I'm quite familiar with the bicycle since I did the wiki page about Tracy's apartment! Inside the door is a pretty common place to put a bike in an apartment, especially downtown where thefts are frequent. The parallel with the motorbikes is a good one. I'm sure TPTB didn't want the actress using it, if only because street scenes downtown would require literally moving the bike from the studio to the location site. (Such a nuisance.) But, yes: insurance probably had more to do with it.
I agree that the bicycle seems oddly absent from fan fiction. We get more references to Tracy's car, which is obviously familiar to everyone since we see her in it when Vachon drives it from the airport hangar. (A memorable scene.) It makes sense for her to drive to work, though. It wouldn't be very practical to use a bike—though, in truth, she and Nick mostly used the Caddy instead of splitting up to interview different witnesses.
Downtown Toronto is not a good place to ride a bike, and was even worse in the 90s. The suburbs are even more dangerous, except round the back streets. (Suburban main roads are quite wide and fast.) So why does Tracy even have a bike? Perhaps it's a hangover from her student years? I can see her riding it round campus, getting a car as a graduation present and mostly using that thereafter, yet hanging onto her trusty old bike partly for auld lang's syne and partly because she intends to use it ... sometime.
It's possible she rides it on the weekend: there are some off-road paved biking routes.
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I agree that the bicycle seems oddly absent from fan fiction. We get more references to Tracy's car, which is obviously familiar to everyone since we see her in it when Vachon drives it from the airport hangar. (A memorable scene.) It makes sense for her to drive to work, though. It wouldn't be very practical to use a bike—though, in truth, she and Nick mostly used the Caddy instead of splitting up to interview different witnesses.
Downtown Toronto is not a good place to ride a bike, and was even worse in the 90s. The suburbs are even more dangerous, except round the back streets. (Suburban main roads are quite wide and fast.) So why does Tracy even have a bike? Perhaps it's a hangover from her student years? I can see her riding it round campus, getting a car as a graduation present and mostly using that thereafter, yet hanging onto her trusty old bike partly for auld lang's syne and partly because she intends to use it ... sometime.
It's possible she rides it on the weekend: there are some off-road paved biking routes.