Well, it wasn’t quite new year’s. The winter up til then was cold, but not doing anything else interesting enough to draw me outside during my period of circumsolstitial sloth until we finally got a bit of snow here in the city. So on Sunday the 3rd I ventured forth and rode out to the lighthouse at the enterance to Toronto Harbour.
Last sunday at the cormorant beach (it used to be the heron beach before the pesky cormorants invaded it and killed all the trees). I don’t usually ride on sand on any bike I care about, but I reckoned it was OK just this once.
Filed under: VideoThings were still fairly green last week, at least by Lake Ontario, but now they’re oranger.
Filed under: Video
They said “tornado watch”, so I rode down to the beach to watch. I didn’t see any, but there was a tornado just outside town, about 20 crow miles away (and at least 3 others in Ontario)… and of course someone filmed it put it on youtube.
But I did see a really big puddle:
… and I wasn’t the only one out on a bike: (Read on …)
Filed under: Other Stuff, VideoAll of a sudden it’s spring… the backdrop is the Historic Distillery District (historically a distillery, now a twee artsy district), the bike is my orange duct tape fake Rambouillet (more on which later, perhaps), and I’m on my way home from seeing some stuff at the Contact Photography Festival, which runs in galleries all over Toronto until the end of the month.
The camera mount is an Ultrapod II strapped to the seat tube.
Filed under: VideoYesterday I found a neato handlebar camera mount at Urbane Cyclist, that looks a bit more secure than strapping my mini tripod to the handlebars. I put it on outside the shop and made a time lapse movie of the rest of my ride home.
Filed under: Rides, Toronto, Video
Of course it isn’t even March yet and there’s still time for another big snowstorm or two, but this week got downright springy. I dug the ‘cross bike (and the blog) out of winter hibernation and took the long way to the grocery store in the melty goo. The Cross-Check would have been a great snow bike and winter commuter, but I didn’t want to get it all salty… I may have to get another one to build up as a city bike.
(Read on …)
