When Cyclesmith and the Halifax Cycle Gallery said goodbye to Quinpool Road last year, opportunity knocked hard for Paul Rogers and Alex Dardanne-Tremblay. Both longtime fixtures in local bike repair—you might recognize Rogers from Long Todd’s Neighbourhood Bike Shop and Dardanne-Tremblay from Alleycat’s Bike Shop—together they’ll open Long Alley Bicycles at 6164 Quinpool Road, unit […]
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Halifax needs protected bike lanes
Lots of Haligonians are scared to ride their bikes more, because our streets are built for cars. And as any local bureaucrat can tell you, it’s totally impossible to change the streets now. Except that lots of cities have added protected biking lanes to their roadways—retrofitting the street to be built for more than cars—with […]
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Why don’t you pick on a polluter your own size?
“Do you realize you have NO reflectors, NO lights…. are you looking to get killed?” Thanks for asking you old moron. Maybe I don’t have any lights on my bike but I do have reflectors and a big bright yellow milk crate on the back. If you can’t see that with your headlights and all […]
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Critical Mass confusion
“What are you guys doing?” asks a woman from inside her parked car on Spring Garden. More than a hundred cyclists, some dressed as skeletons, sex workers and bears, are blocking her from pulling out of her pit-stop at Timmy’s. “We’re going for a bike ride,” answers one of the Canadian Olympians. It’s Critical Mass, […]
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Best Bike Store
The heart of downtown is in this bike store, where you can pick up a new or reconditioned bicycle for $100 and up. With a 90-day warranty you can put the thing through its paces and bring it back if it doesn’t meet your standards. The store accepts donations of bike parts, and as their […]
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How to keep Summer going a little longer
Your summer spirit is not always what makes you shotgun that extra Wildcat, or stay out an hour later when you’re working at 7am (though they are related). Your summer spirit is really the fire in you, the guts of that beast that loves fun more than food and sun more than sleep. Considering Haligonians […]
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Bike polo hits Hali
Two of Halifax’s most devoted bike polo players meet me, a clueless but curious civilian trying to learn about this most niche of cycling cultures. I know it’s cool by virtue of its exclusivity—hence its sex appeal—but certainly there has to be something more to bike polo to justify its cult following in Tokyo, New […]
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How to live for free all summer
It’s summertime and the spending’s easy. The temptations of big-name concerts, eating out, weekend getaways and cooling off with an ice cold beer—or more likely, beers—on a patio, are even harder to resist when the sunshiny weather has got you giddy. When you haven’t got much to work with, you’ve got to decide what’s worth […]
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Second World Naked Bike Ride one hard ass demo
Lady Godiva would be proud. But also maybe a little jealous. While the legendary Lady rode naked through the streets to make a point, she had to do it all by her lonesome. In this day and age, folks ride naked en masse, and on bikes. With slogans like “Less Gas, More Ass” and “Stop […]