Category: Cycling

  • The Weekly Miscellany

    The New Yorker gets its cycling on in this month’s issue, written by the wonderful Ben McGrath. Bike Forums’ SSFG has its panties in a twist as usual, but they are also low brow pedal punks and kamikaze biker bullies and ignorami (for real, they called the New Yorker a “sugar-coated parade magazine for the…

  • Griping

    You know, I wasn’t even phased by how utterly, consumingly fun it was to ride from Chinatown to Finch Station at 2 a.m. in the bitter cold and wind because I missed the last subway and refuse to take the Vomit Comet. Just booked it from the El Mo at 1:45 and made it to…

  • There is a god!

    Sorry for alienating all you non-bike riding readers. (Not really. But sorry about that lame caption at the bottom. Not my pic – it was stolen from bikeforums.net.)

  • Aeolian Ride

    Images: Maki Hojo and Jake Dobkin SQUEE!!!! This is the New York City Aeolian Ride. Brainchild of Jessica Findley, volunteers receive a costume that inflates in the wind or at low speeds, then assemble to ride around the city for a couple hours. They look like giant ghosts and bubbly molar teeth riding around –…

  • We’ve been jammed!

    In celebration of spring (aka biking weather) and in complete, utterly aghast ire at how dangerous and oblivious drivers in downtown Toronto are, I decided to join the masses for Critical Mass. It happens on the last Friday of every month, a spontaneous, unorganized gathering of cyclists who ride around the city in huge packs…