Cycle and Groove for the Centre
We love the people in our neighbourhood! The Annex is a wonderful place to work, shop, eat and live in, and supporting the community feeling in the area is something we Curbsiders can’t get enough of. We get involved where we can to help make Toronto a better place, and the Annex, a warm place [...]
The Bobbin Video is Here!
Hey folks, check out this new awesome Bobbin video! Featuring pretty girls, ice cream and gorgeous bikes. Check out www.bobbinbicycles.co.uk/ to satiate your bike lust.
Breaking the Frame: Aurelia Cycles at Bernstein & Gold Interiors, Vancouver
In the wake of a disappointing loss and an even more disappointing riot, let’s shed some light on something great Vancouver has to offer: Aurelia Cycles, nestled inside Bernstein & Gold Interiors. What does that mean? Well, it means it’s a store within a store. Surrounded by furniture, bedding, wall hangings and other home ephemera [...]
Breaking the Frame: BikeBike, Calgary
The definition of “bike store” has been broadening for some time. Even as recently as 10 years ago, a bike store meant the smell of rubber, often surly mechanics, and an air of exclusivity; this was a club you needed the password to enter. That password was often knowledge of the innate workings of a [...]
Brompton World Championships
When everyone had completely drenched their three piece suits with sweat at the end of the race, Will – the CEO of Brompton – said at the podium “it’s the quirkiest race in the world on the quirkiest bike, but the bike is fast and has a lot of grit”. Well said, and exactly right. [...]
Copenhagen, Toronto style
The Biomega Copenhagen may be one the most beautiful bikes on the planet. But what happens when a bike built by one of Denmarks top designers meets a local Toronto designer? We decided to do a little experiment with the Biomega Copenhagen. To increase the speed we replaced the 26″ wheels with a faster 700c [...]
Hey drivers, watch the ball. Or not.
London may not have thousands of cycle commuters, but it does have a government that is intensely interesting in developing cycling infastructure, safety, and more bicycle usage. This little clip is certainly representative of that commitment. Check it out…
Bikes fit for Queens!
Drag queens, that is. Curbside is proud to sponsor the very famous, the very campy, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Pick up a copy of XTRA! magazine and fill out the coupon to win a free pink Old Dutch bike from Batavus! You ask: how do bicycles and drag queens mix? Well, doll up [...]
18 Ways to Know that you have a Bicycle Culture
We love this little list, prepared by our friends at Cycleliciousness a Copenhagen bicycle blog site: 1. ”Fixed gear” is something than happens after you take your old Raleigh down to one of the 20-30 bike shops in your neighbourhood to have them look at ”broken gear”. 2. If a car honks at you in [...]
Cycling in High Heels
Curbside is one of those few bike stores in North America that is in touch with its feminine side, and so we really like the blogsite “Copenhagen Cycle Chic”, dedicated to the female cyclist who eschews spandex and yellow jackets for regular street attire, including high heels. This is a fun site to check out, [...]
How the Dutch ride
Many people looking at Dutch bikes sorta get it, but if you haven’t been to Holland you have no idea what kind of cycling utopia exists just the other side of the pond. An informative, yet somewhat misinformed gentleman did a nice little video on YouTube that flavours the Dutch bicycle experience quite well. He [...]
Curbside and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
A leg band will not really keep your pants clean, but a better designed bike will. See, at Curbside we love good design and we work hard to get it. Yeah, we’re tooting our own horn here, and we don’t care, but we’re pretty proud that we carry several products permanently on display at MoMA. [...]
High Society Batavus Architectural Tour
Anyone who has ever rented a bike in Rotterdam remembers the almost-perfect experience of meandering about while looking at great architecture. Well, join Toronto Star architectural critic Christopher Hume as he takes members of Toronto’s uber-hip club, “The Society” on an architectural tour of Toronto. Members of The Society will start their excursion at Curbside [...]
Freitag Bags, why we love em’
At Curbside, we love Freitag bags – they are good philosophy in action. In a world full of cheaply made Chinese consumer products, Freitag bags are unafraid of where they came from, and each one remains one of a kind. Think about it, when you buy a cheap Chinese produced product most often you don’t [...]
Two Curbside employees make Canadian National Team
Curbside is more famous for Dutch bikes, folding bikes and cool lifestyle accessories than high performance road bikes, but our staff are some of the best riders in Canada. Our boy Chad was checking out the London Velodrome a couple of weeks back and was headhunted to the Canadian National Track team. Crazy thing is, [...]
Gary Fisher visits Curbside
It was a pretty normal (meaning: busy) Saturday until Gary Fisher strolled in. Turns out that the Father of Mountain Biking was in town and heard that if there was one shop that had to be seen, it was Curbside. Gary’s a pretty passionate guy, and after a short talk about politics, the environment, and [...]
Art Shutters!
If anyone of you have walked by Curbside late at night you probably wondered what an East Bronx pawnshop was doing in the Annex. Yeah, well we hated those rolldown shutters too, and while they prevented theft, they looked absolutely awful. Enter Stephen Appleby-Barr of the Toronto art collective Team Macho. He’s been a customer [...]