I do love riding my bike, and fortunately mine has never been stolen. I try to avoid having to lock it up outdoors, though, because I never want to come back to find missing parts – or a missing bike.
Unfortuantely for thousands of Toronto bike riders, they cannot say the same. Fellow blogTO contributor Roger [...]
Posts under ‘Bicycle’
Toronto Bike Theft Ring
Study of Toronto Bicycling
Over on blogTO, I report on a study being released today illustrating how Toronto is not as bike friendly as it claims, when compared to other cities. Interesting stuff.
A Different Kind of Bike Lock
Toronto has had a lot of snow. This bike won’t be going out for a ride again until spring.
Did I mention there has been a lot of snow?
Great weekend
What a wonderful weekend.
rIAm and I had a “date” Friday night, where we cooked up some delicious wild Alaskan salmon, accompanied by fresh-from-the-farmer’s-market asparagus, bulb onions, and mushrooms, along with a tasty wild/basmati/brown rice mixture from Trader Joe’s. The rice and asparagus were done indoors, the rest on the grill, and everything was super yummy. [...]
From the Bicycle
Today marks Day 4 of my effort to ride my two-wheeler to work. This week has been Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I love it. What follows are tidbits I’ve seen or discovered while riding.
1) I have a bike lane for roughly 70% of the ride, and cars respect that lane much more than I thought. [...]
Now My Body Loves Me
Between a concert, class, and stuff to do, I didn’t really have a second chance to ride my bike to work. Until yesterday. I used my Damen/Milwaukee/Halsted/33rd Streets route and it went really well, a bit under an hour each way. I really should time it more precisely and keep track, but it’s definitely much [...]
My Eyes Feel Great but My Legs Hate Me
I’ve been talking about doing two things for quite a while; I finally did both. Yes, one week ago today, I got contact lenses. And yesterday, I rode my bike to work.
OK, so if you’ve known me at all from about 4th grade up until a week ago, you know me as somebody who wears [...]
