Grin Open House: Featuring Show 'n' Shine, Prizes, and Potluck at the Beach
Join us 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 ebikes and show of their cool builds.
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 a group ride to New Brighton Park for a potluck BBQ.
Open House Event Schedule
2:00 - Doors open! Check out Grin Technologies HQ, meet other DIY ebike builders and riders.
3:00 - Magic Drive & Freegen Systems: Cutting edge motor tech presentation from Justin
4:00 - Live installation of an all-axle motor kit system on a bike. Can we do it in 15 minutes?
4:30 - Prizes for Show & Shine bike awards!
5:30 - Group Ride from Grin HQ to New Brighton
6:00 - Potluck BBQ at New Brighton Park
Location:
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, Magic Drive, Freegen systems, cargo bikes, electric wheelbarrows, 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!
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 our 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
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 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 rather than just reading optimistic product copies on the internet.
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.
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!