It's days like today that is the reason I fall in love with Toronto every spring. Winter is a season of survival for the Toronto cyclist... dress warmly, keep moving, watch for ice, watch for sliding cars... but spring, and specifically those spring days that are warm enouch that you can bike in shorts and a t-shirt, are the days you fall in love with biking Toronto.

It may be something that drivers just don't get about cyclists: that using muscles to power your way through the thoroughfares and quiet residential streets of our great city is a natural high. It's why we're always so happy - talking to other cyclists, pedestrians, even some drivers stopped at red lights. Drivers feel a bit of air on their arms hanging out the window... it's just not the same.

It is this love of a warm spring day and the freedom of cycling around Toronto and finding the hidden gems of our city that are hidden down back alleys and one-way streets that makes me keep on writing on this page.

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