Friends and Allies – Bike Pirates has launched our Indiegogo Fundraising campaign! Our goal is to raise $20,000 to create a new home and improved workspace.

Please tell your family, friends and community and encourage them to support our work.
If everyone who appreciates our work gives us $5 or $10, we’ll be well on our way!

Click here to see the campaign, watch the fantastic video, and make a donation.

We are moving closer to securing a new space for our community workshop, and we need your support to make our new home a reality! Donations are needed to fund our move, renos on the new space and replacing aging and broken equipment – new workstations, replacing tools, new kitchen appliances, and upgrading our failing technology, among other things.

There are some great perks offered through the campaign, with more to come as things roll in from community supporters. Have something you could donate to the campaign? Send us an email and let us know – info@bikepirates.com

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The 2015 SLINGSHOT ORGANIZERS arrived at Bike Pirates last month. Come in and get a radical, handmade analog organizer to plan your protests and keep your dumpstering schedule organized.

Small “pocket size” organizers are $6
Large spiral-bound are $12

Thanks to the Longhaul Infoshop in Berkeley for continuing to make these!

-an

Come to Bike Pirates on Wednesday, November 19, to participate in our AGM. We will review the past year & discuss our future!

Bike Rave 2014
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Start: Christie Pits Park @ 8:30 pm

Bike Rave is a D.I.Y. event that combines lights with synched music while riding through the streets of Toronto from dance destination to dance destination.

This is Bike Pirates’ third year hosting the event, and we want it to be bigger and better this year!!

Here is the premise:
Everyone covers their bike with lights, glow sticks, streamers, colour, fuzz etc. and meets at the first meeting location. We will make a playlist, which will be available for download a week before the event. At the meeting location, everyone with a sound system will press play at the same time, and then we ride critical mass style through the city. VOILA! Bike Rave.

Check out what happened last year:
http://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2013/08/20_neon-drenched_highlights_from_torontos_bike_rave/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/martinreis/sets/72157635001873481/

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2014 Playlist
http://zeus.justinbull.ca/bikerave2014.html

Playlist this year was created by SINergy (Atomic Soundwave)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/SINergy/258419774206108

Thanks to Justin Bull for hosting!

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2014 Route 
https://www.google.ca/maps/ms?msid=204276576287428834070.0004ffcf1f45a44bdf978&msa=0

Start- Christie Pits Park
Stop #1- Perth Park
Stop #2- High Park
Stop #3- Coronation Park
End- Trinity Bellwoods

We will be stopping to dance at the four stops along the route. Follow Bike Rave on Twitter for live tweets of our location on the day of:
https://twitter.com/TorontoBikeRave

Join our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1431575880449106/

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Some Bike Raving tips from the pros:

*Ride safe!! Be conscious of drivers and other riders. Give other bike ravers lots of room on the roads and bike paths

*Stay with the group. Bike Rave is not a race- if you are too far ahead and we make a turn we will not be sending out a search party

*Make sure you have lights and a bell and all that legal jazz

*Don’t be an asshole on the road. If you find yourself in a confrontation with a driver or police officer, be friendly and smile. Bike ravers are lovers, not fighters

*LEAVE NO TRACE. There was a lot of mess left by bike ravers last year, and we want this year to as clean as can be! Throw out your trash or bring it with you to a place where you can

*Standard disclaimer: Please note that Bike Pirates does not condone the use of illicit substances and/or alcohol while riding a bike

THINGS TO BRING:

*Lights, soundsystem, party attitude

*Spare tubes and patch kit in case of flats

*Lots of water

*Snacks

*All your friends

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Toronto Bike Rave is not associated with Vancouver Bike Rave, however we want to acknowledge the awesome organizers who created the original event out west. Want to see how awesome Vancouver Bike Rave is? Check out the video:

http://vimeo.com/24980012

Hey everyone:

The second Art Spin of the season is happening tomorrow and because all of us at Bike Pirates wish to attend…

We will be closing the shop at 6PM on Thursday July 31st.

Details for Art Spin are here: http://www.artspin.ca/#!upcoming/cihc

NOTICE: Bike Pirates will have reduced hours Thursday June 26th. We will be open from 1-6 pm rather than the normal 12-7. Many Pirates will be busy afterwards for Artspin! http://www.artspin.ca/#!upcoming/cihc

Additionally, Bike Pirates will be closed this upcoming Sunday June 29th for Pride.

A cover band show is a place we create for you to bring yourself and your friends together, play music, sing songs, have some good old DIY fun!

$5 at the door or pay what you can. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Proceeds from the show go to the Abundant Bodies track at the Allied Media Conference.
Check out the details here: https://talk.alliedmedia.org/content/abundant-bodies-media

This space is prioritizing queer/trans people of colour, black, indigenous, women, disabled people and all those that are underrepresented and alienated from the music scene. Let’s build our own beats to break down barriers and help create a music scene that aims to be safe, inclusive and empowering. Have no shame in your skill level. You can do it!

Contact radicalcoverbandshow.to@gmail.com for assistance finding people to play with, borrowing instruments and finding practice space.

More details about this event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/680367102026057/