Robert "Bicycle Bob" Silverman has achieved the impossible with his small but loyal group of Monde a Bicyclette (MàB) enthusiasts, plus a few allies. In three decades. Montreal went from being one of the least bike-friendly cities in North America to the bike capital of North America by practicing colorful cyclodramas, i.e. street theater where the group members are dressed in costume.
Robert Silverman was a larger-than-life character in film and history. A poet who owned an independent bookshop in 1960, he attracted an incredible band of artists, intellectuals and musicians, including Leonard Cohen and Armand Vaillancourt. In 1962, he traveled to Fidel Castro's Cuba to take part in the revolution and met Ernesto "Che" Guevara. A few years later, he worked on an Israeli kibbutz and became the rare Jew to shake hands with Yasser Arafa. He studied in France and Spain and pioneered outdoor volleyball. A notorious non-conformist, his activism changed the Montreal landscape forever. Many describe him as "a prophet before his time".
Find out how Robert Silverman, a true man of La Mancha, managed to reach some unattainable stars....