Wondering how much of the population Canadians represent on this message board. Who's here and where are from? Anyone from out east?
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Wondering how much of the population Canadians represent on this message board. Who's here and where are from? Anyone from out east?
from Ottawa!
I too, am from Ottawa.
I'm from Ontario, too, however the other end of Ontario - Southwestern Ontario.
:D
I am from North Bay, Northern Ontario, so biking season is pretty much over for me, almost enough snow for snow shoes, but mild today so ??? it is very difficult to get any kind of bicycle related stuff here (clthes, info, rides) Merry Christmas, do any of you play hockey, or broomball?//
I think i'm the only belgian one , are there any european girls???
Calgary Alberta in the house!!!:D
Lovin' the mountains! Anyone wanna join me???
You're missin' out!!!;)
hoping to head out to the West next year! Can't wait. We have a bunch of friends that go out there every year for atleast 2 weeks and I hope to join them next year! Where do you ride in Calgary???? (dh, or xc.. or what??)
Close to home we like to ride Bragg Creek or Canmore trails. That's about 45min to 1hour from Calgary, but really fun rides!Quote:
Originally posted by gapgoil
hoping to head out to the West next year! Can't wait. We have a bunch of friends that go out there every year for atleast 2 weeks and I hope to join them next year! Where do you ride in Calgary???? (dh, or xc.. or what??)
Where do your friends ride?
One of the girls that I ride with has been in the Fernie area for a while, and the guys that my BF and I ride with head to Whistler a couple of times a year. I myself am a bit more interested in the other options that you are riding, in order to branch out from the coast if we head out for a vacation.
what's the terrain like, the trails etc?
Howdy. I hale from the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia.
I feel truly lucky to be a cyclist here as we have tons of trails to ride.... especially the KVR Trail.
http://www.telusplanet.net/~dan/other.html
sorry, I didn't get the lingo there, dh, xc... now I do.Quote:
Originally posted by gapgoil
One of the girls that I ride with has been in the Fernie area for a while, and the guys that my BF and I ride with head to Whistler a couple of times a year. I myself am a bit more interested in the other options that you are riding, in order to branch out from the coast if we head out for a vacation.
what's the terrain like, the trails etc?
We've got it all! Depending on where you go. Bragg Creek (in Kananaskis Country) is a lot more cross-country (xc) with the occassional wooptie-do up/down hill (again depending on the trail). Canmore/Banff you are getting into the mountains and see a lot more hills to climb/descend from. Very fun and usually technical as crazy! I love the mountain air too!:D
i'm from montreal
and i've been living in toronto for about a year now.
I'd like to be Canadian, does that count? I love BC!:D
Hey, folks!
Williams Lake, BC here
No riding here at the moment, what isn't icy is snowy and what isn't either is nder water. Yes, usually it's frozen at this time of year, but we've been getting rain for a week!!
ugh
therefore kickboxing is working fantastically right now!! :D
Hey, Snapdragon! I love wannabee Canadians! Come on up and watch TPB with us some sunday night!
Namaste,
~T~
LOL, I"m waiting on a TPB compilation that my Nelson friends are going to send down to me. Just a south of the Borden Yank here, but I do a lot of playing up there! Even been through Williams Lake ( on the way to the Cassiar Hiway)
Irulan
*Trailer Park Boys. Canadian TV rules. We get Red Green on Friday and Sat nights, and a few other things.
from Montreal, Quebec!
Looking for girls to ride with...
Kamloops, BC
new to this forum, and lov'n it!
Welcome, Hound Dog!
Nice to see someone (almost) local! I'm in Williams Lake! :o
Be sure to post in our Getting to Know you Thread. You'll get a kick out of that one!
Happy riding!
~T~
Dropping in from Burlington, Ontario. Looking for any gals to ride with. See you out there! :cool:
Hey! I'm in Montreal right now but will be moving into Vancouver in September to start a PhD at UBC. Anybody knows of a nice cycling club in town? I'm not into mountain bike, just road... but I could eventually try mtb (although I'd have to find a bike). I don't race... (yet?)
I know riders in Vancouver. I can check with them. You'll love it out here!
:p
Namaste,
~T~
I sure will! I spend two months in there last year (Feb-March 2004) and quite enjoyed the 10 C weather and green grass!!! (coming from -40 Montreal)
I will talk to my friends in Van when I get a chance, but in the meantime, you can check with these two bike shops that we've dealt with. I know John Henry has organized rides, and I'd be surprised if Dizzy doesn't...
http://www.johnhenrybikes.com/pedals.asp
http://www.dizzycycles.com/
If there's nothing about rides on the web sites, send them an email. Hopefully, someone will get back to you pretty quick!
Namaste,
~T~
Actually I've discovered "Dizzy Chicks", a girl-only bike club somehow related to Dizzy Cycle. I'll sure check them out when I move...
I can't believe I'll be able to stay in the saddle during the Fall and Winter months. :)
Whistler, here.
(formerly Calgary, Canmore, Ottawa, even Whitehorse)
Just wanted to *wave* hello to the girls in Canada.
I'm now in Perth, Western australia. I just moved from Auckland and am originally from Edmonton.
*hello*
:)
c
hello crazy
*wave*
Namaste,
~T~
I bike commute for work--then spend my free days riding around. I am Not a speedy cyclist--just rather slow and steady. For other folk here from Ottawa--yes-I know about the Ottawa bike club and the Kanata one--but unfortunately--both clubs have told me--I need to go a little faster than what I can sanely manage--hence--it is disappointing --that I cannot manage to be out for their rides. The Kanata spokesperson said I was welcome to come along-but might end up riding alone. That wasn't quite what I had in mind..............Also--I tried to get gay women interested in casual Sunday rides here--as--again--the Ottawans on the list would know--the parkways are shut down on the Sunday mornings during the summer-just For roller bladers and cyclists---and it's nice to have the whole road along the Rideau Canal or the Ottawa River, for an entire morning of riding. Anyway--couldn't get any takers for this either........Mostly I enjoy my long jaunts--and take great pleasure in getting to stop along the way, bring the binoculars for bird watching--see deer and fox, too.
JLD writes "yes-I know about the Ottawa bike club and the Kanata one--but unfortunately--both clubs have told me--I need to go a little faster than what I can sanely manage--hence--it is disappointing --that I cannot manage to be out for their rides. The Kanata spokesperson said I was welcome to come along-but might end up riding alone."
What? They don't have at least one "friendly no drop" ride?! That's...that's just rude and and....I'm speachless which is rare for me, ask anyone here ;-)
So I take it they all fell outta the womb that fast? No help gettin there? Keep up or you're gone, well that sucks 6 year old rotten eggs.
"tried to get gay women interested in casual Sunday rides here-....-couldn't get any takers for this either".
Yeah, we can be a sedentary bunch, like a lot of folks.
We have a Gay bike club in Northern CA called DifferentSpokes, I rode one ride with them, maybe it was just that day I did not feel enough was done to instruct the beginners, no safety speach, or advice from experienced rides like "don't run the lights" etc. I'll give them another chance. I prefer rideing with a diverse mixed clubs, men, women, my local women's bike club, the TE gals and their men-folk. But I'm always at or near the back of the pack.
That is Kanata's loss, back of the pack is where the fun is ;-) Besides, this is why the sport is not growing as it should, clubs need to nurture new and returning riders. Getting off my soapbox now, going back to my country. ;) :cool: :rolleyes:
Hey trek,
Under your name, there's "bike against the odds.."...can you tell me more about it?
c
Crazy,
can you get to Oakland, CA on October 9th?
It's a meteric century (with shorter ride options) that benefits the Breast Cancer Fund. There are at least 3 of us TE'ers doing the ride.
JLD,
Congrats on trying to organize your own ride, not easy to do I'm sure.
The woman I spoke to--from the Kanata club--as I had to explain--Why I can't ride at the speed of light--about the part that has been taken out of me--made a suggestion to contact another member--for Next season--who might have suggestions--for those of us who simply go slower. So--maybe next spring--I'll look them up again............What I lack in speed--I make up for in endurance. I really am out there--right up until the snow flies--and I am very comfortable at 15km/hr. I can of course go faster--depending on wind direction and cross winds and hill grades--sometimes very comfortably at 20km/hr. I am Very used to everyone passing me--but it would be Nice--to have some company for casual rides. I am as equally disappointed in not being able to raise lesbians to come out. Some of that-yes-lack of interest--some--really intimadated by the exertion-some-in other types of biking-like fast club rides and mountain terrain rides--and obviously--sexual politics.
JLD wrote "I had to explain--Why I can't ride at the speed of light"
jeesh, I don't think you'd need to explain or justify, does not make you any less of a cyclist. What do they do if one of their members is injured? Tell them to go away till they can ride at ___km?
Reminds me of the tales of Emily's club rideing with her while she recovered from her break, now THAT's a club, supportive. Jobob's club has an academy each year for new/returning riders. One of the things I like about my club, the Velogirls is the feeling that no rider is left behind.
"What I lack in speed--I make up for in endurance." Don't need to explain that here, "ride your own ride" is the TE moto I think.
"I am as equally disappointed in not being able to raise lesbians to come out."
Yes, it's very hard to raise lesbians sucessfully but my family did a wonderful job with me. Sorry, could not resist the pun and play with idiom.
Hat's off for trying to get your own ride going when the local club would not support it. Who knows, by next Spring our Canadian gals here may have your own version of what's becoming a regular Corvalis OR group and our Northern Calif. riders.
Oh Good One!!!!!!!!
++++++++++++++"I am as equally disappointed in not being able to raise lesbians to come out."
Yes, it's very hard to raise lesbians sucessfully but my family did a wonderful job with me. Sorry, could not resist the pun and play with idiom.
JLD reviews "Oh Good One!!!!!!!!"
thanks, glad you like the pun, we're very pun-friendly bunch here.
We also rate falls from clipless pedals on a 10 point scale like skateing with points given for style, creativity, costume and music, there's the short program, pairs falling (tandem).... :rolleyes: :cool: ;)
Hello from another Canadian "girl". :)
My home town is Red Deer, Alberta but I lived in Sarnia Ontario for 6 years and as of a year ago I make my home near Pittsburgh, PA. Went from gently rolling parkland (Red Deer) to completely flat terrain (and I mean FLAT) in southern Ontario. Since coming to Pittsburgh I have become a much better cyclist because it is HILLY here!
Yep-I'll bet it's a Huge difference between the different terrains! For me--since I am from Montreal-which is also partially buillt on a small mountain-I can appreciate the flatter areas here in Ottawa!
:eek: Having just moved from Montreal to Vancouver made me reconsider my definition of "flat"!Quote:
Originally Posted by JLD
I thought you had nice hills just outside of Ottawa, don't you?
you may be a Canadian...
You're not offended by the term, "Homo Milk"
You understand, "Could you please pass me a serviette, I just spilled my poutine."
You know what it means to be on 'pogey'.
You know that "a mickey" and "2-4's" mean "Party at the cabin, eh!!"
You don't hold your hand on your breast when you sing the national anthem.
You can drink legally while still a 'teen'.
You don't give a hoot about the fuss with Cuba, it's just a cheap
place to travel to and has good cigars.
You're not sure if the leader of our nation has EVER had sex and don't want to know if he has!
You get milk in bags as well as cartons and plastic jugs.
You know that Mounties "don't always look like that."
You know that Canada is the only country to successfully invade the
US and burn its capital to the ground.
You dismiss all beers under 6% alcohol content as "for children and
the elderly, and for export to the US".
You are excited whenever an American television show mentions Canada.
You believe "the Canadian Conspiracy" should have won an Oscar.
You laugh afterward at some U.S. citizens' lack of knowledge of
Canadian geography, but you are too polite to correct them.
You design your Hallowe'en costume to fit over a snowsuit.
You have more miles on your snowblower than your car.
You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.
At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.
You frequently clean grease off your barbeque so the bears won't prowl on your deck.
The municipality buys a Zamboni before a bus.
You know which leaves make good toilet paper. :D