A Scary Demographic

There’s one group of people that I seem to run into that are crazy for Ebikes. They have lost their drivers’ license, (for one reason or another), and, need/want to get from A to B.
Should these folk be zooming around? One fellow I met insisted that its impossible to be charged with impaired driving [...]

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. [...]

Another rider??!? (with no peddles)

Another day, another sighting. This time I spotted a guy riding a Chinese made/designed moped style E-Bike. Yellow, like the picture. This guy had taken off his peddles entirely and, worse, was driving his machine in a typical newb cyclist manner, scary.
My friend, if the police catch you without peddles it’s [...]

The Politics of Peddling

When is a bike not a bike? After reading, and then re-reading the Canada Gazette article I posted about the other day, I keep thinking about those two metal things sticking out the sides of my Veloteq eBike and how, imho, useless they were.

Read This, eh!

If you’re really interested in the ebike pilot project, read this article from the Canada Gazette: Regulations Amending the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (Power-assisted Bicycles).
Link Here
Now I understand why there are some ebikes that’ll do 24 Km/hr and other’s that’ll do 32 Km/hr.

Veloteq and the back seat

I just got off the phone with the person at the MTO that is coordinating this pilot project and the news isn’t great.

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

165.6 Km

On my way home from lunch there was a police car behind me for a couple of minutes and it made my pulse beat a little quicker. Sure, I have that Bullfrog Power sticker on the rear, but … there will always be that one police officer that is having a really bad day. [...]