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Photos and Video from the Ice Bike Races

February 14, 2010

Last night I went and checked out Icycle 2010, the Ice Bike Races held at Dufferin Grove Park every year.

Beforehand, I met up with Todd and James Schwartz (of TheUrbanCountry.com) at 3-Speed (I highly recommend their sirloin burger) and we chatted about cycling, Toronto neighbourhoods and Chinese New Year.

We then walked over to the park and enjoyed a fun evening of people racing bikes around a sheet of ice!

Zoom! Thrills, Chills and Spills!

James and Todd watching the action

BlogTO has an excellent run-down of the evening.

Here are some photos and video from the Races:

Videos:
(the first two are from the Mens Finals, the last is from the “Rubber Race” with normal bikes, so it’s a lot slower)

Flickr Slideshow from Tino:

Flickr Slideshow from me:

Flickr Slideshow from Yvonne Bambrick of the Bike Union:

Share your own collections of photos or video in the comments below.

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Discussing Downtown Bike Infrastructure for 2010

February 1, 2010

Dave Meslin discussing Sharrows

Photo via Chris Tindal

I wasn’t able to make it to the Bikeway Network Public Consultation Event to discuss downtown bike infrastructure for 2010… but thankfully great people like Chris Tindal, James Schwartz and Dave Meslin are there.

One very cool thing coming out of it that’s been rumoured for a while is that segregated bikelanes are planned for University Ave (via @jamesschwartz)

You can follow people tweeting the event (like Chris Tindal, who took the above photo, by following the hashtag #BikeTO.

UPDATE:

Yvonne Bambrick of the Bike Union snapped a couple pics of the crowd with her cellphone:

Why So Serious?

Crowd at the Bikeway Network Public Consultation Event

If you were able to make it, let us know what you thought about it in the comments below.

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Photos from the Coldest Day of the Year Ride

February 1, 2010

This past Saturday saw the Coldest Day of the Year Ride, and after a very mild January, the weather co-operated with -17 weather for the large group of cyclists who came out to ride the waterfront.

This post has photos from myself, Duncan, and Jnyyz… you can click each of these photos (just a few from the larger sets) to go to the blog posts and collections they are from.

This is maybe half of the whole crowd

Councillor Adrian Heaps being interviewed by Global TV

Councillor Heaps is rocking the winter bike gear.

Everyone gathers around for Hot Chocolate and Speeches

Hitting the Martin-Goodman

I heard these two little ones chanting and singing along the ride

Crossing Lakeshore

The new section of the Martin-Goodman near Ontario Place

This years ride was twice as cold, and saw twice as many participants as 2009…. but I’m not wishing for the same trend to continue next year. -34 would be a good challenge, though.

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Retro Photo of the Day: Atrium Sculpture

December 15, 2009

BikingToronto is down for construction now, so I thought I’d post some old school Photos of the Day so that there will be some old content that people can re-discover when the site goes live again.

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