The Société de développement environmentale de Rosemont (yeah, I didn’t know they existed either) is sponsoring a guided bicycle tour of the borough’s environmental-friendliness. Perhaps more interesting is that at least one bike shop (Bicycle Beaubien) will be on hand to help you out with any bike needs and there will be some free food, all on the city’s dime.
Route for SODER's bicycle tour of Rosemont
The tour starts at Bellechasse and 16th Ave. at 1:30pm on Saturday (Aug. 16). For more information, consult the press release (PDF).
Bicycle Beaubien are lovely people (on Beaubien – duh) but in La Petite Patrie not far due south from where you live. I like them better than the shop at the corner of Villeray and Chateaubriand, where they tend to get huffy about my old 6-speed Raleigh Sprite and lack of racing kit.
Bicycle Beaubien also has at least 2 women mechanics: it is a woman-friendly and gay-friendly place, and they collect donations of bicycles and parts for Cyclo-Nord Sud.
(No, I have nothing whatsoever to do with that business).