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Happy Friday everyone!
If you don't know already, Friday's the day BikingToronto wraps up all the bikey news from the last week and puts it all in a nice little package for your easy digestion. Digesting the news this way is far better for your tummy than chewing on newspapers. That's a medical fact. I checked.
Even better is that you don't even have to come to BikingToronto.com or your RSS feedreader (if you read BikingToronto that way) for your weekly wrap-up of news... you can subscribe to have a weekly email sent right to your inbox! The convenience is overwhelming.
Big in bikey news this week is the whole issue of bike theft. It's pretty prevalent in a big city like Toronto, and the cops are starting to do something about it. Also, if you don't know, you can post about your stolen bike on the BikingToronto Community (which has a contest running now that you can get in on).
- Toronto Police Bust a Bike Thief and Notorious BikeShop OwnerGood news from the streets this morning. Toronto Police set up a "bait bike" operation and two undercover officers watched Igor Kenk, the owner of the The Bicycle Clinic (notorious for selling stolen bikes) as he directed a thief with boltcutters to steal two bikes and then paid him.
- Toronto Bike Theft in the NewsBike Theft in Toronto has been in the news recently, which most of the major news outlets picking up on the fact that a ton of bikes are stolen in Toronto... with theft numbers totalling about 50,000 over the past 10 years, and 5,000 reported stolen in 2007.
Here are all the bike-related news stories in the media over the last week:
CBC: Bike store owner charged in bike theft
Both Kenk and Jean Laveau have been charged with one count of theft under $5,000, one count of attempted theft under $5,000, and one count of possession of property obtained by crime. Laveau faces an additional charge of possessing burglary tools.
BlogTO: Bike Sting Nabs Igor At His Bicycle Clinic
Aside from offering these tips and providing a bicycle registration program, Toronto cops have largely turned a blind eye to this ongoing problem in our city. Until now.
NOW Magazine: Whose lane is it anyway?
When is a bicycle no longer a bicycle? When it’s equipped with a motor, right? But it’s not that simple, as a provincial electric bike pilot project is making clear.
CityNews: Bike Theft Rampant In The City, But There Are Ways You Can Protect Yours
"If we have an individual suspected of stealing a bicycle for example, we could take the model number, the registration number on the bicycle, run it through our database and find information that it was stolen on this date and at that time."
CityNews: 'Lane Splitting' Phenomenon Worries Cops And Drivers
The act of riding a lane line on a street or highway, allowing riders of motor bikes or bicycles to use the space between traffic and move at top speed isn't legal in Ontario, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
CityNews: Almost 5,000 Bikes Reported Stolen This Year Alone In T.O.
"We do recover a lot of bicycles and the challenge for us becomes getting them back to the proper owners," said Toronto Police Const. Scott Mills. "And if it's not reported, we can't find it."
Sun: Bike thefts 'really big problem'
According to Toronto Police, more than 50,000 bikes have been reported stolen in the city since 1997. Last year alone, 4,585 bicycles were reported stolen in Toronto.
Globe: We want bike posts with A.T.T.I.T.U.D.E.
The iconic structure will be made of metre-high block letters spelling "KENSINGTON" and is designed to accommodate about 25 bikes, which can be locked to posts supporting each letter.
Business is burning up at the new Duke's - thanks to oil prices
At its new location at 425 Richmond St. near Spadina, opened in April, business is booming thanks to high gas prices and the ever-growing sense of green-friendliness among Torontonians.
Star: On a tour of our greenscape
Tour de Greenbelt, a series of routes through partially protected rural land around the Golden Horseshoe, lets cyclists explore what's beyond city streets
Globe: Man hit trying to cross busy Toronto highway with bike
The man, in his 30s, tried to walk his bicycle across the northbound lane of the busy highway, said Sgt. Tim Burrows of Traffic Services. He made it across two lanes before he was hit by a red Honda convertible headed northbound
CityNews: Cyclist Survives DVP Crash, But Could Face Charges
A cyclist is lucky to be alive after he was involved in a crash in a place he should never have been - the Don Valley Parkway.
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