So. I just returned from a cracking week in Montreal. I can see that Mary and Andreas have been taking good care of you here on Cycle Chic.
Montreal, apart from being one of the most brilliant cities on the planet, is also a hotbed of Cycle Chic. I'm going to start the Montreal Cycle Chic series with these photos that put the Share into Bike Share. A couple on the corner of Bernard and du Parc we're getting rolling on the city's Bixi bike share bike.
I was staying around the corner from here and lovin' every moment of it. The best thing about the week, from a Cycle Chic perspective, was the launch of the Montreal Cycle Chic blog at Bar Waverly last Thursday. Great party with great friends. Canada's largest cycling organisation, Vélo Québec, is behind the intiative and they have enlisted six http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifphotobloggers to document Cycle Chic in the city. It's also a sign that Cycle Chic is becoming an effective form of bicycle advocacy.
Get ready for a wild Montreal Cycle Chic ride this week.
4 comments:
Local musician Paul Cargnello did a "Bixi Bop" with portraits of couples on Bixis as in the photos.
Here is an audioclip of a CBC Montréal interview with Mikael: http://www.cbc.ca/homerun/2011/06/01/cycle-chic/
Shitty infrastructure and all!
Damn, damn!
I'm not anonymous, I'm lagatta à montréal!
Local musician Paul Cargnello did a "Bixi Bop" with portraits of couples on Bixis as in the photos.
Here is an audioclip of a CBC Montréal interview with Mikael: http://www.cbc.ca/homerun/2011/06/01/cycle-chic/
Shitty infrastructure and all!
8 June 2011 22:45
Thanks for that! I missed the Homerun IV but got his chat with Dave Bronstetter on Saturday Morning's All in a Weekend:
http://www.cbc.ca/allinaweekend/2011/06/04/mikael-colville-andersen-urban-mobility-expert-and-founder-of-cycle-chic/
That "vacuum cleaner" metaphor still gets me. So Mikael came over for a "Féria de l'aspirateur/Montreal Vacfest" then?! ;-)
One of the great design advantages of a gents bike is you can always offer a young lady a crossbar. There is just something very romantic about cycling through city streets with a friend on the crossbar.
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