Category Cycling Events

Volunteers distribute breakfast

Ride to Work Day 2013: Toronto

The morning was beautiful. The sun was shining sweetly and offsetting the coolness in the air. I reached Wychwood Barns, the meeting point in my area, to convene with other cyclists and ride together down to City Hall. Ride to Work Day is a feature of Bike Month in Toronto and cyclists gather at various […]

Bike Valet Ticket

Please take my bike

It was my first experience with valet parking ever. And in this case, I was parking my bike. Cycle Toronto and Autoshare teamed up on Saturday, June 8th to provide this amazing service to concert goers who arrived on two tires. The unique and awesome Arts & Crafts Field Trip Festival had a lot of cool features, including a limited […]

Cyclists ride at city hall

See Critical Massers in Action

In follow up to my previous post on attending Critical Mass, I’m now including a video I found through Twitter. It shows cyclists enjoying the May Critical Mass ride around City Hall. Video source: mrtini, YouTube, May 31, 2013.

Critical Mass ride on Bloor St.

My first Critical Mass ride was thunderous

It was to be my first ride with Critical Mass but the weather forecast was not promising. A big thunderstorm was set to descend upon the city and as the departure time of 6:30 p.m. approached, it started to look increasingly menacing. I’d wanted to attend a Critical Mass ride before but hadn’t managed to […]