May 21st and flexpost bollards are still not up on BIDIRECTIONAL bikelanes in downtown and around the Cegep... One of them did get some freshly painted lines

Word of the day: Tosser eg: on the regional bike path (early 90s standards, so like 6 or 7 feet), on a busy long weekend sunny sunday afternoon , tossers insisted on riding 2 abreast or riding like preparing for tour de france. pretty please, Do that at 8 am, not when families are out

@sundance.bikesky.social LaneSaber Q: Have you considered quick couplings to make a unit that can easily moved btw bikes ? if so, why not ? I might make my lanesaber bayonette-style to move it btw my 2 foldies. Bonus: I'll be going "fix bayonette !!!" before commuting into downtown area 🫠

Car uncles. Your daily reminder to mobilize for safer streets and building your lane saber

"bikelanes are bad !!!" or are they ? Local paper, usually car leaning, reports business is good along bike corridor. It also seemed to have brought a rise in pedestrians "A slow travelling wallet has more chances to spend" www.journaldequebec.com/2026/04/30/c... FIY, @urbantruth.bsky.social

looking for a cargo bike ? a couple GSD on Market place Montreal/Gatineau, and a vektron. Also an e iron horse is listed

@tomflood.bsky.social We're getting a 2nd shot at this! Missed the April visit in town. Had meetings the following morning, am not getting any younger...

This 👇

Nerdy slow tv at the intersection of ecology x forestry x history youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Time to bike home and see if a driver will almost righthook me agaln

car is freedom www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/b...

Recently Prefered a full size pick up or SUV instead of EV or frugal sedan, claiming did not remember high petrol prices ? This is 2022

My town. Bike lane that leaves one of the 4 public high schools. Almost connects to the network. BUT a collective was in town promoting helmets for kids and cyclists of all ages #waroncars Side note: the largest private HS, downtown, and adjacent private girl HS are not connected at all.

Too bad same shaming is not applied to car drivers rolling stops, going too fast, right hooking, parking in bike lanes On voit encore trop de gens(...)soit par culture, éducation, fierté ou oubli, qui ne portent pas le casque (...), a mentionné le directeur🧵 ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223...

Other take

Designing a innovative, mountainside dream house with an architect firm ? I'll have a 2 door garage, please ! @americanfietser.bsky.social you'll love it

Some interesting data about the effects of "tankification" of cars on highway capacity (also shown in an Minnesota study) and on loss of parking spaces ( from suvs impeding cars, not from bikelanes on cars) #waroncars www.ledevoir.com/actualites/t...

My new "old VW Golf" (2012) has an SD card reader for music ! Recent experience with sirius on 2025 communauto corolla was so so (could not access all channels somehow !?) I may just buy albums on bandcamp and put them on that sd card

Lost myself on google maps in "show trails" mode It's like there is a inter county competition for rail-to-trail in Eastern Ontario. Combined with Vallée de l'Outaouais au Québec, one could spend the summer bikepacking there

@tomflood.bsky.social More interesting music stuff in TO From NY Times feature: As part of Auf der Maur’s personal excavation, she will share some of these unearthed rock images, in aa major exhibit opening in September at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. ago.ca/exhibitions/...

Buyinf used film cameras is often buying "projects" 😊

Thinking to go out and film some of my town's bike infras, sp. in the urban core. want to make it positive yet "Between Scylla and Charybdis" seems the appropriate title for the video series

Deliveries & saturday farmers' market ( Area on right) before daily mouvement by people on foot, bike or mobility aids using the multiuser path linking downtown and the riverside routes

@nissamitchell.com ! there is a brew themed Strands game in NYtimes today 😀 No hints required 😂 www.nytimes.com/games/strands

What about those pesky e assist bikes ?

Results are in! late winter commute by bike, car or transit 3-4 km suburban and urban ride Transit is at least 28 mn, including a transfert and 7mn walk Car is 7 mn (if before traffic) yard to parlking+ 1-2 mn to building door Winter tires e assist 250w folding bike: 15 mn from yard to building door

Tomorrow !!!

Proceeds with cancelling netflix, crave, Britbox ( season 10 of Shetland is done) >>>>>> Babylon5!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y235...

Trending in the school corridor in my b'hood: hanging the rear of the car over the sidewalk, 'cause you know, them cars got bigger and no street overnight parking in winter.

People seeing my current winter e assist bike battery

@jimgrey.net Just came across the oddest 110 film camera: Fujica Pocket 350 Zoom sold by the person I am getting a trio of rangefinder from. ever heard / seen / owned ?

Mr @americanfietser.bsky.social !!!!!

Dank u, y'all winter fietseren I follow & read, for the inspiration. I,ve finally done the winter bike to work in -20C yesterday😁 Previous winter, I did run errands 1 mile away in mild winter temp and went in march to the local ski hill once by bike, but this is a new thing.

@tomflood.bsky.social It's "pre-madchester" but just in case 😁 the missus and I are considering the montreal show but a Monday night show out of town at our age 🤪

PSA: if you chill beer on the patio in this very cold weather, remember NA beer has no alcohol thus no antifreeze 🫠

a touch of bike mobility amidst weird times: last evening, finished conversion of Dahon ciao to e-assist & winter mode (pogies, studded tyres). Also installed a rear carrier rack for a basket (not shown) I know, late january, but still a good 2.5 months of winter here :-)

Just pure joy & creativity even if you are not a long time Phish fan who will get all the inside jokes and ref

«Même la voiture de mes rêves, une sémillante Toyota Corolla neuve, inflige un appauvrissement de près de 700 000 $ sur 30 ans à son propriétaire!» www.lapresse.ca/affaires/fin...

La masse critique de ce soir Il faisait froid 😅

@lauragmitchell.com ! Apparently, @nissamitchell.com was preparing some tempeh for Action de grace. Would she share the recette ?😀 It would save an impulse buy tripack from costco that is sitting in our fridge

@modacitylife.com Interview in the NY Times this morning :-) ! Here is the feature with Melissa Bruntlett www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

@jimgrey.net I think you might like this story about a typewriter repair shop. A disappearing trade buoyed by recent interests for analog machines. sounds like film camera repair, non ? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

20*1.6 in spiked winter bike tires found locally It is in the cart Still resisting....... how reasonable to winter bike when I can walk from work ?? #wintercycling

Local paper drone picture give the best answer to car-uncles complaining "there is a war on cars in this town"

@lauragmitchell.com @americanfietser.bsky.social @usa.streetsblog.org Not to make anyone envious, but.... REV StDenis/Rachel is in Le Plateau, a ward of Montreal with population density at the levels of European or even Dutch cities

Someone rode a Bixi from Montreal to Sherbrooke this summer. Both cities share the same bikeshare system.

Nothing shows #stroads and space given to cars in a city as well as B&W photography