● Canadian businesses starting to like bike lanes and see cyclists as customers.
Over the years I have made a number of postings about businesses who habitually oppose bike lanes and who place more value on potential customers […]
News & Musings
● Free Bicycle Clinics at Bushtukah in July.
Bushtukah will be offering two free bicycle clinics this July at their store on Hazeldean Road. The first is on July 11 and is about […]
● Reevely nails it on the head with his article: Ottawa’s bike-friendliness is a lie.
David Reevely is a columnist, blogger, sometime editor, with the Ottawa Citizen, and he is also a cyclist (as least a cyclist insofar that he […]
● Many motorists hostile to one metre law for passing cyclists safely.
Last week Ottawa Police started using a sonar device to identify motorists who were not following the law by leaving one metre of space between […]
● Ottawa police using sonar to keep cars one metre from cyclists.
Ottawa police are using a sonar device to catch motorists that fail to leave one metre of space between their vehicles and a bicycle when […]
● Laurier Avenue bike lane being vandalized.
It seems that someone is vandalizing the Laurier Avenue bike lane in downtown Ottawa. A report in the Ottawa Citizen suggests that motorists may be […]
● “Coal rollers” attack Ottawa cyclists with diesel fumes.
If you have ever been enveloped by a thick cloud of diesel exhaust from a passing truck while riding on a quiet country road, it […]
● “I Bike, I Buy” campaign to educate businesses about cyclists as customers.
One of my pet peeves is the extent to which local businesses place more value on a potential customer that arrives by car that a […]
● Future of cycling underpass at Billings Bridge now uncertain.
Billings Bridge has long been a problem area for cyclists (and pedestrians too). People riding on the NCC pathway along Riverside Drive have to cross […]
● Bicycle Stress Map to help plan stress-free cycling routes.
Here’s an interesting idea for people who would like to plan stress-free cycling routes in a city. It’s a “Bicycle Stress Map” which colour codes […]
● NCC Sunday Bikedays starts this weekend (May 15, 2016).
The NCC Sunday Bikedays starts this Sunday (May 15, 2016), and features over 50 kilometres of car-free parkways on Sunday mornings in Ottawa and the […]
● Ottawa’s cycling growth rate is the 3rd fastest in the world.
Ottawa’s cycling growth rate is the 3rd fastest in the world according to bicycle trip counters installed in various cities in 17 different countries. The […]
● Helmet Discount Weekend in Ottawa – May 14 & 15, 2016.
Save some money by buying your bicycle helmet in the Ottawa area on the weekend of May 14 & 15, 2016. In an effort to […]
● MEC’s annual Ottawa Bikefest – Saturday, May 14, from 8 am to 3 pm.
Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) will be holding its annual Bikefest from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm on Saturday, May 14, 2016. This is a free […]
● May is Bike to Work Month in Ottawa – sign up to win $10,000 of prizes.
May is “Bike to Work Month” in Ottawa, and to encourage greater participation, people can sign up and become eligible for a chance to win […]
● Gatineau hires an official “bike route co-ordinator”.
It looks like the City of Gatineau has hired a “bike route co-ordinator” (the name of the person is suppose to be released in 2 […]
● Track your rides with Strava to help plan bike infrastructure – good or bad?
Late last year it was announced that the Cities of Ottawa and Gatineau were going to use data from Strava to help plan bicycle infrastructure […]
● People’s efforts to draw bicycles can be hilarious.
Italian designer Gianluca Gimini asked people to draw bikes, and then he turned them into illustrations of what the bicycles might actually look like in […]
● Almost clear all the way to the Champlain Lookout (April 20, 2016)
I cycled up to the Champlain Lookout in the Gatineau Park today (April 20, 2016), and I was on bare pavement most of the way. […]
● April 2016 edition of the city’s e-newsletter about cycling in Ottawa .
The City has released the April 2016 edition of its e-newsletter about cycling around Ottawa. It has updates and information about: ► Adàwe Crossing (which […]