Stop at the bike café: discover these addresses that combine the scent of caffeine with the emotion of a bike ride

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Bosk Bike Cafe
Cartel Bike
O’Ravito Café Relais

When the scent of caffeine mixes with the excitement of a bike ride, you’ve just stepped into a cycling cafe. Athletes meet there before setting off on an adventure, recharging their batteries, buying their mount, maintaining it… Push the door of these three addresses to discover their personality and what they have to offer.

Bosk Bike Cafe

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Located on rue du Marais, at the crossroads of the highways leading to the mountain bike centers of the Capitale-Nationale, Bosk Vélo Café welcomes cyclists who are about to take the mountain and gravel trails.

“The idea is to be a unifying point, not just a retail business, to differentiate itself from other stores,” explains Lucas Parent, one of the four partners. And it is by combining their love of coffee with that of cycling that the company was born.

Photo courtesy of Bosk

The store features several brands of mountain, gravel and fat tire bikes, as well as bicycle components and accessories, rider apparel and protective gear. A mechanical workshop also allows you to take great care of your mount.

Around a sandwich, an energy snack and a coffee from Quebec roasters, cyclists share their experience on two wheels.

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Cartel Bike

Photo courtesy of Vélo Cartel

Vélo Cartel aims to be a rallying point for cyclists, lulled by the smell of coffee and the excitement of a common passion: cycling. This is an indoor virtual training center where it is possible to get a personalized training plan, physical assessment and cycling positioning.

The rue Soumande address is also a mechanical workshop, as well as a top-of-the-range road and gravel bike shop specializing in exclusive brands that also offers clothing that cannot be found elsewhere.

“My ultimate goal through all of this is to share the cycling life”, explains the owner, Bruno Langlois, a former professional cyclist. Having a coffee before going on a hike, “riding a good bike, with nice clothes, discovering new brands, being in shape and training to be able to enjoy it. The strength of Vélo Cartel is the community,” he says.

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O’Ravito Café Relais

Photo courtesy of O’Ravito Café Relais

Located at the corner of chemin du Fleuve and boulevard Guillaume-Couture, in Saint-Romuald, the O’Ravito Café Relais was created by Odette Boulay to “allow cyclists to take advantage of a stopping point where they could put their bikes safely inside and find everything for their well-being,” explains his daughter and current owner, Ann-Rika Martin.

Photo courtesy of O’Ravito Café Relais

This destination bordering the Parcours des Anses, very close to the Rivière-Etchemin park, offers a healthy homemade menu that is full of local products and helps reduce food waste, in addition to offering a catering service and gourmet tours. . by bike to different producers. Energy bars and balls, sandwiches, meal salads, soups, pastries, coffee and homemade lemonade allow you to have a snack before continuing your hike.

As it is close to the Service Vélo Ski, cyclists will find a host of services, bikes, accessories and parts in one place.

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