Bike Week Winnipeg

First Fridays Bike-In to the Exchange
2025-06-06 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Winnipeg) | Winnipeg
Valour Community Club – Isaac Brock Site, 715 Telfer Street North (meet outside main doors on Telfer)Join The Exchange District BIZ and Bike Winnipeg for a free group ride on the first Friday of every month. We’ll pedal together to Winnipeg’s lively monthly arts and cultural event, First Fridays in the Exchange.

We’ll discover safe and friendly routes from different neighbourhoods along the way. This ride will boost your confidence and help you feel comfortable biking around the city!

ROB'S Birthday Block Party
2025-06-06 16:30 - 18:30 | Winnipeg
Come to Wellington Crescent and Cockburn on Friday June 6 to celebrate Rob Jenner’s life.

Rob’s life was taken too soon by road violence. Rob was killed on his way to work on June 6, 2024. ONE day after his birthday.

One whole year, the city still hasn’t changed anything about dangerous Wellington Crescent. Until they do, we will keep losing people like Rob to road violence.

Join us at Rob’s ghost bike to commemorate what would have been his 62nd birthday with his favourite songs, BBQ, art, and claim the streets for people, for safety, for life. WEAR RED.

ROB’S Birthday Block PartyWellington Crescent and Cockburn StreetFRIDAY JUNE 64:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Neighbourhood Bike Party: West Portage YMCA-YWCA
2025-06-06 15:30 - 18:30 | 3550 Portage Avenue, 3550 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Join us at your local YMCA-YWCA for a Bike Party! On June 6th, we invite everyone to come on down to the West Portage Y (3550 Portage Ave.) for a neighbourhood Bike Party – complete with free bike tune ups courtesy of The W.R.E.N.C.H., bike decorating, bike activities for folks of all ages with Green Kids Inc., and refreshments and goodies! Everyone is welcome, you do NOT need to be a YMCA member to come join in the fun!

Bourkevale Community Ride
2024-06-05 19:00 | Bourkevale Community Centre, Ferry Road, Winnipeg, MB, R3J 1V8, Canada
Every Wednesday at 7pm we’ll leave from the Community centre and explore our neighbourhood and other parts of the city connected by bike paths. This is a relaxed ride that only goes as fast as our slowest rider. Come join us and meet your neighbours and discover how connected our community is to bike infrastructure throughout the city.

All rides will return to the Bourkevale Community Centre at 8pm unless otherwise stated. All riders are welcome, Bikes need to be in good working condition and children under the age of 18 must wear a helmet.

Orioles Open Hours
2024-06-04 18:00 - 20:30 | Valour Community Club – Orioles Site, 444 Burnell Street, Winnipeg, Winnipeg, R3G 2B4, Canada
We’re run by volunteers! We teach people to fix their bikes! We are skilled but small! Come and check us out for your bike repair needs.

Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo 2025
2025-06-03 00:00 - 2025-06-08 23:59 | Winnipeg
Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo 2025 taking place June 3 to 8. 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.

USWA Bike Lab: Open Shop Hours
2024-06-03 13:00 - 17:00 | UWSA Bike Lab, Spence Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 3J5, Canada
The UWSA Bike Lab is the central hub for cyclers in Winnipeg’s downtown core. It’s an easily accessible on-campus maintenance pit-stop for students and community members. The lab hosts workshops for all skill levels and it is also open during the week for cyclists to drop-by and work on their bikes.

The WRENCH @ The Forks
2024-06-08 12:00 - 18:00 | The Forks, Forks Market Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 4L9, Canada
The WRENCH is now open at the Forks for refurbished bike sales and minor repairs & rentals.

**NOTE – The Wrench has changed locations at The Forks. See map below to check out their new spot!

Communter Challenge
2025-06-01 08:00 - 2025-06-07 17:00 | Winnipeg
Commuter ChallengeJoin us for the national, week-long challenge that encourages Canadians to choose active and sustainable modes of transportation

Fête Ice Cream and Coffee, partnering with City Centre Local Bike Group
2025-05-31 13:30 - 14:30 | Fête Ice Cream and Coffee, 300 Assiniboine Ave Unit B, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 0T1, Canada
Come to a family-friendly monthly group ride with Fête Ice Cream and Coffee through the summer, partnering with City Centre Local Bike Group.

We’ll ride for 45 minutes to an hour and return to the shop to enjoy Fête’s amazing ice cream at a 15% discount!

Please watch this Safety briefing video before attending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id6OYhUmwl8

Register at: https://www.bikewinnipeg.ca/events/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm%2Fevent%2Finfo&id=219

Bike for the Future
2025-05-25 13:00 - 15:00 | Winnipeg
Bike for the Future was first held in August of 2021 in response to cuts to active transportation funding and the need to create safe speeds for active transportation users in our neighborhoods.

We are a group of concerned citizens advocating for safe spaces for our friends and families to actively commute. Walking and cycling are the two most environmentally friendly modes of transportation and need to play a key role in our greenhouse gas reductions. Transportation makes up 50% of Winnipeg’s emissions (https://winnipeg.ca/sustainability/ClimateChange.stm).

We are in the midst of a climate emergency. Extreme weather events are happening more frequently. Locally we have been suffering through drought which has had an extremely negative impact on farmers and will inevitably raise the cost of putting food on our tables. Air quality warnings became common place in the summer of 2021 as fires raged in northern Manitoba and Ontario. Every day when we turn on our radios and TV’s and hear and see how our global neighbours are suffering from a host of extreme weather events being amplified by anthropogenic climate change. We have had enough foot dragging by all levels of government. They have a responsibility to make walking and riding a bike the easiest way to get around within and between our urban neighborhoods.

In 2019, we proudly watched our youth take to the streets of downtown Winnipeg to demand action on Climate. Many of us marched in solidarity with them. We intend to continue their fight to push all levels of governments to speed up the move to low carbon transportation to help protect their future.

To encourage Winnipeggers to actively commute, they need a transportation system that allows them to safely, comfortably, and conveniently travel from point a to point b, they need access to safe bike storage, and they need affordable access to bicycles. Currently 60% of Winnipeggers feel unsafe walking and cycling. To make it safe and comfortable, motorized vehicles need to drive slowly on our residential roads (no more than 30 km/h). We need separated and protected spaces on routes with higher vehicle speeds and we need plenty of places to safely cross busy streets and rail lines in a reasonable amount of time.

1) We demand that the city start making investments on par with need and non-budget public policy in our cycling and walking strategy. Currently, the City of Winnipeg funds 2 million dollars’ worth of AT projects a year; the city should be spending at least 10 times this amount. It would be reasonable to expect that the cycling network will be completed within the next 10-20 years, not by 2100 at the current pace of budgeting.

2) The city and province need to work out how to lower the default speed limit to 30 km/h immediately. City engineers can set higher speeds on collector and arterial routes where appropriate.

3) The Winnipeg Police need to stop targeting people that ride their bikes on the sidewalks in areas where no safe alternative exists. The problem is not sidewalk riding, the problem is a lack of safe infrastructure for people actively commuting.

4) The city and province need to get a handle on bicycle theft by addressing the root causes of theft. There is an epidemic of bike thefts which discourage people from actively commuting. Providing better mental health supports, living wages and a universal basic income as well as installing more secure solutions for people on bikes could go a long way to reducing bike theft and encourage more people to actively commute.

5) The city needs to look at solutions for areas that are difficult to cross. For example, when the Arlington bridge closes, the distance that someone living on the north or south side of those tracks needed to travel to get somewhere on either side could increase significantly. It would be reasonable to expect the city and the railway company to produce a new crossing or tunnel. Rivers also pose a significant barrier to walking and cycling: the city needs to look at adding more pedestrian and cycling bridges to make cycling between neighborhoods more efficient.

Please watch this Safety briefing video before attending

Neighbourhood Bike Party: Elmwood/Kildonan YMCA-YWCA
2025-05-23 15:30 - 18:30 | 454 Kimberly Ave
Join us at your local YMCA-YWCA for a Bike Party! On May 23rd we invite everyone to come on down to the Elmwood Kildonan Y (454 Kimberly Ave) for a neighbourhood Bike Party – complete with free bike tune ups courtesy of The W.R.E.N.C.H., bike decorating, bike activities for folks of all ages with Green Kids Inc., and refreshments and goodies! Everyone is welcome, you do NOT need to be a YMCA member to come join in the fun!
