safe, secure, easy bicycle parking

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Left Coast Mama blogged about the Bicycle Valet during the Olympics.

How to Have a GREAT Bicycle Valet Experience

 

A few tips will make your Olympic bicycle valet experience pleasant and easy:

We process bike for parking as quickly as possible, but as with everything Olympic allow yourself enough time, and be patient.

You may leave your helmet, panniers and any other gear with your bike, providing you firmly attach them to the bike.

Have your bike ready to go by the time you get to the front of the line—gear attached, anything you are taking with you, in hand. If you're not ready to give us your bike when you reach the front of the line, we'll ask you to step aside and won't tag your bike until you're ready to hand it over. This allows us to park bikes in order, so we can retrieve them easily.

Don't lose your claim ticket!

Only Bicycle Valet and City staff are allowed in the bike parking compound. If you forget something on your bike and need to get, as staff person will have to bring your bike out.

We CAN park tandem bikes, bikes with trailers, etc. We LOVE families! Usually we'll have to park them out of sequence, so if your rig is one of those special ones, please remember to let us know when you are picking it up, so we can find it faster.

Yes, we CAN park electric assist bikes. That means it's a real bicycle, ridden as a bicycle with electric assist, not a scooter type, even if it has the pedals on it. We're sorry for the inconvenience but it's a question of size, weight, maneuverability, and so on. 

Be sure to fill out your claim stub to keep get on our newsletters. And don't forget to check out info on BEST and what we do.

When picking up your bike, please be patient and do not try to enter the compound.

Ride safely! Make sure you have lights and reflectors for night riding.

Thanks for biking!

 

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Bicycle Valet will be at the Port Coquitlam Coast Meridian Overpass Grand Opening Saturday March 6.

Bicycle Valet will be on the south side near Kingsway and Broadway. The north end will have additional bike racks for self-lock up.

Avoid the congestion. Leave the car at home. Ride! Have fun!

BEST will also have a booth on the bridge showcasing our programs.

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The Bicycle Valet- Saavy Insider Article!

 

If you attended EPIC Sustainability Expo a couple weekends ago you probably noticed a well used Bicycle Valet in front of the new convention center.  One of the Bicycle Valet's patrons was so impressed with the valet service that he wrote a short article about it in the Saavy Insider. 

Check it out @ http://www.savvyinsider.ca/index.php?article_id=547&string=bicycle+valet

 

 Bike The Blossoms!

The city is in full bloom and Vancouver is beautiful again!

Come out this Saturday, April 18th, and Bike the Blossoms.  This annual ride happens rain or shine and allows riders to participate in a food focused cycling tour.

The Bicycle Valet will be at the Kits Community Center and the Britannia Community Center off of Commercial Drive.  Check out our events page for more details!

 

Sustainability 2.0 Expo

Yesterday, April 2nd 2009, was another successful Bicycle Valet at the Sustainability 2.0 Expo!  

The event was held at the Chapel Arts Center and saw a number of business owners,

community members and BIA members eager to see what is available in green business.  

 We had a large number of cyclists use the valet service and many expressed their appreciation for it's

availability

Well, the sun has finally arrived for the weekend.....I'm off to Stanley park for a ride!

Stop in next week and I'll fill you in on more Bicycle Valet excitement:)

 

p.s. with this lovely weather keep in mind the blossoms will be arriving and we'll be at Bike the Blossoms!

 

Here are some pictures of Liz and Shera running the Valet at Sustainability 2.0 (scroll halfway down through the photos):

 

www.sustainabilityexpo2.blogspot.com

 The photos were taken by ray miya photography | www.miya.ca | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

Junk Ride!  Couple rides to Tijuana to educate the public on Plastic Marine Debris

 

 

On friday April 3rd, at the Vancouver Aquarium, I had the opportunity to hear Anna Cummins and Marcus Eriksen speak about the unique bike ride they are taking to Tijuana.  They will be doing presentations along their journey to create awareness around their research on plastic marine debris in the North pacific Gyre. 

I recommend checking out their site as they have some interesting stories and shocking research findings linked to the amount of plastic we use.

oh, and to gather their research samples they constructed a "sail boat" made of 15,000 plastic bottles and sailed from LA to Hawaii.

 

www.junkraft.com

 

 

 

 

 

 


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