Tag: Tour de France
Chasing Legends …Right here in Peterborough
First, an apology to ptborides.com followers that are not from the Peterborough area. This, I am afraid, is all for us locals! How often do we get to see the ProTour teams in full flight on the big screen? That’s right, never. Well, that is what I always thought but Chasing Legends will be at [...]
Read more5 Names.
July 1984, April 1986, October 2009 and July 2010. As a Canadian cyclist these were formative times. Formative people. Alex Stieda. July 1984. Okay, it was actually September. I took the bus downtown on my monthly pilgrimage to buy a copy of Winning Magazine. On the cover? A Canadian in the yellow jersey as leader [...]
Read moreThrough the Lens
My partner’s parents are cruisers. That’s right, they travel the world on huge luxury cruise boats at every opportunity. They have been everywhere: Caribbean, Mediterranean and, last summer, the great European rivers. Not my choice of travel but they do see some cool things. Last summer they landed in Paris on the way to a [...]
Read moreHow I Saw The Tour de France.
The first time I paid attention to the Tour de France was in 1989. Some American won that year, and again the year after that. It was the first time I had really looked beyond the handlebars of my BMX bicycle and took note of another form of riding. While road racing, or the Tour [...]
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