Canbicuba runs a number of bicycle tours and has a really good reputation for quality accommodation and interesting routes. They also help out a school cycling club in Las Tunas. For more information about their last tour and the plans for this year go here.

Mid Island Velo Association is pleased to announce that it has secured the services of Aunley Arumar, the renowned Bosnian cycling coach who is presently working with the Dubai Cycling Association. Mr. Arumar has three months to fulfill his contractual obligations to Dubai and then is moving with his family to Nanaimo.  Aunley's specialty is track cycling, so his presence here  will provide a terrific catalyst to the club's efforts to have the city adapt the old Caledonia Park running track into a banked velodrome.  More details to come. For a recent picture of Mr. Arumar leaving the Dubai CA headquarters, go here.

The great looking, beautifully-made Kallisto Sport clothing has now arrived. All orders have been sorted and are ready to go. They can be picked up from 1935 Valley Oak Drive most evenings. Any not picked up by next Wednesday may be collected from Oak Bay Bikes. We have extra jerseys, bib shorts and jackets for sale as follows:

Jerseys ($45): 5 x XL, 5 x L, 4 x S, 2 x XS

Bib shorts ($55): 5 x XL, 6 x L, 4 x M, 3 x S, 2 x XS

Jackets ($85): 2 x XL, 3 x L, 1 x M, 2 x S

Get them NOW as the price will increase for the next order!

This is going to be a great event. Organizer, Peter McCaffery, was over on Gabriola Island Wednesday to ride and meet with a local cycling group, some of whom will be riding in the event and others who will be volunteering their time.

The Gabriola Sounder, local paper is publicising the stage race and alerting residents to the presence of "fast moving" cyclists on May 21st.

It also looks as though there may be a kids' race in the morning and a safety clinic at the local elementary school.

All signs indicate that this event will become an annual one on the BCMCA schedule and that all stages of next year's race will be held on Gabriola

MIVA is pleased to announce that the club is organizing three Sunday Criteriums for April 3rd., 10th. and 17th.

There will be three ability-based category races, and a short clinic for the beginning riders before the first race each Sunday.

The events will take place on the popular 1.1km Boxwood circuit in Nanaimo .

Registration opens at 12pm and first race is at 1pm. Entry fee for these events is $5 for members of MIVA (riders can join the club as full or associate members on the day) and $7 for non-members.

All riders must have either a UCI licence or a a citizens' licence issued by one of the provincial associations. Directions to the event:

From Island Highway, turn onto Northfield Road and turn right after 600 m. onto Boxwood Road ( just past Esso Station). Registration is in Purolator Parking Lot about 700m. from turn.

Overflow parking in La-Z-Boy parking lot or open area east of Purolator