I had an interesting exchange on the way home from work yesterday. I meant to post about it last night but wasn’t able to make the time. I was biking along College Street heading west and the car traffic was pretty backed up beside me. The bike lanes on College Street run beside the car […]
Continue reading →So I got out of work tonight looking forward to a nice ride home to a quiet house where I could get a little work done while the rest of the family is across town at my sister-in-laws… Flat tire. Front tire is as flat as a pancake. I pumped them up earlier this week […]
Continue reading →There are drivers in Toronto who are in a rush and I fear that they will make a bad decision and someone else will pay for it. There are bikers who are in the same category, but you can’t do as much harm with a bicycle going at 30 km/h as you can with a […]
Continue reading →I have been bogged down in trying to finish part II of my last blog post and I thought I would take a little break to try and post something that comes a little easier. I’m still having trouble figuring out this blogging thing. It’s a log – it’s supposed to be written in the […]
Continue reading →Tuesday morning The winter is over. It’s not just wishful thinking now. There’s no holding my breath and watching the weather. It’s just a matter of watching the Spring come along and enjoying the rain and the occasional warm day. At some point in the winter (and officially we’ve got six days left of calendar […]
Continue reading →It rained all day on Saturday here. It’s January 11th today and it really ought to be the kind of weather for skating and tobogganing but instead it was raining and about six degrees above freezing. I was excited. The rain was taking care of all the ice and snow that was left on the […]
Continue reading →I was able to ride my bike this year well into December. On Christmas Eve I biked to work in a sweatshirt. It was wonderful. I know that shifting weather patterns and unusual seasonal swings are reason for concern, but I have to confess that when they work in my favour, I really enjoy them. […]
Continue reading →It’s hard to go a few days here without finding some article in the newspaper about how bad the traffic is here in Toronto. By many measures it is the worst in Canada and can hold its own against the other metropolises of North America. It can be painful to try and drive anywhere in […]
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