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Join us Saturday June 6th, 2:00 - 8:00 for a Grin open house, show & shine, group ride, and for a sunset potluck at the Beach!

​Everyone is invited! This is a family friendly community event (we have a kid zone!) where everyone can come together to learn about DIY electric bikes and show off their cool builds. Whether you are an old afficianodo or have recently heard of Grin and are curious what we're about, this event is for you. 

​On Saturday, June 6th, we’re opening up Grin Technologies HQ for an afternoon of ebikes, test rides, technical demos, garage sale treasures, snacks, kids, cargo bikes, electric wheelbarrows, and wrapping up the day with a group ride to New Brighton Park for an evening at the beach.

• ​Grin Technologies HQ, 1290 Odlum Drive Vancouver https://maps.app.goo.gl/kmB7KZugjkjAaGsd8

• ​New Brighton Park: https://maps.app.goo.gl/EXFhgyXEwxv9Ze7KA

​This is part open house, part community gathering, part test ride zoo, and part “bring that weird ebike you built and let everyone admire the clever/frightening choices you made.”

​If you’ve been curious about Grin kits, family cargo bikes, electric wheelbarrows, the latest freegen and magic drive developments, or what happens when a bunch of DIY ebike people are put in the same physical location with refreshments, this is the day.

​We’ve got lots going on!

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​Schedule of Events​

2:00 PM — Doors Open
Come by Grin HQ, poke around, chat with the team, check out the space, and enjoy free refreshments and snacks. There will be bikes, parts, people, and likely several conversations about torque arms happening simultaneously.

​3:00 PM — Magic Drive & Freegen Systems: Explanation, Q&A, and Test Rides
We’ll be doing technical explanations of the developing Magic Drive and Freegen systems, followed by Q&A and test rides. Get up-to-date about the latest inventions Grin is involved with!

​4:00 PM — 15-Minute All-Axle Motor Kit Installation Demo
Watch a Grin all-axle motor kit go from loose components to installed on a normal bike in about 15 minutes! Once you have seen this done live, it will dispel every doubt you have about it getting an All-Axle for your bike! Yes, there are wires; but mostly just familiar hand tools do the trick.

​4:30 PM — Show & Shine Bike Awards
Bring your ebike build and enter it in the Show & Shine. We’ll be giving out awards (your choice of store credit, products, or merch) in categories like:

• ​Best Family Bike

• ​Most Raincouver-proofed

• ​Most Inspired

• ​Cleanest Build and most Mad-Max

• ​and other categories based on what actually rolls through the door!

​We expect practical builds, overbuilt builds, beautiful builds, deeply strange builds, and at least one bike where someone says, “Wait, that actually works?”

​5:30 PM — Group Ride to New Brighton Park
We’ll roll out from Grin HQ as a group and head to New Brighton Park.

​6:00 PM — Potluck BBQ at New Brighton Park
Bring something to share, bring your kids, bring your bike, bring your appetite, and continue the ebike-geekery in a spacious park setting.

​Test Ride the Grin Fleet

​We’ll have a selection of Grin showpiece and demo bikes available for test rides, including builds like the Santana Tandem, Max45 Fatbikes, narrow Brompton All-Axle, Dual Motor Trikes, and Edgerunner cargo bikes.

​We’re also planning to have at least 3–4 Edgerunner cargo bikes built up with rear Grin motors, available for people with kids to test ride — and potentially purchase. If you’ve been wondering whether hub motor cargo bikes are actually practical for family transportation, this is a good chance to try one with real people, real weight, and real-world handling.

​Bring Your Kids

​This is intended to be a family-friendly event. We’ll have cargo bikes available for family test rides, and we’re planning a kids zone with one or two adults on duty so kids have somewhere to hang out while parents talk motors, batteries, controllers, racks, trailers, rain covers, and all the other pieces of the “can this replace a car for some trips?” puzzle.

​And if you've got a family ebike already, Bring your kids on the group ride and to the New Brighton Park potluck afterwards!

​Garage Sale + Clearance Items

​We’ll have a garage sale area with assorted items: bikes, kits, and parts that we’re clearing out. Some things are easier to sell in person than online because they’re odd, bulky, used, experimental, hard to categorize or otherwise just very Grin.

​Come rummage. Sensibly.

​Get Grin Merch

​We’ll also have hoodies, T-Shirts, caps, and other merch available, because sometimes the most efficient drivetrain is the one attached to a person wearing a good shirt.

​Electric Wheelbarrows Exist Now

​We’ve also got a new and much more polished electric wheelbarrow system ready to launch, and will have these available to try out too. Everybody could use an electric wheelbarrow! Think about hills, loads, garden work, construction sites, aging backs, and the general unfairness of gravity while moving stuff around.

​Come on out!

​This event is for current Grin customers, prospective Grin customers, DIY builders, cargo bike families, technically curious riders, people with one normal bike and three experimental bikes, and anyone who wants to learn more about practical electric mobility from the people building and using it.

​Come meet with other riders, ask questions, compare builds, test ride unusual machines and see what the Grin community has been up to.

​Bring your bike, your favourite ebike build. Bring your kids. Bring your questions. And most importantly bring your cherished presence. It’s the folks like you that make Grin do what we do!

​We’ll bring the snacks, motors, parts, sundry odd contraptions, and the usual deluge of cool Grin tech information!!

​See you all soon! ​

Grin had an amazing time at the SPEZI bike show in Germany last month, and you'll see some longer form content on our channel related to that.  But this post is about the other reason we travelled to Europe:

A couple years ago one of our long serving dealers from France spent several weeks with us in Vancouver to learn all the finer points of Grin's operation, repair, and support process.

His goal was to test the waters for opening up a formal Grin distribution center in France which would make it faster and easier for our Atlantic friends to access Grin goods with local support. We're pleased to say that after much effort this endeavor is now in full swing.

The team at Grintech.eu have not only outfit a shop space and fully stocked it with Grin kit, they've also helped us through CE regulatory certifications, and did all the legal and admistriative work to create an oversease enterprise. We had a soft launch in 2025 and now in 2026 things are really moving with almost all of our motor models and kit types are in stock for quick delivery. 

If you are looking for an All-Axle motor conversion kit within the the European union, check them out.
They can navigate through the kit selection process, perform installations on site, and even support business and dealer accounts for wholesale customers. 

[Just keep in mind that the two operations (ebikes.ca and grintech.eu) are independent entities, your account at ebikes.ca doesn't operate at grintech.eu and visa versa, and technical support, warranty etc. is provided by the store and team you purchased from.]