Randonneurs
Ontario
My randonneuring club. It organises qualifying brevets in Ontario for
PBP, BMB, and other long distance rides.
Toronto
Bicycling Network
My
other cycling club. They run recreational rides of various distances,
at all level, and also other events.
Audax
Club Parisien
This
is the organisation that runs PBP.
Audax
UK
British
Randonneuring Club - a great resource of information, especially
lighting.
Canadian
Kilometer Achiever
Program - C-KAP
A cycling incentive programme,
started in 1976 by Tom Parry to challenge and encourage cyclists to
reach yearly distance goals.
Ice Bike
A
web site devoted to winter cycling. An interesting web site for those
who are tempted to cycling in winter, especially where it snows.
Vintage
Trek
A
highly unofficial Vintage-Trek* bicycle web site to gather and
disseminate information about lugged, steel-framed road bikes made by
the Trek Bicycle Corporation.
Mike Barry's blog.
Mike Barry is one of the co-founder of Randonneurs Ontario and ran Bicycle Specialties,
a Toronto bicycle shop where he built custom Mariposa bicycles. It was great local source for
randonneuring needs, but it closed at the end of 2007 when he retired.
Urbane
Cyclist
Another Toronto bicycle shop. Great source of fixed and single speed
stuff, and also recumbents, but also the usual assortment of bike
stuff.
Fixed
Gear Gallery
A
web gallery of various fixed gear bikes.
Old
Bike Posters
Three interesting antique posters with
fixed-gear content.
Other Clubs and Organisations
Crohn's
and Colitis Foundation of Canada
National
organisation that is working to find a cure for Inflamatory Bowel
Disease. I have a special interest in this organisation, since I was
first diagnosed with Crohn's in 1986.
Scarborough
Cross
Country Ski Club
My ski club. They organise weekly
ski trip to XC ski centre near Toronto
Bruce
Trail Association
A charitable, membership based volunteer organization that looks after
the Bruce trail, which follows the Niagara Escarpment from Queenston
near Niagara Falls up to Tobormory, at the tip of the Bruce peninsula.
Zinfandel
My
recently departed cat, who lived a long and happy
life.
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