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...

Sometimes deciding on a bike takes more than just a parking-lot test, especially when it’s a higher end bike; we also understand that sometimes it’s easier and cheaper to rent a nice bike when you’re visiting town than it is to fly your bike all over the place. To address these problem we keep a well stocked Demo Bike rental fleet at our Victoria location.

Stock levels will vary so it is always a good idea to call ahead to see what we have in stock: (250) 598-4111. Generally we have higher end Specialized road bikes, as well as Rocky Mountain, Specialized and Norco mountain bikes in our demo fleet.

Rental Rates

1 Day: $60
2-5 Days: $40/day
1 Week: $200/week
Tool Kit: $10/rental

Demo Program

If you rent any of our bikes and end up buying something similar from us we will give you the price of your rental off of the bike (up to 2 days). This offer is at our discretion and may not apply to certain sale bikes.

Rules

1. You have to sign a waiver to make the lawyers happy.
2. Anyone under 19 years old needs a parent or guardian’s permission and signature.
3. You are responsible for the bike if it gets stolen.
4. You are responsible for any damage you do to the bike, including flats; we do thorough check-overs when the bike goes out and again when it comes back in.
5. You must obey all applicable laws while riding our bikes. This means you must wear a helmet, and you must have lights if you’re riding after dusk.
6. You’re responsible for bringing your own tools, tubes, pumps, water bottles, et cetera out on your rides. We do offer tool kits for rental ($10 per rental) that include a pump, a tube, tire levers, and a multi-tool; there is no extra charge if you use the tube from the kit on a flat.

Demo Sales

We do sell our Demo/Rental bikes in the fall of each model year. Usually they are aggressively priced; ask us if you’re interested in any specific model!