Cycling

Four easy steps to tune up your bike this Spring!

Four easy steps to tune up your bike this Spring!

With smooth roads with fewer cars, a 70-meter escarpment, rugged singletrack trails and endless gravel country roads, North Bay in the province of Ontario, Canada is the gateway to an epic cycling adventure. With temperatures rising, the days quickly growing longer and spring fever hitting hard, cyclists are itching to get back out on the trails! Before you hastily hit North Bay’s outstanding trails network, take time to properly tune up your summer ride

Fat Biking: A Gear Guide for Beginners

Fat Biking: A Gear Guide for Beginners

As winter’s frozen landscape takes hold in North Bay, Ontario a transformation has happened in the bike community - the long-awaited switch from mountain bike to fat bike. With glorious, long winters and heaps of snow, some local cyclists log more kilometers on their...

Fat Biking In North Bay, A Winter Trail Guide

Fat Biking In North Bay, A Winter Trail Guide

Just 3 hours North of Toronto, the provincial capital of Ontario, sits North Bay.  A city nestled amongst snow-covered trees bursting with opportunities for winter adventure.  When you arrive you will find a myriad of winter activities awaiting you just moments from your doorstep. One such activity is fat biking, one of the fastest-growing winter trends around. 

Shred, drop and roll with North Bay’s Mountain Bike Community

Shred, drop and roll with North Bay’s Mountain Bike Community

On a warm Saturday night in July, avid cyclist and travel writer, Melanie Chambers, who hails from Toronto, was privy to one of the many gems in the north – our “shred-ready” cycling community. Melanie is a women’s mountain bike ambassador, on-tour across Canada to...

10 Fun Things to do in North Bay

10 Fun Things to do in North Bay

article updated: April 2023 While I love a good Top 10 list, gathering a definitive list of must-dos for the city of North Bay was definitely a challenge. For the best, most top, funnest things to do, I did what any smart traveller does: I asked the locals.  So here...

North Bay’s 5 Best Road Rides

North Bay’s 5 Best Road Rides

Discover urban trails, provincial parks, and historic communities in the north’s friendliest city for cyclers!   The Near North is full of interesting landscapes, fascinating history, and unique communities. North Bay’s most experienced riders, known informally...

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