#biketo

https://strava.app.link/hYCq1EWmoRb

Welp, I missed the group meetup but I still went out for an excellent winter jaunt through the city. Exchanged coffees with @dfraser, hit all my errand stops, and managed to lug a 10kg UPS back up the Bathurst hill from Spadina/College in that yawning black hole of a messenger bag I use for this kind of ill-advised errand.

Lovely day so far, and there is still sunlight in the sky! #dlws #bikeTO #mastobikes

(That's Timm's wild rainbow Brompton there, from Pedaal.)

An overhead map view of a ~30km loop around downtown Toronto, primarily east-west.

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A selfie of me outdoors between snowbanks in the courtyard outside our apartment, wearing a bike helmet and winter garb. My folding bike is just behind me in the background.

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My bike, folded up, sitting outside next to its front luggage bag and an enormous black messenger bag absolutely stuffed to bursting with an enormous corrugated cardboard box containing an uninterruptible power supply for the household server. The UPS is appreciably bigger than the bicycle I used to lug it home.

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Timm Harding's custom cerakoted Brompton - white base colour with rainbow Jackson Pollock style spatters, a wild multicolored bundle of shifter and brake cables, a transplanted carbon fiber crankset from a T-line Brompton, carbon rims on the wheels, a SON dynamo hub on the front wheel with a just-barely-visible ruby red dynamo light, Brooks saddle, 5-speed custom rear sprocket cassette... every experiment possible all running at the same time.

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**Ben Zanin** @gnomon@mastodon.social · Mar 1 *

Mar 1 *

All right, heading out to 160 Perth to gather up with a bunch of maniacs: https://www.cycleto.ca/coldest_day_2025 #bikeTO #mastobikes

...and then run a set of errands around town.

It is really quite cold today, and WIMDY. #dlws (That's what wool is for)

**Chris Siebenmann** @cks@mastodon.social · Mar 1

Mar 1

I don't want to jinx it, but so far Toronto's Snowpocalyse mark III(?) doesn't seem to be much, which opens up hope in my heart that the streets will remain clear enough for tomorrow's scheduled "Coldest Day of the Year" ride, https://www.cycleto.ca/coldest_day_2025 (10:30 am meeting, 11 am departure).

Since I don't go on 100% of the rides I don't prepare for, I'm currently making sure my bike lights are charged up and so on. And keeping my fingers crossed.

#BikeTO

**Chris Siebenmann** @cks@mastodon.social · Feb 23

Feb 23

Attention Toronto cyclists: Cycle Toronto now has a day for the re-scheduled "Coldest Day of the Year" ride: Saturday March 1st (next Saturday). Same place, same URL for details, https://www.cycleto.ca/coldest_day_2025

#BikeTO

**Bilal** @bilalfedi@mstdn.ca · Feb 19

Feb 19

Bilal @bilalfedi@mstdn.ca

Parking in bike lanes puts cyclists' lives in danger. #BikeTo #Toronto #ToPoli

ALTGIF

**nev** @nev@bananachips.club · Feb 15

Feb 15

nev @nev@bananachips.club

Cycle Toronto's Coldest Day of the Year Ride, originally scheduled for today, is POSTPONED: https://www.cycleto.ca/coldest_ride_2025

Environment Canada warns of a "highly impactful winter storm" starting this afternoon and continuing into Sunday, and advises "Consider postponing non-essential travel until conditions improve." https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?on61

Stay safe out there, folks!

#bikeTO #MastoBikes #FediBikes

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**Chris Siebenmann** @cks@mastodon.social · Feb 14

Feb 14

Attention #BikeTO and Toronto cyclists generally: Cycle Toronto has postponed tomorrow's scheduled "Coldest Day of the Year" ride. They haven't announced a new date (or if there's a route change). What information they posted is at the page for the ride, https://www.cycleto.ca/coldest_ride_2025

**Ben Zanin** @gnomon@mastodon.social · Jan 29

Jan 29

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFYTRzjREKF/

Heads up, #BikeTO: next Critical Mass is this Friday, 2025-01-31.

InstagramEast End Vs Bill 212 on Instagram: "CRITICAL MASS THIS FRIDAY Come join the first Critical Mass ride of 2025, and make your voice heard! Bundle up, get your lights shining, your bell ringing, and your tires rolling! The province has acquired engineering services to rip out our bike lanes. Let's show them what we think about that. We meet at Bloor & Spadina at 6pm, and ride out at 6:30pm on Friday, January 31st."65 likes, 1 comments - eastendvsbill212 on January 28, 2025: "CRITICAL MASS THIS FRIDAY Come join the first Critical Mass ride of 2025, and make your voice heard! Bundle up, get your lights shining, your bell ringing, and your tires rolling! The province has acquired engineering services to rip out our bike lanes. Let's show them what we think about that. We meet at Bloor & Spadina at 6pm, and ride out at 6:30pm on Friday, January 31st.".

**Chris Siebenmann** @cks@mastodon.social · Jan 22

Jan 22

Toronto has a date for the annual "Coldest Day of the Year" ride: Saturday February 15th. The actual riding starts at 11am in the Perth Avenue Parkette (just north of Bloor, just east of Dundas, on the east side of the rail tracks). More details: https://www.cycleto.ca/coldest_ride_2025

#Toronto #BikeTO #CycleTO

#BikeTO

**Megan** @PapyrusBrigade@mstdn.ca · Jan 19

Jan 19

Megan @PapyrusBrigade@mstdn.ca

@shifter Wow!

I had no idea the number of winter cyclists in Toronto had exploded like this in 2023.

Bar Graph of Toronto Bike Share Monthly Users for the months of January and February for the 7 year period from 2017 to 2023.

Approximate figures by year:
2017: 40k users
2018: 50k users
2019: 50k users
2020: 95k users
2021: 70k users
2022: 60k users
2023: 180k users

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**Carc Flowers** @carc@mstdn.ca · Jan 15

Jan 15

Carc Flowers @carc@mstdn.ca

No poor weather, just poor preparation. #bikeTO

a selfie of the author, with silver bike helmet, winter hat, blue aviators and a big winter scarf.

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**Ben Zanin** @gnomon@mastodon.social · Jan 14 *

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