2024 Events

• June 9th 10am-2pm is the Fancy Women Bike Ride - with the RDPL. Meet at the Collicutt Community Centre. 

• June 4-9th Vélo Canada Pedal Poll - Volunteer HERE

• June 3rd -World Bike Day

• May 17th -Bike to Work Day

• April 1-30 - 30 Days of Biking REGISTER HERE.

• March 23 from 10-5pm EcoLiving Fair. RDABC's Bike Repair Café will be on site as well. Door Prizes & Freebies! A BIG thankyou to our Volunteers!

2023 Events

• October 19th Join us at 7-8pm for our AGM being held at the Dawe Library.

• First Fridays of the month -Cap Cruise with Wheelers Bicycle Repair!
  7pm - 9pm at Canada 150 Square
  Join Nathan in Capstone for free monthly bike cruises across Red Deer's Waskasoo Park trail system. All are welcome, whatever your skill level - fun comes first! All you need is your bike gear and water bottle (helmets are required if under 18). The bike cruise will last approximately 1.5 hours with post-ride thirst quenching at Troubled Monk immediately following! 

• June 17, 2023 AB Bike Swap Calgary

• June 4-10 Commuter Challenge City of Red Deer Coordinator is Danielle Carpenter. Email her if you have any further questions.

• June 1-30 ParticipACTION Community Better Challenge Grand Prize to the City who wins of $10,000!

• June 2-10th Pedal Poll 2023! Thank you to our volunteers who came out to count! 

• May 13, 2023 Myeloma Canada Ride. Register HERE

• April 22, 2023 Cycle for Central AB - 8am to 8pm at The Golden Circle! Come cheer us on! Find out about Heather Lawrence's story. Sponsor our riders - go HERE

• April 1-30 Register for 30 Days of Biking Here

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2022 Events​

October 2 Garlic City Market

Thank you to everyone who visited us and became members!

• We have Garlic City Market coming back now on Sunday, October 2 at the Common Ground Garden site just a block west of Troubled Monk Brewery from 11am to 5pm ish (weather permitting).

• Go HERE to check out all the fun!

• With a focus on bike repair and prepping for winter cycling

• Because parking is limited in Capstone, we're trying to promote bus, cycling, walking, etc. to the site instead of driving. We could also build some pallet wood bike racks to encourage more cycling in the months ahead. 

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October 3-14

• Campus Commuter Challenge! Put Red Deer Polytechnic on the map! Register HERE.

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September 29

• AGM 7pm at the Dawe Library 56 Holt St. Red Deer  

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​July 27

• ParticipAction's Community  Better Challenge winner is

   RED DEER, AB!​ $100,000 to go toward local physical activity and sport initiatives.

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June 7-12

• Vèlo Canada Bikes 2nd Annual Pedal Poll

Thank you to all our Volunteers!

As you know, Vélo Canada Bikes' big Bike Month activity is Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo, which took place June 7th - 12th. During that week there were hundreds of volunteers out counting cyclists, getting their data included in our national data set. While VCB is taking the next couple of months to put all the collected data together, here are a few numbers on Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo 2022

- Over 900 Volunteers

- 72 Communities

- 30 Focus Communities

- Over 1,500 hrs of volunteers counting

Thank you to everyone who participated, promoted, and supported PPSV2022!

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June 8

Clean Air Day

Go to City of Red Deer HERE to see what it's all about

Watch this video starting at 14:40 for RDABC's promotion for Clean Air.

We were promoting it at Kerry Wood Nature Centre that day.

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June 5-11

• Commuter Challenge

• Go HERE for Red Deer's

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April 1-April 30

• 30 Days of Biking  

For the fun of it, join people from around the world who will cycle any distance every day for the month of April!​

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2021 Events

October 21, 2021 

Annual General Mtg. via Zoom

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July & August

RDABC had received a City of Red Deer grant for our application to host 3 Community Bike Fairs and up to 8 Community Conversations! We partnered with the City Parks and Rec department. These folks held week-long neighbourhood engagement activities.

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Thank you to everyone who participated and shared ideas with us. A summary will be coming of this grant project.

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We hosted 3 Community Bike Fairs & did 8 Community Conversations! 

1. July 8 - West Park AC,

3811 57 Avenue
2. July 15 - Oriole Park AC,

5 Ogden Ave

3. July 22 - Aspen Heights School, 5869 69 St Dr

4. July 29 - Clearview Meadows AC, 93 Cornett Drive

5. August 5 - Grandview AC,

4510 41 Avenue

6. August 12 - Fairview School,

5901 55 St

7. August 19 - Eastview Estates,

120 Ellenwood Dr

8. August 26 - Elizabeth Seton School, 35 Addinell Ave

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Bike Fairs were on the dates below

with Door Prizes, a Draw & Refreshments

1. July 24th 2-4pm Kentwood Alliance Church

2. July 29th 4:00-6:00 pm

Clearview Meadows
3. August 12th 4:00-6:00 pm Riverside Meadows

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June 1-30

• The ParticipACTION Challenge. Top prize of $10,000 went to North Grenville for their city! Go HERE to see the results for each province

June 1-30

• Checkout the 2021 RDPL Book Bike Tour Here!

June 1-6

• Pedal Poll 2021 thru Vélo Canada - Red Deer was 1 of 14 cities chosen to collect data. Thank you to our over 30 VOLUNTEERS! Go HERE to see the data emerging!

April 1-30

• 30 Days of Biking

February 11 & 12

• Winter cycling Federation

February 12​

• Vélo Canada Bikes

• International Winter Bike to Work Day

• Check out Cycling Canada for Events

• Check out Central AB Bike Club for their events

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2020 Events​

• Cycling thru COVID-19 Photo Contest

        June-July-August

• COVID-19 Pandemic

• May 1-31 Bicycle Safety Month

• April 1-30

       30 Days of Biking​
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