Take a Thursday Night Ride with Ward 29 Bikes! Our popular social ride series returns this year with a mix of old favourites and brand new routes. Starting from the East York Community Centre, we’ll take a leisurely bike ride before returning to our neighbourhood for dessert and socializing. Each 90-minute ride will be on [...]
May 30: Thursday Night Ride:Cycle the Don Valley
May 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Take a Thursday Night Ride with Ward 29 Bikes! Our popular social ride series returns this year with a mix of old favourites and brand new routes. Starting from the East York Community Centre, we’ll take a leisurely bike ride before returning to our neighbourhood for dessert and socializing. Each 90-minute ride will be on [...]
Mayor Rob Ford slams bike station, then floats idea of city hall splash pad
May 10, 2013 By 2 Comments
Mayor Rob Ford opposes adding showers for cyclists commuting to city hall but he wanted to look at installing a splash pad for kids as part of renovations to Nathan Phillips Square.Ford has slammed as a complete waste of money plans to park 380 bikes in the underground parking garage and provide a $130,000 change [...]
May 14: Tune-Up Tuesday at Queen & John
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Cycle Toronto’s Street Smarts on-street outreach in May is focused on teaching people about basic bicycle maintenance! Join us Tuesday evenings in May for Tune Up Tuesdays to get a free safety check or basic tune up from one of our Community Partners, chat with our volunteers about cycling issues in the city, sign up [...]
May 28: Tune-Up Tuesday at Bloor and Castle Frank
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Cycle Toronto’s Street Smarts on-street outreach in May is focused on teaching people about basic bicycle maintenance! Join us Tuesday evenings in May for Tune-Up Tuesdays to get a free safety check or basic tune up from one of our Community Partners, chat with our volunteers about cycling issues in the city, sign up as [...]
May 21: Tune-Up Tuesday at Harbord & Grace
May 9, 2013 By 1 Comment
Cycle Toronto’s Street Smarts on-street outreach in May is focused on teaching people about basic bicycle maintenance! Join us Tuesday evenings in May for Tune-Up Tuesdays to get a free safety check or basic tune up from one of our Community Partners, chat with our volunteers about cycling issues in the city, sign up as [...]
Councillor wants three-foot gap between cyclists and motorists
May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A Toronto councillor wants a law pased that would require a one-metre buffer zone between cyclists and drivers. Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam is seeking an amendment to the provincial Highway Traffic Act so that a one-metre gap is mandatory when passing cyclists. She says the motion is inspired by the death of Toronto cyclist Jenna Morrison. [...]
Bells on Bloor
May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
We will meet on Saturday May 11th 2013 at noon at High Park (Bloor gate) and we will ride en masse to Queens Park for an afternoon rally. (Our east end friends will meet at noon at East Lynn Park and meet us at Queen’s Park, for more information check out their website at http://bellsondanforth.ca/) [...]
Bells on Danforth
May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Join us for the 2013 edition of the Bells on Danforth ride, a family-friendly, pedal-powered parade along the Danforth to celebrate cycling in Toronto and advocate for better infrastructure in the east end. This annual group ride starts in East Lynn Park (on Danforth, one block west of Woodbine) at noon on Saturday, May 11. [...]
Ask an expert: Proper passing procedure
May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Riding downtown can be tight; what with streetcar tracks and parked cars, and sometimes having no choice but to merge into the automotive lane. The streets midtown and uptown may be wider, but motorists still aren’t given proper passing berth. Our dandy editor-in-chief, Tammy Thorne, now commutes up to Sunnybrook campus and noted the final [...]
Ride Together with CycloFemme
May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This commemorative poster for ARTCRANK reflects all of the locations of rides in 2012, radiating from the wheel, capturing some of the global nature of CycloFemme. CycloFemme is a worldwide event created to honor the past, celebrate the present, and empower the future of women cycling. via Ride Together – CycloFemme – Momentum Mag.
Bells on Bloor this Saturday!
May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The annual Bells on Bloor ride is happening this Saturday, May 11th. Come out and show your support for Bike lanes on Bloor. The group ride will start at High Park and end at City Hall. This year in honour of Mother’s Day, there is a “best-flowers-plasitc-or-otherwise-on-a-bike” competition. More information is available here: http://cycleandsole.com/ via [...]
It’s time for Toronto to think bigger about bikes
May 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A cyclist rides past BIXI bikes in Toronto on Wednesday. BIXI Toronto Inc. borrowed $4.5-million from the city, and has a loan balance of $3.9-million as of Dec. 31, 2012, according to a city report going before the mayor’s executive committee next week. (Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail) For a city with big ambitions, [...]
Pastel de Nata Ride!
May 3, 2013 By 3 Comments
Do you like Portuguese Custard Tarts (or egg tarts if you prefer)? If so, you need to join me on this upcoming Pastel de Nata Ride! Along with the other volunteers from the Ward 18 Cycle Toronto Advocacy Group, I’m helping to organize this event (one of three that our group will be hosting) for [...]
How Kristyn Wong-Tam plans to save BIXI Toronto
May 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Developers to cut the number of parking spaces in new residential developments could save Toronto’s ailing bike share program, says councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam. Current city rules allow builders to trade parking capacity for auto share spaces or ring-and-post locks, and Wong-Tam wants BIXI stands added to that list. In a member’s motion to be heard [...]
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