And maybe more. But of the half dozen or so bike shops I visited while I was visiting, three rocked and the rest were lame. These are the good ones, in order of closest to our sleeping quarters to farthest.

  1. Dream Cycles
    phone: 604 253-3737
    address: 1010 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC V5L 3W9 [map]
  2. Mighty Riders
    phone: 604-879-8705
    address: 10 Broadway East,Vancouver, BC V5T 1V6 [map]
  3. Rain City Bikes

Now, I judge bike shops by how friendly and chatty the workers in them are. And how helpful. And what kind of stuff they stock. And how pushy they aren’t.

One weird thing, though, is that apparently Vancouver has no XtraCycles. No one is a dealer. No one owns one. That I saw, anyway. People were always stopping me and asking what kind of amazingly cool contraption I was riding. Naturally, I was happy to proselytize, as I am a born evangelist. Portland is where it’s at for the X, people!


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