The Toronto Beaver Route!

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Protected Car Lanes make drivers feel safe from cars (Conlins & Sheppard)

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Parking in bike lane has to stop... what do we do?

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Barriers at Work

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Cycling to Ottawa

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Did my first ever century today!

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Clearly Toronto maintenance doesn’t want people biking in the snow ❄️🚴🤦‍♂️

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Quick & easy way to ensure I never eat at your restaurant - courtesy of Avant Goute in Rosedale-Summerhill

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The reality of current road safety campaigns.

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Busted.

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Innovative design now allows cars to block both directions of bike travel

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The Toronto Beaver Route!

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Toronto biking is being discussed in another popular subreddit

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When you think you're safe from cars on the Rec trails

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O is for Oppenheimer

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Wellington bi-directional cycle track progress

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I might be biased as an east-ender but this exact spot on the floating bridge at Tommy Thompson Park is my favorite view of sunset in Toronto.

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Bike For Brain Health on the Gardiner this morning.

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So if this person doesn’t see a giant slow red thing, what are the chances of seeing a bicycle? Stay safe out there!

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Motorcycling riding the bike lanes

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Just a repost, but I thought you guys would get a kick out of this 😂😂 It happened again!

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A friendly reminder that even protected bike lanes won’t stop the dedicated

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5pm on a Thursday. Love to see it :')

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Well, a car plowed through the front of the shop today.

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Hired some birdyguards to protect my bike while I’m at work

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City Council approves a lot of new bike lanes!

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Rode “The Beaver”

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The state of bike lanes in Toronto 🫠

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Salon Lyol parking in the bike lane

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Let’s prove cycling is the way!

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I made a thing

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New separated bike lanes on Wellington!

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Those bollards can’t come soon enough

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Super suspicious looking bike I saw on Dundas.

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I've planned this trip since I moved here, executed today. Absolutely epic. The 15% precipitation was a total lie, did the full drench while climbing the final hill (double digit gradients) without stopping. Took the GO transit back. Bucket list item complete ✅.

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Scarborough kicked my butt, but overall the route was fun/mentally exhausting at the same time

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Found some gobbledygook in my mailbox

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First time cycling at 5am. Love how free it felt to not have to worry about cars.

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I did a 100km heart shaped loop of Toronto for the Ride For Heart

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When you find out your family member voted for Saunders

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The developer has committed to 9 outdoor bike parking spaces! The spaces:

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woke up and said I wanna touch the CN tower and just went for it on my shitty Walmart mountain bike

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Great colours in the Don Valley this week.

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The Netherlands invested €595M annaully in bike infrascturure. It saves €19 billion in public health costs alone. Could the entire GTA do the same thing?

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This just now...

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This is the ULTIMATE Central Canada Bikepacking trip. Details below

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My Longest Ride Biking Around West GTA

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I figure if any subreddit would appreciate my new tattoo, it would be this one

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New Wellington Bike Lane Claims Second Victim

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Completed the 75km Bike for Brain Health today - the longest I’ve ever ridden and it’s for an awesome cause. I’ll definitely be taking part again next year!

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Does Gil Penalosa stand a chance against John Tory? Could he make a difference in bike friendly urbanism?

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I have joined the club! been meaning to do this ride for a year.

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Final fun foggy commute before fall this fabulous Toronto morning

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Took the GO train to Niagara Falls last Saturday. Did the Erie Canal Trail over the course of a week.

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Was it worth $150?

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I know this is peanuts relative to what many of you pros do, but it is week #2 of bike riding for me and I have a 27-yr old city bike AND I'm unable to take out several hours of my time for biking. Given all that, pretty happy about what I've been able to do 3days in a row now :) This was today

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New bike day 🎉

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You're blocking the bike lane. I don't care.

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Bikepacking Simcoe County Loop Trail... from TO and back. 🤣

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Another awesome ride along the Gardiner/DVP for an awesome cause - #BikeForBrainHealth. However ...

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Join us at High Park Sunday Nov 5 at 1pm to show ford and the petition people just how many people need and use bike lanes!

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New to the city! Beautiful ride yesterday

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50km ride that started at 4:30am. Here’s a photo stop right before sunrise at Sugar Beach.

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Kicking COVID's ass! Feeling better after four foggy days...from Tommy Thompson Park.

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My bike, literally my favourite thing in the world, was stolen from my garage at my apartment at St. Clair and Poplar Plains Road. I’m devastated. If you see this on Marketplace or anywhere else please let me know. It’s a Salsa Journeyman 650B and pictured below. What can I do?

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Morning rides are getting colder each week. 🥶

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Local business blames bike lanes for car traffic

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This is probably not close to some of you here, but I would love to share what I pushed myself to do today! I’m 16 and have started road biking for the last couple months on my shitty used mountain bike. Very happy with myself!

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Report the cyclists in High Park - Facebook group

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Race Enthusiasts

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Annual chance of pedestrians & cyclists being killed or seriously injured in Toronto by ward

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For the first time since the 1980s, Toronto will have a mayor that rides their bike to City Hall!

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New to Toronto: anyone else going to the Butt Convention?

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When you goto the Toronto Islands bright and early (Wards there, Centre Island back)

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8 cars parked on bike lane on Bay street

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This pile on the sidewalk added a 5km detour to my ride to the gym.

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Block the entire bike lane lol

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So you're saying you'll pay me to bike around the city?!?

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Need a Bikeshare ebike today? Richmond and Jarvis

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Port Credit to Rouge Hill GO 65k ride with a detour in Toronto for lunch

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Update: A change of heart from Avant Gout in Rosedale-Summerhill had a change of stance after “a few comments” from regulars/locals re: former anti-bike lane signage! :)

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Biked along the Lakeshore from East York to Hamilton (West Harbour GO) on Sunday. Burlington Harbour was the most happening of all cities.

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Cummer street has a sick protected bike lane

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“Bike lanes will be a disaster and will have a serious impact for small businesses”.

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riding on lakeshore is fun

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New Cummer Ave Bike Lane (looking East)

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British cycling influence

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Improved delivery

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20°C was perfect last night. Such a nice reprieve from all the heat warnings we’ve had.

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I biked to the lake... from the other one. 😁

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large new sidewalk on yonge & eglinton - would it have hurt to add a bike lane instead?

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Did my first 200km ride today.

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Almost got hit twice, once negligently & once on purpose. Is there anything I can do?

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I heard someone say a true Toronto Loop ride should reach the boundaries of the whole city: Etobicoke Creek in the west, Rouge River east, Steeles north and the waterfront south... Challenge accepted! [Repost from deleted acct]

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Just stopping for a minute

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Finch Hydro to Humber trail to the lake and downtown.

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My first ride of 2023! Toronto isn’t exactly a year-round cycling kind of place. When did you start riding this year?

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Forest Bathing in Prince Edward County

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Are you guys ready for this Sunday’s Bike for Brain Health along the DVP/Gardiner Expressway?

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Stolen Bike (Shaw/Dupont)

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Instead of unsafe/unreliable pavement sensors to wait on, I prefer to have this Vancouver solution in Toronto (fat chance).

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Surly Long Haul Trucker Disc 56 stolen

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These concrete “barriers” make me feel soooo safe. The curbs in the background have been spray painted orange for more than a month. I originally thought that that meant that the city was going to attach them to the ground.....but this has yet to be seen.

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Finally (barely) beat my goal of 50km in 3 hours on my single speed👍 getting better!

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Gorgeous evening @ Christie Pits

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MGT was a pleasure to use this weekend

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Toronto Biking Tag #23

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Even commuting between downtown to near the airport (about 25 km), cycling is faster than transit

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Achievement Unlocked: Completed my first ever bike commute to work yesterday - Pape and Danforth to Vaughan. 1hr45 each way - total of 72km.

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Can't believe it's taken me this long to get to Sunnyside

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This area is part of Toronto. Why is there no Bike Share station?

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Hey, I just wanted to thank everyone for trying to help me find the thief who took my bike last week. No luck yet, but if you ever do see someone else with this distinct purple bike around, shoot me a DM if you don’t mind. Thank you all so much - it meant a lot to me.

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Up the Humber River trail, across the Caledon Trail way, down the Etobicoke creek

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Protected bike lanes are great because they keep motor vehicles separated from cyclists (Willowdale Ave)

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A full loop of Toronto. Have never seen so many cyclists out before. Here's to the revolution on two wheels! (pun intended)

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Reminder: Helmet save life. I got doored yesterday and I was able walked off with a mild concussion thanks to the helmet

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First mountain bike ride of the season. Don't forget it's not all bike lanes and MGT in Toronto.

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Spotted in Chiang Mai, Thailand

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My bike was stolen from Whitby Go Station today

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Completed my first 100km ride on the weekend!

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No idea where this is from, but holy crap does it sum up the hate we cyclists feel on the roads sometimes 😔 Gotta say, with how things in general have been going in this city, as excited as I am for the warmer weather, I'm also kinda anxious about how dangerous this summer could be on the roads 😳

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Temperature last Monday vs today. I didn't plan for this pic! Hope everyone had a good false spring ride.

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UPS truck blocking bike lane on Eglinton East and Mount Pleasant

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Update: So I finally did my century ride yesterday. Thanks everyone for your tips!

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For some reason, no corresponding signs urging drivers to pay attention. 6th Line, in Milton

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Active city.

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Looks like The Applewoods Heights Assoc. is opposed to the new Bloor St. make over project that will bring bike lanes! I believe we cyclists and pedestrians also deserve safe transportation infrastructure - Mississauga is too car centric. Let them know Mississauga supports the change!

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Fuck people

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Enjoying what’s left of summer. Was 13C yesterday at 5:30am. 😋

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Windy ride

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First 4x century ride, Newmarket to Ottawa (400km) in a day, 2,400km elevation gain (Does GTA count?)

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While it isn’t nearly as impressive as some of the long tours I’m seeing here, this was my first lengthy tour on a 15 year old comfort bike since replacing tires/tubes/seat/seat post/quill stem. Glad we had such a beautiful Saturday for adventures.

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Who hasn’t taken a shot of one’s bike at this spot?

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Definitely not a distance I’ll do often. But glad I found my wall lol

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saw a stolen bikeshare bike being sold on kijiji, any idea on how to report it?

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Fixie stolen - let me know if you see it!

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I love those useless signs

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If there's anything more glorious than a country road on a warm June morning, I don't know what it is.

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Pandemic Adventures: Caledon Trailway and Rattlesnake Point (first timer route fail)

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Wanted to post yesterday but crashed as soon as I got home, completed my first ever double metric century!

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Finally made time for my first ride of the season

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And yet they always want to re-regulate ebikes or put license plates on bikes

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Four hours, 80k and a single gear. What fun!

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This lady's though process

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I know it’s not Toronto, but I live in Toronto and managed to pull off my first century in London today. Feeling pretty “chuffed” about it

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looks like someone is having a bad day

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Oh man oh man! This sub-reddit is my favorite! Y'all told me about Tommy Thompson. Went to check it out with the wife this weekend. Gonna hide the time it took us coz we stopped a lot, (lol) but man oh MAN it is unreal, the amount of natural beauty in Toronto. The view of the skyline was incredible!

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To the fellow lycra clad cyclist ahead of me outside Kitchener, please do better than this. The general public are suspicious of us. You could've carried it just a little further and thrown it into the bush.

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