bike culture

I had the pleasure of meeting a graduate student from York this week who is researching Critical Mass, and he wants to know: Have YOU ever participated in critical mass Toronto?

He is conducting a survey and would like your input. The survey is part of a case study and is completely anonymous and confidential. If you can spare three to five minutes, just go to:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bd637nc23HQRvIBtWxQ8nw_3d_3d

BikeNow
Photo taken at the Streets Are For People street closure on John street April 20th.

Toronto like most cities around the world is home to lots of bike culture. A funky local blog called 'She does the City' recently did a fine job summarizing the cool bike culture scene here in our own backyard. Yeah, bikes are sexy and you know it.

Hang 20" Reverse

Show opens tonight and looks stellar. Check it out! Even more fun after the bike show over beers and music.

Queen & Ossington
Photo by Adrienne Lloyd. Ossington & Queen earlier this week.

March 7 - 9 at the Gladstone Hotel. Art, film and bike culture fun.
Featuring artwork by Janet Attard and many others.Hang 20"

For the film buffs, there are two separate bike movie nights happening this week here in Toronto. Both events are free! Bring a date!

Thursday November 29th (Tonight!):
At 6:30pm Bike Chain at the University of Toronto is presenting:

We will soon issue our first ever, annual, iBikeTO award.

The lucky winner will be a person or organization from (or near) Toronto who has made a positive contribution of some kind to cycling in (or near) Toronto.

The awarded person/group will get the Award and their name on a plaque. Both the winner and an honorable mention will get some cool swag from MEC.

Perhaps it's a bit of egotism since I'm Dutch-Canadian, but I must say that the Dutch know where it's at. They have the highest bicycle use in Europe with 27% of all trips made by bicycle. And it is much, much higher than the averages in North America which are in the 1-2% range.

Aside from China, The Netherlands has the most experience with creating a bike-centric culture. And it continues in The Netherlands, whereas, in China, leaders are sadly trying to "modernize" their cities (by making room for cars and shoving cyclists off certain main routes).