Bikes / Vélo
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Bye Bye Bixi
« I wept and on my knees I prayed that there be truth and there be light [and there be Bixi]. » – Joel Gibb The leaves fall, the air crisps, and the...
By Émile Thomas -
Cyclist evades death after being struck by delivery truck on St. Laurent
Photo: Patrick Sanfaçon, La Presse This morning, around 9am, a 22-year old woman was pulled under a delivery truck and tangled up in the twisted metal of...
By Jacob Larsen -
La Course des Morts this week
The annual Course des Morts bike race is taking place once again this year on October 31st. As usual, it’s open to anyone who wants to race for a...
By Chris Erb -
Bikes and buses in traffic: What can Montreal learn from other cities?
Bicycles and buses in Montreal have a fairly intimate, and almost always antagonistic, relationship. This is not news to those who’ve used either a...
By Jacob Larsen -
Love + Bixi
« L’amour n’a point d’âge : il est toujours naissant » – Blaise Pascal Bixi has become the new church hall, the new town square...
By Émile Thomas -
The Bixi reaches Ottawa-Gatineau
Did you know that the Bixi, Montreal’s public bike system, now has stations in the Nation’s Capital? But this isn’t news at all because...
By Cédric Sam -
Cycling in Copenhagen in the 1970s
We only occasionally feature articles about other cities here at Spacing Montreal, so I thought readers might enjoy a few of these classic photos of...
By Jacob Larsen -
Bruce McCulloch’s Open Letter to his Bike Thief and the people who watched his Bike Thief thief his bike
« First they came for the Bixis, and I said nothing. » – Pastor Martin Niemöller La station Bixi devant chez moi a été complètement massacrée. Sa...
By Émile Thomas -
An Open Letter to my Bike Thief
To my dear friend Thief: You know who you are; you stole the rear tire off my bicycle. I don’t hate you, I fear for your welfare. You obviously have been...
By Émile Thomas -
The diciest part of my commute
Over the past few months I’ve come to know the Boul. St. Laurent underpass between the Mile End and Little Italy quite well, adjacent to the parc...
By KC Bolton -
Bixi on iPhone now (officially) available
There has been an interesting controversy brewing about the use of a user-created application for iPhones and Blackberries to track Bixi availability...
By Spacing -
Interactive Series: Montreal’s Worst Intersections
We do a lot of celebrating our city here at Spacing Montreal, but we do our fair share of criticising, too. As you might gather, this falls under the...
By Jacob Larsen