Monday, September 10, 2007

Vive le Velo!



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Mags and I recently spent some time in Montreal.  In 1999 Bicycling Magazine rated Montreal as the number one cycling city in North America.  But we didn’t go there for the cycling, we went for the French pastries, the poutine and the feel of a European city just north of our border. 



While we were duly impressed by what we went for, we were truly amazed at the number of bikes we saw.



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There were bikes locked to every stationary object. 



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There were cyclists on every street.



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There were bike paths throughout the entire city.  They even had their own traffic signals. 



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There were all kinds of people riding bikes.



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We looked at a few thrift stores for bikes we could ride, but quickly discovered that even the junkiest of beater bikes sell for a premium.  A rusty, but functional department store bike would go for about a hundred dollars. 



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I even saw a Huffy mountain bike with a $65 price tag.  After seeing that I knew it was time to rent.



We  Americans have a few things we could learn from our neighbors to the north. 



1 comment:

  1. That looks like it could be one of the Peterson's (thin and thinner) riding that bike with the saddle bags. Oh wait that guy weighs about 100lbs more then any of them.

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