When I decided to retire at the end of December last year, I briefly thought that wouldn’t be a good time of year, as I planned to use some of my free time for biking around Toronto. But (knock on wood), as long as we don’t have the constant snow\/ice\/Arctic temperatures of last winter, I figure I’ll be ready to explore Toronto on bike in the cold.<\/p>\n
So far, it’s been great. I bought some good winter biking gear from two of my favourite bike shops (Sweet Pete’s<\/a> and Urbane Cyclist<\/a>), replaced the lights that some lowlife stole recently(!), and since I retired just before Christmas, I’ve traveled\u00a0a lot\u00a0<\/em>more kilometers by bike than by car.<\/p>\n Here, a few photos and one short video from the past week:<\/p>\n Monday, I took a ride to check out the spiffy new cleaned-up Union Station. Thursday, a gorgeous, sunny day just a few degrees below zero, I took a quick trip over to Ward’s Island, my first winter trip to the Toronto islands. It was great fun watching (and listening to) the ferry grind through the ice (already broken by an icebreaker), but the chunks would come together again after we passed through.<\/p>\n On the way to Ward’s… (Note: click icon in bottom right for full screen)<\/em><\/p>\n [jwplayer config=”640×360″ mediaid=”1649″]<\/p>\n Photos from Monday & Thursday (click for larger image; click left or right to scroll through pics)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t