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Category: Personal Stories

Bike Love: The many bikes of Katherine Cole

Posted on 2022-04-072023-02-24 by Bike Ottawa in #BikeLove, Features, Guest Post, Personal Stories

My bike love story is probably like many others…a love that started in childhood and evolved with age. I still feel like a child on my bike. I love the feeling of taking flight and am addicted to speed. Add in the need for mobility and my personal love of long distance physical activity, and […]

Joseph Amuah’s journey: Sekondi – lyngby – Calgary – Ottawa – ?

Posted on 2022-04-052023-02-24 by Bike Ottawa in #BikeLove, Community, Features, Guest Post, Personal Stories

The first time I rode a bike, or should I call it a trike, was when I was about 5 years old. My Dad bought me one and I was on it practically all the time around the house.

Bike Love 2022: Brigitte Pellerin’s ode to goofy-grin riders

Posted on 2022-01-312023-02-23 by Bike Ottawa in #BikeLove, Features, Personal Stories

Bike Ottawa invited Brigitte Pellerin (freelance Op-Ed writer for the Ottawa Citizen, editor the Canadian Bar Association, former Uber driver, and Karate World Champion–read more here in the Kitchissippi Times!) to write on our February theme: Bike Love.

The Copenhagenize Master Class in Montreal

Posted on 2021-11-032023-02-23 by Bike Ottawa in Community, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Personal Stories

In this guest post, Liam O’Brien recounts the experience of attending the Copenhagenize course.

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