Il Girolino

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Il Girolino!

What is Il Girolino? It means "The Little Giro".

The City of Burnaby and the Giro di Burnaby organizing team are proud to bring you this exciting new community cycling event for young people.

Be sure to mark your calendar:

Il Girolino di Burnaby
Saturday, June 6, 2009
12 Noon – 2:30 pm (approximate)
Burnaby Heights Neighbourhood

Parking Restrictions on Hats Off Day

About Il Girolino
This the first annual Il Girolino di Burnaby “Dash & Pedal” event for kids 5 – 12 years old to be held as part of the Burnaby Height's “Hats Off Day” celebrations.

Kids will dash for their bikes and then head out on a safely monitored bike course on Hastings Street, returning to the start/finish line—all in the presence of a cheering, festive crowd and a race commentator!

(click for course information).

Same flavour
It is our hope that this fun, all-inclusive young people’s event will have the same flavour as the big people’s event—fenced course, colorful banners, race commentator and medals for all participants.

The focus is on participation only and increasing the awareness of the sport of cycling among our young people and within our community.

Enter and you can win a bike!!!
When you enter, your name goes in a draw to win a bike. There are three bikes* to win, one in each race category, similar to these bikes shown below:

The Norco Samurai - click for larger view

*made possible by the generous support of Pagnanini Edwards Lam, Chartered Accountants; Cobbett and Cotton Law Corporation; and the Newway Group.

The Background to Il Girolino

Many of our Giro sponsors and cycle teams have indicated that because of the economic downturn, they would find it difficult to take part in the Giro di Burnaby for 2009.

After many hours of discussion with all the key players involved with the Giro, one fact remained and that was that we did not want to lose the momentum of an event that we had all worked so hard to establish as a signature event for the City of Burnaby. We needed to keep the Giro name alive for better times ahead.

We also recognized that it was exactly in difficult times that we need community events that are exciting but affordable, and so Il Girolino di Burnaby was born.