On sidewalks on Bloor Street where Holt Renfrew rubs shoulders with Williams-Sonoma, hundreds from Toronto’s bicycle community gathered yesterday afternoon to remember Darcy Allen Sheppard, the bike courier who was killed this week following a conflict with a Saab convertible driven by a former provincial cabinet minister.

Men holding expensive Konas and wearing tight bike shorts mixed with women in capris pants and their second-hand street cycles and teenagers with cargo shorts and beat up mountain bikes.

Bells on countless handle bars started chiming shortly after 5 p.m. One by one, the rally members dropped over curbs onto Bloor to join a parade of riders destined to return to the very spot Sheppard had died.