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World Naked Bike Ride, Victoria

June 14, 2010

Looking for the 2011 version? A carnival atmosphere accompanied Victoria’s 7th annual World Naked Bike Ride on Saturday. It’s been some time since I roamed British Columbia’s backwoods buck-naked or baked my buns at Wreck Beach, so I thought I’d wander down to the start at the BC Legislature and see where things went from […]

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The Road to Port Hardy: ride for cancer research

June 9, 2010

Frans Jonker had one goal in mind when he climbed back on his old mountain bike in 2007: to pedal back to some degree of fitness. His weight had climbed past 300 pounds and he was despondent. “I had been procrastinating for many, many years in that vegetative state and I was sick of myself; […]

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Visions from the poem factory

June 7, 2010

Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon (detail), Salvador Dali Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. ~Salvador Dali, Declaration, 1929 I’ve missed Poetry Month by a few weeks, but the following poem is among the first pieces of writing I succeeded in getting published. It appeared in […]

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2010 Robert W. Cameron Law Cycling Series

June 2, 2010

The 2010 Robert W. Cameron Law Cycling Series kicked off with the ProCity Racing Bear Mountain Hill Climb last Friday. Victoria’s Erinne Willock, a Beijing Olympian, won the women’s event for Webcor Builders Pro Team, while Tour de France veteran Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin Transitions) took the men’s title. Riders in the Russ Hays Sooke Classic Road Race came face […]

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Bike thieves stole this blog post

May 31, 2010

Dear readers: The planned post for today has been postponed by would-be bike thieves. After watching the exciting La-z-boy Bastion Square Grand Prix, I went to the Bard & Banker pub for supper — the oysters and cod were delicious! I had locked my Marinoni Ciclo to the newly-installed bicycle rack outside, with a U-lock through […]

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A new look for VeloWebLog

May 26, 2010

Regular readers of VeloWebLog will notice a new look this week. That’s because, after a month running the default “Kubric” WordPress template and trying out more than a few free alternatives, I settled on Thesis, from DIY Themes. Thesis appears to be the most customizable theme available, with many new features rumoured for the upcoming […]

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