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Toronto Vintage Bicycle Show — Sunday July 28, 2019

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Toronto Vintage Bicycle Show 2019
One of our two great and highly collectable posters.

Bike Pirates will be hosting The 7th (nearly) Annual Toronto Vintage Bicycle Show on Sunday, July 28, 2019 from 9:30am to 5:00pm in beautiful Trinity-Bellwoods Park, 790 Queen Street West at Strachan Avenue in Toronto (map). Buy, sell, swap, shine up and show off your vintage wheels or just come to admire all the classic bikes.

Vintage bike enthusiasts and some genuine vintage cyclists will be on hand to tell you about your old — excuse me, that’s ‘vintage’ — bike.If you have a vintage classic that’s been sitting in your garage or basement for the last little while, this is your chance to shine it up and show it off to the world!  If you’ve been looking for a hard-to-find part, have an old bike or parts you’d like to sell or swap, or if you need advice on how to get that SW hub working right and where to get those rusty handlebars re-chromed, come on down!  Vintage accessories and clothing, too — well, of *course* you’ll need bell-bottoms to go with your banana saddle and sissy bar!  Highlights include:

  • FREE admission, all ages welcome
  • Vintage Parts Swap
  • Vintage Photo Booth
  • Vintage Bike Repair
  • Vintage Clothing Display
  • Local Food Vendors and Vintage Retailers all up and down the street
  • and of course, Bike Pirates’ safety checks for bicycles of all ages


Vendor space is available for merchants; $75 for retail vendors, $40 for individuals, otherwise,this is a FREE event.  Set-up starts at 7:30am, tear-down must be completed by 6:00pm.

What’s it like?  Watch this!  Toronto Vintage Television’s episode featuring the 2014 Toronto Vintage Bicycle Show is on YouTube here.

To book a vendor table or for more information, contact Pirate Dawn,  vintage@bikepirates.com or stop by the shop during our regular hours.

 

 

Back to regular hours

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Front of shopBike Pirates renovations are all done for 2019 and we have returned to our regular hours.

Probably the largest change you will notice when you come in is that our tool boards have been simplified. Don’t worry, we still have all of the tools you could need to repair your bike.
Tool board

Out Of Kids Bikes

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Unfortunately we have given all of the kids bikes away.

Thank you everyone for the interest in our kids bikes giveaway. It was overwhelming and eye opening to an area we are likely under serving.

The organization we partnered with to give the bikes away is called Charlie’s Freewheels. They will likely be doing another giveaway in the spring. The best way to learn about the next giveaway is to sign up for their mailing list: https://charliesfreewheels.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=796baa6919ab0f3b6ac6aefc7&id=ed785a2666

December Closures

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Please note that our space will NOT be open on the following days due to volunteer availability:

Sunday December 23
Monday December 24
Monday December 31

Please join us for our other regular hours over the December holidays and through January.

 

Thanks to everyone for another great year of bicycles, learning, and building community at Bike Pirates in 2018, and Happy New Year!!