This Friday is BikeFriday, the frozen edition. Actually, it is not very cold at all. This Friday is expected to be a balmy 2 degrees Celsius. So get out your woolies (or not) and get on your wheels!
BikeFriday is all about Safety in Numbers.
If you are looking for tips on how to ride in the snow from someone who is very experienced then check out this post at IBikeTO called Fun in the Snow.
But, if you’re just not that hardcore and still feel like doing something bike-y, why not cozy up on a cold winter’s night with some spare parts and other cycling nuts and watch some great documentaries… about bicycles, of course!
UofT’s educational bicycle repair facility, BikeChain, in conjunction with OPIRG, is showing documentaries Ayame and Still We Ride this Thursday, November 29th. Ayamye is a film about Bikes not Bombs’ work in Ghana. Still We Ride is about the August 2004 Critical Mass in New York when hundreds of cyclists were arrested.
The next day — BikeFriday! — following Mass, the Community Bicycle Network (761 Queen Street West) is screening You Never Bike Alone at 9pm — a film by Robert Alstead about Vancouver’s Critical Mass and bike culture. You Never Bike Alone will be preceded by the premiere of a documentary about Critical Mass in Toronto, along with some short bike films by our friend Martin Reis. Highly recommended!
CBN will be serving free, fair-trade hot chocolate courtesy of Chocosol, the winners of this year’s Bicycle Friendly Business Award in the Best Small Business category. Mmm delicious good karma!
Speaking of good things that the City does for bikes, it is now offering Cold Weather Cycling Seminars for all registered Bicycle User Groups.
And, get ready for Toronto’s first ever “Bike Winter”, scheduled to run from December 1 to February 29th. Show off your expert winter riding skills at the “Coldest Day of the Year Ride” on Wednesday, January 30th. Stay tuned to www.toronto.ca/cycling for an on-line Bike Winter Events Calendar or sign up for the City’s cycling e-newsletter Cyclometer.
It may be November, but Toronto cyclists are still in a two-wheeled frame of mind.
Photo courtesy of Martin Reis on flickr
2 comments
This seems like a good mix of activities. Unprecedented, even. People can check my Icebike mailing list if they want to talk to a very experienced cadre o’ riders.
Unfortunately, Bikechain did not receive a copy of Still We Ride in time. Instead we’ll be showing The Winking Circle (http://www.thewinkingcircle.com/) and expect a screening of Still We Ride in the new year.