Video: B-Line Bike Park in Calgary, Alberta Needs Your Help To Stay In Business
The B-Line bike park, a world-class facility that has been instrumental in helping athletes build skills and compete at the highest level in freestyle mountain biking and BMX, needs help. Due to rising operating costs and inflation, this incredible facility may have to close its doors. This would be a significant loss for Calgary, Alberta, and Canada.
The B-Line bike park caters to top performers and average riders looking for a fun way to spend their afternoon, children who want to stay active and healthy, and anyone who wants to have a great time. Therefore, supporting this fantastic facility and ensuring it thrives is essential. Let's all come together to help keep the B-Line bike park open and ensure that it remains an essential part of the mountain biking and BMX community.
 | We’ve made it 6.5 years! So far… but B-LINE is in serious trouble, and without help, we are likely to fade away and get added to the list of bike parks and skate parks that didn’t make it. We went public with our troubles in Feb 2023 in our attempt to be transparent, as well as hopefully increase support for the park. Although we have received support from a variety of awesome humans, it was way short of where we needed it be. As of April 1st, 2024 we will be operating on a month-to-month basis while the landlord tries to find another tenant for B-LINE’s space. Once they find a new tenant, we may have up to 60 days to vacate the premises. |
How can you help?
• Come ride, and spend money at B-LINE. That’s the absolute best way to keep us going.
• Advertise at B-LINE. Big huge corporations preferred, but we’ve got space for the little guys too.
• Drag people here and show them around for their first time. Telling them about B-LINE doesn’t seem to be enough, but most people are like “that was way more fun than I thought” once they get here and ride.
• Find a billionaire philanthropist that likes biking and send them our way.
• Buy an annual membership for $100/month and ride when ever you want.
• Follow us on Instagram and/or Facebook. That doesn’t really help but ‘likes’ can sometimes make us feel better. @blinebikepark
• I’m not sure if emailing your City Councilor, or Provincial MLA, would do anything, but it wouldn’t hurt. Let them know what B-LINE means to you and your family, and maybe why you think having an indoor bike park in Calgary, Alberta, and Western Canada is important.
• Adopt-A-Rider – Buy an annual membership for someone who can’t afford their own.
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Even look at the cost of playgrounds for maybe an age range of 2 to 10. They make a paved pump track look like a thrifty purchase considering the range of ages that utilize it. At least some municipalities are starting to see the benefit to them (especially Yellowhead County just west of Edmonton).
Playgrounds are super necessary for kiddos but you're right, almost the same range $150,000-200,000 affords a good modern playground or a small velosolutions pump track, so best to budget for both haha
Hope the riding community in Calgary come together to keep it alive.
Same for the little indoor park in Ottawa. Rising costs are brutal on all businesses. And there really just are not that many people into mountain biking.
My two teens are good riders but were new to indoor jumps and a few guys there helped them out and within and hour they were "landing" backflips and 360's into the foam pit. No attitude or ego's, just a bunch of good people out enjoying riding bikes!
They've built a lot of trail networks for people to use, and do all sorts of community projects.
They are so loaded and like supporting good causes.
The newest Gen off them are bike bikers and skiers
XC skiing
Fat biking
Skating
Ice Hockey
Resort skiing
Back country skiing
Ski touring