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cycling in the city

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Today the weather was just about perfect for cycling. Naturally, there weren't many cyclists on the streets of Toronto.

It's not hard to explain: they only come out when the weather is 25ºC or higher. Which isn't, as you'd expect from Canada, all that often. This week did see a couple of warm days, and they were out in droves. At one point on my commute (on Wednesday, IIRC), I was passing so many of these fair-weather cyclists that I started counting. I got well into the twenties. Naturally, I was passed be a couple of guys as well*; all in there might have been some forty cyclists on my route that morning.

Ah well. This is why the city can have cycle lanes. Now if only my fellow cyclists would start wearing helmets in greater numbers, and STOP RUNNING RED LIGHTS.

(*What is it with these late-fifties high-speed dudes? There are a couple of them that I see out in all weather; while I welcome them more than the slow-moving cattle on ill-tuned bikes, I wonder what drives them to move practically at traffic speed.)