Westward Bound - Oct 11 2008

Our goal was simple.  Ride the Belt Line trail westward.

The 4 minute recap video of our day (embedded above) shows our journey to the Brick Works Farmers' Market, an introduction to the best butter tarts in Canada, a review of our pastry habits by the renowned nutritionist Julie Daniluk and an unforeseen and rather expensive stop at the best bike shop in the city, Urbane Cyclist.

The savvy among you may have noticed that there is no footage in the recap of us riding on the trail.  Nor is the Belt Line trail shown on our google route map above.

We keep our goals simple.  We find that they have to be if we desire any chance of successful completion.  But sometimes even that is not enough.  Remi brought his Bianchi road racer and refused to ride the trails to even get near the Belt Line trail.  Instead we toured Richmond Hills, discussed farting beneath the Chin Crystal and had coffee and pastries at Whole Foods.  And then a purchase of my new beast of burden at Urbane Cyclist.

Note to self.  Riding on Mt Pleasant Blvd in Toronto is akin to riding on a freeway without bike lanes while brushing ones teeth.  Definitely not recommended unless you have a fetish for ambulance rides and road rash.