Bike to Work Week: Oct 28th – Nov 3rd, 2013.
A bi-annual event created by HUB, Bike 2 Work Week is a great opportunity for you to commute to and from UBC with other cyclists, get fit and contribute to the region’s sustainability goals. Track your commuting kilometers in a friendly competition with other workplaces across Metro Vancouver and win great prizes all week long. We’re offering a training course on fall riding in advance of B2WW, you can register here!
Be sure to check out our cool new video series ibikehere! Get great tips on cycling, learn about the resources available at UBC and the story of how Christine’s came to cycle to campus!
UBC’s Celebration Station
Join us At St. Anselm’s Church for free bike repair, prizes, snack, an electric bike demo and more. Try the detour route out of campus to avoid construction, or take the University Boulevard bike lane.
- Wednesday, October 30th
- 4 – 6 pm
- Location: St. Anselm’s Church 5210 University Blvd.
- Free coffee, snacks and prizes, plus on the spot bike tune-ups provided by the Bike Kitchen
- Enter to win prizes – including an Opus Adagio pictured below, provided by Urban Racks!
This year we have some incredible prizes for visitors to our Celebration Station. You can win and Opus Adagio an Urban CycleLift – which is the ultimate bike rack for your home or apartment, and more! Prizes for this year’s event have been provided by Urban Racks who provide bicycle parking solutions on the UBC Campus. www.urbanracks.com
How to Participate
Participating in Bike to Work Week is free and only takes a few minutes to sign up:
- Register with HUB at www.biketoworkmetrovan.ca.
- Choose your workplace – “University of British Columbia” – then join a team or create your own.
- Map your route to work.
- Log your route each day you ride – this will track your kms, GHGs, calories and help HUB encourage cycling safety and infrastructure in the region.
The kilometers you log with HUB will be added to the UBC total. UBC has won the most kilometers cycled for the 1000+ employee category for the past 3 years (Spring & Fall) – so please sign-up and log your commutes so we can keep the streak alive!
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