This is a series I'm doing where I chronicle my time cycle commuting while pregnant. You can see the previous entry at 24 weeks here Recently, I’ve hit my 28th (!!) week of pregnancy and with the snow/ice finally gone and the weather hovering around 0 to -5C, I decided I would bike commute to the office on a Bikeshare bike. Overall the bike ride was nice, extremely uneventful which was great. You can see my stats from the ride below: A screenshot of my commute to work - 6.3 K

It’s been a few weeks since we got the Urban Arrow and with the snow finally  melting a bit and the bike lanes cleared, I got a chance to take it out for a spin. Man, it was a decently eventful ride so let’s get into it. The Good Riding for Fun Again Overall, the ride was great. The best part of the whole journey was just how nice the bike was to ride. It’s easy to shift gears and to use more or less effort. My speed is very much in the 15-20km/hr zone though because I ‘m jus

This is a series I’m doing where I document how it feels to commute by bike during my pregnancy every few weeks. You can see the previous ones at 14 & 20 weeks. Or I guess Not  biking at 24 weeks pregnant. We had a pretty big snow storm about a week ago and unfortunately, the city has not removed any of the snow from the bike lanes. A picture of the snow filled bike lanes near my home, the white line is where the bike lane marking used to be. In fact, the sad/infuriating thin

After our fall test ride , and splurging on Boxing Day, the Urban Arrow was finally ready to be picked up today!!! A look at the bike still in the shop. To be honest, I felt a little bit nervous but also excited. The last  time I had picked up a new bike was more than 10 years ago when I got current my 3-speed commuter. Besides our first condo and our current home, the Urban Arrow would be the most expensive thing we’d ever purchased and it represents an intro to a new era. O

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been car free. As a teen, that meant walking and using the TTC (public transit) and once I started working full-time, I was still mostly walking and using transit until I started cycling as a form of transportation because I lost my metropass one summer day. When I first met my partner, he did not bike regularly, but he was pretty open-minded and was OK to try it out as well. Luckily, he loves it as much as I do, and once we got married and