Category Archives: Cycling

Catherine’s Vancouver is growing

By Catherine Winters | Published: August 5, 2009
While hanging out at a Main Street coffee shop this afternoon, I overheard a conversation between a mom and her four-year-old. “We can go out to the airport,” the mom said as they were leaving. “Oh, that’s a long drive!” Yes. Yes it is. With the opening of the Canada Line now moved up to August [...]
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Critical Pride Part 2: Midnight Mass & the Dyke March

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 30, 2009
As a followup to some of the discussion resulting from yesterday’s post comparing Pride and Critical Mass, I thought I’d extend the metaphor to my preferred alternative events: Midnight Mass and the Dyke March. Speaking personally, Pride is generally not generally my thing: it’s loud, it’s hot, and the parade, at least, is not really participatory. [...]
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Critical Pride

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 29, 2009
On his blog this morning, Buzz Bishop posed the question: Are you proud of Pride? In his post, Buzz asks if the imagery we’ll see in Vancouver’s Pride Parade this Sunday is really the best way to demonstrate that gays are just like everyone else. This reminded me of another familiar argument, about Critical Mass: are [...]
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Blogathon 2009: In which The Weather stymies Catherine’s plans

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So I deliberately brought my bike to Workspace this morning, knowing that if I was lagging this evening, I could go for a nice endorphin-boosting ride up and down Waterfront Road, across the tracks from Gastown. I really can’t say that I was expecting a massive thunderstorm instead. In retrospect, I wish I’d taken the [...]
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Blogathon 2009: In which Catherine is now a cyclist for some reason

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So I’ve mentioned this here a few times, but haven’t gone into huge amounts of detail: I have a bicycle again! It’s a Kuwahara-built Apollo road bike, with a 62cm frame with double-butted Tange 900 chromoly steel tubes. From 1984, if the serial number is accurate at all. I bought the frame separately, though it [...]
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Blogathon 2009: Catherine needs panniers!

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So I was working on my next post here at Workspace, when who should arrive but noted fountain pen enthusiast and friend to WordPress themers everywhere, Tris Hussey![1] Which is good, because he very graciously tolerated my inadvertent inviting-myself-along-to-dinner last night, and answered my questions about categories and post visibility and things. And even more [...]
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Blogathon 2009: Brewery Creek & Tea Swamp

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So when I’m not trying to rattle off 50 blog posts a day from Gastown, I live at the bottom of two hills on an avenue I will describe for hipster-credibility purposes as “just off Main Street.” I’m cool now, right guys? My house is situated directly on top of Tea Swamp, an offshoot of Brewery [...]
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Blogathon 2009: In Which Catherine Arrives At Workspace.

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So I just swept in the door here at Workspace, Blogathon supplies and giant bike in hand, my blog post already late… I wasn’t sure what to expect, but 10 people sitting intently, more silent than a library? Yeah, that wasn’t it. Naturally, I would have had to have opted for the extra loud-and-obnoxious zippers [...]
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Catherine Grows as a Person

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 8, 2009
Since attending Media that Matters 2009 at Hollyhock this May, I’ve been feeling very introspective. To say I was skeptical of some aspects of the conference beforehand would be a terrible, terrible understatement. On the ride up with former coworker Jnet: Her: “So are you recovered from your flu?” [Swine flu, I swear.] Me: “I [...]
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In Which Catherine Is No Longer Lazy

By Catherine Winters | Published: June 29, 2009
So I recently started jogging. I know, I know, I’m ruining my image as couchbound layabout, but it’s true. (If, by chance, you were unfamiliar with this image, let me take this opportunity to spoil all chance of being thought of as in particularly good shape.) I’m tall. Really, really tall. (Yes, taller than that one [...]
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