June 2021 - Hans on the Bike - 15 years of blogging

Top 10 position for Ottawa – Gatineau in People for Bikes City Ratings

June 9, 2021 Hansonthebike 3

Reading Time: 8 minutesLast week, US based People for Bikes released its annual City Rankings Score for cycling. Ottawa ranks in the 91st percentile, Gatineau in the 98th percentile. The total number of cities ranked is 767. We’ll dive into the details here. The biggest surprise is perhaps that Vancouver ranks tenth, after Ottawa.

A 32 km cycling loop from Almonte in rural Ontario

June 3, 2021 Hansonthebike 8

Reading Time: 8 minutesIf you are looking for a shortish 32 km bike ride outside Ottawa that involves coffee, countryside and culture, this route might be exactly what you are looking for. We are visiting two historic places just west of Ottawa: Almonte and Carleton Place.

Hans on the Bike writes about cycling in the Ottawa-Gatineau National Capital Region in Canada. Stay up to date with cycling developments in this bike friendly city with hundreds of kilometres of pathways.

Hans on the Bike is not a very competitive cyclist; most of the time he is cycling around town doing errands or guiding tourists while waving to friends.

As a bicycle tour guide, he hears tons of great feed back from people from all over the world. Even from the Dutch! This is encouraging.

Ms. Hans on the Bike cycles too and is often the voluntold for Hans’ pictures. She famously declared she was not going to bike below +10C but lowered the treshold to -10C over time.

Hans on the Bike - 15 years of blogging

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Month: June 2021

Top 10 position for Ottawa – Gatineau in People for Bikes City Ratings

A 32 km cycling loop from Almonte in rural Ontario