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