Forever Bikes

Thomas Road is in Vedder, on the run between the Sardis shopping centers and Vedder Crossing, and Unit 1 at number 45735 is the address on file for Forever Bikes. Most of the bike trade in this city sits along the Vedder Road corridor or in the downtown, close to where people ride from, and this address is inside that band.

Riding here splits cleanly in two, and it is worth knowing which half you are shopping for. On the flat there is the Vedder Rotary Trail, the dyke network out through Greendale and the rail trail, which is commuter and family ground and supports general sales and routine service. On the slopes, Vedder Mountain above all, there is a mountain biking scene serious enough to keep full-suspension work, suspension tuning and parts supply viable. E-bike service has grown quickly as well, which follows from a city where a good many people live on a hill and shop at the bottom of it. Riding is heaviest through the warm half of the year, when Cultus Lake and the river valley pull visitors in as well.

A phone number is published, (604) 858-3011, and no website is. That makes the call the only way to establish what the shop stocks, what service work it takes on and how it handles repairs on bikes bought elsewhere, none of which the listing can tell you. Bike shops differ a good deal in what they will and will not work on, so it is a fair question to ask plainly, and better asked before a bike is loaded into a car.