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Vancouver Island Super Randonneur series, 2006

August 12, 2011

With computers reset to zero, 2006 began on Vancouver Island with a well-attended and windy New Year’s populaire. After weeks of monsoon-like rains and therapy for achilles tendonosis, the arrival of cherry blossoms and brighter skies came none too soon. I returned to the Nanaimo Populaire—this time the 100 […]

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Back on the road again: a hiccup

August 8, 2011

Over the winter of 2003-4, I began to disturb my wife’s sleep by routinely leaping out of bed and squirming around on the bedroom floor, emitting the kind of sounds she hadn’t heard since camping on the Serengeti. “It’s just a bit of gas,” I’d reassure […}

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A detour on the road to Paris-Brest-Paris

August 4, 2011

In 1995, I resumed riding with local Vancouver Island randonneurs and organized an early spring training ride that got me branded a sadist. That only served to embolden my ambitions. The next edition of Paris-Brest-Paris was just months away. Not that I had the money to fund such an expedition […]

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A long road to Paris-Brest-Paris

August 3, 2011

With less than a month until up to 6,000 cyclists embark on the 17th Paris-Brest-Paris marathon ride (August 21-25, 2011), I figured it might be time to map out the long and winding road that took me to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. The route I followed is probably not the best way to get there […]

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Celebrating British Columbia

August 1, 2011

Glacier House, Rogers Pass, Selkirk Mountains (click to enlarge) In the beginning It goes without saying that British Columbia (and the rest of North America, for that matter) was not “discovered” by Europeans. When the first ships arrived on the West Coast—was it Sir Francis Drake, in 1579, or the well-documented expedition of 1774, led […]

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Lawyer Bob Mionske’s tips for sharing the road with cyclists

July 25, 2011

Wasn’t that a great Tour de France? Yesterday, as winner Cadel Evans—the first Australian to win the race—rolled into Paris, we forgot the carnage that marked the early stages. The most horrifying and potentially deadly incident occurred on stage 9, when a negligently-driven television car, swerving to miss a tree on a narrow road, bounced […]

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