My road bike is in the shed, trapped behind several feet of snow blocking the door. We have six more weeks of winter and I’m not done with cross country skiing yet but still I filled out my application form and sent the Ottawa Bicycle Club my cheque for the
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cmkl: Hello rear derailleur, good to feel you again
The past couple of days have been evidence of why some people like single gear bikes in winter. My cassette has been covered in solid ice and my rear derailleur cable has been frozen in its housing. I don’t have a garage at home and at work the parking garage
Continue readingcmkl: My fifteen seconds of fame
I’m in an Ottawa Sun weather story dispensing advice on biking on a snowy day.
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ontario – Cyclists are here to stay – get with the program
Toronto News: Hume: What goes around in Quebec comes around in Ontario – thestar.comExcerpts:This isn’t a matter of right or left, but of right and wrong. Due to circumstances well beyond the city’s control, this is the direction we are headed. For…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Toronto Sun: let’s make Toronto worse
How Rob Ford could improve T.O. | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto SunThe Toronto Sun suggests outlawing panhandling, scrapping the bag fee and licensing bicycles are ways to improve Toronto. Let’s look at these:Outlawing PanhandlingThere is already …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Poster > Cyclist response to "Rob Ford’s Bike Plan"
Fuck Ford poster protests Rob Ford’s bike planAt the link is a poster created in response to Rob Ford’s bike plan (removing bike lanes from convenient streets for cyclists, and then building bike lanes in out-of-the-way places).Ironic how Ford’s bike p…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Jarvis Bike Lane dead. Ford’s war on cyclists continues
Jarvis Bike Lanes Saved for One Year, Birchmount and Pharmacy Bike Lanes to be Removed – TorontoistToday, Toronto City Council voted 28-19 in favour of removing the Jarvis, Birchmount and Pharmacy bike lanes.Excerpt from the link:As per the language in…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Could the vote on the Jarvis Bike Lane be a turning point for Ford’s support on council?
Fighting for Bike Lanes at Toronto City Hall: Pt. I « the reeves reportEarlier today, Mayor Rob Ford voted against all the community grants, while council voted unanimously to continue the grants (with one vote exception where Doug Ford voted along wi…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Fighting for Bike Lanes at Toronto City Hall: Pt. I
“Dammit. My phone died.” “You can use mine.” “That’s okay. I kinda knew it would happen. I didn’t have time to charge my phone today on my morning off. ‘Cause I spent it here.” Andrea Garcia, Advocacy Director with the Toronto Cyclists Union, had already had a long day when I left Council at 7:00 … Continue reading »
Continue readingthe reeves report: Licensing cyclists is not the answer
Listen up, my broke and miserly city: licensing cyclists is not the answer. Licensing cyclists will not prevent the highly unfortunate accident that took place yesterday, in which a pedestrian was hit in Kensington Market and is now in critical condition. Why? Because the problem with that cyclist, among thousands and thousands of others, is … Continue reading »
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: The Often Occasional Blogger
I know I haven’t been blogging much lately,… but I really have a good excuse for it,… actually it is more of a series of excuses caused by one event in my life,… but the excuses are for another blog post,… one that will do it justice.
Anyhoo,… I have been out biking around Toronto, mainly […]
350 or bust: It’s Time To Stop Spinning Our Wheels On Climate Change
Much of the UN climate negotiations that went on in Copenhagen in December, 2009 was just so much hot air and spinning of wheels without any movement towards a liveable planet and a sustainable future for our children. But maybe things are changing. …
Continue readingcmkl: Okay, one more post about the RLCT
And then I’m done. First up, a public thanks to my partner and Mallory’s mother, Irene Jansen. I’ve been eating up at least six non-work, non-sleep hours a week since the snow crept back from the roadsides. And that’s a fair chunk of time that could h…
Continue readingcmkl: Rideau Lakes is over. I’m wiped. But happy
So I’m back. Rideau Lakes is over. Sniff. There were minutes today, however where I would not have been so sentimental. The moonscape loosely termed ‘road’ between Meryln Wilson Road and Century Road East, for example. The point where the crosswind sta…
Continue readingcmkl: Phew. Made it. Only 180 more km to go
Once I got out of town I was fine. I got about 6km lost trying to follow the prescribed route out of town. I was so nervous I skipped over the directions, ignoring a crucial turn. I ate up the time gained by my early (6am) start trying to get back on t…
Continue readingcmkl: Bike to Kingston? Why on earth would anyone want to do that?
And yet every year thousands do. It’s the 40th running of the Rideau Lakes Cycle Tour tomorrow and this year, I will be among them. First time in five years. My sixth tour.
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: Well That SUCKED!!!
Just got hit on my bike while cycling south at Yonge Street. It happened at one of those intersection where it is two “T” intersections. I saw the guy creeping forward into the intersection and I was already in it. It was happening like it was molasses. I started to break and veer and knew […]
Continue readingcmkl: I am 4.75km short of my training goal
Specifically 995.25km. I would have had it almost exactly today, but I shave some off my route to Merrickville because I was trying to get home to drop off my babysitter at the pre-agreed time. Blast. And this week I’m travelling for works so there are…
Continue readingcmkl: You know what? I don’t have to be totally prepared
I was out riding again today. 128km to Almonte and back. It felt pretty good. And I may have had the best luck of my life with wind because I felt like I had wind at my back both ways. But I was bagged when I got back. My lungs, mostly. It took a long…
Continue readingopenalex: Bixi Responds to Flurry of Financial Coverage
Montreal news has been awash with coverage of BIXI’s financial situation. After some delay, the city has approved $108million in loans and loan guarantees for the non-profit that operates BIXI.
Those numbers, as well as BIXI management’s confrontation…
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