Tips and Tune-ups at First Ever Comox Valley Car Free Sunday

The World Community Bikes folks encourage you to give your bicycle a treat on Sunday`s car free day in downtown Courtenay.

Look for the booth, located outside Zocalo Café, where for a small donation, volunteer bike mechanics will provide a quick tune up or some technical tips.

`Tips and Tune-ups for a Donation` will be available from 1:00 to 5:00 through the afternoon.

And while your bike is being looked after, you can treat yourself to some of World Community`s fair trade products. Organic, ethically traded coffee, tea, chocolate and other products will be available at market prices.

Since May 2009, World Community Bikes has partnered with Comox Valley social agencies to provide bicycles to adults who cannot afford other means of transport.

Donations of bikes or your skills as a volunteer mechanic are always welcome.

bike bouquet

spring cleaning

The World Community Bikes volunteers met recently to sort through some of the donated bikes and parts and get another 10 or so ready to roll again...

earth day 2010

The 2010 Earth Day Family Festival took place on Saturday April 24th at Simms Park in downtown Courtenay.




Once again World Community Bikes had a presence at this popular event, offering bike tune-ups and silent auctions to raise funds and awareness of the project.

bikes arrive safely down south

We have just received photos of the box of bikes donated by the good people of the Comox Valley arriving and being put to good use in Nicaragua.







If you have a bike in good working order that you are no longer using, please get in touch as it will make a huge difference in the daily life of folks right here in the valley.

Comox Valley Record Friday August 7th 2009

Comox Valley Echo Friday August 7th 2009

Festival and more bikes arrive

World Community Bikes at the Earth Day Family Festival in downtown Courtenay on a glorious sunny Saturday, with 2 bikes up for auction to raise funds for the project.



Then earlier today, in response to the press coverage of the box of bikes finally heading South, another 16 bikes arrived, many ready to roll...now we just need to find folks to ride them all...

Comox Valley Echo Friday April 17th 2009

off goes the container!

It was a momentous day today as the container finally began the journey South to Nicaragua...

goodbye YM Line

Soon the container will be picked up to begin its journey from the Comox Valley, BC to somewhere even more glamorous, but first the familiar YM Line had to be painted over...

back on two wheels

Earlier this week we delivered a refurbished bike to local resident Al, who can now get around town a little easier...

locals

We've been fixing up bikes for some more local folks, the most recent recipents being The Comox Valley Transition Society and Canada World Youth

it's all in the details

Today we began unpacking the container....to ensure the recipients don't get taxed when the bikes arrive, we have to list everything that's in there



So, everything has to come out and be counted





Tomorrow it's all going back in again...

cycledelic success!

What a fantastic night, thanks to all the music makers and to Sperlin and Maya for organising such a great event at the Native Sons.

A big thank you to all the generous folks who came out and raised $1000 to get that box of bikes one big step closer to being sent to the needy of Nicaragua!

Comox Valley Echo Friday June 6th 2008

cycledelic (slight return)

Why not celebrate the end of the Comox Valley's first annual Bike To Work week and help send a box of bikes to Nicaragua at the same time?


read all about it here

CYCLEDELIC

Celebrate Bike to Work Week, have some fun, and support a worthwhile cause. World Community Bikes will be hosting, Cycledelic, a fast-peddling evening of dance and entertainment on Saturday, June 7th at the Lower Native Sons’ Hall.

Artists will include acoustic guitarist Amber McAlonan and her original alternative folk style, and the newly-formed three piece band Booty and the Hofish, whose style can be described as a fusion of bluegrass and hip hop.

The dance portion of the evening, featuring DJs of varying styles, will begin with local DJ Upsidedowninja and his down tempo, jazzy style of spinning. Next up will be Scotty Soulshock’s hip hop scratch and Glenn Wildes’ mix of styles. Adil Amlani, originally from Montreal, will perform urban house mixes to round out the night.

Tickets are $10.00 each, with a limited number at $5.00 for low-income or students and will be available at the Freakin’ Coffeeshop on Rosewall Crescent or at the door.

There will be door prizes, food and a no-host bar. Doors open at 8:00 pm.

Profits from the evening will help send a container of bicycles collected by World Community Bikes to Nicaragua.

The group would like to thank the entertainers, who are all local, for volunteering their time and talent.

FMI call Sperlin at 338-0229.

Comox Valley Record Wednesday 27 February 2008

Comox Valley Echo Tuesday 19 February 2008

freakin' full

Thanks to everyone who came out and donated their bikes in Tin Town today.


The fifty or so we received will ensure that the container is completely full!


Come and join us at the trivia night on Friday 22nd Feb and help raise funds to send it on its way...

almost full

A generous donation of parts and a few more bikes all the way from Cortes Island were added today, not a lot of room left for all the donations we're expecting on Saturday...

North Islander Tuesday 5 February 2008

trivial fundraiser

next drop off event

A week after the World Community Film Festival, we'll be returning to the Freakin' Coffee Shop for another bike drop off event...

Saturday 9th February from 10am to 4pm, donate a bike, enjoy a free cup of fair trade coffee!

freakin' success

All that fun and 70 bikes donated!

250 in the container, just 150 to go...

Comox Valley Echo Friday 23 November 2007

180

Gord and I spent a frosty afternoon packing away all the bikes collected last weekend


There's now 180 bikes in the container and plenty of space for the loads more we're hoping to receive during tomorrow's dropoff event at The Freakin' Coffee Shop...

Fair Trade Fiesta - 17 November 2007

We had a great day today



all the donated bikes were flattened



and after 6 hours of wrenching 60 more bikes were added to the container!



If you missed it, here's the next event -

Saturday 24 November 2007
10am - 4pm
Freakin' Coffee Shop
106-2456 Rosewall Crescent (TinTown)
Courtenay BC

Donate a bike, get a free fairtrade coffee!