About Alberta Bike Swap

Chris and Laura’s Story

We glanced at each other while cycle commuting in January 2005, spoke at the bike racks, and we’ve been together since.

While cycling home in December 2009 we were discussing a cyclist that had blown through a stop sign that nearly took us out and our conversation drifted to what had happened the week prior: we had tried to buy and sell bikes online, but neither experience felt safe. We signalled to turn right and another cyclist passed us on the right so we went home and sketched out a safe way to buy and sell bikes and fund safe cycling and to provide transportation security to those in need

In the last 13 years we’ve helped thousands of people get their perfect bike. We also designed and patented bike racks to help promote cycling, designed and expanded our processes to continually improve flow through, designed fit-for-purpose software, and we work on helping others through bikey goodness year round.

Although retired from paying careers, Chris is an engineer and Laura mentors software. The bike swaps are a labour of love, we do them because we both know that bicycles are empowering.  Maybe someday we’ll get a grant.