The Easy Rider

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Easy Rider opened its doors on December 6, 1996 and is owned by Warren Currie. Warren has been involved in the action sports industry in Edmonton since 1980, when as a high school kid he ordered his first Burton Backhill snowboard from Jake Burton.

In the mid 1980's Warren and his brother Scott were instrumental in getting snowboarding allowed at ski areas in northern Alberta.
Warren has been involved in a few different stores over the years. Starting as a part time "basement sweeper" at The Inside Edge on 124 Street and Stony Plain Road. From there Warren went one to manage and then part own The Inside Edge – St. Albert. After the original "Edge" closed, Warren changed the St. Albert store to The New Ground and also opened a location on 109 Street in Edmonton.

In August of 1995 it was time for the partners of The New Ground to "part ways" and Warren moved on to open his own store a few months later.

The original location of The Easy Rider (next to the Cineplex) was a tiny 1100 square feet. Over the next 4 years we grew until we were bursting at the seams with product.

In November of 2000 we moved to a location 40 meters away - that was more than 3 times the size of the original location.

Four years later (November 2004) we moved again – still within Whitemud Crossing, and about 100 meters from the original location. Our current store is approximately 3500 square feet covering 2 floors. The upstairs is where all the hard goods are and the main floor is for clothing, shoes and accessories. We have a giant 12 foot by 9 foot screen for showing movies and many other cool features.

We continue to specialize in Snowboards, Skateboards (both regular and longboards), Wakeboards, Shoes, Clothing, Accessories and in the summer of 2006 we added Stand Up Paddle boards to our line up.
Our main focus is still "Having fun doing something different".
Warren and all of the staff actively participate in all of the sports we sell, so we actually know what we are talking about when you come in. If you have been into the shop before – Thank You, if not, stop by and say Hi.

Hope to see you soon.
Warren

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Employment Opportunities.

The Easy Rider is currently looking for the following people to join our work team.
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1) Stand Up Paddleboard division Manager.

This position is a full time job, averaging 40 hours a week.
Salary is $44,000. to $60,000. per year based on experience.

Applicants must have the following:
- Minimum three (3) years Stand Up Paddle experience.
- Fluent in English – both written and spoken.
- Computer skills including (but not limited to) Microsoft Excel / Word.
- Some level of post secondary education.
- Drivers License – with good driving record.
- Some type of retail / public interaction experience.

Applicants should also have the following:
- Ability to snowboard and skateboard.
- Commitment to a long term position
- Desire to learn and grow with The Easy Rider.
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2) Snowboard Service Technician  

This position is a semi full time job, averaging 10 to 30 hours per week.
Hours required would increase as the snowboard season gets under way.
Peak months being November through March.
Wage would be $10. to $14. per hour based on experience.

Applicants must have the following:
- Minimum 2 years experience tuning and working on Snowboards and Skis.
- Ability to “Hand Tune” (with no machines) Snowboards.
- Ability to ride a snowboard.
- Fluent in English – both written and spoken.
- Computer skills including (but not limited to) Microsoft Excel / Word.
- Minimum age of 18 years old.

Successful applicants will be able to choose their hours between mornings or evenings.
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3) Full and Part time Sales Associates.

Multiple openings are available.
Full Time is 40 Hours per week / Part time can range from 8 to 24 hours per week.
Starting wage is $10. per hour.

Applicants must have the following:
- Ability to Snowboard and Skateboard.
- Fluent in English – both written and spoken.
- Computer skills including (but not limited to) Microsoft Excel / Word.
- Minimum age of 16 years old.
- Understanding that Easy Rider is a fast paced WORK environment.

Applicants should also have the following:
- Desire to learn and grow with The Easy Rider.
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Please either bring in a resume to the store or email it to info@theeasyrider.com



Drive In Movie Night – September 21 – THANK YOU!

Huge THANK YOU to everyone that came out for the 2nd Annual Easy Rider Drive In Movie night.

It was a fun night premiering  the new Absinthe movie – Resonance and the new Burton movie – 13.

Some cool old cars came out – and the guys from Carnival Creations were here to provide the best Mini Donuts, and other great food items!
Big Thanks to Burton Snowboards for helping out with the event.

Three story high Drive In screen and our own FM station for the night!

A few of the cool old cars that got front row parking.

Carnival Creations – the best Mini Donuts in the world.

Big Screen snowboarding.



SE Racing BMX bikes + ONE MORE!

A few years ago when we used to sell cruiser bikes – we also brought in SE Racing bikes.
SE Racing was one of the original BMX companies back in the day –  they were “re-born” a while ago , and started making kick ass bikes again.
They also made a bunch of re-issues based off of their famous designs in the 80′s.

While cleaning out the warehouse I discovered a few bikes.
These are brand new – un-built – in the box bikes.

ONE MORE BIKE.
Was kinda wanting to keep this one for myself – but since I have over 10 bikes already – it’s up for sale.

Re-issue SE Racing Quad Angle. (red / gold) reg. $1100.  SALE $800.

SE Racing Quad Angle.

 

 



Jimbo Phillips x Easy Rider

Check out the latest art that Jimbo Phillips has done for us!
We will be using this on something SUPER FREAKING AWESOME (as well as stickers and such).

Stay tuned!



Spring is here – Sandals / Longboards / Board shorts.

Well it finally seems like it’s going to be Spring soon.
We are loaded up with all sorts of goodies for the warm weather.

Volcom Creedlers

A HUGE selection of longboards!

TONS of new board shorts.



Happy Birthday – To US!

Today we are 15 years old.
We have come a long ways in 15 years – Thanks to our awesome customers.

Thank you all for your support – it has meant a great deal to all of us.

Stop by today for some cake!

15 years ago today.

 

FREE Cake today.

 



Food Bank

As many of you know – we here at Easy Rider like to do our part to give back to the local community.
We believe that no one should be hungry – so we try and raise money during the year for the Edmonton Food Bank.
This year – through our SUP demos, in store events and our Drive In Movie night we raised just over $1100.  - – THANK YOU!

I took the money, tripled it to $3300. and went shopping to Costco.
Three big orange carts full later and the van was full.

Thank you to everyone that helped out this year.



New T’s

Here at Easy Rider we are a small, single store operation, and we  strive for great customer service and great quality products.
We don’t sell car tires / baby formula / bread / and we don’t have a MickyD’s in store.
What we do sell is all the goods you need related to Snowboarding / Skateboarding and Stand Up Paddling.
So with that in mind – here are our new Limited Edition shop T’s.



Tagging!

Stickers are fun – and putting them on things is more fun.
Send in a photo of a creative use of an Easy Rider sticker and you may win a prize.

Cross Walk light somewhere in SoCal.

 



Volcom Co-lab T-shirts

Volcom made us some cool co-lab T-shirts.
Come one in and buy anything Volcom and get a Free T-Shirt!
Limited supply.