The Pleasure of Finding Bikes in the Wild

One of the things I've realized I do when I'm in a new city, or a new part of a city, or back in a part of a city I haven't been in in a while, is that I take pictures of bikes.Above: Toronto. But it doesn't really matter, because I do it everywhere.Why do I do it? Because I think that bikes, especially the kind of cargo ebikes I tend to love taking phoots of, like that one, but really any kind of frequent visibility of bikes, are an indicator species of a kind of effective urbanism that I quite like.In other words, where there are bikes being used, parked, and ridden in an area, that's an indication that something good is going on there in terms of the area's desirability (someone wanted to bike there), accessibility by non-car means (someone biked there), and what it normalizes (someone biked there, left their bike, and it is visible where others can see it) that I like.1. Someone Wanted to Bike ThereThis line of bikes in Montréal indicates that this is a place people want to be,…

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