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I forgot how much respect drivers give you when you are carrying a baseball bat home. Every driver gave me a full full lane change when overtaking. I wish I had a helmet cam to show you

Photo taken while on the cargo bike, stopped at a red light. In my left hand is the pink baseball bat. The asphalt road has faded bicycle lane paint. The trees along the side of the road are still bare, the sky above is blue and clear.

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You stop to replace your broken glass dishes, you end up buying your kid a baseball bat. I don’t get it either.

Toddler in navy polka dot coat, pink dress, and blue rubber boots, beside the orange cargo bike, wielding a two-foot-long pink baseball bat

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Stop number 2: big box store for replacement glass baking dishes. #CargoBikesDoingErrands

A toddler in a navy polka-dot snowsuit and grey helmet sits strapped into the rear passenger seat of a loaded orange cargo e-bike, one hand reaching toward the handlebars, one foot out of their boot

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Just above freezing for the early morning Sunday breakfast / let momma-sleep-in routine This week: pancakes at Sal’s

A bright orange RadWagon 4 cargo e-bike loaded with panniers is parked at a bike rack outside a strip mall on a sunny morning. A helmeted toddler in a navy polka-dot snowsuit and rubber rain boots strolls alongside it.

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Michael Abon @michaelabon.ca · 20/04/2026

Finally warm enough in Winnipeg to take the pogies off the cargo bike. Great way to keep the wine bottles from clinking in the panniers.

Top down photo into a rectangular hard-shell bicycle pannier. Inside the pannier, there are four wine bottles. Two of the four are tucked inside neoprene handlebar mitts, or “pogies”.

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I made a shirt for the @bikewinnipeg.bsky.social AGM. One of our city councillors called us the “Big Bike Lobby”, when 100+ people took the day off of work to share their harrowing stories with a dangerous street. And it stuck with me. I do in fact pilot a big bike.

Close-up photo of red t-shirt. The graphic on the shirt is a silhouette of a long-tail cargo bicycle, with passenger setup on the back, and the text “Big Bike Lobby”

Photo of my toddler on the back of my big orange long tail bicycle in the winter. There is snow on the ground. The bicycle is parked beside a circle bike rack beside a snow covered road. The toddler is in an orange toddler seat on the back of the bicycle. They are wearing a purple polka dot parka, a snowboard helmet, a balaclava, and sunglasses. The bicycle has bar mitts, a big front rack and bag, and two waterproof paniers on the sides.

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Michael Abon @michaelabon.ca · 20/12/2025

Unrelated, here’s a post-blizzard photo of my winter lawn decorations

Two decorative light-up goose lawn ornaments wearing red plaid scarves stand nearly buried in deep snow during a blizzard, with only their heads and upper necks visible above the snow line. Behind them, a row of bare brown bushes or shrubs are also heavily snow-covered. Large snowflakes are actively falling, creating a white-out effect against the overcast sky. The geese appear to be comically overwhelmed by the snowfall.

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Michael Abon @michaelabon.ca · 09/12/2025

Biking around in the snow is pretty freaking excellent. I blame @pattybikes.com for the fun I’m having. #bikewpg

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Michael Abon @michaelabon.ca · 29/11/2025

It finally snowed in Winnipeg. Just like last winter, Little A insisted on the bicycle instead of the car. So, I put chains on the cargo bike tires and we headed to my fav diner. #wpgbike #cargobike

Orange RadWagon 4 cargo e-bike with Little A bundled up in the rear child seat wearing a polka dot snowsuit, pink sunglasses, and grey helmet, parked on a snowy downtown Winnipeg street with buildings and bare trees in the background

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Michael Abon @michaelabon.ca · 07/11/2025

The day after the City of Winnipeg proposed paint and plastic post bike lanes on Wellington Crescent, a driver crashed into Rob Jenner’s ghost bike. Poetic? Scary? Infuriating?

Photo of the cracked plaque at the ghost bike. The top half of the plaque reads “Rob Jenner. June 5, 1963—June 6, 2024”. On the ground below it, the bottom half reads, “Gone but not forgotten”. The ghost bike is painted white, as is tradition. It is chained to a lamp post, surrounded by crunchy fallen leaves.

A top-down photo of the ghost bike showing that the frame is now bent and cracked.

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Michael Abon @michaelabon.ca · 18/08/2025

Another successful Bike Jam in the books. A smaller one, maybe only 400 people? #BikeJamWpg #BikeWpg

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Enroute to the final stop of the #BikeJamWpg night. (I’m not great at taking video backwards on my cargo bike, turns out)

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Second stop of the night for #BikeJamWpg at Omand’s Creek

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Volunteer marshals rolling out for #BikeJamWpg. DJ + FM transmitter on the cargo trike. Several other cargo trikes with audio setups. Join us!

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Michael Abon @michaelabon.ca · 31/01/2025

680 people at tonight’s #BikeJamWpg ride, by my count. First stop with Big Heist Brass Band

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Little Miss A is stuffing her face with cheese and crackers before we bike down to the river for a toboggan walk. Drivers gave me even more passing room the way that I strapped the toboggan to the cargo bike. 😛

Photo of the inside of a garage. In front is a toddler wearing winter clothes, holding a plate of cheese and crackers. There is a smiling emoji covering the toddler’s face. Behind the toddler is an orange long-tail electric cargo bike, complete with a large basket up front, a toddler seat on the back, and a long orange toboggan strapped behind that.

Photo outside on a snow-covered frozen river. In the foreground is the same toddler sitting on the orange toboggan. The sun has set and the sky is overcast. On one side of the frozen riverbank are tall mature bare trees. On the other side are tall condo buildings. The toddler and toboggan are beside a cleared skating trail on the frozen river.

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Michael Abon @michaelabon.ca · 27/01/2025

Another stellar daycare dropoff by #CargoBike. Winter cycling is a ton of fun. Slower than normal, but better than the alternative for my mental and physical health.

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I’ve got to get better reflective touchscreen gloves, but here’s @lastghostbike.bsky.social cycling with us along the frozen river in Winnipeg. So good to have him here #BikeWpg

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The Winnipeg winter river trail is my favourite proof that people are excited for accessible outdoor places that are safe from drivers. So many people walking, skiing, skating and cycling. #BikeWpg

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We found a few skating rinks cleared along the river, including an incredible treed curling rink with frozen milk jugs as 🥌 #BikeWpg

Photo of multiple bicycles on a snow-covered frozen river, parked beside a cleared skating rink

A photo of an outdoor curling rink, surrounded by old Christmas trees, with frozen red and blue milk jugs as curling stones

Photo of several bicycles parked on the snow covered frozen river

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