Cycle Fun Montreal

Collage featuring headshots of thirty-three 2025 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award winners, arranged in a grid over white background.

Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the international AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards! Read the full list of this year's winners – including journalists from Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom. bit.ly/4oCwZtq

Le pont de la Frontière évite la démolition - Le Reflet du Lac Le pont couvert de la Frontière, au Canton de Potton, sera finalement préservé. Cette annonce survient quelques semaines avant le démantèlement de ce bien classé immeuble patrimonial par le ministère ...

"Le pont de la Frontière éviterait la démolition"
www.lerefletdulac.com/actualites/l...

Here's some Grade-A top-of-the-line good news: Pont de la Frontière historic covered bridge isn't going to get demolished.

Le pont de la Frontière éviterait la démolition"

‘The car belongs in Berlin’: city backpedaling on bike-friendly policies, critics say Car-critical measures have been slashed since the conservative CDU came into power in 2023, triggering protests and dividing communities

The #GreenBacklash is well funded, relentless, will not stop any time soon.
Bicycle is most economical, cleanest. safest, most energy-efficient form of transportation ever invented. How will mega-corporations make money on that?!?!?!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Frais de livraison | 49 chaînes de restauration visées par une action en justice On l’a vu avec les concessionnaires auto, Ticketmaster, Uber Eats, Air Canada et beaucoup d’autres, les prix affichés en ligne sont parfois inférieurs à ceux qu’on doit réellement payer. Pourtant, cet...

It's robbery, even when it's done by multi-million & billion dollar dollar corporations.
'section 224 (c) of the Consumer Protection Act states that a merchant “may not charge a price higher than the advertised” since 2010.'
www.lapresse.ca/affaires/chr...

Did they forget to put on the snow tires?

Projets - Association Rimouski Ville Cyclable nos projets L’association joue un rôle crucial dans la sensibilisation à l’importance du transport actif, non seulement pour la santé […]

"Association Rimouski Ville Cyclable" is working to make Rimouski a better city for cycling.
You could start an association like that in your city, if you wanted your city to be a better city for cycling.
rimouskivillecyclable.org/projets/

Why do tree branches break when it snows?
Because even a tiny tree branch can accumulate a lot of snow, meaning a lot of weight, and ... crack!
I've read that after an ice storm a tree can weigh ten times its normal weight from accumulated ice on the branches.

If Doug Ford wants a tunnel so bad, he should build one to replace the Gardiner, which is the monster Toronto needs to bury.

Rivière-aux-Cerises: protection du lac à la montagne L’équipe du Marais de la rivière aux Cerises s’est fixé l’objectif de protéger une zone partant du lac Memphrémagog jusqu’au mont Orford. Une étape à la fois, l’organisation acquiert des terrains ou s...

Cherry River: slowly they are protecting the entire length of the river, from Mont Orford to lac Memphrémagog.
👍👍👍👍👍
"Rivière-aux-Cerises: protection du lac à la montagne"
www.latribune.ca/actualites/a...

Speeches, music mark James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement’s 50th anniversary As Remembrance Day events were being held across Canada, Nunavik commemorated its own historic moment Tuesday. On Nov.

50 years already!
That agreement really changed things, for the better.
nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...

Got my flu & rona vaccine shots today.
Did a walk-in sans-rendezvous at the avenue du Parc blood test & vaccine centre. I was too early in the day last week when I had my regular checkup blood tests so I went back today.
Total cost was $0.00

Drivers Run Red Light, But Cops Ticket Cyclists at Dangerous Delancey Intersection - Streetsblog New York City Drivers are zooming onto and off the Williamsburg Bridge in Lower Manhattan by running red lights. But cops are targeting cyclists instead.

New mayor, same old crackdown on cyclists.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/11/d...

5:30 pm and there would still be a bit of daylight outside if we hadn't made the mistake of turning our clocks back ten days ago.

How well do you know Magdeleine Vallieres? | EF Pro Cycling Get to know Canada's road race world champion Magdeleine Vallieres as she answers 50 fun, revealing questions after her stunning win in Rwanda.

How well do you know world road race champion (Canadian/Québeçoise) Magdeleine Vallieres?

"50 questions for the road race world champion"
👇👇👇

"‘A powerful second chance’: B.C. cyclist finds heroes who helped him"
Cyclist had a heart attack and strangers helped him, and he's alive today because of them.
vernonmorningstar.com/2025/11/12/a...

More snowy seat pictures?
Thanks for asking.

What season is it?
It's "Hang up your mitts to dry" season.

A Quebec Writer Confronts His ‘Little Darkness’ as a Class Defector

Quebec's "Quiet Revolution" is in the news, also Drummondville, which the kids today call "Drummond".
Even Duplessis, the giant monster of 20th-century Quebec history, gets named and shamed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...

Not every bike was a snow-accumulator today.
Some bikes were active bikes.

Today was a snowy spokes day.

How about some snowy handlebars?

More snowy seat pictures?
Thanks for asking.

I had a choice to get another replacement battery for my iphone 8 or buy a newer model (one with much better camera😍).
$75 later I have a new battery. (2nd replacement battery)
This is the first new battery picture.
Tow truck driver helping someone without winter-tires to get out of a slippery spot.

This technical description of this website is "very awesome."
I use it all the time.

It was more like "Don't you have something better to do with your time?"
Nope.

Des bières estriennes médaillées Trois bières de chez nous, de la microbrasserie Knowlton Co. et de la brasserie Dunham, se sont démarquées lors de la Coupe des bières du Canada.

People will race anything!
😆
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...

I once got a bike counter into the double digits.
Bike counter was refusing to count my additional crossings.
"Stop it," it said. "No cheating."
But I fooled it.

I'm no tree expert but the exception to this are white birch trees bc the entire tree just bends over until the tree top touches the ground.
I'll often see bent-over birch trees in the country, sometimes years after an ice storm, because it's easy to bend over, harder to stand up again.
Not my pic:

Some snow accumulation pictures.
20 centimetres of snow fell on central Montreal.