We had a bicycle donated to the shop on Thursday that, upon closer inspection, appears likely to be stolen. It is a very large single-speed. If you or anyone you know has lost such bike recently, please write me at needleandthread (at) gmail (dot) com with a detailed description.

We are enraged by the continued climate of bike hate – both in theft and vandalism – in this city, and we want to ensure that this bike finds its way home.

Thanks to everyone from the shop and in the community for helping to make Bike!Bike! 2010 a great success!

We hosted over 150 people from all over North America – learning and sharing, riding and eating and dancing our asses off. It was an awesome weekend with awesome folks. We met new shops and made new friends.

Thanks to all of our outstanding volunteers who put in lots of hours (especially those up at 5:30am to cook every day!), and everyone who helped make it happen.

Bike!Bike! is awesome because you are awesome.

Much love. See you in Texas for B!B! 2011!

xo BP

Hello all Pirates and swabbies,

Please note that Bike Pirates will be CLOSED for DIY repairs for the duration of the Bike!Bike! 2010 Conference. Hours this week will be as follows:

Open Mon Aug 9 and Tues Aug 10 regular hours
Open Thursday Aug 12 12-4pm (Closed Thursday 4pm onward!)
Closed Saturday Aug 14
Closed Sunday Aug 15

The space will be used for workshops throughout the weekend, so please respect that that space is CLOSED for repair time.

We will be having more bike building and art making – last minute prep of screen printing, cutting, folding and stapling handbooks, making spokecards, etc!! – on wednesday. Starting at 4pm, going up 10pm or until everything is finished! We will also need help logging and tagging all of the loaner bikes which we will have collected.

Thanks to everyone who came out last night. We got a lot accomplished and have a good (and safe!) pile of bikes for loaning! All your help is appreciated.

This is going to be an awesome week and we thank everyone who has donated, helped, volunteered, organized and given us support.

Love,
Bike Pirates

Happy Birthday Bike Pirates.

Our birthday past this weekend without us even noticing. This summer has been hectic, and we hope to have time to celebrate very soon. In the meantime, we won’t mind if you stop in to give us a hug and tell us you love the Bike Pirates.

Happy 4th Anniversary. Here’s to many more.

xx

Sorry for the late notice. Pirates will not be open for regular hours today, July 1st. This is moreso because of a need to recover from recent personal stresses than because we want to BBQ for Canada Day – Pirates don’t believe in Holidays or in Nationalism.

We will be open again and able to focus on Saturday, 12-7pm.

Thank you for your understanding.

Bike Pirates.

Wednesday April 21st will be the first Bike Pirates annual general meeting.

This meeting will be centered around discussion of current policies and proposed changes to meeting and decision making processes at the shop. We will also give people an update on the work that we have been doing, what community partnerships we have forged, and what our future plans look like.

We will be starting the meeting at 6:30 pm at The Toronto Free Gallery (the hardware store across the street from Pirates) There will be an intermission in the meeting for a Pirate cooked dinner. Feel free to bring anything to turn it into a pot luck!

If you are interested in participating in this important discussion please attend this meeting.