Sporting Goods
Olympia Cycle and Ski
About Olympia Cycle and Ski
Bikes in summer and skis in winter is an old pairing in mountain towns, and it makes as much sense for a shop as it does for the people buying from one. The tools overlap, the workshop space does double duty, and the same customer comes back twice a year with a different problem. Olympia Cycle and Ski keeps that pattern at 2211 48 Ave in downtown Vernon.
What a shop like this handles usually splits three ways: selling gear, fitting it properly, and repairing it after a season of use. The service side is where timing matters most. Tune ups back up in the weeks before the snow arrives and again on the first warm weekend of spring, so anyone with a fixed date in mind should get their gear in early rather than the day before. It is also worth asking what a workshop takes on itself and what it sends away, since not every job stays in house.
The geography here explains the mix. There is a ski hill on the skyline a short drive from town, the valley bottom holds enough flat road and old rail grade for casual riding, and the Okanagan Rail Trail ends in Vernon after its long run up from Kelowna, which puts a steady flow of riders through the city all summer. Cold winters at this end of the valley mean the ski half of the year is genuinely long. Anyone travelling in from Lumby, Armstrong or the lakeshore for a fitting should call first about how long a job will take, because a wait beats a second trip.
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In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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