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Category: Personal Stories

A 30 kph zone sign on a narrow one-way street with a sign above it showing that people on bikes can bike against traffic.

Life outside of cars: Besançon

Posted on 2026-01-21 by Florence Lehmann in Microblog, Personal Stories, Uncategorized

A while back I was part of an email discussion on transportation that revolved only around cars and driving. My blood started boiling. What about talking about people outside of cars, I said. That got me thinking. I regularly go back to my hometown of Besançon, France. When I’m there, I walk and take transit. […]

My experiences cycling through the winter in Orleans

Posted on 2025-05-012025-05-06 by Rob Attrell in #ottbike, Personal Stories, Winter Cycling

In the spring of 2024, I finally got an electric cargo bike and immediately started using it for everything.

Bicycle season? Part 2 – New bike lanes on Prince of Wales are blocked

Posted on 2025-01-162025-01-23 by Bike Ottawa in Guest Post, Infrastructure, Personal Stories

A guest post from Ottawa resident Gwendolyn Barr.

Bicycle season? Part 1

Posted on 2025-01-162025-01-23 by Bike Ottawa in Personal Stories

Volker Bach, a cycling friend in Hamburg, Germany, had this to say about cycling season today:

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