The Jarvis Street bike lanes are on borrowed time, and the City’s new bike plan seems designed not to accommodate more cyclists on Toronto’s streets but to siphon some of them off into rail and hydro corridors. And yet, on Thursday evening, cyclists shook off a summer of woe during what might be, along with [...]

Staff from Mountain Equipment Co-op are more enthusiastic than the perkiest of camp counsellors when describing what they’ve got planned for BikeFest, a full day of free tune-ups, workshops, and group rides this Saturday in the Distillery District. Thanks to partnerships with Bicycle Commons, Bike Sauce, the Toronto Cyclists Union, and several local retailers, BikeFest’s diverse programming includes a “pastry ride,” a bike scavenger hunt, and a bicycle valet service.

Toronto, as we have learned in the last few weeks, loves its new Bixi bikes. After six weeks of operation, ridership stats are strong, and so far the biggest problem is that some destinations are so popular that there aren't any available slots to dock the bikes at certain stations. Hoping to capitalize on the momentum, the Toronto Cyclist Union is launching a campaign to expand the bike sharing program.

Photo of Harbord Street by Half My Dad’s Age, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Rob Ford has a reputation for being anti-bike, but in fact a key component of his platform during 2010′s municipal election was a cycling infrastructure plan—or, at least, a plan to develop one. Now, at last, the plan is written, and [...]

Rastia’ta’non:ha stands on the site of the mounds that he and his group claim are burial grounds. Rastia’ta’non:ha, a soft-spoken man with a head of dark black hair, wears a multicoloured tunic-like shirt that trails ribbons, and he carries a walking stick. He’s not a particularly imposing person, but when a handful of kids using [...]

Evalyn Parry explores the many meanings of the bicycle in SPIN, on now at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Detail of a photo by Tanja-Tiziana. Mostly everyone shares a similar first experience with a bicycle: a push, a wobble, then the unadulterated glee of one’s first brush with independence, hair flying in the wind. That [...]

Top: the Cherry bike, complete with custom-painted plaid fenders. Bottom: Gillian Goerz, who painted a portrait of Cherry to go along with his new ride. WHERE: Curbside Cycle (412 Bloor Street West) WHEN: 12:30 pm. on Saturday, February 12. WHAT: In the first meeting of Toronto’s newly elected city council, back in December, Don Cherry [...]

Photo by Mike Scott, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. In September, the City conducted its first ever systematic count of the number of cyclists entering and exiting the downtown core, between Jarvis Street and Spadina Avenue on the east and west, and Bloor Street and Queens Quay at the north and south. The resulting report, [...]

The sabotaged bridge, after it had been (deliberately) knocked down by Ted Ingram and some other cyclists. Photo by Timothy Charles, originally posted on the Dropmachine forums. Don Valley mountain bikers are growing increasingly worried, and with good reason: someone has been sabotaging their trails, for the apparent purpose of causing serious injury to riders. [...]