Richard Guy Briggs' cycling pages...

There isn't much here yet, but is is a jump-off point for a few other things that I am starting to develop.

I have done many short trips of two days up to 350 km including up to the CAMMAC music centre in the Laurentians in Quebec, north of Montreal, yearly since 1986.

I did a trip from Victoria to Montreal in July-August 1991 with my bestest buddy Andrew Van Iterson. I have photos which have not yet been scanned from that trip and I will add text to it when I do finally scan them. So far, there are two photos from that trip. The first is in Victoria at Mile 0 of the Trans-Canada Highway. Here is another memorable moment when we crossed the Manitoba-Ontario border (photo)

In 1993, I did a one year trip abroad to Australia with my bicycle, stopping in Hawaii, the Cook Islands, New Zealand and Fiji and covered about 6500km.

In 1998, Carole and I spent our Honeymoon cycling in Cuba for a month, covering about 1000km from Havana to Santiago de Cuba.

Since at least April 2000 in Canberra, there's been a Hacker Bike Ride...

In August 2001 I was in Amsterdam several times and really appreciated their bicycle infrastructure, in particular, the bicycle parking at Centraal Station, Amsterdam's main inter-city train station. There are photos here and here.

In 2001 I dove in with both feet into the recumbent cycling community by provoking Ian Sims of Greenspeed to design and build a new model, a convertible solo/tandem recumbent tadpole trike. I have the first production unit of the GTV. It had an adventure when it got stolen.

In April 2002, Carole and I did a 6-day trip by tandem trike from London to Bristol, UK, of about 400km by back roads.

Vehicles:

Cycling friends

There seem to be quite a few people interested in HPVs in Ottawa...

The Conservation Co-op in which Carole and I lived for more than 7 years has an awesome bicycle parking garage with a capacity for about 110 bicycles in lieu of indoor car parking. It is well-lit, accessible from street level and is secure. It is accessible enough that I can drive the tandem trike directly in, with the canoe in place.

Security: The Abus WBA100 concrete anchor looks like a good way to attach bikes to concrete surfaces.

Chronological bike photos , more

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