This summer I have fallen head over heels in love, with my bike! It’s such a relaxing way to see the city, and unlike when sitting on a bus you actually see the city, because cycling with your nose in a book is a recipe for disaster.
I’m so in love with my bike that I’ve actually started cycling my commute and it’s such a fantastic way to stretch my legs after a day behind a desk. On my way home there is also the most perfect hill, it’s long and steep and has a view out across English bay so you can see the sea, the mountains and the city. I become a complete child almost every time I reach this hill, my feet have been known to leave the pedals and in my mind I shout ‘weeeee’. That view though, it’s definitely going to be one of the things I miss the most when I leave, it will never stop taking my breath away and making me smile.
Apparently I was so lost without my bike during our time in Montreal that I compensated by taking pictures of bikes all over the city. They was such an amazing array of them, as the images will attest, and they were everywhere. Montreal is a really bike friendly city – it’s reasonably flat, and has loads of bike friendly streets. It also has a great bike share scheme which means that you fall over ‘bixi’ bikes at almost every second corner.
This bike is being patriotic, maple leaves for Canada and blue for Quebec.
These bikes have been eaten by the garden
 
- A true Montreal cyclist has a milk crate attached to their bike. Â Â Â Â Â Â This childs bike has the tiniest lock ever.
