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Tomorrow is BikeFriday!
posted by Joe on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - Permalink
Tomorrow is the last friday of May - so it's BikeFriday:
BikeFriday is an initiative to promote (and encourage) bike events happening in Toronto on the last friday of every month, with the aim of turning that day into a de facto "Bike Day" that happens once a month.Here's what is scheduled for tomorrow:
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
Grassroots Bikers Breakfast
Join Grassroots staff and customers for a free Bikers Breakfast! We'll have organic fruit and juice, fair trade coffee, and other delicious breakfast snacks. Get there early to ensure plenty of breakfast treats are left at Grassroots Environmental ProductsClick for more info
Location: 372 Danforth (at Chester)
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
Alternative Grounds' Coffee for Cyclists
Free IN-STORE coffee for anyone with bike helmet (or other proof you biked there!) at Alternative Grounds CafeClick for more info
Location: 333 Roncesvalles (at Grenadier)
12:00 - 8:00 PM:
Janet Bike Girl - Open Studio
Local Toronto Bicycle Stencil Artist, Janet Bike Girl invites the public to see her bicycle art studio. Photos of Janet's WorkClick for more info
Location: 401 Richmond St West (Studio S-26)
5:30 - 9:00 PM:
Toronto Criterium Race
The Toronto Criterium kicks off with a Children's Race at 5:45 pm. Anyone under 18 is welcome to participate. Competitive cycling begins at 6:00 pm with Masters level amateur races. The professional and elite athletes race at 7:30 pm. Each of the competitive races last for one and a half hours.Click for more info
Location: St. Lawrence Market (Start/Finish line near Front & Church)
6:00 PM:
Take the Tooker Takes Bloor
Take the Tooker will unfurl 44 metres of a pre-fab bike lane to give cyclists a real sense what bike lanes along Bloor would look and feel like. Ride the lane with us, and then join us for the monthly Critical Mass Ride through city streets.Click for more info
Location: Bloor and Spadina
6:00 - 8:00 PM:
Critical Mass Toronto
Critical Mass is an event typically held on the last Friday of every month in cities around the world where bicyclists take to the streets en masse. The purpose of Critical Mass is not formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city or town streets. [from Wikipedia]Click for more info
Location: Bloor & Spadina - meet at 6:00, ride at 6:30
6:30 - 8:30 PM:
TBN Friday Night Ride
Join the Friday Night Riders on this popular social ride ending at a local eatery. Bring lights. Helmets are mandatory.Click for more info
Location: Broadview and Riverdale (Park north of Bridgepoint Health)
10 PM - Midnight
Critical Ass
A great big party like Critical Mass, but without all the clothes. CAUTION: IF YOU PARTICPATE IN THIS RIDE YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF SURROUNDED BY CRAZY CYCLISTS WHO ARE NOT WEARING ENOUGH CLOTHES! Click for more info
Location: Bloor and Spadina
More info and a map on the BikeFriday site.
Labels: bikefriday, events, news
Photos of the Morning Commute
posted by Joe on Friday, April 25, 2008 - Permalink
Being BikeFriday, I thought I'd take a circuitous route to work today and stop at a couple popular points for cyclists to take their photos as they commuted to work on two wheels.
Here's some of them.
First from Broadview and Danforth ... this was around 8 AM... it was just starting to get busy with cyclists (the time just after 8:30 is usually busiest) funneling together to go over the Bloor Viaduct.
Then I tried a few angles at College and Spadina, an always busy spot for cyclists, it seems, with the College bikelane (although I found out that cars treat Spadina from Bloor to College like an expressway - going by me way too fast and close) to downtown from the west end. This was about 8:30 AM. I suppose it gets busiest just before 9.
You can see all the photos on flickr.
Labels: bikefriday, personal, photos
Tomorrow, April 25th is BikeFriday!
posted by Joe on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - Permalink
BikeFriday is an initiative to promote (and encourage) bike events happening in Toronto on the last friday of every month, with the aim of turning that day into a de facto "Bike Day" that happens once a month.
Citizens, politicians and businesses in Toronto all want our air to be cleaner, or streets to be less congested, and our kids to be healthier... and a good way to help achieve these goals is to promote the bicycle as a way of making short trips around the city.
THE SCHEDULE:
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
Alternative Grounds' Coffee for Cyclists
Free IN-STORE coffee for anyone with bike helmet (or other proof you biked there!) at Alternative Grounds Cafe - 333 Roncesvalles (at Grenadier) from 8-9:30 AM8:00 AM - 4:00 PM:
Toronto Bike Summit 2008
Join leading thinkers, practitioners and decision-makers who are on the fast track to creating bikeable communities. Bike Summit 2008 will be held on Friday April 25th at the St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto. Bike Summit Website6:00 - 8:00 PM:
Critical Mass Toronto
Critical Mass is an event typically held on the last Friday of every month in cities around the world where bicyclists take to the streets en masse. The purpose of Critical Mass is not formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city or town streets. [from Wikipedia]Bloor & Spadina - meet at 6:00, ride at 6:30
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Tomorrow, March 28th is BikeFriday!
posted by Joe on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - Permalink
Yes, it's BikeFriday again! The site has been cleaned up and re-designed too. :)
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
Alternative Grounds' Coffee for Cyclists
Free IN-STORE coffee for anyone with bike helmet (or other proof you biked there!) at Alternative Grounds Cafe - 333 Roncesvalles (at Grenadier) from 8-9:30 AM6:00 - 8:00 PM:
Critical Mass Toronto
Critical Mass is an event typically held on the last Friday of every month in cities around the world where bicyclists take to the streets en masse. The purpose of Critical Mass is not formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city or town streets. [from Wikipedia]Bloor & Spadina - meet at 6:00, ride at 6:30
8:00 - 9:00 PM:
Speaker Series: Bicycle Bob
"If you've never heard Bob speak, you're in for a treat. He's passionate, radical, poetic, inspirational. He's really the grand daddy of the bicycle movement in Canada. As founder of Le Monde a Bicyclette in Montreal in the 70's alongside Claire Morrisette, he kicked off the Canadian movement for cyclists rights. As Moses he parted the waters to protest cyclists not being allowed on the bridge, and the protests continued through the 80's to get access to the metro, buses, bike lanes, and much more. Cycling in Mtl is decades ahead of Smogtown because of his (and Claire's) visionary leadership. They paved the way for Velo Quebec which has moved cycling facilities to the best on the continent."761 Queen St West
9:00 PM - 2:30 AM:
Navid'S Birthday Bicycle Cabaret !
- Goldsprint races
- DJs - Rollin Cash - Dope breaks, Jazz, funk, dub...(http://www.djrollincash.com)
- DJ Anatone aka Mr. Jesse Morrison - Deep, dark, funky! (http://www.myspace.com/anatonemusic)
- Bike Bondage! Check out our installation of art bikes beautifully bound in rope in the shibari tradition. Artfully done by Lord Morpheous. (http://www.lordmorpheous.com/)
- Bike films, visuals and sexy surprises to come!
- 5$ at door
- Free admission if you are dressed like a bicycle! :)
View Larger Map
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Reminder: Tomorrow is BikeFriday
posted by Joe on Thursday, February 28, 2008 - Permalink
Tomorrow is BikeFriday, and thankfully the weather is supposed to be (relatively) balmy, with a high of around 0 degrees centigrade. Perfect biking weather.
Here's all the good stuff on tap for tomorrow that you and your bike can do:
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
Alternative Grounds' Coffee for Cyclists
Free IN-STORE coffee for anyone with bike helmet - 333 Roncesvalles (at Grenadier) from 8-9:30 AM
6:00 - 7:00 PM:
Critical Mass
Bloor & Spadina - meet at 6:00, ride at 6:30
7:00 - 10:00 PM:
Pirate Critical Bask and Film Night
457 Bathurst St. (South of College) - Hot Chocolate and food for thought are rewarded to anyone that bikes in the heart of the urban jungle. And if you miss the bike ride, come and partake in a screening of Beijing Bicycle at BikePirates!
Labels: bikefriday, events, news
The BikeFriday Schedule for January 25th
posted by Joe on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - Permalink
Here's what going on this Friday, BikeFriday.
Each event also has a Facebook Event page set up, as everyone and their dog seems to be on facebook. :)
Grassroots-Danforth Bike Commuter Breakfast
The Last Hurrah before BikeWeek!
Date: Friday, January 25, 2008
Time: 8:00am - 9:30am
Location: Grassroots Danforth
Street: 372 Danforth Avenue (map)
Facebook Event Page
Alternative Grounds' Coffee for Cyclists
Get a free IN-STORE coffee with your bike helmet!
Date: Friday, January 25, 2008
Time: 8:00am - 9:30am
Location: Alternative Grounds Cafe
Street: 333 Roncesvalles Avenue (map)
Facebook Event Page
Critical Mass - Toronto
Ride with others through downtown
Date: Friday, January 25, 2008
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
About: Wikipedia Article
Location: Spadina and Bloor (map)
Facebook Event Page
Labels: bikefriday, events, news
Jan 25th: The First BikeFriday of 2008!
posted by Joe on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - Permalink
This friday is BikeFriday!
BikeFriday is an initiative to promote (and encourage) bike events happening in Toronto on the last friday of every month, with the aim of turning that day into a de facto “Bike Day” that happens once a month.Here's some of the stuff on tap for Friday:
Citizens, politicians and businesses in Toronto all want our air to be cleaner, or streets to be less congested, and our kids to be healthier… and a good way to help achieve these goals is to promote the bicycle as a way of making short trips around the city.
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
The Grassroots' Bikers Breakfast
Ride your bike to a free breakfast courtesy of Grassroots at 372 Danforth Avenue (at Chester). Coffee supplied by Merchants of Green Coffee and food by The Big Carrot.
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
Alternative Grounds' Coffee for Cyclists
Free IN-STORE coffee for anyone with bike helmet - 333 Roncesvalles (at Grenadier) from 8-9:30 AM
6:00 - 8:00 PM:
Critical Mass
Bloor & Spadina - meet at 6:00, ride at 6:30
Labels: bikefriday, events, news
Cycling Events This Week: Jan. 21-27
posted by Joe on Monday, January 21, 2008 - Permalink
Keep up do date on all the cycle-tastic stuff happening in and around Toronto with the BikingToronto Calendar Page.
Here's what's on tap for this week:
Mon Jan 21 7pm – 10pm
Toronto Cycling Advisory Committee Meeting
Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St W
The Toronto Cycling Advisory Committee is designed to advise City Council and its departments, agencies, boards, and commissions, on the design, development and delivery of bicycle policies, programs and facilities to promote and enhance cycling within the City of Toronto. The goal of the committee is to provide a liveable and environmentally friendly city that is accessible and safe for people of all ages and abilities to get around by bicycle and to ensure the role of cycling in a transportation system appropriately balanced among all road users.
Phone: 416-395-7352
Web: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/2008/agendas/cy.htm
Wed Jan 23 7pm – 9pm
Kingsway Neighbourhood Meeting - Traffic Management Plan
Lambton Kingsway Junior Middle School, Gym, 525 Prince Edward Dr N
Please attend to see a Presentation from Transportation
Services and Councillor Milczyn on the results and recommendations
resulting from the Kingsway Residents* Traffic Working Group and
Transportation Services traffic studies completed over the past year and
a half.
A phased-in approach for traffic and safety improvements will be
presented (improvements would begin Spring 2008). Feedback/comments and
support from the community, for these recommendations, is being sought.
Recommendations from Transportation Services Staff would then proceed
to Community Council for their approval in the next few months.
Fri Jan 25th - All Day
BikeFriday!
BikeFriday is an initiative to promote (and encourage) bike events happening in Toronto on the last friday of every month, with the aim of turning that day into a de facto “Bike Day” that happens once a month.
Citizens, politicians and businesses in Toronto all want our air to be cleaner, or streets to be less congested, and our kids to be healthier… and a good way to help achieve these goals is to promote the bicycle as a way of making short trips around the city.
More at BikeFriday.
If you know of stuff I've missed, let me know. As I add new stuff you'll find it on the calendar. :)
Labels: bikefriday, events, weekly
BikeFriday is Tomorrow, November 30th
posted by Joe on Thursday, November 29, 2007 - Permalink
BikeFriday is here again!
BikeFriday is an initiative to promote (and encourage) bike events happening in Toronto on the last friday of every month, with the aim of turning that day into a de facto “Bike Day” that happens once a month.Here are the events planned:
Citizens, politicians and businesses in Toronto all want our air to be cleaner, or streets to be less congested, and our kids to be healthier… and a good way to help achieve these goals is to promote the bicycle as a way of making short trips around the city.
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
Alternative Grounds' Coffee for Cyclists
Free IN-STORE coffee for anyone with bike helmet - 333 Roncesvalles (at Grenadier) from 8-9:30 AM
6:00 - 8:00 PM:
Critical Mass
Bloor & Spadina - meet at 6:00, ride at 6:30
8:30 - 10:00 PM:
Post-Critical Mass Hot Chocolate and Movie Night
Enjoy Documentaries about Critical Mass in Toronto and Vancouver at 761 Queen West
Labels: bikefriday, events
BikeFriday is this Friday!
posted by Joe on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - Permalink
BikeFriday is here again! Whee! Here's the schedule, and I've linked to the facebook pages for each event so you can see who you can meet at each event!
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
Grassroots' Bikers Breakfast
Grassroots gives Free Breakfast Treats at 408 Bloor Street West (at Brunswick) from 8-9:30 AM
Facebook Event Page
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
Alternative Grounds' Coffee for Cyclists
Free IN-STORE coffee for anyone with bike helmet - 333 Roncesvalles (at Grenadier) from 8-9:30 AM
Facebook Event Page
6:00 - 8:00 PM:
Critical Mass
Bloor & Spadina - meet at 6:00, ride at 6:30
Facebook Event Page
9:30 - 11:00 PM:
Toronto Premiere of You Never Bike Alone
Innis College Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue) - Film Website.
Facebook Event Page
BikePools / Group Commutes
The concept is simple - let's meet up in groups and ride to work together. Biking to work can sometimes be dangerous - but it's safer when you ride with other people.
Drivers are a lot more careful around groups of cyclists. Riding in a group encourages novice cyclists to participate and makes cyclists more visible to motorists. Organized rides also show motorists that cycling is a viable alternative to driving.
If you already ride your bike to work, why not invite others to join you. Email joe@bikingtoronto.com to have your BikeFriday route posted on this website.
7:00 AM - Parliament & Carlton
to Victoria Park & Gordon Baker Road [map]
To join this ride, email David at
dcurtis@careerfoundation.org
7:30 AM - Yonge & Major Mackenzie
to Hwy 7 & Warden [map]
To join this ride, email Andrew at
andrew@monkeymartian.com
7:30 AM - Bloor & HighPark (Westbound)
to Mississauga City Centre [map]
To join this ride, email Vic at
vic@gedris.org
8:00 AM - Bloor & HighPark (Eastbound)
via Bloor to downtown [map]
To join this ride, email Martino at
himartino@gmail.com
8:00 AM - Danforth & Woodbine
via the Danforth & Bloor to downtown [map]
To join this ride, email Joe at
joe@bikingtoronto.com
8:00 AM - Yonge & Lawrence
to Hwy 7 & Leslie [map]
To join this ride, email Darren at
dazjenx@gmail.com
Labels: bikefriday, news
Toronto Premiere of "You Never Bike Alone" on BikeFriday
posted by Joe on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Permalink
From the BikingToronto Inbox:
Toronto Premiere of You Never Bike Alone – Vancouver's Critical Masses
Planet in Focus Film Festival hosts the Toronto premiere of You Never Bike Alone at 9.30pm on Friday 26th October 2007. (yes, it's on BikeFriday!)
You Never Bike Alone is looking at how cyclists are creating Critical Mass in Vancouver. Drawing on footage filmed in the city over the course of a decade and through interviews with people from all backgrounds, You Never Bike Alone captures the highs and the lows of riding a bike in Vancouver.
You Never Bike Alone charts the history of Vancouver's Critical Mass rides from the early “Tame the Lions” rides to the wild spectacle of Vancouver's freak bike collective and the World Naked Bike Ride in more recent times.
As well as a humorous and entertaining look at cycling in the city, it looks at the implications of transportation decisions by politicians at municipal and provincial levels and asks whether we are up to the challenge of making a truly liveable city.
Press about the Film:
“What Alstead's documentary captures is the absolutely exhilarating feeling of riding your bike with several hundred other cyclists on city streets.” The Vancouver Sun
“A compelling and intelligent film” The Vancouver Courier
“...a lovely piece of agitprop. It isn't didactic, nor proselytizing, but blunt and straightforward. The people interviewed seem so sane, so reasonable and so utterly practical that I wanted to ride off in the sunset with all of them.” Dorothy Woodend, The Tyee
Time: Fri 26th October at 9:30 pm. Bike Friday!
Venue: Innis College Town Hall, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue
Web: www.planetinfocus.org, www.youneverbikealone.com
Movie Trailer:
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BikeFriday on MTVLive Video
posted by Joe on Tuesday, October 09, 2007 - Permalink
Tomorrow is BikeFriday!
posted by Joe on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - Permalink
BikeFriday is here again. Here's what's going on. :) I'll even include links to the facebook event listings for each, for any f'bookers out there:
7:00 - 9:00 AM:
BikePools / Group Commutes
See the BikeFriday site for ride details.
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
Grassroots' Bikers Breakfast
Grassroots gives Free Breakfast Treats at 372 Danforth (at Chester)
[facebook link]
8:00 - 9:30 AM:
Alternative Grounds' Coffee for Cyclists
Free IN-STORE coffee for anyone with bike helmet - 333 Roncesvalles (at Grenadier)
[facebook link]
12:00 - 4:00 PM:
Bike to YorkU: Tune-Up Event
FREE BIKE TUNE-UPS on the north side of the Health, Nursing, and Environmental Studies building on YorkU's Keele campus
[facebook link]
6:00 - 8:00 PM:
Critical Mass
Bloor & Spadina - meet at 6:00, ride at 6:30
[facebook link]
Labels: bikefriday, news
MTV Live Rocks the BikeFriday Tonight!
posted by Joe on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - Permalink
Tonight at 6 PM, if you watch MTV Live, you'll see a segment all about bikes, including stuff from July's BikeFriday!
I know they interviewed Tammy T from Spacing, as well as Cheri Di Novo, the local MPP, who congregated at the Alternative Grounds Coffee Shop before BikePooling it downtown on the last friday in July (the 27th).
Watch it if you can... and if anyone knows how to record it and get it up on YouTube, I'd LOVE to hear from you.
Labels: bikefriday, news
BikeFriday is Tomorrow! Ride On!
posted by Joe on Thursday, August 30, 2007 - Permalink
Yes, it's here again. Here's a quick rundown of what is going on.
BikePools! Commute together for safety and fun:
Complete details on the BikeFriday site.
7:00 AM - Parliament & Carlton
dcurtis@careerfoundation.org
7:30 AM - Yonge & Major Mackenzie
andrew@monkeymartian.com
7:30 AM - Bloor & HighPark (Westbound)
vic@gedris.org
8:00 AM - Bloor & HighPark (Eastbound)
himartino@gmail.com
8:00 AM - Danforth & Woodbine
joe@bikingtoronto.com
8:00 AM - Yonge & Lawrence
dazjenx@gmail.com
8:45 AM - Roncesvalles & Grenadier (Alternative Grounds)
tammy.thorne@utoronto.ca
Add YOUR Commute!
Add your bike-to-work route to this page, find others going the same way. Email BikeFriday.
Events:
8 - 9:30 AM: Grassroot's Bikers Breakfast
Free Coffee and Treats for Cyclists at 408 Bloor West
8 - 9:30 AM: Alternative Grounds' Coffee for Cy
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