Boo-urns on me for the sensationalistic headline - but everyone needs a soapbox once in a while: it's also a completely accurate, though it doesn't actually show the incident where a cop threatened to arrest me (that would`ve been a hilarious clip). Allow me elaborate.

I was trying to join the riders doing the 75km ride (the clip takes places less than 5 km from the finish line - which doubles, naturally, as the start line). Well, at the start, I was about two minutes late to join the early riding 75km group (I was a team captain and was getting everyone prepped for the 25-50 km ride most teammates were doing).

Well, that cop just wouldn`t let me join. This would mean having to sit around and wait for the 25/50km riders to start their ride.

This was, of course, a charity event and the section of highway that the 75km riders travel on would remain closed for the remainder of the day. After pleading with the cop for a while, he decided to threaten me with arrest if I didn`t follow his orders, which were to turn around.

Sort of.

Turn around, go along a sideways route, and - oh look - I found a friendlier cop who let me onto the highway. It probably helped that I told him I was told by the other cop to enter at his gate. I wasn`t sure if I was right, but I didn`t make it sound like I had an doubts.

The Ride was awesome - overall, the participants raised over $2.7 million for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and I pulled in a healthy chunk myself.

I intend to solicit donations from Sifters for the Ride next year.

I applaud your efforts for charity, but the difference between the title and the video is disappointing. It almost seems like a self-post.

It's pretty eerie seeing the Gardner Expressway devoid of cars!

Great video,You are here, it's been awhile since I took a stroll down the Gardner

@J-Rova: Yeah, except I don't film video while biking nor do I know the videographer.

Am I guilty of encouraging a Soviet-style "cult of personality", though? Sure, why not?