The cold tease of the bright sun is an almost cruel pretense an early bicycle season. The first Pizza Ride was rained out, we still had a super fun Pizza Party here at the shop followed by a great UVM Public Philosophy Week talk all about bicycles!
We are probably still a couple weeks away from our first group rides of the season. In the meantime we’ve got some fun other things happening.
Yesterday Darren, owner at Vermont Bicycle Shop, appeared on Vermont Public’s Vermont Edition! They had a great episode themed around personal mobility (bicycle commuting) and the challenges Vermonter’s face finding their way by bicycles. And helped present and talk about solutions for users to make the choice to navigate our state without a car. You can listen to that episode here:
Seven Days have launched their Daysies nominations. Vermont Bicycle Shop and other businesses have gotten great attention and won awards from Times~Argus and other publications and organizations. We’ve always felt like it’s been a little difficult to get good attention from Seven Days. We’re encouraging folks to nominate and vote for their favorite Barre business! Let’s give Seven Days a deluge of Barre!
Head over to their online nomination ballot here:
https://ballot.sevendaysvt.com/shopping
Be on the lookout for posts about our upcoming Trek Ride Club challenges! There are two slated for May!
The Read and Ride challenge – Read 2 books from your local library or local book store and ride your bike 5 times in the month of May. You can check out the details and sign up here:
https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/ride-club/challenges/details/563975b5-d7e8-4805-8d25-dce2868fcc06
The Ride Every VMBA Trail Challenge – We’re challenging you to ride at least 1 mile of trail from each Vermont Mountain Bike Association chapter. We’ll have over $1200 in prizes that go along with this challenge! Learn more at this link:
https://vermontbicycleclub.com/everyvmbatrail
Keep an eye on social media and you emails as we’ll be scheduling two(!) mountain bike suspension set up parties here at the shop, the first of which will take place for our Third Saturdays at 3pm in shop event series this month. Details will be announced soon!
We’re excited for the coming Spring and spending good quality time having fun on bicycles!
See you soon!