Toronto’s largest membership-based cycling advocacy group may adopt a new moniker. This week, members of the Toronto Cyclists Union will consider a proposal from their board of directors to change the organization’s name to Cycle Toronto. The rebrand, which members of the union will put to a vote at the TCU’s annual general meeting on [...]

SPOTTED BY: Martin Reis WHERE: College Street and Manning Avenue WHEN: Saturday, April 28 WHAT: Back in November, we learned that Astral Media, which has a contract with the City of Toronto to provide street furniture (bus shelters, trash bins, et cetera) had been cutting down bike posts to make room for their new (and [...]

Bicycles are ubiquitous in any great city—and so is contemporary art. Artists Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette get that. The two are currently collaborating on NOW, an installation project at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Young Gallery. It includes an artist workspace, a visitor’s lounge with a comment board, and two time-lapse videos of the [...]

Last summer, when city council unceremoniously voted to remove the Jarvis Street bike lanes (after very ceremoniously voting to install them the summer before, while David Miller was still in office) it seemed as though supporters of the lanes were all out of options. Mayor Rob Ford still had a solid council majority, and even [...]

The self-proclaimed “best place to shop for a bicycle” had some hits and misses at its 26th edition. Shiny new bicycles and skilled riders doing backflips on wooden ramps were just some of the spectacles at the Toronto International Bicycle Show. Held at Exhibition Place this past weekend, it was attended by more than 25,000 [...]

For cyclists in Toronto, the future is a mixed bag. With the impending unveiling of the City’s new Multi-Use Trails Plan in March, Toronto could start accumulating new off-road bike paths at an unprecedented rate. But cycling advocates are worried that it won’t be enough to deliver an effective bike-lane network. Right now is the [...]

WHERE: Dufferin Grove Park WHEN: Saturday, February 18 WHAT: Every year some fearless riders stud their tires with screws and voluntarily embrace the slipperiest of rides in the Ice Bike Races. Congratulations go to Sean Thompson, winner of the men’s final, and Linda Shin, who won the women’s final. Affectionately known as Icycle, the event [...]

A few eyebrows shot up in Toronto recently, when passersby noticed the above ad at Mountain Equipment Co-op’s King Street location. It’s not, as you might think at first glance, a public awareness campaign about the perils of cycling, a way of picking up on the theme of the memorial ghost bike installations that appear [...]

We hopped on a Bixi bike yesterday to head to City Hall for the the Bike Union-organized Coldest Day of the Year Ride—on a day when the temperature wasn’t very cold for a Canadian winter at all. Even before we arrived, we were reveling in the fact that we wouldn’t have to “dock” the Bixi [...]

At 10:30 a.m., the intersection of Dundas Street and Sterling Road was a busy one. Eight men and women, wrapped tightly in winter clothes, rushed around in the bright sunshine, wielding paint rollers and cardboard stencils. Half an hour later, three police cruisers idled on Sterling, and the unorthodox road crew was nowhere to be [...]