Buy lights, wear reflective clothing and pay attention to your tires while riding in the cold, experts say

When talking about bicycle infrastructure in Canada, the number one excuse I hear is "winter." Many Canadians see the cold and snow as a fundamental barrier to year round cycling. But one city, Oulu in Finland, with winter weather worse than most Canadian cities, shows that winter cycling has nothing to do with the weather, and everything to do with safe cycling infrastructure.

Progressive policies help get people on their bike, even in below-freezing conditions.

To keep pandemic-prompted cycling rates high through the winter, we need to think beyond the bike lane snowplow and start centering the needs of women and gender-variant riders, a recent panel of experts argued.

The temperature, even at 9.30am, is -13C, and light snow is falling on the already white-blanketed playground. But dozens of primary-age children are out, and doing something you might not expect in such conditions: riding bikes.

Oulu in Finland and Winnipeg in Canada are two winter cities with remarkably different stories. Oulu is just like Winnipeg – except for the bike paths stretching for miles in every direction and the thousands of people riding bicycles in the snow – says Winter Bike to Work Day founder Anders Swanson.

Frigid temperatures in Calgary this week may have most Calgarians shivering in their boots, but the arctic blast couldn't have come at a more fitting time for the 2019 Winter Cycling Congress.

The frozen streets of the Twin Cities will play host next week to an international gathering on winter bicycling. The Winter Cycling Congress is expected to draw hundreds of engineers, policy makers and bicycling enthusiasts to Minneapolis and St. Paul starting on Tuesday. This is the first time the annual gathering has been held in the United States.