Time: Saturday, June 1 at 12:00 pm – Saturday, June 1 at 4:00 pm Location: Toronto – Downtown/East York Summary: To celebrate Bike Month 2013, this June we’re inviting Mayor Rob Ford to take a spin on our wheels for a day! We are also encouraging new cyclists to come for a ride. Read [...]
Time: Monday, May 27 at 7:30 am – 8:00 am Location: Toronto – Downtown/East York Summary: Join the morning commute for free pancake breakfast at City Hall. Ride along and celebrate the bike lanes on Dundas East, River St. and Shuter Read the full post: “Kingston Road and Dundas St East Bike to Work [...]
Time: Monday, May 27 at 7:00 am – 9:00 am Location: Toronto – Downtown/East York Summary: Ride with us to Nathan Phillips Square for Bike to Work Day and enjoy a celebration and pancake breakfast when you get there! Read the full post: “Bike to Work Day Ride and Pancake Breakfast” on the BikeMonth [...]
Time: Sunday, June 9 at 12:00 am – Saturday, June 15 at 12:00 am Location: Hamilton Summary: The Steel City Bike Festival is a 6 day festival that was created to promote the benefits that cycling has on our community. Check the calendar for specific events. Read the full post: “Steel City Bike Festival” [...]
Time: Saturday, June 8 at 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Location: Hamilton Summary: Bikefest is a community celebration of all things bike related. Read the full post: “MEC Burlington Bikefest” on the BikeMonth website.
Time: Saturday, June 1 at 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Location: Toronto – Downtown/East York Summary: A community conversation, with City Councillors in attendance, to examine how Yonge Street can be revisioned as a complete street that functions well for cyclists and all other road users. Read the full post: “Yonge Street Visioning Workshop” [...]
Time: Saturday, June 15 at 1:00 pm – Saturday, June 15 at 3:00 pm Location: Toronto – Downtown/East York Summary: A ride and social in Allan Gardens to celebrate cycling in wards 27 and 28, and profile upcoming Toronto bike infrastructure projects that people should know about! Read the full post: “Cycle the Community” [...]
Time: Wednesday, May 29 at 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Location: Halton Region Summary: A 65 or 83km ride from Schomberg to lunch in the village of Hockley. Read the full post: “Schomberg to Alliston / Hockley Ride” on the BikeMonth website .
Time: Friday, May 31 at 6:30 – 8:30 pm Location: Toronto – Etobicoke/York Summary: High Park to Marie Curtis Park along the Waterfront Trail and the Etobicoke Creek Trail, then to The Junction. Ride starts promptly at 6:30 p.m. Read the full post: “High Park to Etobicoke Creek Trail & Back” on the BikeMonth website [...]
Time: Friday, June 21 at 10:00 am – Sunday, June 23 at 5:00 pm Location: Toronto – Etobicoke/York Summary: Ride from Toronto to the Alpine Club of Canada’s 6th annual Summer Solstice Camp and Climb. It’s a weekend long camping and climbing event held at Rattlesnake Point Conservation Area near Milton. Read the full post: [...]
Stakeholder meeting seeks input on how bylaws should classify electric bicycles. Cyclists, e-bikers agree to disagree. Read the full post: “Cyclists, e-bikers spar over bike lanes” on the Toronto Star.
Spare a thought this spring for your local wrench. Consider how Derek Chadbourne and Brad Annis of The Bike Joint on Harbord Street, east of Ossington Avenue, will spend their first perfect cycling days. When they arrive at 8 a.m., two or three cyclists will already be waiting outside for repairs that will “just take [...]
The mere act of cycling in Toronto can seem like a crusade for freedom. We have a godzilla-esque mayor who erases existing infrastructure (read: Jarvis bike lanes) with what many cyclists would characterize as reckless abandon. In London, meanwhile, mayor Boris Johnson is happily skipping about building BIKE HIGHWAYS and talking about how said highways [...]
One of the nicest guys I know, Todd O’Reilly rides his bike really really far (and takes his son with him) to encourage people to do nice things for eachother. They are looking for a new tandem bike for their next trip. Here is a write-up from him about it: In 2012, I (Todd O’Reilly) [...]
If you’ve had your bike locked up in the same on-street location for a while, now might be a good time to move it. Photo by moonstream, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. If you see someone attacking a bike lock with an angle grinder at some point over the course of the next month or [...]
