● Careless use of ultra bright bicycle lights becoming a problem.
Autumn is here, the days are getting shorter, and more people will be using lights on their bicycles. The problem is that many cyclists are […]
Autumn is here, the days are getting shorter, and more people will be using lights on their bicycles. The problem is that many cyclists are […]
Here’s an interesting story about a Dutch manufacturer that found an unacceptable number of their bicycles were damaged while being shipped to their customers. Apparently, […]
In an effort to improve bicycle safety, the City of Ottawa has moved some of the stop lines for cars on Laurier Avenue back one […]
It seems the world is full of anti-bike rants. When he was alive, it was Rob Ford with his now infamous statement at a Toronto […]
Here’s an interesting ‘thought experiment’. Try thinking of a way to lure cyclists into a dangerous and potentially deadly situation, and keep it all legal. […]
By now, many of us have heard about Nusrat Jahan, a 23 year old women (and diplomat’s daughter) who was killed while cycling in a […]
We can always tell we’re getting close to the end of summer when it’s the last of the Sunday Bikedays. The final NOKIA Sunday Bikedays […]
According to a story in the Ottawa Citizen, it looks like the Prescott-Russell Trail may soon shut down. The local county is thinking of closing […]
The City of Ottawa is using a specially modified golf cart to track the conditions of its local bike paths. According to a CBC report, […]
Last spring groups of cyclists rode five routes into the business park in Kanata North, and recorded their observations, both good and bad. They recently […]
I often suggest to people who are getting into their retirement years that they may want to take up cycling as a means of getting […]
Two million bicycle trips have been made on the Laurier Avenue segregated bike lane since it opened five years ago, according to a recent News […]
David Reevely of the Ottawa Citizen has found another problem with bike routes and the construction of Ottawa’s new Light Rail Transit (LRT) system. A […]
Seniors at the Saint-Louis Residence will now have a chance to go out for a bicycle ride with the opening of a ‘Cycling Without Age’ […]
The sap from wild parsnip plants can cause serious and painful skin blisters, the consequence of which can sometimes last for years. Ottawa is currently […]
In recent days I have noticed good news stories about the growing popularity of cycling in the US from two different sources. One is from […]
Bicycle licensing is back in the news these days when a Toronto councillor recently put forward a motion asking his city to consider implementing this […]
The City of Ottawa has found it necessary to put up new signs on McIlraith Bridge which state “Cyclists can take the lane; stop honking”. […]
For those of you who are worried about speed wobbles at 50 km/h, or who think they are going fast down the Fortune hill in […]
Ottawa Citizen columnist David Reevely has come down hard on Ottawa for preceding with a plan for the Booth Street Bridge which he says, in […]
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