June 2025
Spring GoByBike Week | June 1 to June 7
Win amazing prizes just for riding your bike!
West Kootenay Cycling Coalition, The City of Nelson, and Gerick Cycle & Ski are teaming up to celebrate GoByBike Week the first week of June! Join us for fun community events including Bike Bingo, commuter challenges, a Youth Learn & Ride, morning bicycle pit stops, a group ride & BBQ, and a panel discussion with local transportation leaders. This year’s focus is on bike safety, commuting, and shifting to more active modes of transportation. Let’s get out of our cars and onto our bikes!
Check out the weeks activities below.
Meet the Panel Speakers and the Youth Learn & Ride Leader
Decemeber 22, 2024
Nelson's 4th Annual Santa Bicycle Ride
Thank you to everyone who participated! A very special thank you to S.H.A.R.E. for hosting us and providing cookies and prizes and to Kootenay Co-op for providing the milk.
We were able to raise some cash for Our Daily Bread while spreading some holiday cheer around town.
Download photos from the photo booth here.
Santa Bicycle Ride & AGM
Saturday, December 16, 2023
3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Annual General Meeting
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Nelson Visitor Centre
(Upstairs Meeting Room)
Santa Bicycle Ride
4:30 pm, rolling at 5:00 pm
Nelson Visitor Centre
(Parking Lot)
Come in a Santa suit or holiday outfit, put Christmas lights on your bike and win prizes. Ride ends at Finley’s with complimentary snacks. Details here.
WINTER CYCLING EXPO
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Noon to 4 pm
A great lineup of presentations, a panel discussion, and a film screening of Bicicles, a documentary about cyciling in the winter, and a Q & A after.
Pop in to chat with experienced riders, bike shop mechanics, and active transportation enthusiasts. Everyone is welcome 
CRITICAL MASS MOVIE & RIDE
Friday, October 27th
You Never Bike Alone - a 2007 documentary film exploring Vancouver's vibrant bike culture and its development as a viable form of transport. Tickets $5.
Followed by a Critical Mass Bicycle Ride on Nelson's city streets. It's Halloween weekend so come in costume. Bike lights mandatory.
Sign up on Facebook.
The Engine Inside: New Documentary Sheds Light on the Overlooked Potential of the Bicycle. Written by our own Nelsonite, Mitchell Scott!
Members of the West Kootenay Cycling Coalition are invited to attend the 7 pm premier at the Nelson Civic Theatre this Thursday, June 29th.
We'll meet up after the film and start building bicycle culture right here in the Kootenays.
GO BY BIKE WEEK
Winners to be announced shortly. Prizes to be picked up at the Nelson Vistor Centre.
Upcoming WKCC Events in the Trail area
Green Link Grind and Green Link Glide
A new challenge starting in 2022!
The Green Link Grind is a 10KM long fitness challenge that follows the South Kootenay Green Link route from Trail to Rossland. See how fast you can make it up, submit your time, and get your name on the leaderboard! Times can be submitted to westkootenaycycling@gmail.co,
Click the image to view the leaderboard!
Biking uphill for 10KM isn't your thing? Then try the Green Link Glide! Bike from Rossland to Trail on the South Kootenay Green link route, and see how many times you need to pedal.
There's no leaderboard for this one, but if you submit your time and we'll add you to the Green Link Glide wall of fame! Times and number of pedal steps can be submitted to westkootenaycycling@gmail.com