The Life-Sized City Blog

1966 – Bikes at Blundell Elementary School. Continuing the series of bicycle photos that show cycling as a normal transport form in cities, we have moved on to Vancouver, Canada. I used to be seen in the city, riding a crappy bike in regular clothes down from Lynn Valley and North Van, over the Lion's Gate to work downtown in the late 1980's. Or riding around downtown and Kitsalano in the early 1990's.  1943 – Canadian Youth Hostel bicycle hike at the grizzly bear cage in the Stanley Park Zoo. 1943 – Bicycle hike at Douglas Park. 1940s – A boy examines his new bicycle license. 1943 – Lumberman’s Arch. 1932 – Acrobats at the Vancouver Exhibition (now, PNE) 1943 – July 1st celebration in Richmond. 1890s – Bicycle racers and friends at Brockton Point.

A resident of Vancouver, Canada has started a new church. The Church of Sit Up Cycling. Cycling 'enthusiasts' have long exhibited a passion for their hobby or sport that resembles religious observance. Now the realm of worship has come to the aesthetic art and act of regular citizens riding upright bicycles. We like this theological uprighteousness. Reverend James Twowheeler is the 'nom de plume' of the church's founder. As stated on the church's website: Wearing their normal work and play clothes is an essential religious practice of members of the Church of Sit-Up Cycling. This may or may not include wearing plastic hats. Believers wholly endorse the use of such accident-preventing safety measures as lights, bells, height, strict compliance with traffic signals, a leisurely pace and the use of dedicated cycling streets and lanes. Reverend Twowheeler discovered a potential loophole in British Columbia's Motor Vehicle Act . British Columbia is one ...