Vancouver B.C.

Vancouver Cycling Without Age Society

ABOUT US
Founded in 2018, VCWAS is a registered charity and volunteer-powered organization that takes seniors and their friends and family for recreational bike rides on trishaws (three-wheeled bicycles). We predominantly serve seniors between the ages of 70-100 who live in long-term care homes, experience social isolation, and face barriers to getting outside. Our passengers experience the joy and health benefits of a slow ride around the streets, parks, and bike lanes of Vancouver, engaging in conversations and storytelling, seeing old sights, building relationships, and feeling the wind in their hair again.

We operate six trishaws (five are Triobikes and one is a Van Raam). We take passengers on the bike lanes, streets and into parks across the City of Vancouver, from False Creek, the Arbutus Greenway, Point Grey and Jericho Beach, to the West End, Stanley Park, Riley Park-Little Mountain, and Pacific Spirit Park.

500 rides, 1,000 passengers, and 3,500kms pedalled…read more about our impact in 2024!

How You Can Help

DONATE
Donations help us maintain our fleet of trishaws and offer more rides to seniors. You can make a tax deductible donation to Vancouver Cycling Without Age Society through Canada Helps.

VOLUNTEER
Volunteers are the heartbeat of our organization and there are many ways for you to get involved. Train to be a trishaw rider (we call them Pilots), or offer your own expertise! We’d love to have you join our team! Complete our Volunteer Interest Form now!

Pacific Spirit Park Community Ride

FOLLOW US
Sign up for our quarterly newsletter to receive updates, and visit us on social media:

CONTACT US IN VANCOUVER
vancouver@cyclingwithoutage.ca

Beaver Lake in Stanley Park

 

PLEASE NOTE: We do not rent our trishaws. To purchase a trishaw of your own, visit Velolifestyle

Ride Programs

COMMUNITY RIDE PROGRAM
We offer rides at various locations across the city to seniors living independently, and their families and friends. Anyone can sign up and our rides are by donation. Click here to sign up for a ride today!
PLEASE NOTE: We do not ride to private homes for pick-up and we do not rent our trishaws.

PARTNER RIDE PROGRAM
We work with long-term care homes, seniors serving organizations, recreation facilities and local businesses to provide weekly, recreational rides to their residents and members. The program runs from May through October. Click here if you’re interested in partnering!

Mother’s Day Ride – Arbutus Greenway

 

Our partners we’ve been riding with since 2018:

Kitsilano Beach

 

VANCOUVER CWA IN THE NEWS

Science World 

 

A special thank you to our donors for their support, including The Lecky Foundation, Y.P. Heung Foundation, RBC Foundation, Weissach Foundation, VeriClock, Hub Engineering, Inc., Lion’s Mane Fund, the City of Vancouver and the Walk Bike Roll Community Partnership Program, United Way British Columbia, MITACS, the Government of Canada and ParticipACTION, Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation, and the many individual donors that make our rides possible. Thank you!