Today the Glebe BIA made a blog post about how great it is to bike in the Glebe. Given the lackluster efforts made promote cycling in the Glebe from the BIA, as well as the city, such as fighting a cycle track on Bank Street, refusing to make bike lanes on the Bank St. bridge, […]
Who doesn’t like coffee? And beautiful scenery? And biking? One of life’s simple pleasures is to ride out to a nice location for a bit of a break. You can make it a full-on picnic, which is tough to beat. Or you can make it simple: make some coffee ahead of time in a thermos, […]
Little Miss One Wheel Drive is now 5 years old and in her second year of riding a bike on her own. Being the most special person in my life, I wanted to pass on my love of riding to her so that she could also enjoy it early on, and in teaching her I […]
Ottawa bike to work month just finished. I think that I met my goal of 250km and beat it by some, but not really sure by how much because I do a horrible job of tracking my distance.
Hello everyone, There are many people in Ottawa concerned with making cycling safer, including, to my surprise, someone that I had only known as the Twitter user Ottawa Driver. Unbeknownst to anyone, in his capacity as President of the local group Citizens for Cycling Safety Without Removing Parking, he has been working with city transportation officials to […]
I love biking. It’s the best way to get around town. And a lot of bike-loving, tree hugging, latte drinking people look down in disgust at people who still get around by car. Not me! I love cars.
Well that was fun! Last March 8, me and a couple of bike buddies got together to go for a bike ride and clear out the snow around some of the bike parking for Wellington West Winter Bike Day. It was a great time.
This winter is just not letting up. Day after day of freezing cold, so cold that the screen is turning cold just as I type this. It’s been a slog. Everywhere the snow is piling up, without any of the warmer days that normally melt some of the snow away, making it even harder to […]
Whoa! What is up with this cold? It’s February here in Ottawa and after day in, day out -20° weather Mr. One Wheel Drive said ¡ENOUGH!
Because of everything that went on in my near dooring, I now had a better appreciation of the dangers of biking in Wellington West. I was so shaken by the incident that I decided to get a video camera for my bike, something like a GoPro, but being the frugal guy that I am, I […]