Strida Folding Bike easy to ride for the non-cyclist, with a weather forecast yet.

Posted by Steve on Feb 17th, 2010 | one comment

Back in August (when the weather was nice), savedbybikes.com donated a Strida Folding Bike to a Toronto news channel (CP24 Breakfast) for a free giveaway. Nalina Sharma who does the weather on air has never ridden a bicycle in public. Not only does she ride the Strida just fine, but gives the on-air weather forecast from the bike with a police escort.
Good video for people to see how easy it is to ride a Strida Folding Bike even when you are not good, or have no experience on bicycles.

Bicycles for Africa from Canada

Posted by Steve on Feb 5th, 2010 | one comment

I understand that some 5000 bicycles were sent to Africa based on sales of Cadbury products in Canada.

Here’s the video:

Here’s a post from EcoVelo which includes additional links.

Toronto’s Bikeway plans

Posted by Steve on Feb 3rd, 2010 | no comments

The IbikeTO blog posted an update on the meeting at Metro Hall Monday night where city staff reveal a  politically ambitious bikeway plan.

We remind all mayoral candidates that it is time to implement solutions to the city’s gridlock and air quality crises, not simply use hack political judgement, satiating automobile driving voters temporarily to “uptick” your poll results.

A coherent, connected plan serves both bicycling and driver communities. From the  post:

These politicians need to get with the times. The types of folk who bike are not some fringe group of white males who bike because they want a rush. A wide range of people bike, particularly in downtown where the percentage of bike commuters is above 13% in some parts. Before you whip up the hate-on, Rossi, take a look at these people and try to explain to them why they don’t exist and why you think they should just buy a car.

Bike sharing coming to a city near you?

Posted by Steve on Dec 14th, 2009 | no comments

On Pedalaround, Kirk added a post on bike sharing. There are some interesting links about bike sharing in the US, including a very interesting presentation by B Cycle.

Here’s some info on Montreal’s Bixis from NY’s Green Inc., and some more from I Bike T.O.

Lot’s of fascinating proposals are here where you can download pdfs of all the entries from Copenhagen’s bike share competition.

Emission Economy: “Ontario will love new emission controls”

Posted by Steve on Nov 9th, 2009 | no comments

A thought provoking article in Now magazine on climate change and economic prosperity.

Thanks to TD Bank Financial Group for providing funding for this project.

The report is available here.

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