SPINCO Moncton Will Host Spin Festival At Avenir Centre Outdoor Oval
MONCTON – Avenir Centre’s Ian Fowler Oval will be filled with music, as well as some people dressed in festival gear riding stationary bikes on August 23.
It will be SPINCO Moncton‘s first annual summer festival, one that has to include physically-distanced equipment and attendees wearing masks before they get on their bikes.
Ali Manship, the owner of the Moncton branch of B.C.-based fitness company SPINCO, said the idea for a festival came from the themed rides at the studio.
“When the class was over, we got together and thought it would be awesome if we could actually do this in a bigger way, and make it an event. So that kind of sparked the idea of wanting to do our summer festival and we figured obviously, outside would be the best option, because we’d be able to socially distance while still getting enough people involved,” she said.
“We don’t have any festivals this year, and this is kind of how we’re gonna bring the festival to Moncton in the form of music and what we do.”
Located at 1690 Mountain Rd., SPINCO offers a full-body workout using indoor cycling machines. People ride in the dark to the beat of the music, with the support of coaches. It re-opened with restrictions on June 20.
The festival will run from 8 a.m. until around 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 23. There will four themed classes, and 33 bikes per class that must be booked beforehand through SPINCO’s website.
The themes of summer throwback, summer bangers, rap and Beyonce indicates the type of music that will play.
“We want to kind of promote festival vibes so people can dress up as they would when they go to festivals,” Manship said. “We just want to make it community-focused and celebrate together.”
“We’ll have a huge audio set up, music playing throughout the entire morning,” she said. “And then we’re going to have some vendors participate.”
Local businesses like Lost and Found Ice Cream, Sequoia Downtown and Dieppe, Kissing Rocks Kombucha and Rescue Coffee, for whom a portion of the sales is donated to the SPCA, will be on site.
“They’re all local companies which is super important for us because we always want to support local brands and brands that are giving back, so it’s the perfect set up for us,” Manship said.
Those who don’t want to ride can still come and check out the vendors, as long as they follow the health rules, including wearing masks unless they’re on their stationary bikes.
“That’s kind of what we want to encourage as well, is that people will be able to come down and hang out, listen to the music and enjoy the event in general, because it’s going to be super hype and exciting, and the energy’s going to be high,” she said.
If the event’s a hit, she hopes to be make it larger in the coming years.
“We’re just excited to get it going and excited to start the first of many, I hope.”