Cupcake Ride

We are doing Tour de Dufflet for the 3rd Girls’ Cupcake Ride. Here are the details:

*I’ve created this route so that we don’t have to make a left at busy Yonge St.

Let’s meet at 11:00 to register for Tour de Dufflet and grab some nummies. Then at 11:30 I’ll hold a quick rider’s meeting to go over safety rules and route and then we’re off!

START: Dufflet’s Uptown
2638 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario M4P 2J5

-> walk up to Blythwood*
-> eastbound on Blythwood to Mount Pleasant Rd.
-> south at Mount Pleasant Rd., east (left) at Broadway*
-> east on Broadway all the way to Sunnybrook Park and we enter the Don Valley Trail south!
-> east (left) on Lake Shore Blvd (don’t worry it’s a major multi-use pathway) all the way to Woodbine Park
-> left at Northern Dancer Blvd and then we get off the bike trail at Queen St. East
-> eastbound on Queen St. East to Dufflet Beach location!

CHECKPOINT: Dufflet’s Beach location (1917 Queen Street East)

-> east on Queen St. East (hang a right from Dufflet) to Kippendavie Ave
-> south (right) on Kippendavie to Kew Beach to enter the Martin Goodman Trail west!
-> west (left) on Queen’s Quay to re-enter Martin Goodman Trail west all the way (through the slightly tough Harbourfront area)
-> north on Strachan to Queen St. West
-> east (right) on Queen St. West to our final destination!

FINAL DESTINATION: Dufflet’s Downtown (787 Queen Street West)

**Personally, I won’t be riding to the Uptown location – I’ll be TTC-ing it! Bikes are permitted on the TTC anytime on Saturday and Sunday!

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I have created a Ride Rules list. Please read before the ride.

Thanks to this really nice article in the Star, the Toronto Girls’ Cupcake Ride group on Facebook exploded!

Back in January when I first started the group, it seemed like no one wanted to join me on a Cupcake Tour of Toronto.  The weather warmed up but still the group grew at a snail’s pace and the first Cupcake Ride had only one other rider, aside from myself.

Now I’m pushing almost 150 members and the 2 rides I’ve organized for Bike Month have around 10 riders signed up for each.

I can’t wait to meet all these bike and cupcake loving ladies!

Thank you Chantal for writing about me!