April 2025 - Hans on the Bike - Cycling in Ottawa and beyond

A stone frigate in downtown Ottawa?

April 6, 2025 Hansonthebike 2

Reading Time: 5 minutesYou may have noticed an historic house boarded up across from city hall on the south side on Lisgar. It has an interesting story: it was a a so called ‘stone frigate’.

Gravel roads may return to suburban Ottawa

April 1, 2025 Hansonthebike 3

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn its quest to find savings, our city is looking into more gravel roads, even in suburbs. Here is the article I saw today.

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 - Cycling in Ottawa and beyond

News, maps and ideas for cycling in Ottawa

Month: April 2025

A stone frigate in downtown Ottawa?

Gravel roads may return to suburban Ottawa