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Queen Victoria’s tricycle

May 24, 2010

“Queen Victoria my father and all his tobacco loved you I love you too in all your forms the slim unlovely virgin anyone would lay the white figure floating among German beards the mean governess of the huge pink maps the solitary mourner of a prince “ ~Leonard Cohen It’s Victoria Day in Canada. As […]

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Don’t take my Kodachrome away: Slipping in some old slides

May 19, 2010

Kodachrome, they give us those nice bright colours They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah ~Paul Simon I’ve spent a good part of the last two weeks sorting and restoring old Kodachrome positives for future posts. Too bad this was such a toxic process. Not […]

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Development of Octopus’s Garden crag at Little Smoke Bluffs

May 16, 2010

Twenty-eight years ago today, a spontaneous hike led to the discovery of a new crag at a popular day-climbing area, above Squamish, BC. “Octopus’s Garden” now lies within the boundaries of Smoke Bluffs Park and is popular with climbers looking for moderate crack climbs. At the end of the 1970s and early ‘80s there was […]

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To 700C or 650B, that is the question

May 11, 2010

A post on the BC Randonneurs forum,  now included in the online newsletter, from the often humourous pen of Kevin Bruce, claims to be the last word on the 650B versus 700C wheel debate. Kevin knows better than to claim the end of any debate on bike parts and this particular argument will have legs […]

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Daring & Dust on Duffy Lake Road

May 3, 2010

The Royal Engineers Columbia Detachment recorded a single death in 1861: that of  Sapper James Duffy. He had been consigned to one of British Columbia’s remotest outposts by a government eager to enforce sovereignty in the face of an invasion of American miners, lured north by the Cariboo Gold Rush. Duffy froze to death on […]

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Preparing for Victoria Bike to Work Week, 2010

April 30, 2010

As summer approaches, the number of workers choosing the friendliest commuting vehicle invented multiplies. Water-cooler chat turns from TV shows to first-hand experiences on the morning bicycle commute. Perhaps no single initiative contributes more new cycle commuters internationally than Bike to Work Week, and with less than five weeks until the May 31–June 6 event in […]

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