Go vélo Montréal Festival, May 27 to June 3
All week long, Montreal will be celebrating to the rhythm of cycling!

In the week of the Go vélo Montréal Festival, Vélo Québec encourages Montrealers to opt for bike-to-work. On the occasion of the Bike to Work Day, Vélo Québec and its partners will be offering tips and advice to inform cyclists and would-be cyclists about this fast, healthy and accessible form of active transportation. They'll be on hand to answer questions about safety instructions, routes to take, how to complement public transit, and more.

• Square Victoria, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

«How to mobilize the business world in favor of cycling? The London example!»
At the Go vélo Montréal Festival, Vélo Québec is proud to welcome Chris Kenyon, a cycling activist and board member of London Cycling Campaign, a 12,000-member cycling advocacy organization. In 2014, Chris Kenyon launched Cycling Works, a campaign to engage senior business leaders to support the development of a network of protected cycle lanes in the heart of London.

At this conference, he will explain how this mobilization campaign came about, what its follow-up will be and how it could be envisaged in a city like Montreal. The conference will be followed by a discussion with Caroline Tessier, Executive Director of the Association des sociétés de développement commercial de Montréal, and Guillaume Lavoie, lecturer at ENAP, public policy entrepreneur and instigator of the #veloconomie capsules. With them, we'll look at how the experience here could be transposed to another scale, by integrating active transportation into the redevelopment of commercial arteries, for example.

•  6 p.m., Maison du développement durable (50, rue Saint-Catherine Ouest)
• Free admission
• Conference in English
• Reservations required: Registrations 

As soon as night falls, cyclists are invited to a spectacular colorful party, spread over 23 km without cars, with thousands of other participants! On the program: Local BBQ to quench your pre-tour hunger, light entertainment along the route, at the TOHU, and DJ-VJ to the finish site!

• BBQ du terroir avant le Tour: starting at 5 p.m. in Parc Jeanne-Mance
• Departure: 8:15 p.m., avenue du Parc-La Fontaine
• Arrival: Parc Jeanne-Mance
• Course: 23 km

«Le Lait's partnership with Vélo Québec is motivated by the promotion of healthy eating and good lifestyle habits. The Go vélo Montréal Festival is a great opportunity for cyclists of all ages and levels to participate at their own pace, with family, friends or solo, in healthy activities that bring people together. Julie Gélinas, marketing director of Producteurs de lait du Québec. «A chocolate milk will help people recover from their hike,» she concludes.

This Sunday, cycling fans are invited to the 34th edition of Tour de l’Île de Montréal. For the occasion, they'll be treated to a sing-along start by the energetic Émile Bilodeau, a 50-kilometre route thematic terminals, a performance by Montréal Complètement Cirque and a new gourmet offering, the Local BBQ, at the finish site.

• Departure in song with Émile Bilodeau: 9:15 a.m., avenue du Parc
• Arrival: Parc Jeanne-Mance
• Choice of routes: 50 or 25 km / 50 km Express / 100 or 60 km Discovery