Building on Excitement

Although our little group is less than a month old, the support from all corners has been fantastic and we would love to thank you all.

This only helps build on our enthusiasim. Don , John and I have great plans to move forward. We want to make A Green Bike a way of life not just a bicycle selling agent. We will promote cycling culture to the best of our ability. Interview interesting and facinating people who cycle or have cycling as an important part of there regime. We will also delve into new technologies, the ever expanding green movement... just to name a couple of things. The only thing to limit is our imagination.
We'd love to hear from you too. send us photos, stories and experiences. Your participation only makes our site stronger and of course entertaining.

Building Momentum

This past week was an important week for us at A Green Bike. The momentum is building. We are aquiring new inventory, we are selling a good number of pre loved restored bicycles to new homes.
We have also shot our first interviews and they will be transfered shortly to our sitess once we work the kinks out .
Our first interview was with a couple from Ohio who were in Toronto celebrating their 35 th wedding anniversary. They ride together all the time. They looked great .. much younger than their chronological ages . Another testiment to healty lifestyle.
We are working on frame building and painting too! Exciting stuff!
Look out here we come!

A Day Well Spent

There's something very gratifying about creating. Today a friend and I rebuilt a bike. This morning it was a rusted old bike, the brakes didn't work, nor did the gears. We repaired all that, removed rust, and added a chain guard. Now it's pretty and working perfectly, someone is really going to love this bike for years to come. My friend and I talked about nothing and everything, joked around, used power tools, even measured something (only once tho, none of that "measure twice cut once" for the likes of us). A day well spent.

Trail aBike

As I was cycling across town , I came across a young mother who had attached to her hybrid bike a trail a bike. For those of you who don't know what that is ,it is an after market attachent. It basically turns a regular bike into a tandem. It is designed for kids to pedal along with an adult.
It is joined to the bike via a clamp to the seat post of the parents bike and a universal joint on the trailer. By inserting a locking pin you can couple the two and it makes it easy to detach.
I used to have one for my kids. They really liked it. When they pedalled they really added to the forward motion. The harder they pedaled , the faster we went. It even made life simpler by going up hill.
We would climb Poplar Plain and then zoom down Russel Hill Road. We would do that over and over again. It was a lot of fun. The kids loved the speed of the decent and the s curves. Not so much the climbing
I would recommend the trail a bike to anybody who has young kids... it's a lot of fun especiall for taking a spin in the neighborhood or on the bike paths

Ottawa

I just got bak from a gig in Ottawa and boy do I want to go back there with my bike. It is a beautiful city to cycle and there were cyclists all over the place. I am also led to believet there his great cycling just out of town in the Gstineau's.
I was looking on in envy with the bike path along the canal. absolutely beautiful. I had aquick chat with a gentleman who was quadraplegic riding a hand cranked racing recumbant tricycle. Believe me you don't want to arm wrestles this guy.

Stopped in to a high end bike shop in the market area and drooled over some carbom fibre
Eclipse bicyckes. Even saw the Bixi rental bikes near the Parliament buildings. A bike rental that is self serve tres tres cool. Pay attention Toronto