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[email protected]>, "Kyle Legate"
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[email protected]> wrote:
> Nick Burns wrote:
> > What is the best University in the USA for a cyclist? If you consider roads available to train
> > and a strong well populated racing team either affiliated with the school or nearby, where would
> > you choose to go and why?
> >
> Forget the USA, Canadian universities have a higher standard of education. Come to McMaster
> University in Hamilton, Ontario. Excellent training area and several nearby teams (Neworld
> (
http://www.neworldcycle.com/) comes immediately to mind-- Gears racing
> (
http://www.gearsracing.com/html/index.php) is also not too far away).
Well, if you're going to go Canadian, go all the way and come to Vancouver.
University of British Columbia has its own cycling team, and the Tuesday night Crits happen there.
Simon Fraser University sits on top of a 1000' mountain, which has the expected effect on riding to
school. Best of all, the continent's only indoor velodrome sits at the foot of the hill, which makes
for a winter race series for track bikes.
Besides those things, there's a strong set of road-race events that starts in March or April and
runs to August or September, and the mountain biking is world class for both freeriding and
cross-country.
The weather is...good enough for year-round riding. I do it, but compared to SoCal, it is colder and
wetter. This is good in the Summer, not so good in the Winter.
--
Ryan Cousineau,
[email protected] http://www.sfu.ca/~rcousine President, Fabrizio Mazzoleni Fan Club
