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...
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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 News, Velonews, Canadian Cyclist, & Vital MTB,...
Dobermann Pinscher - Christmas Edition

Dobermann Pinscher – Christmas Edition

Derek hadn’t put together a custom build in a few months, so a Christmas-themed Dobermann seemed like a good idea. Merry Christmas from all of us at Oak Bay Bicycles!  
OBB Reconnaissance: Rome to Florence Off Road

OBB Reconnaissance: Rome to Florence Off Road

In May 2011, Karl (owner of Oak Bay Bicycles), Scotty (purchaser), Rob Fawcett of fawcettexpeditions.com & Jammer went over to Italy to test a potential off-road touring route from Rome to Florence. With the help of several local organizations they pieced the route together and it all worked out very well. They’re going back next...
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 2001 style from American Apparel)...
OBB Reconnaissance: Sicily

OBB Reconnaissance: Sicily

In May 2011, Karl (owner of Oak Bay Bicycles), Scotty (purchaser), Rob Fawcett of fawcettexpeditions.com & Jammer went over to Italy to test a potential road touring route around Sicily. The route worked out and they’re going back next year as a commercial tour. This is a short clip of their trip. More information on...
Sam at Tzou

Sam at Tzou

OBB rider Sam Sedun took time to coach some kids out at Mt. Tzouhalem a few days back and it looks like everyone had a great time. Click through to watch the video, nice work Sam!
Pinkbike on 29ers

Pinkbike on 29ers

Last year we did a little video with Shrew that shed some light on freeriding a 29er. It got a ton of attention and proved that people are definitely interested in pushing big wheels more aggressively. Pinkbike has a feature up right now with two viewpoints on whether or not the 29er will replace 26-inch...
Milenkovitch Goes to Vegas

Milenkovitch Goes to Vegas

Yep, this year we sent Milenkovitch to prowl around Interbike for us. Click through to see the rest of his fantastic photos.
Bike Dice 2011

Bike Dice 2011

Aaron Larocque dropped this rad edit of Wink, Jarrett, Alan and Dan playing Bike Dice. Super fun! On a related note, Jarrett and Wink have started a little mountain bike blog called ONLY MTB and it’s really good.