those who sail the sea have no family but those on their ship! We don’t serve a government or religion, only the rocky waves, and the whispers the gales tell of buried gold. We do not lower the sails for a day because a queen wishes it so! But if a mate is ill with scurvy you bet we will have to put off our pillaging for another day.
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We are open tomorrow. yes. see you there.
Please note that as per tradition, Bike Pirates will be closing early the evening of the annual ice race! Tomorrow, Saturday February 13th, we will be closing the shop at hour early at 6pm SHARP in order to get set up for the party we are hosting.
Please come out to the races at Dufferin Grove rink 7-10pm, and to Pirates afterwards for an awesome dance-party fundraiser for Charlie’s Freewheels. This is a fantastic, fun, hilarious, exhilarating tradition in the Toronto Cycling community!
See you there!
The Pirates.
Icycle, Toronto’s annual bicycles-on-ice race, takes place Saturday, February 13, 2010 from 7-10pm in Dufferin Grove Park. Free admission! The afterparty, a fundraiser for Charlie’s Freewheels, is right here at Bike Pirates.
Speaking of Charlie’s Freewheels, congrats to them for winning a 2009 Toronto Bike Award!
Charlie’s Freewheels is seeking volunteers to act as Mechanic Mentors in the second session of our youth bicycle project. The sessions will run every Friday from 5-8pm. The First session will be Friday February the 5th and the program will run for 12 weeks.
Charlie’s Freewheels will enrol 6 youth participants from the Regent Park community to learn basic bicycle mechanics and safety through the process of assembling their own bike. Through a combination of hands-on practice, cooperative work, discussion and mentoring, the participants will focus primarily on the repair of one bicycle each that, upon the project’s completion, will belong to him or her.
The volunteer mechanics will be working with the youth from last session in assisting the new participants with the assembly of their bicycles. We are looking for mechanic volunteers who have previous experience working on bikes and who have had hand on experience in repairing and building up bicycles for the bottom up.
We are also looking for people who would be interested in being involved in other aspects of the program. Last session we had one volunteer work with one of the participants on putting together a manual for the session that turned out amazingly.
We are looking for people who are interested in or have skills to share including but not limited too:
Volunteer Info Meeting
Tuesday February 9th at 6:30 pm
Location: U of T, International Student Centre, the building at 33 St George
In the the Baldwin Room (located on the ground floor)
If you need more info you can email Caitlin at:
mccarlisle (at) gmail.com
The quality of fact-finding and direct-quoting in the media Never Fails to Impress. Yesterday’s papers had a fantastically blown-out-of-proportion quote about Bike Pirates usage during this mild-ish Winter! (see the portion marked winners)
Rest assured, we are seeing more people than you might expect in January, in Cananda, but not 140 people a day! That would blow our minds!
Business is steady over the winter months but a bit quieter, and less hectic than the spring/summer season. So if you are thinking about getting your bike ready for spring or you have decided that you want to be a Winter Cyclist too(!) come by the shop. We have lots of volunteers on hand to help you fix and learn.
As usual, you can’t believe everything you read 😉
This Friday, January 15th we will be screening “2 Secondes” a Canadian French film by Manon Briand which won 4 awards at the 1998 Montreal World Film Festival. The story following the trials and tribulations of a young women who goes from downhill racing to couriering and street-racing in the city.
As usual the event is family friendly, accessible, and will be held at the bike shop (1292 Bloor St West).
$5/pwyc. BYOB.
Hope to see you there.
Happy New Year bike folks.
Not to worry, despite the wind and snow our regular scheduled hours will continue all the way through the winter, so you can keep your winter ride in running order, or build a new bike for spring.
Any changes to our hours or unexpected closures will be announced here on the blog/website.
(Please don’t email our info account to ask about hours. It is checked once a day off-site so it is NOT a reliable means of such information.)
Happy 2010, and safe riding.