Toronto

I'm in Toronto on hols. Are there any must visit bike related shops or anything recommend?

http://store.curbside.on.ca/

is kinda cool!

Urbane Cyclist, just about the best bike shop in the city.

Velotique, no bikes but lots of gear to go with it.

Dutch Dreams, brilliant ice cream.

Kensington Market, scene of the Police Acadamy riots.

If you have a bike then go and ride along the beach front, usually you'll see some stone balancing.

I'm in Toronto on hols. Are there any must visit bike related shops or anything recommend?

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Oi.

Thanks Cheesecake and TSK

nah, Im hapy for you mate, now fuck off and get your picture taken with some views in the background

big spinny tower thing, go , up , it, get a beer, come back down

To be fair, I think they only sell shit beer at the top of the big spinny thing. Still worth going up to stand on the glass floor.

Hard to find a good beer in a bar in Toronto. Especially if you're from another part of the world. Go down Queen Street and head into the Bovine Sex Club, brilliant little place.

Another recommendation for Curbside, Eric the owner is a very good guy.

Toronto is terrible. Why would you go there?

Get to Union Station. Walk up to the Via counter. Ask for a ticket to Montreal. Sit on train for 6 hours. Get off. Enjoy.

"Hard to find a good beer in a bar in Toronto. Especially if you're from another part of the world. Go down Queen Street and head into the Bovine Sex Club, brilliant little place."[/QUOTE]
sounds like the bestial place to go in town

Sneeky Dee's is a place I always end up getting drunk in Toronto (and have done since I was below the drinking age). Good bar tex-mex, but drink beer from bottles.

College St (from Bathurst east) is apparently the highest percentage of bars and clubs in North America? This may not be true, but someone said it was written in Penthouse or Hustler or something. There are a few good places.

Cafe Diplomatico used to be pretty good for pasta and coffee. Haven't been in ages.

There's a new bike shop that has opened up in Liberty Village. I stepped in and chatted to the guy when I was there last spring. He had just opened but seemed really cool and trying to make both a proper LBS, but had some nice bits as well. I'd love to hear how he's doing now.

Dukes is one of the bigger bike shops, with nice people. Urbane is a bit of a weird mix between BLB and Bikefix (if you can imagine such a thing!).

get to union station. Walk up to the via counter. Ask for a ticket to montreal. Sit on train for 6 hours. Get off. Be made to feel inferior because you don't speak quebecois french, a rotten, intractable bastard of a language.

ftfy

have they got a 'hooters' there or what?

ftfy

That old yarn. It's quasi-true at times. I had a conversation with a guy in Tim Hortons in the Plateau once where he would speak only in French and I would only respond in English. Not in an interesting, "oh! we're bilingual" sort of way. In a kind of "fuck you. you're in Quebec. I will speak French!" sort of way. But really it's pretty rare in Montreal. And if you wanted, you can just stay in the West where everyone's English. It's a bit more usual once you get outside of Montreal where you meet people who don't actually speak English (can you imagine such a thing?).

have they got a 'hooters' there or what?

They do! I have been to it!

They do! I have been to it!

ha lollercopterz,
he hasnt been to North America/ Canada before, s'all the same there innit.
cant miss the hooters

I slept with a French Quebeccie girl once in New Zealand happy days

Curbside.. +1
and then La Bicyletta by Nadir Olivier for nice track swag - on Harbourd.
Sunset Grill in the Beaches for good breakfast..
And if your at Christie and Bloor - there used to be a burito place there that was AWESOME
Failing that there is a fair number of brillliant Korean restaurants - look for / ask for "spoon" its the one all the korean's eat at - its great.

AH and go to Magestea (tea shop in Leslieville) Tell Rob and Ian I said hi... they're the Tea Sponsor for Toronto's Tweed Run and really REALLY cool guys.

Oh and Go to JET FUEL for a coffee.. Johnny is really a neat guy and collects vintage bikes.

That old yarn. It's quasi-true at times. I had a conversation with a guy in Tim Hortons in the Plateau once where he would speak only in French and I would only respond in English. Not in an interesting, "oh! we're bilingual" sort of way. In a kind of "fuck you. you're in Quebec. I will speak French!" sort of way. But really it's pretty rare in Montreal. And if you wanted, you can just stay in the West where everyone's English. It's a bit more usual once you get outside of Montreal where you meet people who don't actually speak English (can you imagine such a thing?).

There's a guy who ran an English language bookshop in Montreal and refused to follow the law in making sure that the signage in French larger than the English. Makes sense really given that he didn't stock or sell anything in French. After being fined for this for the third time he stripped all of the signage off and put it up in Latin. The Quebec authorities tried to fine him for this but it was overturned as this isn't prohibited in legislation.

When I first moved to Canada I considered moving around to experience the country doing temp work. I was told by a couple of Quebecois not to bother going there as I was pretty much guaranteed not to get a job due to not being a native/immersed French speaker.

@SK - DUTCH DREAMS!!!! I lived the the apartments next to it for a year.
I miss Alberts.
@eightball - if you eat meat you HAVE to go meet Albert at "Alberts" up near dutch dreams - best jerk I have EVER had. (sorry corny)

oops, Jacqui on here now...
only kidding about hooters,
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