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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.

 

 

What’s happening for July 2017

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  • 1 July – Bike Pirates 11th birthday — there might be cake.  Maybe.  And limeade.
  • 1 July – Canada Day Ride With Wavelength. 3pm to ??, Trinity Bellwoods to Humber Bay. More info here: http://www.wavelengthmusic.ca/
  • 5 July – Volunteer Orientation. 7:00pm at the shop. Just show up, we’ll be happy to see you, and you, too, can be a Bike Pirate!
  • 12 July – Mechanical Orientation. 7:00pm at the shop, probably bike stripping for volunteers.
  • 21 July – Craft night. 7:30pm — Silk screen? Buttons? Canvas bags? Mending? Watch the listserve for breaking news!
  • 26 July – Monthly Meeting. Pirate governance stuff, but open to anyone who wants to come. What can i say, it’s a meeting. But sometimes we have snacks.
  • 28 July – Movie Night (maybe). 7:00pm — aww. c’mon. Of *course* there’ll be movie night. We still haven’t seen The Bicycle Thief, and there’s 6 more episodes of Yowamushi Pedal.
  • 31 July – Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market. Noon to 6pm.  Pirates!  In their Pirate-tent!  will be doing safety checks, as usual, for cyclists in the Market.

Bike Rave Toronto 2015!!!!

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To all keen cyclists and/or party animals, interesting upcoming event!!

The 2015 Toronto Bike Rave will be on Saturday August 8 (that’s tomorrow).
Meet-up at 8:30pm at Christie Pits, southeast corner (Bloor & Christie).

What is Bike Rave? I quote: “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.

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.”

This is the route:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=z-cA8I-ed_Sk.khU7FVLVSTOo You will see places you have never seen on your bike and did not know existed. Or if you did, you won’t recognize them at night. Really!

This is the Playlist: http://zeus.justinbull.ca/bikerave-2015/ Thank you,
Justin!

Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1647151125497457/

Twitter here: https://twitter.com/torontobikerave

This is how much fun it was last year (and why you should be there this
year, ie, dontcha wish you’d been there last year?):

Youtube — thanks to

  • 1.) Diu2g4u — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcZv0h-RN9Q
  • 2.) Jamie Weller (my fave) —
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcvBJ57cl9c (OMG, that’s Den at 19:43, and me 19:47 in the light-up bunny ears. Yes!! I am *famous*!!!! Slightly.)

BlogTO:
http://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2014/08/20_neon-lit_photos_of_torontos_roaming_bike_rave/

Ahem. Be there or be square.

Regards,

Dawn

PS Glow sticks are available , so I hear, at Dollarama. I got mine, plus
the light-up bunny ears and my ultra-cool disco gloves, at Rocket
Fireworks http://www.rocketfireworks.ca/glow-products.html, 14 ADVANCE RD near Kipling. They have other locations, too. But any light-up will do!!