Get your gears in motion for Go By Bike Week 2025

Polish up your wheels, check those brakes and grab your helmet for Go By Bike Week Spring 2025. The triannual provincial biking event encouraging teams and solo cyclists to track their biking distance kicks off for the spring round Saturday, May 31 to Friday, June 6.

Participants can sign up and track their distance on the GoByBike BC website where they’ll be entered to win various prizes including gift cards to local bike shops, a new bike and gear and the grand prize of a trip to Vietnam to explore the country by bike.

Revelstoke’s Go By Bike team will be at the celebration station Monday, Wednesday and Friday with free goodies, snacks, drinks and more. Participants will get a chance to spin the wheel of fortune and win a prize from one of the local businesses in town.

Revelstoke has been a part of Go By Bike Spring for over 15 years, and Lydia Muller, City of Revelstoke recreation programmer is still working with volunteers who participated in the first event.

“We have such a community who wants to be a part of it, who love biking and want to encourage that in town,” Muller said.

Whether it’s to reduce your carbon footprint, get in a bit more exercise or enjoy some extra outdoor time, Muller and her team are ready to cheer on everyone who participates.

“Since I started organizing Go By Bike I started biking myself back and forth to work. It was just the best switch I could have done,” Muller said, adding that biking helped her recover from a knee injury. It’s also helped her connect with her community, passing by neighbours often out in their yards in the morning and giving Muller a chance to say hi and catch up.

“What a way for us to stay connected to our community as Revelstoke grows,” Muller said.

While Muller and her team only have capacity to organize Go By Bike for the spring challenge in Revelstoke, she knows biking is a year-round activity for the community and encourages participants to find ways they can celebrate the summer and fall editions of the challenge. It’s a way to continue showcasing the need for bike infrastructure in and around Revelstoke.

“The more people bike, the more we make folks aware that we need the infrastructure. If you see 14 people biking down Fourth Street you go, ‘okay, what do we need to build here’?” Muller said, adding that Go By Bike participants and distance numbers are reported to the city council at the end of the event to showcase community interest.