Bike Fitting Events
Saturday, April 11 from 9am-6pm Robin Hood Children and Youth Centre, 3 Spruce Avenue, Sherwood Park
Saturday, May 2 from 9am-6pm Elves Adult and Youth Centre, 10419-159 St, Edmonton
Please help us share the joy of bike riding with dozens of individuals with special needs.
You Can Ride 2: Borrow-a-Bike is a program that loans adapted bicycles to children with special needs who face challenges in riding a 2-wheel bicycle. This free service empowers children with the freedom to ride with their families.
We are in great need of volunteers: no special skills or experience is required.
At the upcoming Bike Fitting Days, registered children will be fit to bikes specifically adapted to their needs.
We urgently need volunteers for both fitting days. We certainly need mechanics (no prior experience with adapted bicycles is necessary), but you don't need to be technical: we also need greeters and other non-technical help.
There are additional roles that we need help with in the days before and after. Please go to our volunteer sign-up sheet to see the available roles.
If you are a therapist, please visit our therapist page for available volunteer roles.
If you know someone that would be interested in helping out, please forward this message to them as well.
Learn to Ride Program
Thursdays at 6pm, April to June Gold Bar Park
We will be running our You Can Ride 2: Learn to Ride course for children with special needs again this spring and we are looking for volunteers.
I teach a variety of courses during the year, all of them enjoyable, but this course is the most fun and rewarding of them all. - John Collier, Instructor
We are looking for:
- Occupational and physical therapists
- Experienced cyclists
It’s the synergy of the two groups that makes our program such a success.
Contact John Collier at [email protected] to get involved now!
We will run two one-hour sessions back-to-back: the first session for children who require one-on-one help, and the second for children who require help from more than one person. The course runs Thursday evenings starting in late April through to early June. The course is held in the parking lot of Gold Bar Park (as far north as you can go on 50 St and still be south of the river) with the first session starting at 6:00 P.M.
There will be a volunteer orientation to get new volunteers up to speed and to introduce new practices to our longstanding volunteers.
Please pass this invite on to any knowledgeable cyclists, physical therapists or occupational therapists you know.