The Gay West Bicycle Club
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 "It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through."  Club History Michel (Paré.) Start two bicycle clubs in 2003. Energy Probe Research Foundation, 225 Brunswick Avenue.(Toronto Bicycle Users Network Club BUG and the Gay West Village Bicycle Club) Energy Probe is one of Canada's leading environmental and public policy research institutes. Michel worked there for several years as Backend Web Editor. The EPRF Toronto BUG Club in Ward 20 folded up. From 2005 to 2008 Bryen Dunn ran the GWBIKECLUB, then retired. Peter Marczyk 27, who has been with club since June 2009. a York University student,has taken over as ride leader and is organizing weekly rides petersletters@hotmail.com 647-833-9793 Head Office for Gay West Village Bicycle Club is in Brockton Village Ward 18. 562 Dufferin. 2b torontodigitalq@yahoo.ca 
Sunday June 20 - Gay West Bicycle Club Easy Roller Ride - Come out for a ride from High Park to the Islands on Sunday from 12 to 3. We'll be starting at the entrance of High Park at High Park Ave. and Bloor (Southside). We'll head to the lake, go along the waterfront to the ferry docks, then over to islands. I was thinking to have something to eat once we get to the islands. If you only feel like coming out for a part of the ride, give me a call and join us wherever. I'll have a brown road bike, a red t-shirt, and I'll be at the south west side of the intersection. Hope to see you there. Peter 647-833-9793 GWBIKECLUB Queer West Fest - Art Spin Tour & Pride Ride Thursday August 12 - Queer West Arts Festival Bicycle Gallery Night. A curated cycling tour of six west end galleries. (An all ages & orientations event) It's a free, fun-filled introduction to Queer West Village exciting art scene! One and All welcome; from queer cyclists; to art lovers lovers, to couples, friends to total strangers, come and cycle with us. . Gallery Night is an art crawl style bike tour of art galleries, occurring in site specific locations and visits to artists studios. Discover galleries that you may not know and see art of all kinds including glass, painting, fabric, and sculpture as we cycling back-alleys and side streets to each gallery. Meeting point is on Thursday August 12 at Trinity Bellwoods Park Queen & Strachan gate, between 6:30pm - 7 pm (Starts 7pm shape) when everyone rides, en masse, at a slow pace, towards the first gallery of the night. The tour ends around 9:30 pm....Safety Volunteers will watch your bicycle, at each stop while people head into each gallery . People are welcome to join or leave the tour as they wish/need. Helmets and night lights are recommended. (Tour Leader is Toronto artist Rui Pimenta, who is know for his famous Art Spin Tours this summer www.artspin.ca/  The 6th ANNUAL TORONTO PRIDE PARADE ON BICYCLES 2010 - No Politics involved. Queers on Gears having fun since 2003. Sunday August 15, 2010 - 6th Annual 54K Queer West Arts Festival Pride Ride, Hosted by the Gay West Bicycle Club Pride in our queer west Toronto Community Leisurely tour along Toronto's waterfront from West Toronto to Port Credit
with today's ride leader Michel Paré. We meet at 220 Cowan Avenue in front of
the Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre at 12 Noon. Heads Up. New interactive cycle Map for Toronto from Google Maps’ new bicycle-friendly routes feature, an independent version that includes Toronto routes has been up and running for some time. www.ridethecity.com/toronto Join Yahoo group use any email address, get on Mailing list, go on rides, make new friends. Write one line, about yourself and we will approve your membership.
Toronto's first annual Pride Ride was on June 11th, 2005, organized by Bryen Dunn as Ride Leader. A dozen riders left Sunnyside Cafe, shortly after 10 A.M. on their way to the Eastern Beaches, as part of the 1st annual Pride Ride. Despite the plus 30 degree temps, we all made it. Once we reached our destination in the Beaches we had a great lunch on the boardwalk to fuel up for our ride back west. This was the first Pride Ride and from all accounts from those in attendance it was a great success, with many looking forward to the next one on the second weekend of July. It was leisurely paced with us arriving back in the Parkdale area shortly before 3 pm, an hour before Parkdale Pride began at the community health centre. The Queer West Fest - Pride Ride, is not associated with Pride Toronto 5th Annual Toronto Pride Ride Sunday June 14, 2009. The group left Zoots Cafe on Dundas Wat 12.30 pm cycling leisurely, through Toronto back streets to the Church St. Village for a rest stop. Then we continued along College Street, back to Dundas and down Brock Avenue to the Cadillac Lounge patio in Parkdale for a late lunch and chatting till 5 pm with Queer West Festival organizers. The event is always part of the annual Queer West (Arts & Cultural) Festival .
The Gay West Bicycle Club is an member of The North America Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation www.glisa-na.org and Member of The Federation of Gay Games Cycling Links: - Other
International Gay and lesbian Cycling and Sports Clubs - Links Open in new window. Maps: Toronto Bicycle Map (All city wide, lanes, paths and routes updated in 2009) Gay and Lesbian Canadian Sports & Cycling Clubs
Gay and Lesbian United States Cycling Clubs
Gay and Lesbian International Cycling And Sports Clubs
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