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…
Did you know that we invite people with stolen bike police reports to our events at 2:00 once all the bikes are tech checked and the owner is verified through our software? We've done this service to those with stolen…
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…
I like waving my hands about when I see a gap in what people need and Chris Grant is able to figure it out. We have five patents / industrial design registrations because we like to make stuff. But, I'm…
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…
We designed and patented bike racks for our events. They're easy to store and easy to easy to put up. But, they also create a shish kebab for bikes so they're just for events and not as permanent structures. Want…
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…
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…
Laura here. I’m not quite old enough to know when the wheel was invented, but you can see from my picture that colour was just coming into existence. I’ve always been a cyclist; mountain biker, road rider, and bike commuter…
Welcome to the brand new Alberta Bike Swap website! Over the coming weeks we will be adding lots of new information, including how to volunteer. Please check back soon for more information about our 2023 events