Wascana Freewheelers

When I said that I was moving to Regina many people felt obligated to inform me that there are in fact no mountains in Saskatchewan. I took this information into serious consideration but the job offer was just that good, I couldn't refuse. Mindful of the likelihood my previous extracurricular activities would be somewhat curtailed I started looking into alternative fun stuff. Riding bikes is a universal pastime and this is no different in the good old flatland's. Unfortunately both of my bikes were stolen within a week of my bringing them to Regina but thanks to a great friend in Edmonton I returned hooked up and ready to ride again.

The Wascana Freewheelers are a recreational cycling group I found out about from my roommate who invited me to join her while she tried out one of their regular Wednesday evening rides. They meet at the legislature steps and ride around the city for an hour or 2 before stopping for coffee, ice cream or whatever they feel like. It is a self admitted food eating group with a cycling problem. Since then I've been able to join them on a couple of other fun events they plan to keep themselves busy including a progressive dinner ride, scavenger hunt and a Freedom Friday ride out to a small town called Pilot Butte and back.

The yearly progressive dinner ride is just that. We started at one house for appetizers, rode via the scenic route to the next for the main course and off to the last stop for dessert and a hot tub soak. It had such a big turnout this year we had to split into 2 riding groups.


On Her Majesties Service was a scavenger hunt type ride where we rode for nearly 4 hours from government building or area of significance answering obscure questions before meeting back for burgers and bevies. I can easily say that I've seen more of Regina by bike then anything in doing these rides and the people are great!

The teams starting out planning their routes and some of our 27 stops included the Public Library where they show nightly films, Taylor Field where the Roughriders play to see the wall of fame, a local park where we crashed a grad celebration, the Lieutenant Governors House where the kind commissionaire had looked up the answer to our question before we got there (thanks team 3!), the Wascana Center and the Legislature.