Ride For A Dream (RFAD) is a student-led non-profit campaign to end violence against women. We work to increase awareness, as well as to raise funds for a designated charity.

Last year, RFAD was two young men riding from Toronto to Vancouver. This year it is four young men riding from Toronto to St. John’s, Newfoundland, with a documentary film crew along for the ride.

Come out on Saturday, June 1st for the launch event, and ride with us for as little or as long as you are able!

full event listing: Bike Month 2013

Take this rare chance to explore the mind-boggling stories of the Island with Sally Gibson, author of the defining history, More than an Island. Learn about the Islands’ role during the War of 1812, its lost amusement park and baseball stadium, its rich sailing history (including shipwrecks), and its transformation from sand-spit, to Toronto’s first cottage country, to a manicured public park.

view full event listing: Bike Month 2013

Photo by visual dichotomy on flickr

Great news!  Art Spin is back for 2013!  It’ll be going on the last Thursday of the month again during the summer:  June 27, July 25 and August 29th.

Art Spin is an art crawl style bicycle tour of galleries, art performances, site-specific installations and visits to artist’s studios throughout various downtown Toronto neighbourhoods.

Time: Thursday, June 27 at 6:30 pm

Contact: info@artspin.ca / 416-712-7074

full event listing: Bike Month 2013

Eleanor McMahon thinks it’s time to change the conversation around cycling in Ontario.

McMahon is the founder of the Share the Road Cycling Coalition, who will be hosting the fifth annual Ontario Bike Summit this week in Toronto. She says that we need to stop talking about things like bike lanes and other bicycle infrastructure as a zero sum game between cars and bikes.

“We do polling, and our polling tells us that 89 per cent of Ontarians are both drivers and cyclists,” she says. “The notion that it’s cars versus bikes is overblown, and it’s really not working anymore. Deciding to change the conversation means going out of our way to poke holes in that idea and say from the get go ‘We don’t buy into that philosophy, and just because you say it, doesn’t make it true.’ ”

 read full story: Torontoist

I love Home Depot trips by bike.  Love this post:

I wasn’t entirely sure at first whether the cargo bike would adequately carry the amount of lumber I was going to purchase, so I kept open the possibility that I may need to return the next day with a motor vehicle.As it turned out, my cargo bike proved sufficiently capable of handling a heavy load of plywood oak no less in addition to all of my ice hockey gear. Hell, I probably could have thrown a 24-pack or two of beer on top of everything without issue.

read full article: The Urban Country

If you’ve taken your first trip to the Islands this year, or tried to bike (or walk, or drive) east-west on Queens Quay lately, you’re surely aware that the area remains in a state of major flux as the City works on demolishing, rebuilding and constructing the strip as part of a huge revitalization project that is anticipated to take until the Spring of 2015 to completely finish – right in time for the Pan Am Games.

read full article: dandyhorse magazine.

Cyclists and motorists take a lot of flack from each other for bending the rules of the road. But even the police will tell you that it’s pretty much impossible not to break the law. With bike month around the corner, we learned what it’s like to try to follow every single rule.

read full article: The Grid TO.

OK bike nerds and design connoisseurs, this is an event to have on your radar. Brooks, the England-based saddle and bike accessory manufacturer, has organized a five city travelling bike show called “Dashing,” which lands at the Kensington Market location of Bikes on Wheels June 8th. More akin to an art/design exhibition than a strictly commercial display, the idea behind the show is to highlight brands that aren’t well-known in North America but which are nevertheless noteworthy for their design and craftsmanship. Well, that and to celebrate a little.

read full post: BlogTO.

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The Grid is doing Burger Week again! 

What better way to honour this momentous occasion than by touring some of Toronto’s finest eateries on two wheels to enjoy their delicious hamburgers!

Burger tours will run from Wed, May 29th to Sat, June 1st. The route lengths will get progressively longer as the week goes on.

We’ll be aiming to do take-out at each burger stop. Each restaurant will be serving 1 special burger for $5. You don’t have to eat at all the stops. Stay hydrated and bring water (or some other beverage of your choice).

The routes have been tentatively set, but not quite finalized, so they are subject to change. You can check out the start times, meet-up locations, burger stops, and route details of each day’s tour at the links below:

Day 1: Wed, May 29th @ 5:30pm  (Stockyards and Triple A Bar)  Route: http://goo.gl/maps/l35me

Day 2 Thurs, May 30th @ 5:30pm  (Rock Lobster and South St. Burger) Route: http://goo.gl/maps/YtvJm

Day 3 (Fri, May 31st @ 5:30pm) (Barque Smokehouse and Hey Meatball) Route: http://goo.gl/maps/nX6jc

Day 4 (Sat, June 1st @ 12:00 noon) (The Good Fork and Goods and Provisions and Holy Chuck) Route: http://goo.gl/maps/ujm8G

Join us for as few or as many of the rides/burgers as your legs/stomach can handle! There is no fee to participate in the rides themselves. The only cost will be for your own food & drink.

Bicycle safety encouraged. Helmets and bike bells are strongly recommended! Happy and safe riding.

RSVP on facebook

Note: This event is not officially sponsored by The Grid. We’re simply using their Burger Week as an excuse to bike a lot and eat tons of burgers!

New details have emerged through a Freedom of Information request regarding the August 31, 2009 death of Darcy Allan Sheppard. Sheppard’s father claims the evidence he has obtained through the freedom of information request does not support the explanation in the decision to drop charges against the man who killed his son.

read full article:  The Urban Country.