reinventing the chain

 
It’s a first for me: a follow to a story that has appeared in the Lee Valley Tools newsletter and on the Home Improvement Show with Jon Eakes show on CJAD. But this school project was too cool to pass up. Here’s the top of the story:
Reinventing the wheel
Teen builds fully functional bicycle made entirely of wood – even [...]

let this be a lesson to me

There is a lesson here somewhere.
After all my complaining about evil motorists (myself excepted) and the dangers of not having bike paths, guess who had a bike accident of his own making — on a bike path.
There I was happily riding along on de Maisonneuve Blvd. on Friday after work. I had just passed the [...]

talking to myself in two places at once

 
I just set up a second blog. This one is about the falaise St. Jacques. Take a look here.

the case of the missing bike path

While doing some research on another topic today, I think I figured out why that dangerous 400-metre-long bike-path gap continues to exist on de Maisonneuve Blvd., between N.D.G. and Westmount.
The city is expecting the new McGill super-hospital project to connect the two paths. The problem is a borough urban-planning committee doesn’t like the plan (page [...]

bikes: vital appendages in montreal

Barrie Hardymon, a blogger from National Public Radio, visited Montreal and was impressed with the number of cyclists on our streets.
A snippet from the blog item:
But in Montreal, from whence I just returned, it makes you feel like you’re missing a vital appendage (two things you better know in Montreal? How to ride a [...]

it’s like riding a bike

Since it’s turning into cycling week on DMM,JTTM, I thought I’d throw this out there. I taught a 7-year-old to cycle without training wheels last Saturday. Took about 20 minutes. This after weeks of struggling on the street. Before going out Saturday, I went online and found some very useful tips from Bicycling Magazine’s website [...]

why can’t montreal cyclists and montreal drivers get along?

Are Montreal cops monitoring this blog? They put out a press release today about bicycle safety.
I had another near-death experience on Ste. Catherine St. this morning, wondering as I dodged driver-side doors and was cut off by taxis about who in the Gazette newsroom would write my obit and whether they’d quote yesterday’s prescient blog [...]

bungee jumping on ste. catherine

Took my bike to work today for the first time since last June. I had forgotten how much cycling along Ste. Catherine St. in morning traffic can be like what I imagine bungee jumping feels like – enjoyable but hair-raising. There’s the constant fear of a car door swinging open, the double-parked delivery trucks blocking [...]