We’re a bike shop with locations in Victoria, Langford and Nanaimo, British Columbia. We carry a wide variety of bicycles, from family commuters and city bikes to high end mountain and road bikes, and have advanced, fast turnaround service shops. We carry several leading brands of bicycles, including Specialized, Norco, and Ridley, and are big proponents of 29ers for much of the riding on Vancouver Island. (Read more...)
Introducing the New Sunday Ride

Introducing the New Sunday Ride

Last year we tried to add a “C” group to the OBB Victoria Saturday ride, but it had too much overlap with the regular ride and got confusing. This year we’re taking a new approach and starting a more relaxed ride on Sundays. Led by shop ambassador Joe Gard, the...
Product Pick — Westshore: Specialized Purist Bottle

Product Pick — Westshore: Specialized Purist Bottle

The Purist is our favourite water bottle. Carry hot soup one day and water the next, no weird tastes or staining. Specialized claims it was inspired by the low surface tension of the lotus plant, and made by using a silicon-oxygen layer (not silicone, silicon) on the inside… all we...
2012 S-Works Epic 29er

2012 S-Works Epic 29er

Lots of high end 2012 product is coming through the doors at the moment. This particular S-Works Epic 29er is Simon Whitfield’s, but there’s plenty more fancy stuff that you can buy in stock. As for the bike, it’s sub 22 lbs with wagon wheels, and crazy stiff. Drool worthy....
Recommended Reading 2012

Recommended Reading 2012

We always like seeing what other people are checking out, so we thought it’d be good to put together a little list of some of our current favourite reading material. Most of us are fed by a pretty steady diet of all the regular cycling sites, like Pinkbike, NSMB, Cycling...
Team Oak Bay Bicycles - Lavan 2012

Team Oak Bay Bicycles – Lavan 2012

Oak Bay Bicycles and Lavan Apparel are excited to announce Team Oak Bay Bicycles – Lavan for 2012. To get things started right, we shot a little promo video of Jarrett Moore and Joe Esnouf shredding some local trails. The weather, bikes and cameras all came together and we had...
OBB Throwback T-Shirts Now Available

OBB Throwback T-Shirts Now Available

Inspired by the type on old Oak Bay Bicycles jerseys, we’ve done a limited run of “Throwback” t-shirts. They’re super soft and they look great at the jumps or around town. Details: Printed on American Apparel’s cotton summer shirts (Navy) and poly/cotton shirts (Heather Cranberry). Slim fit (slimmer than the...
Road Bikes
Ridley Noah Monochrome Dreams

Ridley Noah Monochrome Dreams

Another crazy nice Ridley Noah went out last week. It’s not as colourful as the last one, but it has a certain monochromatic badass thing going on. Done up with Campy Super Record, Zipp wheels/stem/bars, etc., it’s definitely dirty fast.
Pake C'Mute Winter Road Bike

Pake C’Mute Winter Road Bike

We built this for Kim who is a great girl and makes our coffee most mornings at the coffee shop. She wanted something bombproof, tour-able, fender ready, and comfortable, so we put together a Pake C’Mute frame with 105 bits, a fairly upright position (but with some proper drop), 28c tires, Selle An Atomica leather...
Ridley Noah Build

Ridley Noah Build

It’s not red/white/blue, it’s white/blue/red. It’s also ridiculously nice. Not much else to say on this one.
Jon Taylor's Winter Road Bike

Jon Taylor’s Winter Road Bike

It’s winter road bike season and we’ve been doing a few solid builds. Jon’s still needs fenders but it’s looking fast. It’s a Surly Pacer with modern bits.
Shrew's New Road Bike

Shrew’s New Road Bike

Technically it’s a cross bike with road tires, but we’ve been posting so many CX bikes lately that I think it’s only fair to call it a road bike. Shrew has been riding road a bunch, but he wanted a bike that was a little more versatile than your average road bike; he ended up...
Salsa Vaya Ti Disc Road Build

Salsa Vaya Ti Disc Road Build

Here’s a Salsa Vaya Ti built up as a winter road bike with disc brakes, fenders, and all the other stuff we need here in the Pacific Northwest. The knobbies may or may not come off.
Specialized Roubaix as a Flat Bar Commuter

Specialized Roubaix as a Flat Bar Commuter

The Roubaix Elite Apex has nice wide gearing and converts super cleanly into a nice flat bar commuter. We did it with an S-Works flat bar. If you’re going to do a conversion like this remember that you’ll need to size up on the frame to compensate for the fact that you’ve got no hoods...
Ridley Noah RS

Ridley Noah RS

Sexy little build by the boys at Oak Bay Bicycles Westshore. Gavin had the colours done custom to match up with the Tripleshot kit.
Rumon's New Rocky Mountain Solo PRO RSL

Rumon’s New Rocky Mountain Solo PRO RSL

Built this up for Rumon Carter today. Got a few matching red OBB waterbottles on there, and some red S-Works shoes, and he’s a matchy matchy rocket ship.