Bike Shops
Sessions Outdoor Sports
About Sessions Outdoor Sports
Riding a bike at the bottom of the Okanagan is a different proposition from riding on the coast. The heat is real, the country is dry and open, and water planning matters on a route that crosses sagebrush and bunchgrass rather than forest. Sessions Outdoor Sports keeps a shop at 7214 97th Street, just off the compact downtown grid where the highway comes through and the lake sits at the end of the street.
A bike shop in a town like this generally works two sides at once: gear and service for residents who ride through the year, and getting visitors moving again on short notice when something breaks or a trip needs one more piece of kit. Bike work in particular runs from a tube and a quick adjustment through to a full tune, and turnaround time during the busy months is the single most useful thing to ask about. Rental and demo arrangements differ from shop to shop, so it is worth asking what is available before you come in.
Call 778-437-7676 before making a special trip in, especially in the peak season, and there is more at sessionsoutdoorsports.ca. Two pieces of local advice are worth carrying. Start early, because midsummer afternoons at the valley bottom are the hottest in the interior and the open ground offers very little shade. Then carry more water than a coastal ride would need. The antelope brush and bunchgrass country around Osoyoos survives almost nowhere else in Canada, and parts of it are looked after by conservation groups and the local First Nation, which makes it unusual ground to move through and worth treating with some care.
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In the Downtown Osoyoos neighbourhood of Osoyoos.
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