2014 Annual General Meeting of Hub City Cycles Community Cooperative Will take place: Tuesday March 11th – 7:00-8:30pm Hub City Cycles, 12 Lois Lane , Nanaimo BC Every member of Hub City Cycles Community Co-op is encouraged to attend the AGM and consider nominating yourself or a fellow member to be a […] Read More
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We just finished assembling and tuning our new fleet of rental bikes, and they are a big improvement over the previous year’s models in terms of comfort and quality. The model we chose to go with was the Raleigh Venture 4.0 including women’s step-through model. Rental rate are: $8.40 per hour, $26.25 per day […] Read More
Unarguably, the thing that makes a bicycle what it is are its two wheels. Keeping these wheels turning is kinda important, and what allows this to happen is the hub in the centre of each wheel. In this next Women & LGBT workshop we are going to learn how to troubleshoot, […] Read More
Applications are open for a learning opportunity of a lifetime! Otesha’s East Coast Tour Riding the Tides of Change Fredericton to Halifax May 3 – June 24 2014 Tour Member Age Range: 18-30ish The Otesha Project is looking for 12 ambitious volunteers eager to deepen their knowledge of environmental and social […] Read More
Hub City Cycles is an official participating retailer of a great program called Scrap-It that promotes more environmentally friendly transportation options. If you decide to trade in your higher polluting vehicle, you can get 40% off the purchase of a bike and any related accessories with a value of of […] Read More
We’ve become a dealer for The Grin Cyclery! They are an E-Bike company out of Vancouver, and sell kits/parts/components. For those who would like to convert their bike to an electric bicycle, their eZee conversion kits are a wonderful way to do so. You replace one of your wheels with […] Read More
Hey gentle men and gentle women, We’re again offering our Park Tool School, the 30-hour bike mechanics course. During the course, we go over many aspects of bicycle mechanics, and try hard to offer our students a very well-rounded experience! Our next session begins on March 18th. Course costs are […] Read More
We’d like to send out a big thank you to everyone who has offered to volunteer lately, in the past and continues to volunteer. You have no idea how much we appreciate you. You do important tasks in a few hours that would take us weeks to get to, if […] Read More
Due to a generous donation of bike related books, we now have a small library thats just begging to have their pages turned! I’ve read through 3 of the books so far. The majority are about bike touring adventures. Any co-op member can sign out a book. Come down to […] Read More
This upcoming workshop we will be focusing on wheel truing/straightening and spoke replacement. Some people may think that once a wheel is bent its junk, but sometimes it can be repaired. The idea that the art of wheel truing and spoke lacing is a skill left for the most elite […] Read More