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  • Folding bike rally Tuesday

    You’ve seen them whizzing around town. Adults on bikes with little wheels. What are they riding? How can they go so fast? It looks so easy. Maybe I...

  • Biking in Toronto poster contest

    The City has issued a call for submissions for the Biking in Toronto Poster Contest. This coming spring, 3,000 full colour posters will be printed and...

  • BrrrBikeFriday!

    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...

  • Budget committee backs down from funding bikes

    We asked and asked. They listened (Councillor Perks did, anyway). But, alas, the Star reported this morning “Bike plan hits funding wall“: The...

  • A day for remembering

    Today is the second anniversary of the death of cyclist Ryan Carriere. Ryan was tragically killed while on his bike at the intersection of Queen and...

  • You Never Bike Alone

    Happy BikeFriday my fellow velo-istas! As usual, the bike-friendly folks at Alternative Grounds will be giving free in-house coffee to cyclists. According...

  • Bike lane countdown 2007

    This photo was taken by Martin Koob at the City’s cycling consultation session in July. A summary of that consultation can be found here. Remember...

  • Bike BikeFriday!

    BikeFriday is here again. Here are some of the “main events” this BikeFriday. 8:00 – 9:30 AM: Grassroots‘ Bikers Breakfast...

  • Carfreedom!

    The Sierra Club of Canada is hosting the City of Toronto’s 2007 Car Free Day celebration on Yonge Street and Yonge-Dundas Square on Thursday...

  • Bikes Belong in Ontario

    The Bicycle Trade Association of Canada (BTAC), with the ThinkFirst Foundation of Canada, an organization dedicated to preventing brain and spinal cord...

  • Alternative Grounds digs BikeFriday

    Summertime and the biking is easy…on Friday, at least. Commute to work with me and others this Friday, August 31, for the last BikeFriday this...

  • Happy Birthday MyBikeLane

    From the original MyBikeLane New York: By my reckoning, MyBikeLane is 1 year old today! Congratulations to the innovator of this pioneering open-source...