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We Want Your Help!
We hope you’ve had a chance to cycle around Saskatoon as we celebrate BYXE Week and Bike to Work Day. We’ve had a lot of fun working with the City of Saskatoon to make the week a good time and to remind people of all the reasons to love riding a bike: freedom, exercise, fuel…
2022 BYXE Week kicks off this Saturday
IceBreaker Slow Roll – this Saturday, May 14 at 2pm On May 14th 2022, please join us in The ICEBREAKER Slow Roll. Unlike most of the slow rolls this summer, this first one will have muffins! However, we need you to tell us you are coming so we know how many muffins to have on…
The BIKE VALET for 2022 needs your help!
We’re back with the Bike Valet after a long Covid layoff and looking to get more people to their activities using their bikes again! This year, Erin Edwards will be coordinating the volunteers again. Hopefully you are one of those volunteers! Ben VanDenberg will be the onsite supervisor at each Bike Valet. So far we…
2022 Sask Marathon Bike Valet Volunteering
You can volunteer for one or more shifts using the link below. However, we wanted you to know where you are going to find the Bike Valet on the Marathon’s big event space. The Bike Valet is in the bottom right corner of this map. Volunteer for the Saskatoon Marathon – Sunday, May 29
Wayfinding on Wheels
By Jason Hanson, Saskatoon Cycles Operations Manager We live in a complicated world. 7.9 billion of us stress-test the social and environmental limitations of the planet every day, bumping into one another as we scurry from one task to the next. We are expected to manage our own individual perspectives, interests, and needs at exactly…
BYXE Winter 2022
Exciting times! This winter, “Bike to Work Day” will be the physically-distanced “BYXE Week”, where you’re encouraged to get out and explore a snowy Saskatoon by bike, anywhere, anytime, and all week! Commit to riding your bike any time during BYXE Week, February 14 to 21. Register for a chance to win prizes! Register below…
Thinking about transportation with a “C.A.R.” framework
By James Arnold, board member, Saskatoon Cycles I get car by riding a bicycle. I’m a mostly retired clinical-community psychologist, and board member of Saskatoon Cycles. I mostly travel around by bike. I’m very interested in making people’s lives happier and less stressful by looking at things within our city. Environmental and community psychology researchers…
Getting to know the Saskatoon Cycles board of directors: Dominic McKeith
As a non-profit, Saskatoon Cycles relies on the generous efforts of its volunteers. One of the ways you can contribute to and help shape the direction of our work is by becoming a member of our Board of Directors. At our AGM on November 3rd, 2021 three people joined our Board. We’ve already introduced you…
Happy Ending of 2021!
by Kira Judge, co-chair, Saskatoon Cycles Happy ending to 2021, everyone! It is always meaningful to reflect on the previous year by celebrating the growth and learning one has experienced. Saskatoon Cycles has so much to be grateful for in 2021, despite the challenges of the pandemic and climate change realities we all face as…