STM Montreal bus & Metro strike planned for the weekend is cancelled. <--good news👍.

Weekend weather forecast is nonstop shit.

Expozine is this weekend. There's a transit strike, the weather is crap, but make the effort!

@tomgauld.bsky.social gets the front window at Drawn and Quarterly's bookshop. Nice to see them promoting funny books for a change. Fun fact: I have a Tom Gauld helmet bag. One of my treasured possessions for sure.

Hey you kids! Get out of there! Our building got a new sidewalk this summer, and I deeply, deeply regret not putting my initials in the fresh concrete.

Bike is colourful, full of colour.

No parking. The reason is... 😮

Notre infolettre de novembre avec l'invitation pour l'inauguration du REV Henri-Bourassa. www.ahuncycle.com/article/info... #TransportActif #velomtl #Montréal #MontréalNord #StLaurent #Ahuntsic #vélo #polmtl #REV

J’ai croisé mon 1er #velodhiver avec des pneus cloutés de @biximontreal.com ce soir 🚲❄️ Je ne l’ai pas pris, car je n’ai pas besoin d’autant de « grip » pour la chaussée mouillée du REV Peel même en la descendant 😊 Il y en aura 2300 disponibles cet hiver! #Bixi les déploie depuis lundi #velomtl

Bike counter on boulevard St-Laurent under the Van Horne overpass: 727 today 1,164,761 year-to-date Say it out loud: One million, one hundred and sixty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty-one citizens of Montreal on bicycles passed by here.

Someone moved the pedestrian crosswalk protection-planters into the crosswalk. (probably a car driver, bc of the space needed to do illegal u-turns here) Then a pedestrian moved it back to it's correct position.

Bicycle urban-package-delivery service. Dude should probably get a kickstand for his bike tho.

Bring your bike inside now or risk it getting in locked into the frozen wasteland for the next few months.

Street 'Noni needs to come inside for the winter.

Hat ideas to keep you warm this winter:

It's hard to see in the pic but that's a "coal chute" from the days when furnaces burned coal for heating, and deliveries of coal went down that chute into the basement.

Cuppa tea?

Bike is a one-speed, and that speed is maximum.

Team Owl marketing campaign wants you to know you don't mess with Team Owl.

Thinking about it, I wonder that if this fails to attract the tri-athlete aero-everything crowd's surplus cash, maybe they should try marketing it as a way to keep the derailleur pulleys clean and gunk-free? Because I can attest that those pulleys do get nasty.

AI answering all the hard questions.

There is a tendency in bicycle marketing circles to assume that people buying really expensive racing bicycles are a) really, really rich, and b) really, really stupid. Exhibit A: an $800 fairing for the "rear derailleur pulley wheels." That's $800 dollars worth of "how much proof do you need?"

Which is the easier-to-read map?

Montreal's very excellent Expozine is this weekend. 1025 Belanger est. (Corner of Christophe-Coulombe) Metro Jean-Talon.

Roof-mounted spare tire on this rust-bucket. 🫢

"That's just the way I like it" they said. 😱😱😱

Brought hole a catalpa leaf and the cat heard "cat" and was *very* interested.

1/3 of the yogurt sold in Canada is made at the (just expanded & modernized) Danone plant in Boucherville. It needs 750,000 litres of milk per day which requires 28,000 dairy cows.🐄 #ThatsInteresting Fun fact: it is easy and economical to make your own yogurt. If I can do it, anyone can do it!😀

I'm so happy they mentioned Trois-Rivières as having invested in green infrastructure to reduce overflows! Here's our paper in collaboration with Trois-Rivières: iwaponline.com/bgs/article/...

Biggest tunnel-digging machine in Québec has arrived to dig the subway tunnel for the extension to Montreal Metro's Blue Line. Would have been nice to have a photo without the plastic shipping cover tho?

Réserve Écologique Boisé des Muir Muir Woods ecological reserve. Read the french wikipedia entry in translation for a very good overview on the site's history and biology. A Réserve Écologique is the "highest level of protection" that a piece of land can have in Québec.

Is your town on the list? 😱

There is a small (protected!) forest in southwest Quebec in Hinchinbrooke (motto: "Hinchinbrooke, live fully in the heart of nature") that has never been cut down, so trees in it are 300 and 400 years old. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Montreal arch. Stairs inside the arch are very steep.

5312's unique gables.

Targeted political advertizing. #marketing

Urban forestry. Wood-fire stoves and fireplaces are extremely restricted in Montreal, to the restaurant using this wood had to install expensive filters on the chimney. This has reduced smog and urban pollution a lot in winter months. For cyclists using our lungs outside, this is a good thing.

Street pumpkins.

Aerodynamic shifters. 🤨

1970s CCM Targa has been around the block a few times. It's been rejuvenated with new wheels and drivetrain. One of the classic Canadian "ten-speeds" of that era.

Took out "The Furies" from the library to watch. Didn't know there was a remake showing in the cinema right now.

A lot of grey. And a little bit of pink! 🤪

Three eras of Montreal residential architecture. Good, better, and blah.

Columns, real and faux.

Expansion on top of these old brick row houses is bland but tasteful. The plumbing is probably a lot better now than it was before the renovations.

Steep road? Or the steepest road? Note the sidewalk: it's stairs!

He's not a lap cat, but a shoulder? Sure he'll sit there.

Parcours Pieton

Balcony has a hedge! Needs a trim, imo.

Perfect job completely 100.0% blocking both the sidewalk and the bike lane. Everybody has to step out into the busy traffic. They didn't even put a cone down or anything. Internic Emballage/Packing internicpacking.ca