Welcome to “downtown” Chameleon!
A little bit of “fine urban texture” coming to the fabric of downtown Maple Ridge on 224th Street next to HSBC Bank. Best of luck to Chameleon restaurant.
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It’s time to ride!!
If you have not yet hit the roadways and pathways of the regions on your bike, here are a few photos to get you in the mood. All were taken in Vancouver over the gloriously sunny last weekend.If you don’t know it already, Vancouver enjoys a wonderful network of traffic-calmed residential streets and dedicated pathways […]
Vancouver, Montreal, Portland, Minneapolis all get high “BikeScore” marks with new measuring tool
This just out from UBC University of British Columbia researchers are making bikeability research easily accessible to consumers and city planners by introducing bikeability “heat maps” in partnership with Seattle-based Walk Score® at www.walkscore.com/bike. Combining data on availability of cycling infrastructure (bike lanes and trails), topography (hilliness), desirable destinations (attractions, shops and restaurants) and road connectivity, […]
A great day for a ride around Barnston Island!
A lovely little ferry ride over to the island. A few other cyclists had the same idea to tour the island. A 9.8 kilometer circle of virtually carless, pastoral bliss. Take the whole lane… both of them! Along the route… reminds us of a Saltspring Island scene.
VACC is now ‘HUB: Your Cycling Connection’!
Despite a few raindrops we had a great time riding the Central Valley Greenway to yesterday’s Year of the Bike Party in Vancouver. Met up with some other people on bikes and got to enjoy some of the cherry blossoms along the way (yesterday was also the day of the annual “Bike the Blossoms”). The VACC decided […]
Ride Central Valley Greenway to Year of the Bike Party Vancouver, Sat. Apr. 28
This coming Saturday, April 28, we’re planning (depending on the weather) to go on our first Discovery Bike Ride for the season, and we hope to gather a crowd to join us on this ride! We’ll be heading out to the Year of the Bike Party in Vancouver, a big celebration for the VACC, since we’ll be […]
Earth Day 2012 Maple Ridge, April 21
What a gorgeous day we had for this fantastic event! Over the last few months Ridge Meadows Recycling Depot helped us collect 16 bikes that were in good enough shape for our bike-give-away. In the morning Jim Coulter, publisher of The News, drew the names of the lucky new owners, and in the afternoon MLA […]
Birth of world-class cycling infastructure
Latest cycling column in the Maple Ridge News: Published: April 13, 2012 9:00 AM During an unexpected two-week visit to my birth country, the Netherlands, in March, I was once again drooling over the fantastic cycling infrastructure in my parents’ home town, Lelystad. Read more… And here are some pictures: bike/pedestrian bridge in Lelystad Bike path […]
Earth Day Maple Ridge April 21: photos bikes for the give-away!
As promised, here are some pictures of the bikes we’ll be giving away on Saturday. This is so exciting!! Thank you to Ridge Meadows Recycling Society for helping us to save these bikes, and also thank you to any generous donors! If you’re interested in winning one of these bikes, drop by for the draws […]
Earth Day 2012 celebrations in Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge
We’ve been awfully quiet lately. First it was cold and rainy, so I thought I’d take a break, and then we got some great sunny biking weather, so guess what I was doing!? Anyway, I’m happy to tell you that we’ll be once again involved with the Earth Day events in both Pitt Meadows and […]