Cycling

 Fletcher Thomson



Painted for 100th Anniversary of RCAF

StarChamps name comes from the weekly ride from Starbucks in Westboro to the Champlain Lookout every Saturday morning starting at 07:00. Round trip home - Champlain lookout is 72 km. 
I’ve done the Rideau Lakes Ottawa - Kingston return 16 times.

Jack Reid and Dennis Dart

Taken 28 Aug 2024 in Osoyoos

Bert Armstrong

We rode to work here in Victoria for 16 years, no matter the weather. Now we ride our electric assist bikes and tow trailers with our dogs aboard.

Gerry Poffentoth

I’m still cycling. Rode Veloroute des Bleuets last week. I ride a couple of Fondo’s each year with our daughter and her husband. My cycling claim to fame is having rode up Mount Ventoux, a climb  on the Tour de France

John McCormick

I too have cycled with Michael Gerry - I like that appellation.  Not any place exotic, just locally around Burlington and Ottawa.

I cycled to get into some semblance of shape for hockey and I still cycle but stopped playing hockey a few years ago when diagnosed with AFIB – though, as it turns out,  I should not have stopped.  But that is another story.

I now cycle but on a hybrid (not a road bike), for pretty much the same reason - to stay in some semblance of shape. 

I should have I stopped jogging earlier and taken up cycling, at least that is what my knees keep telling me.

That is an RMC cycling Jersey in the picture.



Ken Moulden

Circa 1978 Training Ride before Riding the Rideau Lakes Cycle Tour Wil & Ken

Terry Melnyk

 I cross country ski in the winter and bike otherwise - 900 km last year and aiming for 1000 this year.


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