350 watts is not 500 watts

What’s with all the low watt scooters?  Check out the dry-weight specifications on the multi-branded scooters and then look at the motors, and ya wonder, where’s the watts?
No, seriously.  There are lots and lots of scooters on the roads downtown, I seem them everywhere and while there are a bunch of 500 watt models, there [...]

2nd Traffic Stop

I was stopped again, for the 2nd time. I was in the bike lane going North on Spadina, just past Dundas. With all that construction you fly by the cars
This time around, I was ready. Before the officer was out of the car I had my binder out of the trunk [...]

No Ebikes in the Park!

After joea500c’s post about being charged for riding his Ebike on a trail I did some checking at city hall, specifically the parks dept and the municipal by-laws office.
Long long long story short: Here in Toronto you can’t operate a power-assistd Ebike in park or on a bike trail that runs through a park. [...]

1st Angry Cyclist

Hills my E-Bike doesn’t like

We were talking in another post about how useless our pedals were. That was before I tried some hill climbing on my bike.
No – this is not San Francisco, and I’m glad it’s not! There are some hills round here that my bike doesn’t want to haul my 180 lb body up without [...]

1st Traffic Stop

On my way home from the Segway Store, (got my brakes adjusted), I was pulled over on River Street, just north of Dundas, (going North). In fact, I was in the bike lane