Image: Restorative Cycle via Facebook / A secondhand cycle shop in Chilliwack that provides lower-cost bikes for families and individuals while raising funds for the work of Chilliwack Restorative Justice has found a new home. Restorative Cycle will hold a spring launch party on Saturday, June 15 at its new home, 9282 Main Street, in downtown Chilliwack. 

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Restorative Cycle

Low-cost Chilliwack bike shop secures new home

May 30, 2024 | 3:36 PM

CHILLIWACK — A secondhand cycle shop in Chilliwack that provides lower-cost bikes for families and individuals while raising funds for the work of Chilliwack Restorative Justice has found a new home.

Just weeks after it formally closed up shop inside a wing of Cheamview United Church at 45835 Spadina Avenue, Restorative Cycle has secured new digs inside 9282 Main Street, next to the downtown RBC branch.

The bike shop will hold a spring launch party on Saturday, June 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“Be sure to come down and check us out and support local!” Restorative Cycle wrote on Facebook Thursday afternoon (May 30).

Restorative Cycle sells refurbished affordable bikes for all ages.

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It invites bike owners to bring a bike in to donate and receive 15 per cent off your bike purchase.

Store hours will be 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

In 2023, Cheam View United Church had generously opened its doors to Restorative Cycle and CRJ, a community program that creates opportunities to repair harm and prevent crime in Chilliwack and the Upper Fraser Valley region.

The bike shop held a grand opening celebration on Saturday, September 9, 2023, offering a number of in-store services to supplement the work that that CRJ had been doing for over a decade through both in-person and online auctions.

“The cost of new bicycles is out of reach for many families as well and those experiencing homelessness in Chilliwack rely on their bicycles for a transportation,” Roukema said in a September 2023 news release to herald the grand opening of the bike shop. “The Restorative Cycle shop will enable Chilliwack Restorative Justice to grow the online bike auction to be transformed into an in-person shop that enables people of low income to purchase used bikes.”

Previously, the Restorative Cycle program, under the auspices of CRJ, sold bikes through an online bike auction for over two years. The auction operated in person for over 10 years, Roukema said.

Funds received from bike sales enabled Chilliwack Restorative Justice to provide a bike maintenance service to the community and grow the online auction to receive, restore, and sell more bikes.

An average of 10 bikes had been donated to Chilliwack Restorative Justice every month from the RCMP detachment, Roukema previously told Fraser Valley Today. Other bikes are donated through the City of Chilliwack, residents, and local businesses.