Cycle Toronto has just extended their second Refer-A-Rider campaign to Wed, Nov. 7th! I’m trying to win the campaign to win the great Bobbin Daytripper bike from Curbside Cycle that is first prize. Anyone that signs up (or renews) with Cycle Toronto via the link on my campaign page will get entered into the draw to win the Bike. I don’t really need a new bike, so [...]
Wednesday, Oct. 24th, at 6:30pm at the Roncy Bean (385 Roncesvalles Ave). Come out and talk about local cycling issues! Some things we are working on: – Contraflow bicycle lanes – Dufferin St. improvements – Bicycle parking audit – Ward 13 and 14 joint projects Full details at Cycle Toronto
Vegans can rejoice! We are starting at Tori’s Bakeshop a vegan and refined sugar free bakery and ending at the all new Le Dolci (across from Trinity Bellwoods Park). Despite the late notice, hope you can make it out!! I’ve planned out 2 possible routes. We can vote on which route to take when we [...]
An Action Alert from Cycle Toronto has come out… try to join the public meeting on separated bikelanes on Wellesley and make your voice heard. Join us next Wednesday June 27th from 6:00pm – 8:00pm for a public meeting on bike lane upgrades to the Wellesley-Hoskin corridor at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School (444 Sherbourne [...]
Watch For Bikes Initiative [The Urban Country] In lieu of proper bike infrastructure, how can drivers and cyclists better co-exist on our streets? This is a question that is pondered frequently on this website and was the basis for our ‘i share the road’ campaign. An annual initiative called “Watch For Bikes” also attempts to address this [...]
A Public Transit Adventure [Cupcake Ride] I’ve used public transit bike racks in BC before and the ones on the TTC buses are exactly the same. You just push up on a metal handle, pull the whole rack down towards you, lift your bike into the wheel slots and then secure your front wheel with [...]
START When: 1pm Where: Menchie’s (Annex location) 511 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON M5S 1Y4 2nd DESTINATION Where: Gurt’s 283 Roncesvalles Avenue END Where: Bike Fest Distillery District ROUTE We’ll be taking a longer route from Menchie’s and Gurt’s so that we can ride down the West Toronto Railpath (Joe and Hyedie’s fav!) and also [...]
Determined purely by page views, we give you the Top 25 Most Popular pages on BikingToronto during April 2012. Bikelane Map - yeah! a map of Toronto’s bikelanes! Meet a fellow Cyclist and Her I Bike T.O. Shirt Should the Toronto Cyclists Union change their name to Cycle Toronto? How To - how to do stuff regarding your bike! Winter [...]
So for those who don’t know I’m a HUGE coffee geek. I do some barista work on the side, I roast, I host workshops, I drink more coffee in the morning than most people do in a day. Coffee is awesome. It’s a cheap and legal psychoactive drug that not only tastes great but helps [...]
The Fixer: Cycling campaign appeals to drivers’ better instincts [The Star] Request to drivers: Please be more accepting of cyclists and consider them fellow travellers, instead of adversaries. That’s the idea behind “I Share the Road,” a campaign begun by cycling advocate and blogger James Schwartz, who hopes to foster a better relationship with drivers. Morrison [...]
NOTE: BikingToronto is a GreenLiving Network Blog. Last week we gave away some passes to the GreenLiving Show for this past weekend. Did you go? How did you like it? We decided to go and check out the Show on Sunday and are glad we did – lots of interesting businesses there – and great [...]
We all know that lots of abandoned bikes locked to bikeposts is a weird fact of urban life (why do people abandon their property?), and now the Toronto Star’s Fixer column is highlighting the problem on Queens Quay, where abandoned bikes are making life a little harder for some Torontonians: Kit Jones called to say [...]
The I Bike T.O. product line has recently become very popular with the recent addition of the Left Wing Pinko I Bike T.O. shirts… and we thought we should highlight some other new products we’ve recently added to the product line-up: We give 100% of the profits to bike-related charities in Toronto. (more info about [...]
Continuing his Covet posts about great gear for your bike, Duncan looks at some stylish pannier bags for hauling lots of stuff around on that rear rack of yours (and looking good doing it): Sometimes you just don’t want to carry a bag. Active transportation can mean a little sweat, and carrying a bag is [...]
As the days in Toronto get darker earlier and earlier as winter gets closer, you may be thinking about how to make yourself more visible as you bike around the city: Donald “Go-by-bike” Wiedman, founder of BikesandTransit.com, has created a unique Facebook event that suggests Toronto cyclists wear bright orange (or yellow, or green) gloves [...]
