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posted by Joe on 5/27/2008 | 0 Comments | Share/Save/Bookmark

BlogTO: CineCycle Bike Culture

Included are some bicycle art showings featuring historical, stenciled, and otherwise just really cool images. And in the theater, the best gems from their vast archives of bicycle related films can be seen.

Transit Toronto: TTC equips more buses with bike racks

Just in time for the start of Bike Month, the TTC will start operating 17 more routes with buses that carry bike racks on Monday, May 26. After Monday, the TTC will operate buses with bike racks on 24 routes.

TreeHugger: Toronto Cyclists Occupy Major Road

Everybody and their dog was out yesterday with bells on for Bells on Bloor, a bike parade to promote the idea of bike lanes on the major crosstown street in Toronto. They were looking for a thousand cyclists, but it looked bigger than that to me, perhaps

Calgary Sun - Ring-a-ling for the green in Toronto

The streets of Toronto rang with the "briiinggg" of bicycle bells yesterday as hundreds gathered to attempt a world record and promote "green" living.

Metro - Ring my bell: Hundreds attempt new world record for bike bell ringing

They arrived in droves to the city's downtown core to join children's entertainer Chris McKhool in a bid to break the record for the most bicycle bells rung to music at one time.

BlogTO: Bike Month in Toronto

"You don't have to look like a bike messenger to ride a bike, and most people don't want to ride a bike because of that," said Meaghan Orlinski, member of the Deadly Nightshades bike gang, as she unlocked her 1980s Barney-purple bike on a recent afternoon

Star: 'There's Mommy, riding a bike'

In Ecuador, men told a teenage Enma Ramos in the 1960s, girls couldn't ride bicycles: they'd lose their virginity. So Ramos didn't – until, one day at 16, she waited until her brother left the house, then hustled his bike onto the street.

Globe: Cyclist hits car door, is killed by passing truck

Hitting a car door that has suddenly opened is so common, it has entered the average cyclist's lexicon. The danger of "being doored" is an everyday reality.

Call to charge driver over bicycle death

The new Toronto Cyclists Union is calling for charges against a motorist who opened the door to her Volvo, blocking a cyclist who then fell to his death on Eglinton Avenue West.

Star: Drivers warned after door causes fatal crash

The death of a Toronto cyclist killed after his bike hit the open door of a car is the type of tragedy that is becoming all too familiar on city streets, bicycle activists say.

Globe: Bike Month

Bike Week has been bursting at the seams. No longer able to squeeze the celebration of cycling into seven days, Toronto will now join Vancouver and New York and launch Bike Month.

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