Mid Island Velo members should now renew their memberships for 2012. The club is applying for support from Bingo and Casino revenues for 2012 and it is important that the membership numbers should be at least as high as in 2011. 2012 membership forms can soon be downloaded from the "membership" page.
The first bike trainer clinic is tonight, Thursday, at Pleasant Valley Elementary School on Dunbar Road, Nanaimo. The entrance to the gymnasium is around the right side of the school. Be prepared to really suffer as we are using the "Sufferfest" video plus pumped up music. Remember to bring something to put under your trainer and bike - a piece of carpet or a yoga mat is good. Doors open at 7.30pm and the session starts at 7.45pm. For those who revel in more pain, there's an extra half hour after the video ends. Only $5 per night too!
This is a (sort of) cycling web site but occasionally we pass on information that is in the area of general interest. Many of the inhabitants of Vancouver Island are of British extraction but, for the delight? and edification of those who are not, and for all our other non-WASP readers, here is a brief history of the English language. (Thanks to ex UCI commissaire Keith Walker for sending this.)
In 1982, Gordon Singleton won the first ever world championship by a Canadian cyclist when he came first in the keirin. Later in the championships, he was in the final of the sprint against Koichi Nakano, who had held the title foe the previous four years. This video from the Fifth Estate, who were doing a feature on Gordon, shows what happened. Thanks to Dave Kenny for sending this in.