{"id":25,"date":"2006-05-29T23:33:45","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T04:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeforest.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-03-02T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T19:38:08","slug":"group-commute-and-pancake-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Group Commute and Pancake Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Toronto celebrated Bike to Work Week with a group commute and pancake breakfast.\u00a0The Community Cycling Organiser for the City of Toronto had contacted me about having some of my bikes involved. Originally, it wasn&#8217;t clear who would be lined up to ride the bikes, but there was talk of various celebrities and politicians.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nShortly before the day, it was proposed that a three piece drag queen act called\u00a0the B-Girlz would ride the couchbike and that we would commence the ride from the corner of\u00a0Church and Alexander as part of a sub group called the Pride Ride.  Aside from some mild anxiety about how this might impact my chances with the single ladies, I agreed that this sounded like fun.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nBecause of the transit strike, the B-Girlz were a little late in arriving, but eventually they emerged from a taxi in\u00a0all their pink, lime and turquoise glory.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<center>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/groupcommute2006_1.jpg\" alt=\"B-Girlz on the Couchbike\" title=\"B-Girlz on the Couchbike\" class=\"blackborder\" \/>\r\n<\/center>\r\n<p>\r\nThe start of the ride was mostly uphill. I was concerned about how the girls would fair in climbing the steep slope, especially with their crazy high heels and the\u00a0weight of the third one sitting in the middle,\u00a0but they seemed to manage it with great ease. On the downhill section on Yonge Street, the girls were surrounded by vehicles from the media. I was pretty nervous because there is a definite art to braking on the couchbike. I knew from experience that if anything went wrong, we could have\u00a0a really ugly situation on our hands. In the video you can hear my nervous laugh as one of the B-Girlz suggests, &#8220;Let&#8217;s see how fast we can make this thing go&#8221;. Fortunately, the B-Girlz once again impressed me with their skilled couch handling. \u00a0The video ends with a short photo op with Jack Layton and Olivia Chow.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Group Commute and Pancake Breakfast\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VA79nQggLMU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<center>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bgirlz_olivia_chow_jack_layton.jpg\" alt=\"B-Girlz on the Couchbike with Olivia Chow and Jack Layton\" title=\"B-Girlz on the Couchbike with Olivia Chow and Jack Layton\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Toronto celebrated Bike to Work Week with a group commute and pancake breakfast.\u00a0The Community Cycling Organiser for the City of Toronto had contacted me about having some of my bikes involved. Originally, it wasn&#8217;t clear who would be lined up to ride the bikes, but there was talk of various celebrities and politicians. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}