Hello from beautiful Toronto, Canada
 

Hey everyone

Excited to be a part of this community.

I currently ride a Norco Search Endurance bike.

My primary cycling interests lie in commuting and touring.

I am also interested in folding bikes: continue to believe this is the solution to poor reach of public transit in our country.

Look forward to debating the topics du jour with you all!

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Welcome neighbour from just west of you in Oakville

How's Toronto driving etiquette for commuting in the city? I know so few people who bike in TO and have no sense of what the safety of it is. In Montreal the mayor here has put bike paths everywhere so it's a breeze these days.

Hey,

Everything is relative; If you are riding in Toronto, you have to think ahead, pick the safest (not necessarily the shortest) route, be extra vigilant and be constantly ready for the unexpected.

The Car Culture, and the culture of individual freedoms is very deeply ingrained in our city, which means that the moment a driver needs to slow down a bit because a cyclist has decided to take the entire rightmost lane (Cyclist's legal right per Highway Traffic Act), it can turn into a horrorshow of insults, road rage, all the way up to weaponizing the car to hit the cyclist on purpose.

On the other hand, the City has installed lots of bike lanes that drivers, and police, tend to park in at their leisure (illegal per city bylaw), forcing cyclists into live traffic in the rightmost lane.

To put things in perspective, it feels to many of us the city has become more dangerous to ride in, with confrontations with drivers and with police making the media on semi-daily basis, but much of this is simply a matter of city growth, which means more incidents happen even if they are statistically a small proportion of total rides taken.

Fortunately, the majority of rides a typical cyclist takes in our city are safe.