West Kootenay Cycling Coalition

Check out our awesome swag and order your favourite for yourself or your friends for Christmas. Thanks to @trentbrunelleart for the beautiful art work and @dylankdevries for our fine logo. https://society6.com/wkcc

Interesting read. https://www.outsideonline.com/2411/hi-viz-clothing-cyclists

We'll be live at 8:45 am tomorrow morning on Kootenay Morning, Kootenay Co-op Radio's local news show. https://www.kootenaycoopradio.com/

The Trafalgar Community Bike Repair Program is looking for your help! Their goal is to create a bike repair shop at Trafalgar to teach students how to fix bikes. They hope to fix donated bikes and store them at the school so all students will have the opportunity to ride. If you have any unused bicycles, parts or tools to donate let them know! They would prefer to receive bikes capable of going on trails, but if they receive any which aren’t, they will be fixing and donati...ng to those that need them in the community. If you have any bikes, bike parts or tools to donate, please contact Martin Corbett at [email protected]

An Open Letter to the Nelson Nelson Police Department, Local Media, and residents of Nelson, This past Wednesday, there was an incident in Nelson along Anderson St (aka Highway 3A) that involved a pedestrian and a driver. The pedestrian was fortunate to come out of the crash with non-life threatening injuries. But this was a close call that could have been a lot worse. A life could have been lost. These incidents, and the media coverage of them, demonstrate that we need to re...quest that incidents involving vulnerable road users be reported in a fair manner. These are our sisters, our brothers, our children, our parents, our grandparents, our grandchildren, our aunts, our uncles, our friends, our neighbours, our leaders, our colleagues, our teammates, our coaches. We all have a role to play in ensuring safety on our roads between users. However, those who walk and cycle are at a far greater risk of severe and fatal consequences. Providing initial impressions or speculative commentary on who was in the right or wrong from the Nelson Police Department, which is then reported in local media, has cast the impression that the pedestrian was somehow at fault in this incident. We feel that blanket statements about pedestrian and cyclist behaviour removes the humanity of the individuals, and contributes to a culture of victim-blaming. Suggesting that because the pedestrian wasn’t wearing bright clothing, they were to blame in this instance, is unacceptable, especially if and when the driver, not the vehicle, was at fault. We encourage the Nelson Police Department and local media reporting on collisions and near misses involving pedestrians and cyclists to reiterate the legal requirements for motor vehicle drivers to exercise due care and the reminder that our streets are shared spaces. This means: checking mirrors, shoulder checking, maintaining awareness of your surroundings and your travel speed, turning safely, yielding to pedestrians, and avoiding distracted or intoxicated driving; all before offering safety advice to vulnerable road users. Failing to address these obligations, and instead inappropriately focusing on pedestrian or cyclist behaviour, sends the false message that walking or cycling is unsafe, and hampers efforts to improve road safety for all. Over the long-term, we need to continue to work together to design and modify streets to better suit the safety and comfort of all users. Until we have infrastructure that eliminates the risk of collisions, we need all road users to be patient, courteous, and safe. Media Contact: Anna Lamb-Yorski President West Kootenay Cycling Coalition 250-777-2145

If anyone knows how to make winter cycling happen it is the Scandinavians. Check out this free Webinar today! https://wintercycling.org/event-4021674

Get Ready to Ride in Style, Vintage that is on Oct 3rd and Oct 4th. Check out our video! To see full details, go to; https://gobybikebc.ca//bloomers-bowlers-and-bianchi-gobyb/... Gather your friends and teammates to ride!

Day 4 and we are rolling into our #GoByBikeNelson "Weekend Madness" line up of Events! We have plenty of riding FUN planned for you, but first... a few stats; Stats as of 10:15 PM 174 riders | 19 | teams | 2866 kms | 259 trips | 85,8980 calories burned | 621 GHGS saved... Gear up and into our power packed #GoByBike weekend of Fun, Friday, Oct 2nd through Sunday, Oct 4th. We know you can do it Nelson! https://gobybikebc.ca//weekend-madness-scavenger-hunts-co/ Ride on and let the 4th be with you.

If you haven't "bonded to your bike" yet, you will definitely feel the need to after watching this movie! I am grinning now, and am pretty sure that this movie ...has inspired me to recapture the feelings of freedom from my younger times through the simple act of riding my bike:) GoByBike is riding freely into the wind, happy riding!

Check out our GoByBike Week Celebration Station Video at Gerick Cycle.

Day two and our #GoByBikeNelson stats are great! 168 riders| 19 teams | 1499 kms | 44970 calories burned | 325 GHGS saved Big shout out and thank you to Gerick Cycle and Bike Tech Matt; Matt was on hand to help out any of our riders with their gears, brakes and tires at our Celebration Station.... Check out our Celebration Station Video. Our next Celebration Station is on Thursday, Oct 1st at The Sacred Ride, see you there!

CELEBRATION STATION TODAY at Gerick Cycle! #GoByBikeNelson riders, ride or bring your bike down for a little TLC today at #GerickCycle; 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm. Get your tires pumped, chains checked and enjoy a Tweet Energy bar on us! See you there and enjoy your ride!

What a great start to our GoByBike event! I hope everyone had as much fun as I did out in the beautiful sunshine. The weather is perfect for riding and team Nelson is off to a strong start. Here are our stats as of 8:15 pm today; 156 riders | 630 kms | 55 trips logged | 18,900 calories burned | 137 kgs of GHGS saved!... Way to go riders keep up the riding. Check out the photo of me heading out for my ride today, I tried the "Work from Home Challenge 2 "; ride 7 blocks away from your home and back again. My distance was 2.6 km and it took me about 15 minutes:) I am happy to report that tomorrow I am going for Challenge 3! Tell us about your favorite thing on your ride today. mine was seeing butterflies! If you haven't checked out the Challenges yet go to our community page at gobybikebc.ca/nelson to see the event and announcement updates. Check out today's addition; "Map Your Wiggle Challenge" read about the Wiggle in today's announcements. https://gobybikebc.ca//20/09/29/map-your-wiggle-challenge/

Let the Riding Begin! Take off your hats and don your helmets it's time to roll out our bikes and ride for #GoByBikeNelson. Remember to log your rides to make them count. Our Goal is to collectively bike ride over 3000 km during the week by actively choosing a bicycle over a car! See Mayor John Dooley's Message to all of our GoByBike riders and teams:... https://gobybikebc.ca//mayor-john-dooley-launches-gobybik/

The weather is fine, the smoke has cleared and riding for #gobybikenelson is about to begin. But waitmaybe you have recently dusted off your bike in preparation and wonder if it is as ready as you are? Don’t’ Worry the wonderful bike techs at #GerickCycle and #TheSacredRide are geared up to help our registered GoByBike Nelson riders. They will be standing by ready to check gears, grease chains and pump up your tires for #gobybike week at our Celebration Stations.... Ride over or bring your bike to one of our free CELEBRATION STATIONS; open to gobybikenelson riders. Celebration Station 1: Gerick Cycle, Sept 29, 4:00 5:30 PM Celebration Station 2: Sacred Ride, Oct 1, 4:00 5:30 PM Enjoy a yummy TWEET ENERGY BAR courtesy of #MelaferaFoods while your bike gets some TLC!

Haven't picked up your ticket yet, avoid the rush and get it now;)

Our list of events for Go By Bike Week! #gobybikenelson

The City has put forward a great team for Go By bike Week! It's not to late to join them:)

Registration Package pickup!

Hello GoByBike Families and riders, we love biking safely! As part of our GoByBike Nelson line up of events we are offering Free, Learn to Ride Workshops to registered participants on Sept 30th and Oct 3rd. These family friendly workshops will help prepare anyone to ride on the road, handle hazards and maintain your bike. Biking is a great way to have fun, stay healthy and enjoy the fall. You need to preregister for these workshops, book your free session here; https://kootenaymountainshuttle.zaui.net/booking/web/

Go By Bike Nelson Tunes up - Enter our "GET FIT WITH JANE" Biking Boosters, Prize Giveaway! WIN a personal coaching session with Jane, of JR Functional Health in Nelson! Here's what you need to do to enter our Prize Giveaway;... "Get Fit With Jane" Prize Giveaway is for GoByBike Nelson registered participants only:) Not registered to ride for Nelson yet. Register at, gobybikebc.ca 1. Already Registered, then try out Jane's Biking Booster Exercises 2. Post a comment and like the Video on Facebook or Instagram make sure to include #gobybikenelsonBikingBoosters so we can see you! Follow us on Instagram or Facebook, @westkootenaycycle and @jreynolds862 Legal Stuff: This Prize Giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Instagram, Facebook

Hi Everyone, The 2040 Film hosted by West Kootenay EcoSociety is opening for streaming tomorrow! If you want to find a beacon of light in our ever changing world this film might just serve the purpose.

Thank you Dave of Melefera Foods for helping our riders power up with Your "Tweets"

Check out this inspiring and award-winning documentary that uses the cargo bike as a vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change! The West Kootenay Cycling Coalition is hosting this film as part of Go By Bike Week in Nelson this fall. For up to date information about this and other events during Go By Bike Week, visit our Facebook Page. Buy your $10 ticket today and we’ll throw in a free membership.... https://motherloadmovie.myeventscenter.com//Go-By-Bike-Wee You will have access to watch this documentary over a 48 period (Link will be emailed to you on 30 September by 7 pm) To learn more about how you can register for Go By Bike Week and get entered to win some great prizes visit Go By Bike BC . #motherloadmovie #gobybikenelson #wkcc

We are happy to be hosting this crowd sourced documentary as one of our Go By Bike Week events in Nelson this fall. More info about the film, the Live Q and A, and how to get your ticket can be found in the event information.