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Volunteer at the Bike Swaps? Why would I do that?

Chris and I are consistent; we open the website volunteer page in mid-March every single year and have a full slate of volunteers within 48 hours. We opened the website on March 17th, Calgary volunteers were full in less than…

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2023 Alberta Bike Swap Impact Report

I think we made a splash in 2023 - this is a diagram of our impact report. What's not on this report is: We started an endowment for UCalgary Kinesiology; Supplied bikes to Olds College students; Mentored software, sustainability, and technology students; Participated…

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An unexpected outcome

I have survivor's guilt. I was diagnosed with MS in 1980 just before finals at what should have been the end of my pharmacy degree. I lapsed into a coma after a tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure, had no Babinski reflex, and…

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Selling a bike at our bike swap

On the day of our event only - bring your bike to us to sell before 1400; We tech check every bike so that someone’s bike issues are not passed onto the buyer; There’s a small fee to get it…

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Innovation and Bikes

Both Chris and I are process oriented and we realized at our first swap that we couldn’t handle the volume of bikes at our swap events without software.  We did start with paper, moved to a packaged POSsystem, to customized…

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Bike Donations

We don’t have a brick and mortar location but we get hundreds of bike donations every year at our bike swap events they come in year around by email. We give those donated bikes to the groups that care and…

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Chris Grant: CAN-Bike Master Instructor

Chris here. I started cycling decades ago when my older brother came for a visit and showed me what mountain biking is all about. Since then I’ve toured in France and the UK, competed in 24 Hours of Adrenaline, ridden…

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