative Building, 450 Broadway, Winnipeg, MB
FOR PIT STOP HOSTS ONLY Pit Stop Pick Up for Pit Stop Hosts @ The Leg Are you hosting a Bike to Work Day Pit Stop Host? If so…this is your day to stop in at whatever time works for you between 11AM- 5:30PM. You will meet the organizers and volunteers and get the lowdown on how to set up your pit stop, pick up your BW banner, and other goodies to give out to riders on Tuesday, June 11th.

UMFM 101.5 - Not Necessarily The Automobile
2024-06-06 11:30
Tune in to 101.5fm hear our very own bike champion and chairperson, Dave Elmore, chat about all things bikes and alternative transportation in Winnipeg.

Academy Street Party
2024-06-08 11:00 - 16:00
The Academy Road BIZ invites everyone to a super fun-filled day of family fun activities including face painting, bouncy castle, slide, dunk tank, free food AND… Don’t miss the Bike Week Winnipeg table!

Our Bike Week Ambassadors will be providing bike tune ups and a bike decorating station from 11-2pm

For more information visit https://www.facebook.com/AcademyRoadBIZ/events?ref=page_internal

WPG BIKE BINGO
2024-06-09 00:00 - 2024-06-15 23:59
Local cyclist Steve Lambert shows you that there are various ways to explore Winnipeg on bicycle via trails, separated paths and speed-reduced residential streets (although there are some areas where the cycling infrastructure leaves a lot to be desired).

There are three bingo cards: an easier one that features more protected infrastructure and direct travel, a harder one that is more on-road and has some hard-to-find spots, and a historical tour bringing you to historically significant places in Winnipeg. Each bingo card has 25 or more landmarks. You can click on buttons to be shown a row, column or loop of landmarks, which will be highlighted. You can click repeatedly until you find one you like. Some are relatively short (15-20 km) lines of five landmarks. Others are longer. Once you decide on a row, column or loop, you can click on the “Map it” button and a suggested route will pop up, showing you one potential way to reach all of the selected landmarks. There is also a “hardcore” challenge which requires you to visit all landmarks on the bingo card in one day. If you do that and can provide evidence via a publicly available tracker (such as Strava), you can be added to our Wall of Fame. See the full map for our easier, harder, and history hardcore challenges below along with some helpful .gpx files to keep you on track during your ride.

Warning: Cycling in Winnipeg includes areas where cyclists are not separated from traffic, and that suggested routes may not reflect current conditions and that you responsible for planning a route that suits current infrastructure and road conditions as well as your personal health and ability.

Blessing of the Bikes
2024-06-09 10:30 - 11:00 | Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 2M2
Blessing of the Bikes is sponsored by Knox United Church. Join us at 10:30 on June 9th in Central Park or inside the church if it’s raining. Bring your bike for a brief reflection on the spirituality of cycling followed by prayer and a blessing. Feel free to leave after this part or stay for the whole service. Everyone welcome.

outSPOKEn
2024-06-10 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-06-17 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-06-24 13:30 | UWSA Bike Lab, 395-403 Spence St, Winnipeg, Winnipeg, R3B 3J5, Canada
outSPOKEn is a radio show on CKUW 95.9FM every Monday, at 1:00 PM featuring the UWSA Bike Lab Coordinators David Dorning and Sandra Leone! The radio show seeks to promote the interests of cycling to riders of all levels and backgrounds. The show features interviews and fresh takes on subjects from alley cat racing, current events, products, to women’s topics, and anything else of interest to our listeners in the cycling world.

Bike Week Scavenger Hunt!
2024-06-12 15:30 - 2024-06-14 20:00
***This scavenger hunt(June 12-14) must be started before 6pm***

You can do this all in one go, over multiple days, with a group of friends or individually – whatever works best for you. However, all participants will be entered into the draw as solo participants. As long as you hand in your clue sheet to the staff at the final stop sometime between Wed-Sat, you will be entered into that day’s draw. There will be one daily winner drawn from Wednesday to Friday and three winners drawn on Saturday. Please note that entries past open event times will not be guaranteed entry into the daily draw.

For the starting location: solve the magic eye posted to the Park Alleys Instagram Wednesday at noon. Go to that location during the open event times, and the next clue will be on the wall somewhere inside. There will also be a stack of clue sheets – be sure to grab one and fill out the names of each stop before handing it in at the end.

The day you hand in your clue sheet at the last stop is the day you will be entered in for a draw.

Please take your time and enjoy interacting with the participating businesses throughout the course. There are a lot of treats to be enjoyed along the way, so no need to rush.

Approximate distance is 7-10 KM, and can be accessed primarily through the cycling networks, or on roads for more direct routes.

You will need: a phone and a pen, access to Instagram, and we suggest a helmet, lights, water, sunscreen and make sure to dress for the weather.

Have fun! Safety first! Share the road and smile and wave!

Bike Week Scavenger Hunt

CLUE: Magic-eye image

Magic-eye (stereogram) image puzzle, and hints to solve or “see” it.

FIRST METHOD: Hold the center of the image on your phone right up to your nose. It should be blurry. Focus as though you are looking through the image into the distance. Very slowly move the image away from your face until the two squares above the image turn into three squares. If you see four squares, move the image farther away from your face until you see three squares. If you see one or two squares, start over!

When you clearly see three squares, hold the page still and the hidden image will magically appear. Once you perceive the hidden image and depth, you can look around the entire 3D image. The longer you look, the clearer the illusion becomes. The farther away you hold the page, the deeper it becomes. Good Luck!

SECOND METHOD: Raise your index finger and hold it in front of your face, about as far away as you would have the magic eye image. Now, look past your finger and focus on something beyond your finger. It helps if it’s something specific, a picture on a wall or something like that. You will notice your index finger appears to duplicate in your vision. Now, focus on your finger. You will notice the picture on the wall is duplicated in your vision. If you continue to switch your focus between your finger and the picture on the wall, you will be performing the very action necessary to quickly resolve the magic eye images.

If you really can’t see it, please send us a message and ask or read the fine print 😉

Follow @bikeweekwinnipeg and @parkalleysbowl to participate!

Bike Week Scavenger Hunt!
2024-06-15 12:00 - 17:00
Hunt must be completed by 5pm Saturday.

You can do this all in one go, over multiple days, with a group of friends or individually – whatever works best for you. However, all participants will be entered into the draw as solo participants. As long as you hand in your clue sheet to the staff at the final stop sometime between Wed-Sat, you will be entered into that day’s draw. There will be one daily winner drawn from Wednesday to Friday and three winners drawn on Saturday. Please note that entries past open event times will not be guaranteed entry into the daily draw.

For the starting location: solve the magic eye posted to the Park Alleys Instagram Wednesday at noon. Go to that location during the open event times, and the next clue will be on the wall somewhere inside. There will also be a stack of clue sheets – be sure to grab one and fill out the names of each stop before handing it in at the end.

The day you hand in your clue sheet at the last stop is the day you will be entered in for a draw.

Please take your time and enjoy interacting with the participating businesses throughout the course. There are a lot of treats to be enjoyed along the way, so no need to rush.

Approximate distance is 7-10 KM, and can be accessed primarily through the cycling networks, or on roads for more direct routes.

You will need: a phone and a pen, access to Instagram, and we suggest a helmet, lights, water, sunscreen and make sure to dress for the weather.

Have fun! Safety first! Share the road and smile and wave!

Bike Week Scavenger Hunt

CLUE: Magic-eye image

Magic-eye (stereogram) image puzzle, and hints to solve or “see” it.

FIRST METHOD: Hold the center of the image on your phone right up to your nose. It should be blurry. Focus as though you are looking through the image into the distance. Very slowly move the image away from your face until the two squares above the image turn into three squares. If you see four squares, move the image farther away from your face until you see three squares. If you see one or two squares, start over!

When you clearly see three squares, hold the page still and the hidden image will magically appear. Once you perceive the hidden image and depth, you can look around the entire 3D image. The longer you look, the clearer the illusion becomes. The farther away you hold the page, the deeper it becomes. Good Luck!

SECOND METHOD: Raise your index finger and hold it in front of your face, about as far away as you would have the magic eye image. Now, look past your finger and focus on something beyond your finger. It helps if it’s something specific, a picture on a wall or something like that. You will notice your index finger appears to duplicate in your vision. Now, focus on your finger. You will notice the picture on the wall is duplicated in your vision. If you continue to switch your focus between your finger and the picture on the wall, you will be performing the very action necessary to quickly resolve the magic eye images.

If you really can’t see it, please send us a message and ask or read the fine print 😉

Follow @bikeweekwinnipeg and @parkalleysbowl to participate!
