Bike Spotting: How would you make the Danforth safer?

Posted on May 3, 2012 by tammy

This Bike Spotting originally appeared in our Spring 2011 issue of dandyhorse.

dandyARCHIVE–How would you make the Danforth safer?

Photos by Nana Arbova, interviews by Tammy Thorne

Debora Puricelli: I recommend that everyone have a lighthearted view on the road. If drivers are happy when they see us, we can all share the road together.

Devin O’Brien: Obviously a bike lane.

Kerri Anderson: Fix up the potholes!

Kassa Dabreo: The Danforth is a rough ride. A lot of bike people use this road – there are too many potholes and no bike lanes.

Lisa Druchok: We need more enforcement of cars stopping behind the white line at stop signs. We need better road maintenance of the fringe we’re supposed to ride in.

Simon Griffith: It would be nice to have a thoroughfare on a side street.

To read more about The Danforth and cycling safely, read the excerpt from On the Danforth magazine “Changing Lanes: Envisioning safer cycling in our community.”

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Spotted: Smallest. Basket. Ever.

Posted on April 19, 2012 by tammy

What: Smallest bike basket ever.

Where/When: Queen West at Brock in Parkdale/ April 19, 2012

Why: It’s adorable.

Sadly, there was a tiny bit of rubbish – a gum wrapper – in this tiny, fey basket. And so it would seem, that even the smallest-of-them-all isn’t exempt from these endemic litter-specific bike hate crimes plaguing our city.

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Spotted: scraper bike look-alike?

Posted on April 19, 2012 by tammy

What: Crazy-ass colourfully decorated bike

Who: Miguel

When/Where : April 18 2012, Claremont and Queen West

Why we love it: Reminds us of the Scraper Bike team in Cali.

Colourful wheels that catch the wind.

The funny Trunk Boiz video Scraper Bike is here.

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Spotted: Bicycles welcome sticker from 2009

Posted on April 14, 2012 by tammy

What: TTC hoax “campaign” sticker from January 2009 meant to give bicycles and cyclists a “WARM WELCOME” on the public transit system in Toronto. Someone used these positive stickers to replace the existing “bikes not allowed” stickers with that bicycle symbol with a red circle and line through it at TTC stations around town.

Where: At a popular drinking hole near Ossington and Dundas. (Do you know where this photo was taken?)

When: April 2012, Friday 13th

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Bike Spotting: Do you shop by bike?

Posted on April 3, 2012 by duncan

dandyARCHIVE: Bike Spotting – Do you shop by bike?

Photos by Yvonne Bambrick

Interviews by Tammy Thorne

This Bike Spotting originally appeared in our Spring 2011 issue of dandyhorse.

Jesse Demb: I buy all kinds of stuff shopping by bicycle. I carry it on my back as my frame does not take racks. I bought these moustache handlebars by bicycle.

 

Raffa Weyman: In a car, you need to drive and park in front of every store. When you’re on your bike, you can hop on and hop off easily.

 

Lorraine Johnson: My bike is my primary mode of transportation. I buy food every day biking along Bloor.

Eds Note: Lorraine is featured in the current issue of THIS magazine talking about her backyard chickens.

 

CLare Moore: Yes, maybe twice a week. I prefer to travel by bike because I really don’t like to be in such close quarters on the bus and the subway.

 

Shannen Lees: I get all my groceries on my bike and carry them in my basket. It is just a lot better for the environment and for my health.

 

Cassio Batista and Raphae Labezerra: Yes, I use my backpack and I buy many things. Also, we go to the movies. Today we are just riding for fun.

Photos by Yvonne Bambrick

This Bike Spotting originally appeared in dandyhorse volume 4, issue 1, get it here.

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