Richard Guy Briggs' cycling pages...

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:

• (1990) Faithful old Miyata long-distance touring bike started life as a 1000LT and became an Alumicross after the frame cracked while in Australia and was replaced under warranty. It has probably covered 50 or 60,000 km. It still has red stains from Australian outback dust...
• (1998?) Bike Stop winter special (another pic). It got two wheel replacements in December 2005: The front needed replacement because it had seen 11(?) winters with only cone maintenance, but the spokes were starting to creak. I took the opportunity to convert the front to a dynamo hub with a roller brake. The back wheel got trashed in December 2004, but was already starting to pull through the rim in several places after only 3-4 months of actual riding. This time, I built the new back wheel myself.
  • old back
  • old back and new front
  • new front
  • old back
  • old back
  I was using Nokian Hakkapeliitta W106 tyres, but after 4 years of service, I can't find them locally. I'm currently using Schwalbe Marathon Winter 35-622 tyres. Peter White Cycles has some really good information on winter bicycle tyres.

  LED lights

• (2001-10-03) Greenspeed GTVs6 convertible tandem recumbent suitcase tricycle that is able to carry a canoe. I'm contemplating also adding a "lamb". I recently overhauled the Rohloff and Schlumpf hubs.
• (2003-03-15) organ trailer which has hauled 3/4 ton.
• (2003-09-15) Watson brothers' Goldmember chopper (1, 2, 3, 4). It had an adventure when it got stolen.
• (2003) Chariot child's trailer (more pics)
• (2005) Little Tikes child trailer
• (2005-10-14) Burley Koosah
  • being towed home after purchase
  • being current configuration
  • minor collision with pickup
  • info page
• (2006-05-31) Mike Watson's BMX tadpole "Hammerhead" trike (first) (head on) (many good shots here)
• (2006-05-31) Mike Watson's Tallbike II another
• (2006-05-31) Russian folding bike from "nepMb" (Perm) in the Ural mountains, folded, ready to ride nameplate
• Linear recumbent: 2007-07: I am in the process of restoring Mark's old recumbent.
  • cracked swingarm
  • re-assembly
  • cranks
  • repair check and alignment check
  • re-alignment
  • 2007-09-21:derailleur overrun into spokes resulting in 13 spokes damaged and derailleur trashed.
  • 2007-09-27:derailleur and spoke replacement at Re-cycles.
• I have taken delivery of a Greenspeed Lamb, a two wheel recumbent trailer for kids with pedals. I picked it up when I went to Melbourne in late October 2007, after the 20th anniversary of the World Solar Challenge.

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

Links:

• Human Powered Vehicle Operators of Ottawa
• IceBike winter cycling site.
• Peter Hickey's winter cycling page
• Citizens for Safe Cycling Ottawa Cycling safety and advocacy organisation.
• Tandem@Hobbes Tandem cycle enthusiasts list.
• Chunk 666 Humour as expressed in the art of building (not necessarily practical) human powered vehicles.
• Recumbents Emerge from Batcave in Ottawa
• human powered move in .az.us
• Dempster Highway by bicycle in winter
• Winter cycling directory