Surrounded by massive campers, listening to bingo by the beach… that was camper land. And for some reason the Quebecois love their camping, good on ’em! I was happy to be there for the night, my second visit to Lake Louise (thousands of miles and around 40 years between them). I woke up, had a […]
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Happy Canada Day!
I saw a lot of Canadian flags out on the road today as I made my way to Quebec for the World Cup MTB races at Mt Ste Anne this weekend. Including ones on cars pulled over for speeding violations… there were a lot of police out today! My last post was part one of […]
Two Down, Two to Go
The Canadian National Road Championships are underway with the Individual Time Trials and Elite women’s road race done and the Elite men and Criterium races still to come. David Veilleux The ITT was held June 23rd in the area around Belfountain, ON which has lots of rolling countryside. It was a fast 21.6KM course with […]
Journalist, Photographer, Friend, and all the spaces in between
I expected the blog entry from yesterday would stimulate conversation since lots of people in the local racing scene know the folks featured and I certainly saw (and am still seeing) lots of conversations happening. From facebook there are both “like” links and “dislike” comments, supportive thoughts and lots of well-wishing. And I decided to […]
Coverage of the Grand Prix Cycliste Gatineau
All of the articles I wrote and photos I submitted for this event have now been published so I thought I’d just put up links here in case people are interested. These represent a day of travel and two days of work. In Velonews: 2011 Chrono Gatineau: a Peter Kraiker gallery Georgia Bronzini wins 2011 […]
Trip 3: Bourget, Gatineau and Mississippi Mills
I left Toronto on a very wet Wednesday morning, keeping my fingers crossed that the new hydraulic configuration for the clutch was going to behave as it should. For the first part of the drive it was just a mess and the wipers were going full time. By the time I got to 115 and […]
What an amazing “Hell of the North” today’s Paris-Roubaix was
Cobbles and Classics… today was Paris-Roubaix! (C) Peter Kraiker Close friends know Andrea and I were intending to go to Belgium for the Ardennes Classics and to see our friend Wim. That trip would have also included Paris-Roubaix. It didn’t pan out (stay tuned), so we watched it online instead. Not nearly the same, although […]
Inspiring – The Inaugural Canadian Sidney Hillman Award
I had the honour of attending the inaugural Hillman Prize Canada presentation ceremony held at the Steam Whistle Brewery tonight. And I found it a very inspiring event, as well as timely. The Sidney Hillman Foundation was established in 1950 in honour of Sidney Hillman (the founder and president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of […]