Where are all the Canadians

Super Otaku

Sorry that I replied a bit late in this post since I was spending so much time polishing my tricks. Anyway, I'm from Guelph, Ontario. It's a pretty boring town for urban freeriding. The only place that is good is the university, but you will get kicked by the security there. But I will be taking couses there in three years time, and by that time I can 'freeride' my way to my classes.

Gigabit

Is There any one from east cost on here NewBrunsick
And were do you ride. Moncton is were im from.

origanic

Well, I've lived in Waterloo now for a few months, and wow! (My previous posts, I was about to move here). Well, I've moved up here for school now, attending WLU. Its great here. I am about a 10 minute ride from all this wonderful country land. Gorgeous vasts of feilds and sunshine. Paved roads (for the most part ). Northern Waterloo is full of Menonite villages in St. Jacob's land, and there are more horse drawn carriages there than there are cars! It is so interesting, makes for a wonderful ride! I think many of the women and men there are quite scared of riders. hehe. There however are lots of bikers through the country lands. I've though, retired my bike for the season, it's getting too cold and slightly snowy up here in the great Waterloo.
I'll be back in Burlington from April - September 2005. Nice to meet some fellow Burlingtoners. MSN me sometime: sandierox@hotmail.com

Thanks!

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Goober2

I'm in Dundas Ontario, just outside of Hamilton. Although I don't ride competitively (except against my brother) riding the Niagara escarpment is quite a challenge. Check out Rattle Snake Point at Derry and Appleby.

-=KingFisher=-

Oh yeah... I had taken Origanic's advice and bought a map of the area... I had decided on one ride that I'd go from Oakville to Kelso (about 20 miles)... the map suggested I could just go north on Appleby... given that I was already into about 15 miles of tempo riding when I started the ascent up Appleby past Derry! Hooah. What is the grade on that bad boy? 50%? I don't think I lasted more than maybe 30 seconds before I started to think that I may not be able to clip out, and am about to do a headstand starting with my face, and then finishing up with a bike crashing on top of me, and a long slide back down to Derry!!

Were you able to climb it Goober?

Goober2

oh ya, I love climbing that hill, what a rush. When I first started climbing it, i had to use gears 1 and 1. Over time I've managed to get into the second chain ring. I love seeing improvement in myself, what a motivator. Its about 30km from my house so I would usually ride 20km past Rattle Snake Point, then turn around and come back to make it a 100km day.

If you continue down Appleby and turn right onto Campbellville RD, your first left will be Nassagaweya 6th line. This is another awesome hill and maybe more challenging. This one is a straight road with a very steep grade and seems to go on forever (steady climb until 15 side road). Coming down my bro hit 75 km/hour. There is a rock quarry on that road, so watch out for the dump trucks.

LockinUp

[QUOTE=RagingSpirit]I am a canadian!

I'm in Toronto, but haven't raced yet due to the absence of a road bike.

I have, however, been a huge fan of cycling for the past four + years, biking all the time on a hybrid bike to which I attached some aero-bars. I want to get into racing as soon as possible!



You should look into the crit races at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga.
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Alpha

More horse and buggies than cars???????

origanic

ok.. a tad of an exageration but before moving up to Waterloo, I had never really been exposed to horse drawn carriages being used regularily. I tend to do 50 km or so rides up in this Hawksville area and see maybe 5-6 carriages per ride

I appoligize!

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dcooper123

Well, I'm noticing there's not much talk about off-roading here. I do road riding as well, but the really popular events are off-road. The Lake-to-Lake races, the Paris to Ancaster, the Squeezer ( in St. Catharines ). There's normally over 1000 riders in these. There are smaller events too, I rode in one in Brantford last June which was called "The Shocker", I believe it was 42km off-road, and that was just a really fun event.
I also did a charity road ride last year in St. Catharines area, the Pedal 100. I haven't done any other charity rides so perhaps I'm easily impressed, but this event was extremely well organized and supported. There are actually a series of possible routes ranging from 30 to 200km distance; I did the 160km. About 78 km along I had a flat, and barely had the wheel off before a support person pulled up on a motorcycle to see if I needed help. They were also handing out waterbottles on the fly, like we were in the TdF or something. Each rest stop had indoor restrooms and a variety of foods. The post-ride meal was also outstanding -- a buffet in a clubhouse overlooking a river -- plus there were indoor showers available.

rolfdevinci

Not many Maritimers hereabouts but there is a NewBrunswickKate who posts periodically. She does have a current post over in the Bike Cafe.

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noonievut

Anyone ride the hills around Inglewood & Belfountain? I would like to know what % they are. I always get up them without stopping, but it hurts (hills: hairpin turn on forks of the credit rd and old baseline/peel sd rd heading west).

stang106

How about the West Coast? I live in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. Our February and March had so much sun I had many back to back to back 2.5 - 4-5 hour rides. Rode to Comox today, 112 km. Others?

Dave

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Wolfzazi

I'm from Mississauga and have been riding for a year. Best rides so far i've done are with Gears.
I found the best hill around is in Hamilton, but in a busy road. Does anyone do ride this basboy? I know it's intersection is on dundas and _______. But it has a gas station and tim horton's/wendy's at the top of it, then at the bottom it leads into the highway.