"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."
- Hemingway
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.
Route: From Cowan Avenue, we cycle along to Queen West and over to High
Park. Across to Martin Goodman Trail and head West along the Waterfront Trail
through Colonel Sam Smith Park over to Marie Curtis Park to Port Credit avoiding
Highway Two except for slight jog at Long Branch. A 54K excursion exploring
the parks and river banks of western Toronto About a 3 hour trip. Dress up.
Decorated your bike win a prize.
This event ends around 3 - 3: 30 PM at the Parkdale Queer Youth and Young
Adult Festival hosted by shOUT! An Outdoor Park Picnic which includes Mix and
Mingle Community Street Fair & Craft Tables Available (Masaryk-Cowan Community
Centre & Parkette) Helmets are recommended for all rides. Mandatory for
those under 18. Out of town visitors, welcome to cycle in this event. This is
a FREE event, no membership fees to cycle with us today. This is one of
two of the events in the 2010 5th Annual Queer West Arts & Culture Festival
running August 7 to 15. ttp://www.queerwest.org/queerwestfest_official_events.php
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.
Want to link swap? Write Michel, at Homo Bike Central:
torontodigitalq@yahoo.ca
Maps: Toronto
Bicycle Map (All city wide, lanes, paths and routes updated in 2009)
Gay and Lesbian Canadian Sports & Cycling Clubs
- Out & Out Club Toronto - Web site under construction (March 10, 2010)
- LGTB cycling Vancouver
B.C. - June 17, 2009 a new LGTB cycling club. Out of town visitors welcome
join the weekly rides.
Gay and Lesbian United States Cycling Clubs
Gay and Lesbian International Cycling And Sports Clubs
Canadian Bicycling Tourism and Recreation
- Bicycle Ontario
is a public service web site dedicated to encouraging recreational cycling
in Ontario.
- Bike
on Tours self-guided bike tour information source with everything that
you need to enjoy bicycling in Ontario.
- Bike Train new cycle
tourism initiative introducing bike racks onboard select passenger rail trains
to destinations in Ontario
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