Our Community Bikes has won an award at HUB Cycling’s 12th Annual Bike Awards, recognizing its work on developing inclusive biking for all.
HUB Cycling’s Bike Awards returned for its twelfth year on March 8, 2025 to celebrate the people who are making cycling more accessible across the region.
Almost 200 cycling advocates, politicians, and regional and provincial decision-makers attended the awards ceremony held at MEC Vancouver. Attendees from all levels of government were present including MP Bonita Zarrillo, MLA Susie Chant, and Acting Burnaby Mayor Alison Gu.
Our Community Bikes was awarded the Cycling and Inclusion award for its dedicated work providing affordable and accessible biking for Vancouver’s residents, through its range of programs which seek to cater for all needs. From Access Nights to DIY repair, Youth Clubs to the Oppenheimer Park Repair Clinic, regardless of gender, sexuality, age, income, religion or race, there is a space for everybody at OCB.
Bicycles are critical for Transportation Justice. They enable community participation, the ability to earn an income and access services. Lack of options for affordable, reliable transportation can further limit opportunities for people to make the connections they need, and access the resources required to move beyond their current circumstances.
At the heart of our work is empowerment, teaching people to fix their own bikes, providing bike mechanics and work experience for those who face barriers to employment.
Another large part of our mandate as a non-profit, charity is education, providing mechanical skills and cycling knowledge, delivering training for young mechanics, educating the community on how to refurbish and reuse bikes.
We also seek to enable cycling by providing bikes to low-income individuals and offering free maintenance services, equipping local municipalities with the capacities to reduce landfills.
These awards, coordinated by HUB Cycling, a charitable non-profit that has spent over two decades removing barriers to cycling in Metro Vancouver, brought together the great and good of local biking, honoring schools, bike shops, community leaders, movements and individuals for their role in accelerating more inclusive and sustainable transportation with pedal power!
