Gerrard Street: It's not very smooth, but it gets me across downtown without too much hassle. Shuter's pretty decent, but it ends at Yonge. On the way home, coasting southbound on Sherbourne or Parliament is kind of nice, too.
Bloor - Because there's lots to see and the hills in the west end / Etobicoke are fun
Any street on the Toronto Islands...No cars ;-)
Riverview Gardens (from Bloor down to near the Old Mill) - Short stretch of fun downhill on a wide street with nice big speed humps to fly over at full speed, and a fun destination.
Queen's Quay - infront of the Redpath Sugar plant it smells sooooooo tasty.
Gerrard E. smells nice too!
There's a nice curvy downhill I once did from somwehere around St. Clair maybe?? I can't remember the name of it, but it was fun.
Any street I haven't been on before.... it's always nice to try something new.
I still think my favourite streets to ride are in Hamilton and Ottawa.
I like Willowdale south of Finch. It's wide and the cars are slow and far away.
It's best going south because the downhill is slight enough that you feel like a superstar flying along, without noticing that there's any slope at all.
Vic mentioned the downhill from St Clair--if it had a bikelane on it, that would probably be Russell Hill Road (just east of Spadina). It's about my favourite too--long fast downhill with one lane of traffic and a bikelane, a couple sweet curves, a dip uphill, and down around a corner again--the lower part now has speed humps (about a year now) which is not as fun, but it's still a gas--long straightaway at the bottom before you hit a stopsign, so lots of room to slow down.
I like riding on Danforth too, west of Pape, when the defacto bikelane is in place and you shoot past all these cars in dead mode, one after the other.
Lastly, any street at all, with Critical Mass gathered round.
Argyle: a great east-west route just north of Queen, which allows me to avoid the nasty cab-mess outside of the Drake.. I also love it for its sense of neighbourhood: the laughter I can always count on hearing when I turn on to it from Shaw St, coming from kids playing outside their house on the north side... the colourful flags and lights that decorate the street during portugese festivals... and the corner store at the end of the street owned by an elderly couple, who treat the kids at Alexander Muir school as their own.
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Gerrard Street: It's not very smooth, but it gets me across downtown without too much hassle. Shuter's pretty decent, but it ends at Yonge. On the way home, coasting southbound on Sherbourne or Parliament is kind of nice, too.
Bloor - Because there's lots to see and the hills in the west end / Etobicoke are fun
Any street on the Toronto Islands...No cars ;-)
Riverview Gardens (from Bloor down to near the Old Mill) - Short stretch of fun downhill on a wide street with nice big speed humps to fly over at full speed, and a fun destination.
Queen's Quay - infront of the Redpath Sugar plant it smells sooooooo tasty.
Gerrard E. smells nice too!
There's a nice curvy downhill I once did from somwehere around St. Clair maybe?? I can't remember the name of it, but it was fun.
Any street I haven't been on before.... it's always nice to try something new.
I still think my favourite streets to ride are in Hamilton and Ottawa.
Broadview heading south after 11 pm when I can enjoy the view without worrying about being doored.
Any street that has just been newly paved... mmm new pavement.
Bloor/Danforth (from roughly St. George to Greenwood) - beyond that its more of a struggle for space.
Any residential street in Cabbagetown with nice houses to look at.
Queen Street
Vaughan Road - a pleasant way between St. Clair West to Eglinton West subways
Yonge Street at 3 a.m
This list could get too long.
any one that leads to the Bike Joint :~D
Wilson St Newtown, it has bike lanes, it's wide and tree lined but best of all I always see lots of other cyclists there.
Yeah, I love Gerrard too ... also Sterling next to the Chocolate factory. ;-)
And yes, anywhere with lots of bikes is lovely.
I like Willowdale south of Finch. It's wide and the cars are slow and far away.
It's best going south because the downhill is slight enough that you feel like a superstar flying along, without noticing that there's any slope at all.
Plains Road in East York - good length, little traffic, nice flowers. (I like Hallam, too.)
Vic mentioned the downhill from St Clair--if it had a bikelane on it, that would probably be Russell Hill Road (just east of Spadina). It's about my favourite too--long fast downhill with one lane of traffic and a bikelane, a couple sweet curves, a dip uphill, and down around a corner again--the lower part now has speed humps (about a year now) which is not as fun, but it's still a gas--long straightaway at the bottom before you hit a stopsign, so lots of room to slow down.
I like riding on Danforth too, west of Pape, when the defacto bikelane is in place and you shoot past all these cars in dead mode, one after the other.
Lastly, any street at all, with Critical Mass gathered round.
Argyle: a great east-west route just north of Queen, which allows me to avoid the nasty cab-mess outside of the Drake.. I also love it for its sense of neighbourhood: the laughter I can always count on hearing when I turn on to it from Shaw St, coming from kids playing outside their house on the north side... the colourful flags and lights that decorate the street during portugese festivals... and the corner store at the end of the street owned by an elderly couple, who treat the kids at Alexander Muir school as their own.
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