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  • Independence

    Number of comments: 2
    It's Independence Day in the United States. In honour of that, I posted some American cycling news stories over on I Bike T.O.Washington DC is putting in a bike sharing program. California is adding more bike boulevards. Many states are adding laws about passing a cyclist safely. New York and' [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2008, 9:21pm EDT

  • My baby girl

    Number of comments: 15
    For just over a week now, my wife and I are proud, happy and exhausted parents of a little girl. This picture is from the morning after she was born. She was born 8 lbs 8 ounces on Jan 27th.The first 4 days were the most challenging endurance event I've' [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2008, 8:36am EST

  • Preoccupation

    Number of comments: 6
    How to get rich: Do what these guys did. I don't mean "follow their advice". I mean make your own advice. Make up a term that sounds pseudo scientific like "law of attraction" or "law of vibrations" and tell people that their success depends on their understanding of "physics". Man. [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2008, 10:36pm EST

  • Kensington Festival of Light

    Number of comments: 2
    I stopped in at the Kensington Festival of Lights on Friday night. I started off with a traditional empanada. (That's just my tradition for when I visit Kensington market.) Finding the action wasn't too difficult. Follow the sound of the drums and look for the pulsing crowd.I arrived after the [...]
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    Posted: December 24, 2007, 8:06am EST

  • Unicycling for Fun

    Number of comments: 1
    Don't forget to keep your unicycling fun. It doesn't have to be a grind.Make sure you watch it to the end. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2007, 8:15am EST

  • Budgeting for Bicyclists

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    I know I have a lot of catching up to do around here. It's just one of those things that happens when you have too much going on at once.Today, Toronto is hearing "presentations" from the public regarding the capital budget for 2008. I would have liked to show up' [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2007, 10:19am EST

  • Salmon in the Don

    Number of comments: 2
    My wife and I went for a walk along the Don River last Saturday. (No bikes involved) She heard that there were salmon swimming upstream to spawn. She had been looking forward to this for days.For anyone familiar with the Don River, especially the section near downtown, the idea of [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2007, 11:48am EDT

  • Straddling the Ottawa River

    Number of comments: 5
    Last weekend, Thanksgiving weekend, I had my bike with me for a visit to Ottawa. I was eager to go for a ride through Gatineau Park, on the Quebec side of the Ottawa river.For anyone unfamiliar with this part of the world, Gatineau Park is a cyclist's paradise - long' [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2007, 11:37pm EDT

  • Election Day in Ontario

    Number of comments: 2
    It's election day in Ontario. We've had a dysfunctional election campaign here. Less than a year ago, the most important issue on our minds was the environment. This is finally recognized as important, urgent, critical to the survival of millions of people and to the economies of the world. What [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2007, 12:11am EDT

  • Photos from Bells on Bloor

    Number of comments: 3
    I was at the Bells on Bloor ride on Sunday. It was a very fun event. Well organized and amazingly well attended. I've heard numbers all over the place. My original guess was 300 people, but everyone seems to disagree. 500 is probably a better guess. Watch Martino's video and [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2007, 12:56pm EDT

  • A soldier

    Number of comments: 1
    Friday's ride home ...A young guy, with hip hop blaring, rips past two cyclists, one being me. My friend and I pull up alongside at the red light. The driver's side window is open but he won't look through it. I talk with my friend. The driver has perfected his' [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2007, 9:05am EDT

  • Sharing part 2: Reconciliation

    Number of comments: 3
    This morning, I was in pedestrian mode, walking my bike instead of making a normal left turn. While standing on the sidewalk, starting to cross, a minivan pulled up to the stop line in front of me and started to ease through to make a right turn on red. I [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2007, 6:02pm EDT

  • The people we share with

    Number of comments: 4
    These are some of the responses I got from a driver who passed me less than a foot away while I was going down hill at the speed limit.“Don’t worry. I knew exactly where you were,” he says smiling.“You were too far out into the lane anyways.”-- Me: That lane [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2007, 8:28am EDT

  • A New Ride

    Number of comments: 7
    Last week, I became the owner of a shiny new bicycle. It's a Bianchi Volpe, technically a cyclo-cross bike, but I plan to use it for commuting and fun long rides on the weekend.I don't buy a bicycle often, so it took me a couple months to decide what to [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2007, 5:40pm EDT

  • Crossing Canada for Children

    Number of comments: 1
    This Labour Day, while biking around the city, I stopped in at HTO park where I met Bertrand Lemeunier, a cyclist passing through Toronto on a cross Canada trip. He was relaxing on one of the teletubby hills with a conspicuously loaded bicycle.Bertrand is doing the full edition, cycling from [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2007, 12:40pm EDT

  • Two Big Years

    Number of comments: 6
    This site is two years old today. I started it off with no big plans and no expectations. Back then, I had this feeling that my comments on other peoples' sites would give the impression I was a little bit crazy. I decided I wanted people to know that there [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2007, 11:59am EDT

  • Compostastic!

    Number of comments: 6
    The cottage I was visiting a few weeks ago was missing a way to take care of garbage. It's my wife's family's cottage, and her parents usually bring the waste back to the city or find a nearby dump. I thought it was a good time for me to try' [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2007, 7:46am EDT

  • Long Friday

    Number of comments: 9
    Friday evening ended with me pushing myself through a freak north headwind as I worked my way up Yonge Street. I had failed to find the memorial ride for Charlie Prinsep after riding all over Cabbagetown and the east end, following some guys on fixies around who were also looking [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2007, 6:11pm EDT

  • Helpless Criminals

    Number of comments: 2
    There's something so backwards about this.In the Calgary Herald today, there's a story about people recklessly driving their cars on Alberta roads. Other people on the road, afraid, called the police to complain. The RCMP caught drivers with cars matching the descriptions from the complaints. No one has been charged.The [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2007, 6:05pm EDT

  • Packaging Matters

    Number of comments: 2
    I'm a sucker for good bit of packaging. I found this beer in a small depanneur where it was stacked in the aisle next to the Molson, Labatt, Coors, and Keiths. (By the way, a depanneur is a Quebec convenience store. I like to learn key words like that so' [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2007, 1:55pm EDT

  • My ride home

    Number of comments: 7
    This is my first attempt at filming while I ride. It's pretty rocky, so if you have a weak stomach, don't hit play! [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2007, 3:28pm EDT

  • Bottom Bracket Racket

    Number of comments: 1
    My bike just got the equivalent of a hip replacement. It's like a spry young 75 year old now. (How many bike years are in a human year?) The old bottom bracket, that clunked on every stroke of the pedal, has been replaced with a new solid sealed cartridge bottom' [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2007, 1:00pm EDT

  • Taking the lane and taking some pain

    Number of comments: 5
    These geese in Richmond Hill demonstrate how to take the lane.The heat is ruining my plans to push hard this week. I need to make myself into a faster cyclist. In a couple weeks, I'm meeting up with a bunch of guys I know from university so we can go' [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2007, 6:08pm EDT

  • The Tall Bike

    Number of comments: 2
    Critical Mass, June 29 2007, Toronto. [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2007, 10:41am EDT

  • Ride On

    Number of comments: 4
    It was a bit of an unusual ride in this morning. I waited at the corner for any other Bike Friday cyclists. None showed up.I took the lane on Yonge Street when I was passing some parked cars. For the second time this week, a car pulled up close behind [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2007, 1:04pm EDT

  • Ideas That Go

    Number of comments: 0
    Utilitarian cyclists in Oakland California.Did you notice the credits at the end? Could that be John Forester's nom de plume?Via the bike radio show Bikescape.' [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2007, 11:43pm EDT

  • A Hot Ride Downtown

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    Posted: June 20, 2007, 12:23pm EDT

  • A very local food supply

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    Posted: May 30, 2007, 9:45pm EDT

  • Group Commute Day - Yonge Street Edition

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    Posted: May 28, 2007, 1:55pm EDT

  • The Others - They're Out There

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    Posted: May 18, 2007, 8:11pm EDT

  • This quick fix is a sure thing!

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    Posted: May 15, 2007, 3:37pm EDT

  • Life

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    Posted: May 12, 2007, 10:17am EDT
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