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Our Purpose and Mission

Re:Bike strives to build a safe, healthy, and resilient community by reducing the barriers to cycling. Our purpose furthers the vision of a Squamish with a vibrant multi-discipline bike culture where cycling, both for transportation and recreation, is seen as integral to ahealthy lifestyle and is widely adopted.

Our Story

Re:Bike is a new non-profit organization that accepts donations of disused bikes and refurbishes them for the community, building a healthy and resilient Squamish by reducing the barriers to cycling all the while slowing waste through circular economy practices that keep bikes in use longer.

Our roots are in the Recycle Bicycle program which has existed in some capacity an another for 18 years. The Recycle Bicycle Program was created in 2007 with the simple idea of fixing donated bicycles and providing them to locals in need. The Squamish Helping Hands Society took on the operation of the program in 2016 and over the years volunteers have refurbished hundreds of bikes for the community.

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In 2024 Squamish DOX was created; a circular economy hub where Squamish ReBuild – construction and home building material reuse – and Recycle BC residential recycling would be co-located at the old bus depot. The vision of DOX was to have many reuse and DIY-minded organizations working side-by-side in one space. Recycle Bicycle seemed a perfect fit. 2025 saw new momentum as the Recycle Bicycle Program became its own non-profit, Re:Bike! In our first year since incorporation, with the contributions of a dedicated and determined board of directors, we have not only refurbished more bikes than ever before but have also established a new space at the Recycling Depot which we hope will become a thriving community hub where people can access resources, contribute to slowing waste, and come together in the shared joy of fixing and riding bikes.

Board of Directors

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Nathanael Fournier

CHAIR OF THE BOARD

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Karen Berrisford

Treasurer
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Derek Smith

Director at Large
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Kelly Mapleston

Director at Large

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Ken Melamed

Director at Large

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Gord Lyster

Director at Large

Meet the Team

Jesse

VOLUNTEER
BIKE MECHANIC

Dan

VOLUNTEER
BIKE MECHANIC

Jane

HELPER
EXTRAORDINAIRE

Hilton

VOLUNTEER
BIKE MECHANIC

Community Partners & Supporters

We could not do what we do without the amazing support of our community partners and supporters. Many, many thanks!

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Nathanael Fournier

CHAIR OF THE BOARD

Nathanael is a professional bike mechanic of 16 years who is passionate about building the local circular economy by keeping more bikes in use as long as possible.

“Giving everyone the opportunity to ride a bike is a strong motivation for me as it contributes to a vision of Squamish that is less dependant on cars for moving people around and more a place where everyone rides everywhere – the streets full of people enjoying our town by bike!”

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Karen Berrisford

TREASURER

Karen is a longtime Squamish local and a bike commuter. She has spent time biking with her active family on the Squamish trail system and has volunteered with the Squamish BMX club. She was formerly a manager in the realm of Outdoor Retail, including bike shops. She is currently focussing her skills working with a local non-profit supporting Squamish’s unhoused population.

“We are so fortunate to live in Squamish with an abundance of trails (commuter & MTB). I would like to see anyone interested in biking to have easy access to bikes for both transport and the joy that biking provides.”

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Derek Smith

DIRECTOR AT LARGE

Derek is a longtime Squamish mountain biker and SORCA member and still loves riding the trails as well as road cycling. While not a professional bike mechanic over the years he has a good many hours of DIY bike maintenance and repairs. Derek believes in everyone having access to a bike and has been involved in the Squamish bike recycling program over the last couple of years providing bikes to folks, especially children, for transportation and recreation.

“Being involved with Re:Bike is a chance to increase the opportunity to get bikes that would otherwise go to landfill back out into the community”.

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Kelly Mapleston

DIRECTOR AT LARGE

Kelly moved to Squamish from Australia a few years ago and has a passion for bikes as transport, recreation, and method of connection with others. Pumping up tyres is as much mechanical support that Kelly can offer. However, she brings enthusiasm and experience with event and volunteer management, stakeholders relations and creating partnerships.

“I was drawn to Re:Bike as a way to help as many people as possible benefit from biking”.

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Ken Melamed

DIRECTOR AT LARGE

Ken is a long-time resident of Whistler. He was a stonemason, ski patroller, activist, and politician. Now retired, he spends most of his time around mountain biking, as a trailbuilder, bike fixer, and enthusiast.

“I’ve joined the board of Re:Bike to support its mission of getting more people riding bikes and reducing the number of bikes going to the metal shredder.”

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Gord Lyster

DIRECTOR AT LARGE

As a life long cyclist and an engaged community member, Gord jumped at the opportunity to join the Re:Bike Board, lending a hand repurposing and recycling bikes.

“There is a personal satisfaction knowing the work we do is helping others gain access to bikes and sharing the joy of cycling.”