January 2012
10 posts
Transit City is not just a map with a few LRT lines. It is an attitude, a...
– Steve Monro, on the state of Toronto’s Transit City and the real definition of “Transit City”
December 2011
28 posts
I ride for a bunch of reasons. It’s quick, it’s cheap, it’s good exercise, I...
– Colin O’Brien (On riding L’Eroica, p. 32)
It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the...
– Author Unknown
So many great things said here. So… what am i advertising for?
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in...
– Jane Jacobs (via jstengersmith)
The tolerance, the room for great difference among neighbours - differences that...
– Jane Jacobs
fixieplanet:
Fallen Leaves, fixed gear video
This is So my jam.
It is only her in large portions of Canada that wonderous second wind, the...
– Walt Whitman, Diary in Canada
I really can’t wait till’ the summer! But I’ll be happy for the coze’ tis’ season for the time being ;)
There’s no such thing as a tailwind, only good days and windy days.
– Ol’ Cyclist’s Saying
November 2011
19 posts
pyreariege:
GET TO WORK par Horse Cycles
That just about rocks my world
Now since it was such a one who did all this and death and hell could not...
– (Luther)
Epics of Epics.
@migakim
It’s custom from YNOT cycles (get it?) lol! They were the best! I went into their toronto studio and checked out their stuff! Hand made from a lot of recycled materials in Toronto near the Junction!
Every trip by bike, no matter how seemingly insignificant, is one less trip by...
– (via Ecovelo)
Failure is a great Teacher.
In a culture where we are so saturated in the need to achieve, where are we left with when we don’t rise to the challenge? When we have the ability to be successful, but fail in the face of that… I think that what we need is something bigger than ourselves. That as we discover how incredibly we’re created - the blueprints, the mechanics, the musings - we’ve got to go even...