Work continues on the “merge” of the old VeloWeb pages. They’re all here but one, to which I have to add original photos. Anyone who’s been looking for the Rocky Mountain 1200 galleries will find them be back online soon.
I’m still struggling with the code to categorize the “Garage” pages with custom taxonomies. If there are any experts out there, this PHP newb would welcome any advice.
Vik Banerjee, who is prone to laying down on the job as The Lazy Randonneur, recently switched from a recumbent to a more traditional bicycle. With comfort still high on his list, he decided on a 650B bike, patterned on the traditional French “randonneuse” design, by Colorado-based Boulder Bicycles, who now hold the license to the René Herse marque.
Vik has joined the Readers’ Rando Bikes page with his beautiful Boulder Bicycle 650B rando machine, decked out in all it’s classic finery.
Perhaps Vik, who is half way through his 2011 Super Randonneur series, will be seen riding his All Road on the upcoming Vancouver Island 400km brevet, otherwise known as the “Highway to Hell”—a misleading title for a relatively innocuous randonée.
A little nomenclature history: at the spring 2006 BC Randonneurs Vancouver Island Section volunteers meeting, I asked attendees to name the spring brevets. Previously they’d just been referred to as “the spring 400,” or whatever. Jaye Haworth (fastest mixed tandem with Jan Heine at Paris-Brest-Paris 2003), who had ridden a very wet and high traffic spring 400 on the same route in 2005, insisted it was “The Highway to Hell.”
The route does include tedious stretches of the Trans-Canada Highway and some tricky navigation out of and into Victoria, but the scenic northern section, along Baines Sound, is the payoff.
Wind. May usually heralds the beginning of the Nor’westers. Despite all other rationalizations—low motor traffic, the lovely sunrise—this is the best argument for the ungodly 3AM start. With any luck, you’ll be in Nanaimo before they really kick up.
However, as I detailed in my 2006 account, nothing will deliver you from the vagaries of the Qualicum breeze.
Onward rando riders.
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